The construction site portrayed in this episode was a real construction site of two-story apartments. As of 2020, the buildings still stand. The complex is called Ponderosa West, and although its street address is on Vermont Avenue, most of the action in the episode takes place on the backside of the complex, near the corner of West 204th Street and New Hampshire Avenue.
Legendary drag racer John Force's Chevrolet Citation funny car is visible in the pits during the opening scenes at the track.
Grossman, played by Paul Linke, while off-duty in plain clothes investigates the theft of the auto parts. The clerk says he didn't know the CHP had detectives. Grossman tells him only in auto theft. Grossman would play a CHP auto theft detective in CHiPs '99 (1998).