John Travolta is a two-time Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe winning actor and international recording artist. He established his career as a huge Hollywood star with films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Urban Cowboy.

Saturday Night Fever and Grease were among the most commercially successful pictures of the 1970's and catapulted Travolta to international stardom. Travolta also performed several of the songs on the Grease soundtrack album, that eventually went on to sell millions of copies worldwide. Travolta even released several solo pop albums.

In 1979, Travolta's career was flying high with the popularity of the Saturday Night Fever and Grease films, so the Travolta Fever car was built to further promote John Travolta and his career. (The name, Travolta Fever, was also used as the title of Travolta's 1978 pop music album.)

They wanted to create a special car that would fit Travolta's superstar image while tying in Saturday Night Fever. George Barris, the King of the Kustomizers, personally designed and styled this Pontiac Firebird for John Travolta. Revell produced and sold plastic 1/25 scale model kits of this Barris customized Firebird making John Travolta's "Firebird Fever" the first celebrity car model ever offered by Revell.

In 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze with the release of his hit film Urban Cowboy. After the release of Urban Cowboy, George Barris had the interior of the Travolta Fever car transformed from the Recaro styling to a customized Urban Cowboy theme appointed with cowhide seats and a authentic saddle on the center console.

In 1983, several of the cars from the George Barris Collection (including Travolta Fever) were auctioned off in Hollywood and until recently, the Travolta Fever car has been out of the public eye and hidden away. Travolta Fever is currently owned by James Monroe, an automobile collector in Ventura, California.

The Saturday Night Fever movie will be celebrating it's 30th anniversary this December (2007) so in commemoration of the movie, James Monroe, agreed to make the car available to the public again. James stated, "The Travolta Fever car is an important piece of entertainment history, it is a time capsule highlighting the Hollywood fads of the late 70's and early 80's featuring John Travolta, George Barris, Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy, Disco, Country Music, Grease and Celebrity Cars..."


Saturday Night Fever
Paramount (1977)
Directed by John Badham
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Donna Pescow, Barry Miller

Travolta Fever
Midsong (1978)
Pop music compilation
Vocals: John Travolta

Grease
Paramount (1978)
Directed by Randal Kleiser
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci, Kelly Ward, Didi Conn.

Urban Cowboy
Paramount (1980)
Directed by James Bridges
Starring: John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn