CrownVic Abuse

[ridgescan]

Nice mix of cars! When I was in my 20s I owned a '68 Tempest which had a Pontiac 455 in place of its original 350 and a GTO hood. I miss that beast. Nothing like the smell of sunbaked vinyl and raw fuel Which model of '56 Chevy do you have? If I had a choice in old school hotrods it would either be a '56 210 in black or a '56 Ford Mainline in black. The only thing holding me back is I don't have room yet to store it. STill dreamin'

[ridgescan]

I guess lowboy's "too cool" to dignify my question with an answer after all-he's "admin" I shoulda known better.

[com501]

Maybe he has a real life JOB and doesn't check in here everyday like a lot of us!! GMAFB!!

[Kingscup]

I remember seeing one guy in a Crown Vic that had what looked to be 2 amber Kenworth truck turn signal lights on a stick in the rear window of his vehicle. /facepalm

[ridgescan]

Originally Posted by com501

Maybe he has a real life JOB and doesn't check in here everyday like a lot of us!! GMAFB!!

hey com I hope ya know what this little guy means>> NYGMAFB!! lol
BTW if that was a shot at me, I'll have you know I got in a good hard 35-39 if you count working at my dad's meat shop starting at 11 yrs old (child labor? not with family) before I was halted by an inoperatable bloodclot at the heart (I feel lucky to talk to you) so THERE!!>>

Originally Posted by Kingscup

I remember seeing one guy in a Crown Vic that had what looked to be 2 amber Kenworth truck turn signal lights on a stick in the rear window of his vehicle. /facepalm

all I meant to point out. I saw another one today as he was getting out of his bluesmobile special and I hadda smile & shake my head..he didn't like that too much I think.

[KE4RWS]

Originally Posted by ridgescan

hey com I hope ya know what this little guy means>> NYGMAFB!! lol
BTW if that was a shot at me, I'll have you know I got in a good hard 35-39 if you count working at my dad's meat shop starting at 11 yrs old (child labor? not with family) before I was halted by an inoperatable bloodclot at the heart (I feel lucky to talk to you) so THERE!!>>



all I meant to point out. I saw another one today as he was getting out of his bluesmobile special and I hadda smile & shake my head..he didn't like that too much I think.

That's funny about all the wacky people who do strange things to their Crown Vics
Nowadays people have it EASY if they want to put lights and junk in their cars. I remember many years ago when I was with the Fire Dept the only *lights* we had in our cars was a simple red tear drop rotating light. There were no tiny strobes or hide-away emergency lighting, and we were DECADES away from the ultra small LED technology people enjoy today. In our day you had just one little revolving light and the only "upgrade" possible was to replace the incandescent light bulb in the tear drop light with a brighter halogen bulb. I really thought I had something when I replaced that 35-watt bulb with a 55-watt halogen!! However, I know what you mean about people today putting some weird junk in their cars. A lot of younger kids will buy an old police car and then cram it full of emergency lights, siren, a CAGE, push bars and only God knows what else.

Yes indeed, some of these people spend more on useless equipment they can't legally use than they did buying the car, and they think they're so cool when they're all done installing it. Many of these people like to claim it's for *Demo* purposes . . . as if these people really have a genuine need for all that crap in their former LEO Crown Vic's.

Major face plam when you see one of these

[ridgescan]

Originally Posted by KE4RWS

Nowadays people have it EASY if they want to put lights and junk in their cars. I remember many years ago when I was with the Fire Dept the only *lights* we had in our cars was a simple red tear drop rotating light. There were no tiny strobes or hide-away emergency lighting, and we were DECADES away from the ultra small LED technology people enjoy today. In our day you had just one little revolving light and the only "upgrade" possible was to replace the incandescent light bulb in the tear drop light with a brighter halogen bulb.

This rings true to me-when I was a kid in the 60s, my Uncle Del was a fireman and without fail, every time we visited, his pager thing would go birsirk and he hadda fly. All he had in his Ford pickup was that teardrop strobe on the dash! These straightup FOOLS who re-apply cop-looking stuff onto their CVs should know that they are no comfort to the general public and even a grandma can pick 'em out of the real deal lol

[lowboy654]

Originally Posted by ridgescan

Nice mix of cars! When I was in my 20s I owned a '68 Tempest which had a Pontiac 455 in place of its original 350 and a GTO hood. I miss that beast. Nothing like the smell of sunbaked vinyl and raw fuel Which model of '56 Chevy do you have? If I had a choice in old school hotrods it would either be a '56 210 in black or a '56 Ford Mainline in black. The only thing holding me back is I don't have room yet to store it. STill dreamin'

How about a photo, sorry I forgot I had posted here.

[lowboy654]

The cop car.

[ridgescan]

Originally Posted by lowboy654

How about a photo, sorry I forgot I had posted here.

I'd own that! I love the dogdishes with rings. Traction bars-what are you hiding under that hood lol
sharp Chevy.

[lowboy654]

She has a small block 400 the little rat.

[Darth_vader]

"Actually, I owned a former unmarked cruiser at one point. My reasons were pretty simple. It was cheap, the holes for antennas were already there, the electrical system could handle the radios, and it was roomy. I did however, draw the line at blinky lights."

That's why I see a lot of ex-cop cars in the suburbs here. Nine times out of ten, they're owned and being driven by young 20-somethings, probably fresh out of college with lots of debt. Reason: they needed a halfway-decent car that they could get cheaply and they know works, and where better to look to than the city surplus department during fleet upgrade time?

I've driven such a rig myself (don't own one) and they're not half-bad cars, actually. (The Vancouver Police Department had an entire fleet of several hundred Crown Vic "Police Interceptor" cars they'd purchased in the mid-'90s and replaced with some other model just a few years ago.) At least my six-foot-eight frame can actually fit comfortably in the cockpit of such a car for a 200-mile drive east down I-84. The spotlights that almost always seem to remain attached to the side-view mirrors are also handy to have when reading the manual during a night-time service session along the shoulder of the road, but that's another story.

[Token]

Have not owned an ex-police car in many years now (got an ex-cop 1968 Dodge Polara back in the 70’s because it was cheap). But, more than once people have commented on my “cop” car, not understanding that it is not and never was a service vehicle. One of our vehicles is a 2004 Mercury Marauder my wife picked out. Like almost all of our vehicles, from the Miata to the F-350, the Merc has radio gear in it and antennas on it. More than once I have come up behind someone and had them hit the brakes, and the guys at work hate it when I drive that thing. We have over 15 miles of road on the way to work that is used by almost no one but our workers, so they tend to not pay close attention to the speed limits…except when they see a police vehicle.

T!

[com501]

Dodge Polara. 440?? 6pack carbs?? Or had they gone to the spreadbore by then?

[Token]

Originally Posted by com501

Dodge Polara. 440?? 6pack carbs?? Or had they gone to the spreadbore by then?

440 and 4 barrel. It was an 83 engine code car.

T!

[ridgescan]

yesterday morning I saw a little Chinese gal about in her mid 60s driving a CV-all black with dual spots HAHAA!!! She almost ran her stopsign coming across my path and probably would have if I weren't there could barely see over the wheel!

I KNOW she aint a whacker-just got one at auction for good ol' point A/B ...wish I had my camera.

[jparks29]

Originally Posted by KE4RWS

They'll buy some plain colored CV and put a couple THOUSAND dollars worth of crap back in it to make it resemble a police car and then tell everyone it's a "Demo Car". Can't tell you how many kids use this excuse.

Damn whackers.







Hell, I had this, with my callsign as my license plate, and still got hassled.

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k2...enie/frame.jpg


People will see what they want...

[KB7MIB]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en-US) Gecko/20081217 Vision-Browser/8.1 301x200 LG VN530)

This is why I want a red Suburban. I'd rather be mistaken for an FD battalion chief (minus the light bar and graphics) than a LEO or goverment agent in an unmarked white or black Crown Vic/Caprice/et al or SUV of any kind

[ridgescan]

jparks and Token-I should say that the Merc Marauder is NOT a whackermobile IMO. It is in fact a neat car in my book. UNLESS you put a pushbar and some kind of spotlights or led's on it. Then you fall into that wannabe category. I wouldn't mind owning a Merc, but they want too much money for what it is because it's kinda rare.

[Darth_vader]

Well, my friend's Crown Vic has the spotlight and a roo bar* across the front, so does that make it a "wannabe" car?

No external aerial, though. He just has a wires-in-the-windshield type.

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* Pushbar