Oh I know it looks cool, but look closer. See those flashers in the grille? Yep, cop car. That's really not fair!
Why two cruisers are outside of a bank, I have no idea.
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June 28, 2010 9:05 p.m. pinchvalve UberDork
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June 28, 2010 9:13 p.m. FInksta_G New Reader
I don't know what's to hate- It's got a cop motor, 5.7 liter plant, cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. What do you say, is it the future Bluesmobile or what?
But agreed- totally unfair that cops have these (don't blame them though). I've just learned to freak out over any Charger I see even though 9 out of 10 are civilian owned.
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June 28, 2010 9:18 p.m. neon4891 PowerDork
Come to Ithaca, all the new cop cars are black with DARK gray lettering and hidden lights. But they also have this...
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June 28, 2010 9:29 p.m. Rob_Mopar Reader
FInksta_G wrote:
Fix the cigarette lighter.I don't know what's to hate- It's got a cop motor, 5.7 liter plant, cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. What do you say, is it the future Bluesmobile or what?
But agreed- totally unfair that cops have these (don't blame them though). I've just learned to freak out over any Charger I see even though 9 out of 10 are civilian owned.
The township police department where my office is has a couple Chargers. At least one black and white and one all black with black steelies. That all black one had me joking with a colleague that we should get puled over so we can get a closer look at the Charger. Since I wasn't the one driving that day the idea got shot down...
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June 28, 2010 9:38 p.m. pres589 HalfDork
Around my work there's an all black Magnum with the V8 and all the lights are hidden on the thing and it's just the stealthiest thing ever. I actually passed it on my motorcycle not knowing it was a cop car, and a few minutes later I see the driver pull a u-turn and nail someone for running a red light.
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June 28, 2010 9:42 p.m. JeepinMatt HalfDork
I've seen Cherokee, Explorer, Tahoe, Grand Cherokee, Camaro, Mustang, Crown Vic, Caprice, Impala, Intrepid, Charger, Grand Prix and Taurus undercover cop cars around North Carolina. In addition to tons of undercover Chargers in Wilmington, there are a bunch of undercover '05-'09 Mustangs here. I saw a dark red Grand Prix got somebody earlier today. What'd I've discovered is that police cars tend to be light blue ordark red if they aren't going to drive anything white or black.
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June 28, 2010 9:50 p.m. Junkyard_Dog HalfDork
Lots of new Tauruses (Tuarii?) in Louisville. I'm sure the local Ford plants have nothing to do with that.
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June 28, 2010 9:53 p.m. EvanB Dork
I got pulled over once in my Miata for having no hood (I had a good reason) and the cop had a Charger. After chatting awhile about my car he asked if I wanted to race him in his Charger. I declined saying that I only had a little over 100hp and he would probably beat me.
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June 28, 2010 9:54 p.m. Streetwiseguy Reader
Z71 4x4 Chev pickup ghost car around here.
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June 28, 2010 10:14 p.m. Stealthtercel Reader
I presume that Ithaca Beetle is identified on the radio as "Car 53." (If it isn't, it should be.)
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June 28, 2010 11:15 p.m. dean1484 Dork
Most of the police versions are the V6 not the 8. Better handling due to less weight up front and the V6 gets tweaked a bit so they are plenty fast. And with fuel being a huge cost of many departments the 5.7 is just not going to cut it. I have been told this by several officers in different departments. The whole "they have a Hemi" is true just it is not the 5.7. I was also told that they are not dispelling the here say and rumors about them having the 5.7. As "they" put it "if they think you have the 5.7 and that keeps them from running all the better. The best pursuit is the one that does not happen." And as I was told no one has made a car faster than the two way radio.
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June 28, 2010 11:33 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director
I saw someone getting pulled over on I-4 in Orlando by a plain, white extra-cab F150. It even had a diamond plate toolbox in the bed. The strobes were hidden in the side windows.
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June 28, 2010 11:47 p.m. belteshazzar SuperDork
so far the only chargers our local pd has are the V6 variety.
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June 28, 2010 11:56 p.m. NYG95GA UltraDork
So True. You can build a car to outrun a Charger, but you'll never outrun a Motorola.
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June 28, 2010 11:57 p.m. bluesideup New Reader
Does the Ithaca Department make Officer Farva drive the Beetle on patrol?
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June 29, 2010 12:10 a.m. Appleseed SuperDork
I want a liter of cola.
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June 29, 2010 12:15 a.m. 96DXCivic Dork
I saw an old '80s Chevy van that had pulled someone over. The van had Jones County Sheriff on the side.
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June 29, 2010 5:56 a.m. 914Driver UberDork
David S. Wallens wrote:
I saw someone getting pulled over on I-4 in Orlando by a plain, white extra-cab F150. It even had a diamond plate toolbox in the bed. The strobes were hidden in the side windows.
Seized from a criminal?
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June 29, 2010 6:40 a.m. Toyman01 Dork
The local PD here has a Ford minivan they use. Here in suburbia, it just kind of blends in. Good thing I don't speed...much.
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June 29, 2010 7:02 a.m. 16vCorey UltraDork
Most of our cop cars are still Crown Vics, but I have seen a few Sheriffs drive new Taurii. We have a couple Chargers, but as far as I know they're all lettered up. I did see a guy pulled over a couple of days ago by a plain gray Ford Five Hundred, just like this one:
And a few years ago there was a local Sheriff that had outfitted his personal car with hidden lights and such. It was a early '90s Tracker.
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June 29, 2010 7:02 a.m. spitfirebill Dork
David S. Wallens wrote:
I saw someone getting pulled over on I-4 in Orlando by a plain, white extra-cab F150. It even had a diamond plate toolbox in the bed. The strobes were hidden in the side windows.
Years ago Maryland used an old Ranchero with a bail of hay in the back as an undercover radar car.
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June 29, 2010 7:21 a.m. Kia_racer HalfDork
Unmarked Radar car just seem like entrapment to me.
On the other hand the only tickets I have ever gotten were from the marked up ones.
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June 29, 2010 7:30 a.m. 93celicaGT2 UberDork
We have Mustangs on the highways around Indy. They are 110% undetectable until the cherries and berries come on. Makes for some funny situations to watch.
These cars can be red, blue, white, black, grey, orange, whatever. Lots of them have stripes and big nasty exhausts. It's hilarious.
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Not as hilarious as the cars that the local PD pulls out of impound to combat street racing. There's a black bugeye WRX with a huge FMIC and a 3" exhaust with a gigantic fart cannon that's been known to pull people over.
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June 29, 2010 7:41 a.m. Ian F Dork
I see quite a few police-package Chargers around here, although there are more all-black P71's. They stand out well enough and have more or less lost the "stealth" bit to the locals... Usually, the black steel wheels gives them away. Putting alloys on one would be evil.
So far, nothing tops the gold V6 Citation the local State Police barracks used as a PA Turnpike interceptor back in the late 80's.
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June 29, 2010 8:03 a.m. pilotbraden Reader
The ex mayor of Flint MI owns a car dealership. While in office he bought his own police car, equipped it with undercover lights and painted " Mayor Don Williamson" on it. He wasn't shy about running the lights.
