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Saw my first Po-po pony car
Yeah, the other day, I saw my first version of one of the new pony cars converted into a police car. It was a new Camaro.
I didn't get any pics, but found these online. It's one of those marked, but not cars. Dark markings on a dark car. We have a bunch of white on white Dodge Chargers running around the area too. Sneaky, sneaky 
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An Oregon cop mustang...total stealth..not even running publicly owned plates...guy who got ticketed says it was Roush supercharged.
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12-03-2011, 11:49 AM
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OK county has a few stangs, can't find a picture, but they apparently have a camaro as well...
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12-03-2011, 11:56 AM
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It "just ain't fair"...
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Hell the police package chargers pack enough of a punch to catch most of what is on the road....
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12-03-2011, 12:19 PM
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Low profile or totally hidden inside...nothing like these in a photo I took...
 I-5 1975...you'll never see light traffic like that these days.
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) Last edited by pwd72s; 12-03-2011 at 12:25 PM.. |
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Michigan state police have been running 5.0 mustangs for a long, long time. 1980s long time.
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ha. I was drinking right where that pic was taken of the car.
effing kemah.
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Alabama State Troopers were running Javelins back in the 70's...
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As of late, they have Chargers with no top lights and small, hard to identify pushbars on the front. They are still that MSP blue, though. Well, most of them anyway.
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Florid FHP has been running Stangs since the 80s as well..
 
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Yes, mustangs and camaros have been run as police cars for a long time. I guess I should have been more clear and said that this is the first of the newest generation of pony cars that I've seen. I haven't seen any of the last couple generations of mustang. We have had some of the previous generation of camaros here. The new pony cars seem pretty pricey to be police cars. I assume the manufacturers give them a huge discount and write it off as advertising or something.
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NCSHP had Mustang trunkies in the '80s and '90s, then they had a fleet of bi+chin Camaros in the early '00s mostly for patrolling the interstates. Hell, these days, even the local municipal fuzz has Mustang for some reason.
Apex Police Mustang
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