If you're stopped for speeding by one of these you might be able to talk your way out

Usually I'm not happy to see a policecar on the motorway, but this one I might tolerate


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[This message has been edited by Mikkel (edited 11-24-2000).]

Neat looking car... is Italian, I suppose. A guy who came to the house the other day said he used to live in Germany & drove the Autobahn regularly.... he said they used Porsche 911's as police cars there as well. Taking someone into custody and cramming them into the back seat would be cruel and unusual punishment in this country!
regards,
jlex.

For sure, its a German Police car for Autobahn use (helicopter readable number).
Its registered as Governmental Car in Stuttgart ("S"-blank-Number).
But honestly, I have never seen one of these, and I am driving here a couple of years already.
Anyway, I hate this green/white appearance...

Jens

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Mikkel,

These are seen in the Southern parts of Germany on the autobahn. It is registered in Stuttgart but I have seen them out of Munich (M prefix on the license plate) as well.

They normally do not arrest you for anything in Germany unless you have a gun or the like. They pull up along side you, wave a baton or like at you and you pull over. At this time they take all your information and then are sent home to stew and wait for the letter to arrive a month or two later.

Then you lose your license for a few months to years if its really bad or just a few thousand DM and points otherwise.

BTW, if a private person sees you doing something on the road they do not like, they can, without the police there, file a complaint against you in Germany. You then have to go to your local police and defend yourself from something you know nothing about.

I was driving through the old East Germany once and a farmer in a Trabant did like my driving and filed a complaint against me. He thought that I was driving too fast, but then the Trabby would barely go 100 KPH so he was not a good judge of speed. It was dropped later but parts of Germany and their laws need not be copied here in America!!!

If you do need to be detained by the police, you will not be stuffed in the back of a Porsche. They have thousands of VW vans (still painted green and white) that you get to ride in to the police station. No, I have not gotten to try this personally, but as an ambulance pilot while there in Germany I have seen far too many of them while picking up the remains at an accident.

Regarding the color, the Porsche police cars are painted all white and I am told that the green is just a application of 3M green plastic (or likewise film) overlaid over the doors and elsewhere.

JA

Hmmmm-I wonder what a 993 would look like in Texas DPS (Dept. of Public Safety) colors?) All black w/white hood, trunk, and doors, satin black steel wheels, a push bar in front and a couple of VHF anntenas on the roof-that'd be scary to see flashing down I-35. Of course, I'd just wait a few years a buy one for a couple grand when they auction the used ones off. Tons of autocrosser 5.0 Mustang coupes got started that way....

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Clay Mcguill www.geocities.com/the912guy