State Troopers are running around in Ford Exploders.
They should be running around in TROOPERS!
Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
1983 300SD 265K miles, Ursula
I wouldn't want to see those training videos.
Brian
On 12/18/06, kevin kraly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
State Troopers are running around in Ford Exploders.
They should be running around in TROOPERS!
Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
1983 300SD 265K miles, Ursula
On 12/16/06, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zoltan Finks wrote:
And that is scary. I want performance cars only in the hands of those
trained or capable of handling them.
A Crown Vic Police Interceptor is not really a performance car. It's
A Crown Vic may not be, haven't driven
On 12/18/06, Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Crown Vic may not be, haven't driven one, but I owned a 9C1 Caprice
that would keep up with a Vette in the straights. Obviously the Vette
Better pepper that it was a last model 90's Caprice and C4 90's
Standard stock Vette. Not a Grand
On 12/17/06, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zoltan Finks wrote:
what boxes were checked on the order form. The only way to be
absolutely sure whether a car was ordered as a police package model is
to look at the VIN.
A true P71 will always have black corners around the license frame
Oh yeah, my wife went to IU. Bloomington looks like a fun place to live for
relatively young folks like us. About the only place I'd personally want to
live in IN (no offense). Living there would make the trip to go see her
family (like we're doing Friday - DREAD) a much shorter trip.
I have
And that is scary. I want performance cars only in the hands of those
trained or capable of handling them.
Brian
David wrote:
Here they all use surplus cop cars.
Zoltan Finks wrote:
And that is scary. I want performance cars only in the hands of those
trained or capable of handling them.
So you want them kept out of the hands of cops?
Zoltan Finks wrote:
And that is scary. I want performance cars only in the hands of those
trained or capable of handling them.
A Crown Vic Police Interceptor is not really a performance car. It's
got basically the same engine as a V-8 Mustang and considerably more
weight. 0-60 times are
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Zoltan Finks wrote:
And that is scary. I want performance cars only in the hands of those
trained or capable of handling them.
A Crown Vic Police Interceptor
Chris Kueny wrote:
A visual cue to the police package is the dual exhaust. So there are some
small hardware differences.
Yeah, that's good for a small horsepower gain. It's also found on Crown
Victorias with the trailer towing package. It's one of the few
examples of a modern car with a
on 12/16/06 4:56 PM, David Brodbeck at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve MacSween wrote:
Now I see your comment on US cars and raise you by the experience of our
local taxi fleets. For a long time the (verrry cheap) owners purchased
whichever US car was cheapest to get at the time (mainly
Oh yes, I know. My cronies and I, growing up, used to laugh at the
performance of the cop cars and a few of us were fortunate enough to be able
to honestly brag about outrunning them. (outrunning was the easy part,
outcornering a bit more difficult, and of course, outrunning the Motorola or
the
That's true. Another visual cue is the rear sway bar. Or maybe all
full-sized American cars come with rear sway bars now. It used to be a real
rarity.
The size and profile of the tires is another indicator. And aluminum wheels
are not often found on a cop car, nor are wheel-covers (as opposed to
Zoltan Finks wrote:
That's true. Another visual cue is the rear sway bar. Or maybe all
full-sized American cars come with rear sway bars now. It used to be a real
rarity.
All Crown Vics after a certain year have a Watt's link to locate the
rear axle.(Older ones have a Panhard rod.) Dunno
.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
256-656-1924
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on 12/15/06 12:33 PM, Donald Snook at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I disagree somewhat. American made CARS are crap. Trucks are a
different story.
What are you basing this statement on? I agree that American cars
needed to improve and they did - dramatically. Maintenance costs have
dropped
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Steve MacSween wrote:
Now I see your comment on US cars and raise you by the experience of our
local taxi fleets. For a long time the (verrry cheap) owners purchased
whichever US car was cheapest to get at the time (mainly Luminas and Malibus
and Transport/Montana minivans).
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