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22/08/2013 1:16 pm
PICs 1:1 - The last group of Police Cruisers...
from the Woodward Dream Cruise. Thanks for looking.
1967 PLYMOUTH FURY I SEDAN
1967 PLYMOUTH FURY I SEDAN & 1968 PLYMOUTH FURY SEDAN
1968 PLMOUTH FURY I SEDAN
1969 PLYMOUTH BELVEDERE SEDAN
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
22/08/2013 2:05 pm
AWESOME. Reminds me of my old Johan 68 Plymouth police cruiser.
22/08/2013 3:43 pm
Great MoPaR cop cars, John. I'm pretty sure that hood-mounted "stop" signal is unique to Michigan.
23/08/2013 3:37 am
Could someone explain the purpose of the hood mounted stop sign??
23/08/2013 4:05 am
Here's the reason for the "STOP" sign...
From Wikipedia...
MSP vehicles also feature a clear plastic sign, referred to as a "hood light" or "hailer" or "shark fin" on the hood that lights up when activated. The historical use of this hood light dates from the time when a "side stop" patrol stop would be initiated by pulling up next to an offender and the Trooper would motion them to pull over in daylight; at night the hood light was illuminated displaying the words "State Police" and "STOP" (MSP no longer use the "side stop").
23/08/2013 9:23 am
Thanks Marlowe, now I remember those days. Story time or geezer time:
While in Texas back in 64 I had a 51 Ford 2dr. ht. flat head V8 three on the tree and was driving on a road with stop lights on every block when a guy in a white 63 Ford Galaxie challenged me to race light to light. The small block heavy weight 63 just couldn't beat my old bomb with a half dozen tries and apparently gave up. About 6 miles out of town on an open highway from out of no where I saw in my perihelia vision a white 63 Galaxie nose pulling up along side me when I was already doing 75 mph; so I assumed it was the same guy wanting to go for top end. Well at about 115 mph I was topped out and the 63 still there decided to pull up dead along side me and turned on his interior light and put on his Smokey Bear hat and pointed to pull over. Yes, a visit to the local JP was in order.
Aah, the good old days, lol.
23/08/2013 1:22 pm
Would you believe the Soviets copied it (kind of)?
From about 1970-1975, Militsiya GAI patrol cars had a light-up sign on the trunk lid saying "OSTANOVITES" (in Cyrillic, granted; literally "Stay"). The sign would light up when it got dark, foggy, or rainy. Unfortunately, it generally confused the daylights out of Soviet drivers when it was introduced. Some people assumed it worked like the patrol car's light bar and would stop the second it lit up if driving behind the patrol car. Another problem was that to be seen, the patrol car had to be driving in front of the speeding car. Maybe if you're driving a car with a hopped up engine, that's fine, but the Militsiya GAI usually got stuck with old GAZ-21S Volga sedans (with a lucky few getting GAZ-24-01 Volgas designed as taxis). Although the Volga 21 had a higher top speed than a Moskvitch 412, it couldn't out-accelerate the 412, so that was a bit of a problem. Worse, when the VAZ-2101 Zhiguli was introduced onto the market (that being the first Lada, at least eventually), it actually had an incrementally HIGHER top speed than the Volga 21 (although the 24 could beat it, if not not by much and not possessing the same acceleration, either).