Since we are a fairly good amount of people around here who seem to be particularly interested in classic cars, I open this thread so we can discuss, post pictures and stuff of vintage law enforcement and other emergency vehicles. Hopefully this will turn into something real interesting!

I will get the ball rolling with these pictures I came across from 1976 of the arrest of some outlaw bikers by the Michigan State Patrol.

Notice the rare pushbar the MSP Plymouth has in the photos above. The only time I've seen it, most of them look like this.

Well, enjoy and feel free to contribute!

Please don't link pictures to the policecarwebsite.

Edited July 2, 201411 yr by strike

Heres some chp cars

 

And now it's time to invade your Americanised topic with some good ol' British Police mobiles!

 

P.S Sorry about the poor quality of some, some of this is before I got good at photography!

Heres some chp cars

 

 

Your files all appear to be corrupt. :s

But here, I have included an old CHP CVPI from my archives, just for you!

Edited July 2, 201411 yr by CobraEmergencyGames

This is a really good idea, I'll post some.

 

These are some old school RCMP cars.

 

 

 

(This picture was taken at one of the detachments near me)

 

 

 

 

New Brunswick's old HP. It has since been disbanded.

 

 

 

Dieppe's old police force slicktop Caprice (notice the beacon in the dash)

 

 

Some more old blue and white RCMP cars, these are slicktops.

 

 

 

Edited July 2, 201411 yr by TheGTAMitch

And now it's time to invade your Americanised topic with some good ol' British Police mobiles!

The Talbot Horizon (5th pic) was widely used in my country in law enforcement, as well as in Army (at least Air Force) if I'm not mistaken. Here's one of the Ertzaintza, the police agency which enforces the Basque Country, the region where I reside.

Anybody knows which lightbar is using?

Policía Nacional, which operates statewide, using a Jetsonic. The paint job is the second one they used, which was later changed again.

Curiously enough, this agency kept some quite old cars in service until few years ago. In the station of the city I live in they had an old Nissan Patrol and a van I can't remeber which model was. I will create a more extensive post about older police vehicles in Spain in other occasion.

1997 Crown vic

Here are a few old Aussie police cars (from different states across Australia)

 

 

This was a movie car, but the XB Falcon MFP interceptor is beautiful

Edited July 3, 201411 yr by CouthInk4

Good thread, great cars. It is a pity that these cars are not made for a GTA 4.

And again, once a week steadily goes another version of CVPI 1998-2011. I have nothing against this car, but it's already too much.

Edited July 3, 201411 yr by JohnLozano

This is a really good idea, I'll post some.

 

These are some old school RCMP cars.

 

 

 

Did you notice the different appearance of the rear lights in this photo?

 

Those are some gorgeous photos of classic police vehicles by the way.

 

Cheers.

 

Did you notice the different appearance of the rear lights in this photo?

 

Seems like they replaced it with the tail light of an early panther LTD model.

 

 

Here are a few old Aussie police cars (from different states across Australia)

 

 

I've always found strange old Australian cars. They are like a mixture between American and British, something weird. The front looks like the early 1970's Mustang Mach 1 but the rear is like someth... *mind explodes*

 

 

Dieppe's old police force slicktop Caprice (notice the beacon in the dash)

 

 

Are those actual Chevrolet hubcaps? The look similar to the ones of the Ford Tempo.

 

Seems like they replaced it with the tail light of an early panther LTD model.

 

 

 

I've always found strange old Australian cars. They are like a mixture between American and British, something weird. The front looks like the early 1970's Mustang Mach 1 but the rear is like someth... *mind explodes*

 

 

 

Are those actual Chevrolet hubcaps? The look similar to the ones of the Ford Tempo.

 

 

I'm not quite sure about that, they could have slapped them on. I haven't seen any Chevy hubcaps like that before.

 

 

Did you notice the different appearance of the rear lights in this photo?

 

Those are some gorgeous photos of classic police vehicles by the way.

 

Cheers.

 

 

Yeah! I found it quite interesting that it had a different one. New Brunswick's highway patrol had nice vehicles before they disbanded. 

Good thread, great cars. It is a pity that these cars are not made for a GTA 4.

And again, once a week steadily goes another version of CVPI 1998-2011. I have nothing against this car, but it's already too much.

Yep way too many US CVPI cop cars! I like it, but there's just so many mods that it is in no way unique.

Oh dear. This is right up my alley. I was just thinking about doing this too. Here are some pics. Some are from the Original Gone In 60 Seconds movie (GO SEE IT). There's also the local Portland, OR PD cruiser, Beaverton, OR used to have a Merc by the looks of this old photo, and Seattle cruiser. Those will be first.

 

 

 

 

Here are the Gone In 60 Seconds cars (Long Beach, LAPD, LASD, CHP). Cool thing about the movie, the police in the whole movie are real cops. They did use the HB Hallicky's personal cars that were turned into cops though. Also, I'd like to note that the Dodge Coronet, is one of my favorite cops from the movie. Something about that thing looks mad as hell.

 

 

You can't speak of classic police cars without mentioning movies and scenes, of course. Case in point, the 1968 NYPD Plymouth Fury in The Seven-Ups (1973). [see 4:56]

 

 

 

As well as its later blue/white counterparts;

 

^ 1973 Fury

 

v 1982-1989 Gran Fury

U.S. Border Patrol. Doesn't get much older than this.

Few more shots from the USBP, from the 1970's and early 1980's.

 

 

Agent with a stuck van near Sunland Park NM 1977.

 

 

Agent at ck.point hwy 54 near Oro Grande NM 1977.

 

 

 

 

Border Patrol check point near Oro Grande NM 1982.

 

 

BP checkpoint hwy 62/180 near El Paso 1970's.

 

sauce

 

 

Border Patrol 1977 Plymouth (gotta love the Twinsonic!). There was a former Border Patrol 1976 Plymouth for auction in Ebay but unfortunately it was already over so the pictures and video were no longer avaliable.

Greetings from Sweden!

 

 

 

Newer cars:

 

Swedish SWAT Armored response truck:

Edited July 4, 201411 yr by Someone22

Please, let's keep this classic only :)  Beautiful Porsche, reminded me of these curious pictures of the day that the direction of traffic in Sweden was changed to the right in 1967.

 

 

 

There can be seen a few cops cars but I'm afraid I can't identify them. There's also a 1960 Chevrolet and a Mercedes, which look like some sort of diplomatic escort, judging by the flags on the toop (or are they simply taxis?).

 

Edited July 4, 201411 yr by strike

Those uniforms would be really cool in GTA IV. Anyone got a link to a similar mod?

 

 

 

Did anyone mention British police? :)