Less functional than a regular 4 door sedan, I'm guessing you'd have to dispatch a van as well to transport the suspect. Reminds me to LA Noire. The third one is a Ford, isn't it?

 

 

Not exactly the same lightbar but the Colorado State Patrol used (not sure if they still do) some weird ass high rise lightbars.

 

 

 

Would be fun to see one of these drive under a low bridge...

 

yep...

 

I love those lightbars! 

I cant even imagine this working out. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A couple of central Florida oldies 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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^ The above NYPD Chrysler K-Car [ Dodge Aeries?] actually suits Manhattan enforcement pretty well. The damn things were near unkillable, and with their small size they probably made for easy work of getting through holes in traffic.

 

There's also something I can appreciate about the humble, single beacon light mounted on the roof. It has a very distinctive, and likeable, look.

 

 

I'l add some old Polish/PRL cars.

I hope to one day make one of those. That or one of these: A 1965 Dodge Polara CHP car.

 

I've always hated old cop cars, especially CHP cars. Ugh, they were disgusting (and still are). I don't know why, I think the fact that they were just so low visibility. I like being visible to EVERYONE so I don't get run over (although GTA logic doesn't incorporate this into the game).

Keep those NYPD RMP photos coming, Hastings. They're fantastic!

Some of my favorites :)

 

Bomb disposal unit

1968 Plymouth 

A-a-a-and... Emergency Services Dept from 30's!

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Cool pictures, got any more of the roof mounted speed radar?

 

Few pictures I could find of the US Border Patrol fleet during the 1980's. 

 

 

Dodge Ramcharger

 

 

Dodge Ramvan (San Ysidro 1989)

 

 

Ford E-Series

 

 

Ford LTD S

 

 

Ford LTD Crown Victoria

 

 

Chevrolet Caprice 9c1

 

 

Chevrolet C20 Scottsdale Suburban.

 

And unrelated to the previous pictures, US Marshall Service Chevrolet  Caprice.

 

Some of my favorites :)

 

Those are fantastic. I do love how much the lighting choices have changed over the years; from Beacon Ray model 17's, to 175-H's, to Aerotwinsonics, and now to Visions/VisonSLRs.

 

I assume that you frequent policeny.com? :)

 

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Strike, those photos are fantastic! The Dodge Ramcharger is cool as all hell, and that Ford LTD S rocks in addition. You can't beat the 1980s Econoline either, and the Caprices [both Border Patrol and Marshal Service] are beauties!

 

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Here are some photos that I took at the NYC 2014 International Auto Show. The NYPD Museum had an exhibit in the basement. To see these in person was an experience like none other!

 

TRANSIT/HOUSING POLICE

The quintissential '87-'90 Transit Police Caprice.  Note the Housing Police Gran Fury next to it. I never knew that the Transit Police's lightbar was made by Whelen; the NYPD's Queens South Transit District has a large bus with this same lightbar still in service. It is a Whelen AdvantEdge, and has halogen rotators inside of it.

 

 

Here's a better shot of the Housing Police Gran Fury, as well as a Transit Police uniform.  It appears to be quite similar to the NYPD uniform of the time.

 

 

Here's another view of the Housing Police Gran Fury.

 

 

1989 NYPD Caprice

That AeroTwinSonic was breathtaking to see in person. 

 

 

Aside from being an Edward Byrne tribute car, this Caprice's decals look great when they reflect!  Note the Fort Apache: The Bronx (1981) movie poster in the background.

 

 

Here's that same photo without the reflecting decal. [i turned off the flash.]  For the record, Edward Byrne worked in the 103PCT - I live relatively closeby and they still have a photo of him up on the back wall.

 

 

 

 

 

According to the poster that went along with this Caprice, it was equipped with an older Federal Signal PA300 siren.  I always thought that the Scientific Prototypes Mark VII siren was replaced with the first-gen Federal Signal Smart Siren, but apparently the PA300 was thrown in there in between.  I asked one of the representatives from the Police Museum and he said that the NYPD put PA300s in the later Caprices and some ESU trucks.  The older PA300s are some of my favorite sirens though - the yelp sounds great.  Federal still sells the PA300 but they made the tones higher pitched and shortened the wail; the older PA300s sound much better IMO.

 

Sorry that this photo is a little blurry; I believe that I have this poster on video and it is much more legible.

 

 

Other Light Blue/White RMPs [1973 Plymouth Fury and 1974 Plymouth Satellite]

The vintage Signal Stat bar was a work of art, and coupled with the McDermott high-riser it certainly was a sight to see.  The Fury sure is massive in person, and if you look through the windshield you can see a handheld spotlight.

 

 

 

This 1974 Plymouth Satellite was amazing! The Signal Stat bar was, again, fantastic. 

 

 

The quality is a bit lackluster on this one because my phone didn't want to focus with all of the overhead lighting.  The video I took of this car in particular turned out much better.  Gotta love that old NYPD uniform; that one had to have been after 1971 because it has a shoulder patch on the o ther side - the uniforms didn't get shoulder patches until '71.  Note the old wooden baton and revolver! That's a brand new Ford Fusion RMP with a Federal Vision SLR next to the Satellite.

 

 

Some info on the Satellite.  According to this, 1975 was the year that the NYPD started putting PCT numbers on the cars.  The Signal Stat VI siren is really distinctive too! I don't even want to know just how difficult those "police special" speedometers are to find now.

 

 

Green/Black/White RMPs [1950s/early 1960s Ford Customs, 1965/1966 Plymouth Fury, 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne]

 

These Ford RMPs come from the late 1950s and early 1960s.  They still have a red Beacon Ray model 17 on top and a mechanical siren mounted underneath the hood and they still say POLICE N.Y. on the hood and only have PCT numbers on their doors!

 

 

 

 

Next up is a 1965/1966 Plymouth Fury RMP.  Note the clear Beacon Ray 175-H and pulsator on top and the shield on the door with the PCT number behind it.  These photos are relatively out-of-focus; I do have this car on clearer video though!

 

 

Gotta love the vintage "No Parking" sign!

 

 

 

Here's the 1966 Chevrolet Biscyane; the only year that the NYPD ordered Biscaynes.  Gotta love the pulsator and Beacon Ray 175-H!

 

 

 

A close-up on the Beacon Ray 175-H and Pulsator.  They are actually quite massive in person and are larger than the average human head and upper torso!  In the windshield reflection you can see part of a telephone number; before 911 was standardized, NYC's emergency number was 440-1234.

 

 

Extras

Here's a close-up on that old NYPD uniform.  Again, slightly out of focus but on video for later! The back of the Fury can be seen too.

 

 

Old signage rocks!

 

 

The French Connection (1971)'s movie poster was in the back!

 

 

A few officers were there to speak with.  This officer was from the NYPD's Highway Patrol - I spoke with him and he certainly enjoys his job. :D.  Note the new high-rise bar with the Vision SLR on the Explorer.

 

 

 

Can't beat those Harley Davidsons!

 

 

"There's a holdup in the Bronx

Brooklyn's broken out in fights!

There's a traffic jam in Harlem,

That's backed up to Jackson Heights!

There's a scout-troop short a child,

Kruchev's due at Idlewild!

Car 54, Where Are You?"

 

 

The New York State Police were also there;

 

 

This State Trooper was a joy to speak with.  He was with the NYPD for four years before deciding to join the NYSP. 

 

 

 

 

I've always hated old cop cars, especially CHP cars. Ugh, they were disgusting (and still are). I don't know why, I think the fact that they were just so low visibility. I like being visible to EVERYONE so I don't get run over (although GTA logic doesn't incorporate this into the game).

 

 

Additionally, it seems as if you've come to the wrong thread.

 

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I've always hated old cop cars, especially CHP cars. Ugh, they were disgusting (and still are). I don't know why, I think the fact that they were just so low visibility. I like being visible to EVERYONE so I don't get run over (although GTA logic doesn't incorporate this into the game).

 

Well i kinda agree with you i cant imagine not having a ton of lights on police cars but at the same time its still interesting to see the cars of that time and i love cars from the 70s on because they had full lightbars. 

I've always hated old cop cars, especially CHP cars. Ugh, they were disgusting (and still are). I don't know why, I think the fact that they were just so low visibility. I like being visible to EVERYONE so I don't get run over (although GTA logic doesn't incorporate this into the game).

Well i kinda agree with you i cant imagine not having a ton of lights on police cars but at the same time its still interesting to see the cars of that time and i love cars from the 70s on because they had full lightbars. 

 

I just have this for you people, John Wayne says GTFO. Hahaha.

 

 

^Don't be offended by the gif, it's just a joke, and should be treated as one.

 

All you need is a Beacon Ray and I'm set. Cops survived for decades without christmas trees. Granted, I'm not saying I hate modern cop cars, I don't mind a christmas tree here and there if it's done nicely, but these are tmeless designs. 

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hell, the LAPD didn't even get a light until 1948. They got the red spotlight and that was it. Before that, it was just a normal clear spotlight. No lights whatsoever. (LA Noire reflects this, having been set in 1947).

 

Anyway, back on the subject of this thread, Here are some more classics.

 

As I mentioned earlier, a 1948 Ford LAPD

 

50s Chevy LAPD

 

1968 Plymouth Belvedere Unmarked!

 

69 Dodge Polara Massachusetts State Police

If I could like your post several thousand times, Ringo, I would. Thanks for the photos as well; the late 40s Ford and early 50s Chevrolet [with the lovely Super Chief siren sitting on top] are beautiful in every meaning of the word. The Belvedere and Polara are smooth!

 

I'd also like to point out that beacon-based lighting is actually quite bright. Beacon's had a tendency to give off a bright pop of light as one of their lights rotated/oscillated in your direction, and they remained lit at all times. So long as a driver is looking at the roadway and being attentive [as they should be while operating a motor vehicle], a beacon can warn you just fine, and aren't as blinding as christmas-tree LEDs can be at times.

 

[^ The beacon on the Charger is an LED one simulating rotation. The Crown Victoria shown later has a Unity RV-26 rotating beacon. They are both quite bright and provide ample warning.]

 

 

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In direct sunlight during the daytime they can be a bit harder to spot, I'm willing to admit that. Nothing a few headlight/tailight flashers and one or two other flashing lights on the parcel shelf/dashboard can't fix, really, in addition to the siren.

 

 

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If I could like your post several thousand times, Ringo, I would. Thanks for the photos as well; the late 40s Ford and early 50s Chevrolet are beautiful in every meaning of the word. The Belvedere and Polara are smooth!

 

And I'd also like to point out that beacon-based lighting was actually quite bright. Beacon's had a tendency to give off a bright pop of light as one of their lights rotated/oscillated in your direction, and they remained lit at all times. So long as a driver is looking at the roadway and being attentive [as they should be while operating a motor vehicle], a beacon can warn you just fine, and aren't as blinding as christmas-tree LEDs can be at times.

 

Great videos, great lights. So I was thinking about this the other day, those Real Trio T-2 "Tin Can" lights made famous by the LAPD (Adam-12 Especially), were they one of the first to use something that resembles a TA? They were amber, and you could make them steady-burn like the front, or you could make them flash. I was always curious about when TAs started showing up.

 

 

Here's a video tour of a guys Adam 12 replica.

 

Some of those touches to the recreation car are amazing; I love the door-baton holder and the backlit desk to name a few. That's a good catch with the traffic-advising capabilities by the way; one could theoretically count the McDermott Hi-Rise bars that the NYPD used as well.

I find modern lighting setups rather excesive and hence annoying for sight when you are on the road, especially at night. I'm sure there can be a mid point between the primitive lightbars and modern christmas trees...

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Kind of ironic shot. Meter maid writes a parking citation for a Sheriff car, in Asheville, NC, 1970’s.

^ That is precisely why traffic agents are despised by nearly everyone, lol.

The photo was taken in 1964. It's the only one that I can find of my department.

 

Here's an interesting training film from the early 1970s. The TwinSonic lightbars and Plymouth Satellites [i think] are great! 

 

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Here's an interesting training film from the early 1970s. The TwinSonic lightbars and Plymouth Satellites [i think] are great! 

 

Very interesting video indeed! I'd love to see those kind of cars around. Old mopar cars and TwinSonics look good together. 

Here's several classic cars from various British Constabularies from the 1980s and 1990s:

 

Here's an interesting training film from the early 1970s. The TwinSonic lightbars and Plymouth Satellites [i think] are great! 

 

Super awesome find good sir. I love it.

 

And I'm almost positive those are Satellites. There is something so sexy about those old Mopar squad cars and big ole lightbars like those Twinsonics. I wish someone would make that car, or even use that Polara.

 

Also, watching stuff like this and Adam-12 and Dragnet make me want a police game set in the late 60s early 70s soooooooo bad. If Adam-12 could last for 7 season, we can make a game out of it. I wanna cruise down the highway in a California town with a V8 mopar with my Twinsonic.