On 4/11/2016 at 5:27 PM, LtFlash said:

A little off-topic, but I swear that this same street and burned out church were used for establishing shots at the beginning of the 1981 movie Wolfen (which is a very interesting film and has some great practical effects and animatronics on that note).

The setting for the transient home of the wolves was shot in the South Bronx (intersection of Louis Nine Boulevard & Boston Road). The church seen in the opening panorama shot was located at the intersection of E 172nd Street & Seabury Place.

@FCV96 Yep, this is the location where "Wolfen" was shot. What's interesting, that "burned down church" was a set for the movie, there was no actual church at that place. Here's an aerial which shows how it looked before the bomb... in 1951:

http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/RECORDSPHOTOUNITARC~24~24~1602861~161940:am_1951_03?sort=identifier%2Cdate%2Cplace%2Ccreator&qvq=q:bronx;sort:identifier%2Cdate%2Cplace%2Ccreator;lc:RECORDSPHOTOUNITARC~24~24&mi=2&trs=354

Bodymore, Murdaland

Some random pics to wake the topic up.

Franklin County SO, Ohio.

Lexington PD, Kentucky 

BCHP

 

Edited May 28, 20169 yr by Hastings

Since we're doing the whole colorizing thing.

Pic from the local car show.

1953 Mercury Monterey

I found some historic LASD pictures, so I'll be posting those. There's about 40 pictures, so I won't post them all at once.

 

Inside an ordinary Brooklyn parking lot (thanks Denis for taking the pic :))

Edited August 11, 20169 yr by Hastings

1918 Indian Motorcycle with machine gun

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Some good old blue and orange(pre-merger housing and nassau county)

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Old E.S.U./ Auxiliary E.S.U. ex-Civil Defense rescue

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School Safety Suburban 

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Edited August 15, 20169 yr by 43lincoln

Probably one of the most underrated police forces of the Cold War Era, IMO, the Volkspolizei, and their Wartburg 353s.

Other Streifenwagens are available. (GTA IV taught me that word!)

On 8/11/2016 at 1:56 AM, Hastings said:

Inside an ordinary Brooklyn parking lot (thanks Denis for taking the pic :))

 

Why is there a Crown Vic in there? It's not old enough yet. 

I found some more Australian cars... mostly hideous 80s ones though.

A bunch of hideous Holden Commodores from the late 1980s on scene of an MVA.

Another hideous Holden Commodore belonging to the SAPOL from the 1990s.

1980's Mitsubishi Cordia Turbo used by the NSWPOL.

Ford Falcons of the VICPOL, 1970's. Interesting that the siren is on the hood.

Bank robber lays dead after a shootout with detectives, 1980s.

Another hideous Holden Commodore, 80s.

1 hour ago, Original Light said:

Why is there a Crown Vic in there? It's not old enough yet. 

Just wait a few more years...

1 hour ago, Hastings said:

Just wait a few more years...

*cries*

2 hours ago, Illusionyary said:

I found some more Australian cars... mostly hideous 80s ones though.

A bunch of hideous Holden Commodores from the late 1980s on scene of an MVA.

Another hideous Holden Commodore belonging to the SAPOL from the 1990s.

1980's Mitsubishi Cordia Turbo used by the NSWPOL.

Ford Falcons of the VICPOL, 1970's. Interesting that the siren is on the hood.

Bank robber lays dead after a shootout with detectives, 1980s.

Another hideous Holden Commodore, 80s.

Hideous is right. The Commodore is like the Bogan-Mobile nowdays.

Also, Australian Police Cars don't age very well at all, in my opinion.

Here's part two of those historic LASD pictures

Edited August 22, 20169 yr by MikoFiticus
Imgur was being weird. Added the photos one by one

Then and now...

 

 

 

 

after doing my research on the mcdermott lightbar for an upcoming project, i found some pretty rad pics

so heres a shit ton of them.

(let me know if they're gone)

 

heres the link to the page, if any of you are interested

http://elightbars.org/forums/threads/high-rise-multi-level-lights.74355/

8 hours ago, OfficerFive0 said:

after doing my research on the mcdermott lightbar for an upcoming project, i found some pretty rad pics

so heres a shit ton of them.

(let me know if they're gone)

 

I may see it better but it sure doesn't look better.

In regards to the CVPI not being classic enough, I feel privileged to see one here, everybodys getting chargers, explorers, and caprices. Yuck! I was little and I mean little, like slung over my dads shoulder little when I first saw a NYPD CVPI, that was when my family went to Radio City years back, we had just emerged from NY Penn Station and on the corner was a blue on white CVPI. Just another NYPD RMP, but it was my first and it was special to me. All I see today is caprices, chargers, explorers, tahoes, and what have you. But every now and then I see a Crown Vic just sitting on a traffic detail doing nothing but idling with the lights on and the rookies coffee in the center console. Just standing by to be retired. They are old to me, and to a lot of suburban departments with a lot of money and a hard one for the brand new 2017 Pursuit-tron 1000000 see them that way too. Call me bias or a fanboy all you want, won't change a thing.

 

 

Edited August 24, 20169 yr by 43lincoln

Aha! Found some fantastic colour images of NSWPOL vehicles thanks to the New South Wales Historic Patrol Vehicles Facebook page. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find them in anything but black and white.