Personally I really find obviously fake police cars used in movies charming. Here are some examples, both Swedish and American. I will keep to the old school vehicles since this thread is about the "classics".

 

Fake Swedish police car in Scorched Heat (1987). This car is crashed and since the movie was very low budget, they just took and old SAAB 99 (MY 1975) and tried disguise it as a modern police car. The lights and livery are wrong though.

 

Fake NYPD unit in Maniac Cop 2 (1990). Wrong lightbar and I don't even know if the NYPD had any Diplomat wagons?

 

A bunch of fake NYPD cars in Rumble in the Bronx (1995). Wrong liveries, font, lightbars... But I think they look cool.

 

Fake NYPD cruiser in Ghostbusters II (1989). Since this particular scene was filmed in Los Angeles, I guessed they had a hard time finding a authentic NYPD car. The livery and lightbar are wrong.

 

Fake Swedish police car in Kenny Starfighter (1997). Even if it looks cool, the Swedish police never used Chevrolet Impalas, and the lightbar and POLIS font are all wrong. Also the police stopped using the black-and-white color scheme in 1984 and the very last cars with this scheme went out of service in 1989.

 

Fake Swedish police car in Sound of Noise (2010). Black car with blue stripes? Never been such a thing. Also I don't think there were any Volvo 740s still in service in 2010. Certainly not any with MY 1985 as in this case.

Found a color version of that black & white photo of the CHP Caprice with the Edge lightbar, apparently they tested it in 1989-1990 along with some other lightbars before the Vision was choosen as a main lightbar in 91'.
A MX7000 lightbar can be seen on a car in the background too.

Edited February 5, 20188 yr by 11john11

Yay, more CHP lightbar experiments!

Dodge Monaco:

(you can see it on the right too)

 

That lightbar was first tested in the early 70s on the Polara, pic was most likely posted in here already
 

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Edited March 5, 20188 yr by 11john11

That's interesting, one would think that they would use rotating beacons at this time!

 

It's a pity police never used steady burns in my country (nor any other emergency service)

Hey y'all. Here's something random I found while looking for something else;



And a bonus one;

On 4.2.2018 at 5:07 PM, C0pper said:

 

In 1984 the Swedish police decided they wanted to try change their whole image, with new fonts, logos and police car livery. They went with a futuristic style font and the black-and-white cars became white with yellow, blue, and black stripes on the side in the shape of a hockey stick, giving the livery its name "hockeyklubban". The colors in the stripe had some meaning; the yellow and blue meaning Sweden, and the black to "honor" the old black-and-white livery that most Swedes were used to when imaging the police.

The new livery was criticised by both the public and the police themselves due to the low visibility in traffic compared to the old black-and-whites. The plain white livery with glued on stripes were also planned to save money when taking the cars out of service but the glue stuck so the cars had to be re-painted anyway before being sold on the public market.

1983 Ford Econoline:

1984 Volvo 240:

1985 SAAB 900:

1988 SAAB 9000:

Volkswagen Caravelle:

 

 

Wow, these liveries look so cool! Definitely one of the nicest livery designs Europe had to offer in the 80's!

 

Outside of the Savannah Police Dept., restored Savannah Police and Chatham County police cars.

 

Restored Chatham County Police car

 

 

 

Restored Savannah Police car.

 

 

 

Restored State Patrol

 

 

 

Georgia State Patrol 56 Ford

 

 

 

Georgia State Patrol '61 Catalina

 

 

 

Geogia State Patrol 1990 Caprice

 

 

 

Georgia State Patrol 1991 Crown Vic

 

 

 

Geaorgia State Patrol 1991 Mustang

 

 

 

GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) agent posing in front of Ludowici, GA Speed Trap sign put up by then Governor Maddox

Edited June 2, 20187 yr by phantoms
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some rare retro LAPD stuff

 

OLD SCHOOL! 1959 Dodge Coronet! Love my Missouri cars... lol

Late to the party, but enjoying the old stuff.  Here's an ambulance I rode a couple times in the late 60s.  I don't think it's the original, as ours had a Beacon Ray Model 17 on the rook and a Model 66 siren sticking out of the nose, on a bracket.   Rear flashers are accurate.

 

 

Some old school from Mothеr Яussia

 

Letters on the back door stand for Mobile Police Squad (or Pomogi mne Gospodi aka Help Me God)

 

Don't know about you, but I like seeing police cars in yellow. Brings variety.

 

Hello buddy, can I get some pizza at my location please

 

Nice cars

The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office in West Virginia had these girls in service up until a few months ago

1994 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor

1992 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor

1992 Ford Taurus

 

...and in true West Virginia fashion, the Sheriff's Office is built into an abandoned grocery store.

Photos taken June 2016.

Edited April 4, 20197 yr by gnair227

Renault 12(Toros) of the Turkish Police:



and with 1990s Livery:

 

 

Soviet Police(Militsya) also used Western Cars:

https://www.rbth.com/history/329516-why-did-soviet-policemen-drive-bmw/amp

 

Edited July 24, 20214 yr by Officer GILLETTE ABDI

On 11/16/2018 at 4:41 PM, Hastings said:

Some old school from Mothеr Яussia

Letters on the back door stand for Mobile Police Squad (or Pomogi mne Gospodi aka Help Me God)

Hello buddy, can I get some pizza at my location please

Haha, about it's funny about ПМГ which means Patrol Mobile Group.

And.. To order pizza in USSR you had to leave USSR first.

 

To bump old-good thread I just post the most unusual cars from my collection:

I start from AMERICAN cars on Chinese service. This Crown Victoria with SKYBOLT is really unusual....

Spoiler

As the next let's move to middle east, Saudi Arabia, and meet police "re-skin" of Chevrolet Caprice - Pontiac Parissiene

Spoiler

And finally, one of my favorite, american cars on service in ex-soviet republics:

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Estonia

Ukraine

And Russia

And Belarus

I hope you enjoyed the pics, next time I post more.