B Body Cop Car

[66dart]

Anybody on here good with cop car knowledge? I found to holy grail of b body cop cars!

 

[Lionized]

Anybody on here good with cop car knowledge? I found to holy grail of b body cop cars!

Pictures?

 

[66dart]

I know....

Pictures?

 

[Lionized]

I know....


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1970 Coronet. I'm going to say Highway Patrol because it's a 21 car.

 

[66dart]

ok, somebody else said maybe FBI or Us Marshall too.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Equipment will depending upon whom ordered them.

 

[Bruzilla]

Sorry, but 70 Coronets are not the Holy Grail of cop cars. The Holy Grail cars are the 1969 Plymouth Belvedere sedan with a 383, 1971 Plymouth Satellite sedan, or a 1972 AMC Matador.

There's still a market for other retired cruisers, but it's very niche as folks will want cars that a particular agency used.

 

[aeon280]

Once upon a time I had a cherry 79 Diplomat Sedan DOD car. Talk about holy grail.

 

[Dibbons]

Not B Bodies but interesting:
I drove the 318 Diplomats back in 1983 when I was a California Highway Patrol officer in south Los Angeles--piece of junk. Tried to merge on an uphill freeway on-ramp one day at full throttle and had to back off and let the traffic pass me by because could not get up to traffic flow speed in time. On the other hand, we had one manual transmission Mustang 5.0 that flew (obviously a two-door). Problem with the Mustang was my partner always grabbed the keys first. The Mustang was off-limits when the roads were wet.

When I worked in a Chevron station 1973-1975, the CHP was still driving the old Dodge Polara 440's with dual exhaust that idled like this: "catch me if you can, catch me if you can, catch me if you can".

 

[YY1]

383-2

Indeed interesting WK21L cop 2 door sedan.

I thought the 77 440 cars were the grail, besides the aforementioned "Adam-12" versions.

 

[mopar 3 B]

70 Chryser Newport 440-4
2.5" exhaust with registered mufflers
Many components only showed by parts no..
Finding specs was near impossible
Got to ride one night with a Iowa State Trooper.
150 + for miles was like setting in the living room easy chair.

 

[Bladecutter]

Not B Bodies but interesting:
I drove the 318 Diplomats back in 1983 when I was a California Highway Patrol officer in south Los Angeles--piece of junk. Tried to merge on an uphill freeway on-ramp one day at full throttle and had to back off and let the traffic pass me by because could not get up to traffic flow speed in time. On the other hand, we had one manual transmission Mustang 5.0 that flew (obviously a two-door). Problem with the Mustang was my partner always grabbed the keys first. The Mustang was off-limits when the roads were wet.

When I worked in a Chevron station 1973-1975, the CHP was still driving the old Dodge Polara 440's with dual exhaust that sounded like this: "catch me if you can, catch me if you can, catch me if you can".

I had an 88 5.0 HO LX muskrat, was a jackrabbit, handled well on dry....shitty brakes and yeah, in the wet the *** end always wanted to be in front.

 

[cudak888]

Ok...well, until I see pictures of a car rather than a rusty piece of what Galen Govier thinks is porno, I'm going to flagrantly display my hacked up clone of what I believe the "holy grail" of B-body cop cars to be.

1968 Plymouth Belvedere (Satellite) - "Adam 12-1/2" by cudak888, on Flickr

1968 Plymouth Belvedere (Satellite) - "Adam 12-1/2" by cudak888, on Flickr

Note: Even the worst POS is the holy grail...when you have the pink slip.

-Kurt

 

[Dibbons]

Just found in the Mopar Factory Parts Manual a listing for rear stabilizer bars for Los Angeles Police Department B Bodies 70-71:

 

[WileE]

Sorry, but 70 Coronets are not the Holy Grail of cop cars.

What about the early 70's Fury ( that used to chase me)?

 

[mopar 3 B]

What about the early 70's Fury ( that used to chase me)?

At least you were being chased by a mopar.

 

[Bruzilla]

383-2

Indeed interesting WK21L cop 2 door sedan.

I thought the 77 440 cars were the grail, besides the aforementioned "Adam-12" versions.

I don't think the mid-70s Monacos have ever really been popular, except as doner cars or for folks in Florida where the FHP used the crap out of them. I remember stopping at St. Augustine Chrysler-Plymouth in the early 80s to check out the Tor-Red Superbird they used in their front window for decades, and there was 50 or so FHP Monacos parked out behind the dealership that were getting retired and sent off to who knows where.

I know guys who are into making Blues Brothers clones are always looking for Monacos, but that fad has been fading for a long time. The ADAM-12 buyers are still going strong, and there's still a niche market for lots of cars that meet a specific need for someone who wants to create a specific agency's cars.

 

[66dart]

Ok she is 1 of 14 made according to the books

 

[YY1]

Almost a Super Bee.

Cop brakes, cop suspension, cop cooling, and a 2 BBL 383.

Still very interesting.

A/C?

On another note- I've always wondered if, starting in 68 when the HT and coupe 2 door bodies were basically the same, if they ever really recouped any cost savings or profit from the difference of glass panes and rollers/tracks versus stocking the different panes and hardware and the extra trim for the coupe/sedan.

 

[Bruzilla]

Ok she is 1 of 14 made according to the books

What books? Police/government-package car production is notoriously hard to track because their production is usually done outside of civilian car production. Makers are taxed differently, specifications are different (like the LAPD's obsession with 383 engines), and emissions requirements are different so their production is not counted in with normal production.