We all know ADAM 12....but what about.....
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Ah Ha!
The super secret and ultra elusive ADAM 13 has been spotted...
The super secret and ultra elusive ADAM 13 has been spotted...
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Definitely intentional - that plate would have cost NZ$900 here. Not the sort of clerical error normally expected.
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Can we assume that there exists:
ADAM 1 through ADAM 12?
ADAM 1 through ADAM 12?
Bruzilla
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Good Lord! How can you have that car and not have it made up as LAPD 80817?
69Coronetrt
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Yes. From Wikipedia....
The designation "1-Adam-12" is a combination of three elements. The first element indicates the unit's LAPD division. The second element indicates the type of unit. The third element identifies the patrol car's number. The one in 1-Adam-12 means the patrol car operates in Division 1 (Central Division).[5] LAPD assigns two-person units the letter "A".[6] In the LAPD phonetic alphabet, the letter "A" is spoken as "Adam".[7] The third element is the last two numbers of the patrol car's full unit number. In the program, 1-Adam-12 typically operated in the Rampart Division, Division 2,[5] not the Central Division, Division 1,[5] meaning the unit's call sign should have technically been 2-Adam-12. There was never an actual patrol car with the call sign of 1-Adam-12.[8]
Can't forget these LAPD's finest...more mopar cop cars!
(She must be standing on a 5 gallon bucket to be almost as tall as him in this picture lol)
(She must be standing on a 5 gallon bucket to be almost as tall as him in this picture lol)
It is entirely possible.
cudak888
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Much more fun to think of it as one of the unmarked Belvederes chasing Toby Halicki in Gone in 60 Seconds.
That, and I prefer to be able to drive the thing. Had to pull the Federal Interceptor out to make it legal, but would like to put the radio and shotgun rack assembly back in the car sometime.
-Kurt
My first car was a black and white taxicab 1969 Plymouth Belvedere. I loved seeing the Adam 12 cars on TV!!!
cudak888
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Sad, but no. I took a lot of photos back then, but I left them with my family when I went off in the Air Force and I never got them back.
cudak888
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At least you have the memories though. Any stories of it? What taxi company was it from?
-Kurt
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Suburban Cab in the Philly suburbs. I used it like a tank, even taking it off-road a few times. In college, I loaded it up with up to 11 girls (plus me made 12 occupants - totally overloaded and unsafe) at a time to bring them to my frat parties. Of course the girls were double-stacked plus one on top lying down across the others. I was sent by my engineering school frat (extreme lack of chicks in engineering school) to the local nursing schools (total lack of guys there) in north NJ. Win-win!
At least you have the memories though. Any stories of it? What taxi co?
-Kurt
The car had no seat belts in it at all and I loved skidding it around corners in Newark until my roommate was thrown sideways into me from doing that and he grabbed the steering wheel to catch himself. Almost wrecked it that time. I eventually broke the front frame extension and the tire leaned so extremely that it was mainly running on the sidewall. I drove it to the junk yard and they gave me $25 for it in 1977. I bought it in 1974 for $200 so I definitely got my money's worth out of it!
For a slant six 225, it really had some power. I raced a lot of cars (stupid me) on the street and beat most of them somehow. I miss it.
cudak888
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What a collection of stories. Sounds like those photos lost might have been more of a tragedy than I thought...especially those involving it fully loaded for your frat parties
Sounds like you ran it into the ground and it served you well regardless. What a champ...
-Kurt
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Yeah it was a champ! The death knell was a crash on ice. It skidded straight in a curved section of road and straight up and over the tall curb. That crash cracked the frame rail and though I had it welded with a reinforcing plate, the crack came back later even worse. If it didn't have torsion bars, it may have survived. But I got another year and a half out of it afterward though.What a collection of stories. Sounds like those photos lost might have been more of a tragedy than I thought...especially those involving it fully loaded for your frat parties
Sounds like you ran it into the ground and it served you well regardless. What a champ...
-Kurt
cudak888
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Gotcha. Shame, you should have waited 30 more years, I would have probably bought the wreck just to fix it and then plaster it over the local car shows with photos of it in your "limo service."
I'm trying to figure out the arrangement too. I'm assuming you were in front aside two rows of two, double-stacked (four), and three rows of two (six) double-stacked in the rear with the one stretched out over the top. Adds up to 12.
Funny you mention the 225's peppiness - I actually prefer my '69 Valiant's 225 over the big honkin' 360 in the Satellite. The it just feels like it spools up quicker. And when all is said and done, the Butt Dyno™ has the last word when it comes to enjoying the spunk of the car.
-Kurt
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