[Shotimes] Police Interceptor on eBay....

[James F. Ryan III]

Well, you live in Pennsylvania so that explains alot.  A unibody car with a
bolted-on subframe is not going to last very long on the crappy roads of PA.

More room?!?!?  The NYPD rides 2 officers, radios, and data terminal in each
car (as Pittsburgh probably does too), and they have no problems so I think
much lesser departments could suffice with a Ford Focus.  My town, with a
pop of 60,000 people, rides 1 officer to car.  How much room/power is
required for 1 officer, a radio stack, and the 'occasional' perpetrator??  A
Ford Focus station wagon sounds about right to me.  Driver seat for the
officer, passenger seat for the radios, install a cage, fold down the rear
seat, pop the hatch and throw the offender back there.  Much easier to throw
someone thru that large opening than it is to squeeze them thru the tight
rear door of a CV.



Jim Ryan
Wayne, NJ
'91 Plus - all white/mocha with fiberglass hood, rod shifter, & rear spoiler

255 Lph fuel pump, SHO Shop can & horn, 80mm MAF, S&B cone filter, SHO Shop
HiFlow Y-pipe & cat-back exhaust, SHO Shop LPM, SHO Shop underdrive pulleys,
SHO Shop HiRevs Jr clutch & steel billet LiteWeight flywheel, reinforced
engine & trans mounts, SHO Shop TQ limiters, SHO NUT aluminum SFBs, FPS '96
SHO front brakes, Carbotech F brake pads, Nook's full-body SFCs, Koni adj
struts, SHO Shop linear springs, 24mm FSB, 26mm RSB, SHO Shop steel f&r
STBs, Bridgestone Potenza RE-730 225/55-16, CATZ MSP fog lights, police
grille



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Garber [mailto:DGARBER@servicelinklp.com]
>Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 11:42 AM
>To: James F. Ryan III; Shotimes@Autox. Team. Net
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Police Interceptor on eBay....
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>Make due with a V6 car? I'd have to disagree there. The main reason most
>departments want the V8 car isn't as much for the power difference as it
>is getting a RWD solution and a roomier one. The FWD cars simply don't
>hold up as well as the RWD cars do (My father is a police chief here in
>PA and they've tried a lot of different vehicles and the Ford's simply
>hold up better). Those cars take a pretty good beating and a lot of
>departments, such as my dads, need the cars to go a good 130-170k miles
>before being replaced.
>
>The Intrepids are crap cruisers because they fall apart early and often.
>I've heard that the Impala's are better but, still not as 'sturdy' as
>the CV and don't have near the amount of room a lot of departments
>need/want.
>
>As long as Ford keeps making the CV, they will hold the vast majority of
>the market with Police Cruisers.
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>Dave Garber
>Pittsburgh, PA
>99 White
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James F. Ryan III [mailto:av8r567@optonline.net]
>Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 10:41 AM
>To: Modemagic@aol.com; Shotimes@Autox. Team. Net
>
>Yeah, a V-6 powered patrol car has always been a hard sell to depts that
>feel they NEED the V-8 power.  IMO only state troopers (who patrol miles
>and miles of highways) should have the V-8 cars, and small towns and
>urban cities can certainly make do with the V-6 cars.  When a town is
>only 5 miles wide a V-8 powered car is not going to get to the other
>side any quicker than a V-6 car.
>
>The Dodge Inrepid police pkg hasn't caught on and the Taurus police pkg
>is died in '95.  Only the Chevy Impala has been somewhat accepted.  The
>New York City PD loves them, but outside of there I've only seen a
>handful as regular duty cars but most are usually unmarked detective
>cars.  GM wants to take back some of the business from Ford so they
>built a V-8 powered FWD Impala.
>
>
>Jim Ryan
>Wayne, NJ
>'91 Plus - all white/mocha with fiberglass hood, rod shifter, & rear
>spoiler