mm wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 13:05:42 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:


"mm" wrote in message

But one thing gets me. The police cars are all full-size (since
that's almost all that existed in the 50's. But they are all 2-door.

Did any police have 2-door cars?

When they arrest someone, they put him in the back seat, usually
with his hands cuffed behind him, but not always iirc. Sometimes
maybe they put him in the front seat. I forget.

I recall two door police cars back then. When I lived in Philly
years ago, the called for the Paddy Wagon to take the prisoners.

I know that our grade school janitor bought an old Ford (maybe late
40's) police car and it was two doors, maybe even a coupe. Hard to
recall details from 50+ years ago.

My mother bought a '58 Ford Fairlane 500 with what the salesman called
an Interceptor Engine, which he said was used on police cars. It
might have even said Interceptor right on the engine. It was a
demonstrator (do they still have those?) and had maybe 1 or 2000 miles
on it, and it was the end of the year, so she got a good price.

they have press cars. i have one, a 94 vette that was one of the press fleet
in 93 so one of the first off the line. they sell them about in mid-year
through the dealer chain. it was in a couple magazines of that year. my wife
used to write for Vette so we'd get a new vette on loan for a week or so for
'testing' so she could write an article on it.