On 5/10/2011 3:37 PM, mm wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2011 13:05:42 -0400, "Ed
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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. It
makes sense that they would use a car with their biggest engine as a
demonstrator It did have a big v-8 and a 4-barrel carburetor and was
probably one of the fastest cars on the street then, though my mother
never tried to find out. She did like, however, that it had so much
pep.

Paul, .


Back when I was in college there was a guy who told me about his
mother's Chrysler station wagon a 1968 I think that was special
ordered with a 426 Hemi V8, bucket seats, floor shifter for the
727 automatic and I'm not sure about the rear end ratio but the
fellow would take his mom's wagon to the drag strip on the week
ends and eat all the stock vehicles alive without breathing hard.
Don't you just love sleepers? ^_^

TDD