Legality of owning and driving ex police car

Factual Questions
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[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog]
They do punish the vehicles, but they also maintain the things excellently well - and they get rid of them young.
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Click and Clack, the Car Talk brothers advise against getting old police cars. Not because they’re punished but because the engines have been used for many hours without showing that much actual mileage. The cars sit a long time with the motor running, wearing out the engine even thought the the mileage will be low.

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I owned a ex LA County Sheriff’s car.
1968 Plymouth Fury.
That was one fast sum bitch and it handled too.
Fun times.

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[QUOTE=Balthisar]
First, the Crown Vic is an awesome car. It’s not a sports car, but it’s probably the most comfortable thing on the road today – body on frame construction and all that. It gets decent mileage for its size, and the power is reasonable for its size. The amount of space as a driver, passenger, and rear seat passenger is amazing (being 6’2", I think about these things!). And the trunk space leaves nothing to be desired. On the other hand, it’s not sporty.
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Bit of hyperbole there, no?

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At one point, New York State had a law forbidding the “Police Interceptor” badge on the trunk lid of the newer CV police vehicles from being displayed on non-police vehicles.

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[QUOTE=Rick]
I owned a ex LA County Sheriff’s car.
1968 Plymouth Fury.
That was one fast sum bitch and it handled too.
Fun times.
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Gonna guess 440 Interceptor with a Carter Thermoquad carb. Damndest carburetor I ever came across (to rebuild).

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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Bit of hyperbole there, no?
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Well, yeah :wink:
The Town Car probably is a bit more comfortable, though.

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[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
Speaking of taxis, why the hell are all the taxi cars Crown Vics too?
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Anything that is going to be a common model for a police car is going to have a massive parts infrastructure to back it. The larger the # of vehicles in service the larger the OEM parts allocations will be for supporting them, making it more likely that parts will be plentiful for many years as well as making more cost effective for 3rd parties to make parts when OEM stocks start to shrink/disappear.

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The post title made me think of this (should be familiar to most people):

Carry on. :slight_smile:

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My brother drove a dark-colored Crown Victoria for a while. Rather than people slowing down around, him, sometimes when he would slowly cruise through certain parking lots, groups of people all of a sudden seemed in a hurry to walk or drive away.