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Krautmaster wrote ...
That is not a real Cop Car....no heavy duty alternator or regulator. There are no engine, P/S, or trans Coolers, the seat upholstery is all wrong (it should be plain Jane dark grey or navy blue without any pleats), and the most glaring deficiency of all ...No WHITE Steering Wheel...
It looks looks more like it could have been a federal agency car (BLM, Fish& Wildlife, etc).
I have 5 1970 Plymouth cop cars. None of them have a white steering wheel.
I am confused. 383 to 318 is a big block to small block swap, more than just pull and replace. Confess I have never, ever, ever seen anybody do that to a C body.
That is not a real Cop Car....no heavy duty alternator or regulator. There are no engine, P/S, or trans Coolers, the seat upholstery is all wrong (it should be plain Jane dark grey or navy blue without any pleats), and the most glaring deficiency of all ...No WHITE Steering Wheel...
It looks looks more like it could have been a federal agency car (BLM, Fish& Wildlife, etc).
I have 5 1970 Plymouth cop cars. None of them have a white steering wheel.
I worked for the NM State Police, and every single one of their cars from 68-73 had a white plastic steering wheel (top half) that didn't get hot and burn your hands, but they usually cracked then crumbled after 3 years. We would "fix" them by knocking the rest of the plastic off, then replace it with heater hose and a lace on wheel cover-felt squishy, but by then the cars were headed for auction anyway. The wheels in your cars may have been replaced. The cars were all pretty plain looking: rubber floor mats (no carpet) plain vinyl seats without pleats (some had vinyl/cloth on the front seat for the patrolman's comfort)
What power trains do yours have? Most of the ones I worked on were 383's with 2.94 gears, some had 440's with 3.23's and man were they fast!
Joined: Thu Oct 30 2008, 07:15PM
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Krautmaster wrote ...
billyfury wrote ...
Krautmaster wrote ...
That is not a real Cop Car....no heavy duty alternator or regulator. There are no engine, P/S, or trans Coolers, the seat upholstery is all wrong (it should be plain Jane dark grey or navy blue without any pleats), and the most glaring deficiency of all ...No WHITE Steering Wheel...
It looks looks more like it could have been a federal agency car (BLM, Fish& Wildlife, etc).
I have 5 1970 Plymouth cop cars. None of them have a white steering wheel.
The wheels in your cars may have been replaced. What power trains do yours have?
All my 70 pursuit cars have the original black full horn ring steering wheel. My 72 Pursuit, which was a BIA car, does as well. All my 70 pursuit cars are 440 cars with 323 gears, although the motor is missing in a couple of them. If I remember right 4 are U code and 1 is a T. There are 2 door pursuit cars out there but not many. My 61 Mn State Patrol car is a 2 door sedan 383 car.
So I've thought for for 40 years they all had white wheels.... must be a CA / NM thing, as we ordered the same stuff they did and sent our troopers to their driving school. Sometimes it seems that Mopar never made more than four or five cars exactly the same.
2 dr cars are seldom seen, but we had a few that were driven by Inspectors or others in upper supervision, but they were still pretty plain cars. They didn't have light bars on the roof, but we installed round ones on the package shelf in the back seat and in the grille-they we pretty fast without all the extra wind drag.
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The only white wheel I have seen on a 70 Fury was a car in new mexico. So I bet you are right. I am thinking Calif did not use furys in 70 I dont know for sure. Around here you need gloves to grab the steering wheel 6 out of 12 months because it is so cold! Hot steering wheels not a problem.
Also I know MN did not start to use 4 door cars for the highway patrol until 1967. Could be 66, right now that detail escapes me.
Great pic of a 2 dr police car--but where are they supposed to put the perp? That one doesn't even have a tennis ball between the light bar and roof to keep the roof from vibrating like crazy!
I worked in the maintenance depot in ABQ, 1970-76 (in another year I'll be eligable for social security). The 68's were all Monaco's (all white), 69-70 models were all Fury's (this is when the paint job was changed to Black &white, and these were flat out hot rods), 71-73 we had Dodge Polara's, and 74-76 was the Dodge Monaco/ Plymouth Gran Fury. These 74-76 cars were crap and very slow, (due to the gas crunch, they had 400 2bbls). There were a couple Satellites with 440's and they were still respectable, but they were mostly used by city cops, not the statey's.
I gave up being an auto mechanic in 76, as I was tired of trying to find the engines through all the smog crap, and just couldn't see trying to make a living working on the junk we were building back then. In my opinion, America didn't make a decent car from 1973 until the 1990's. When Chrysler came out with their LH cars they were the 1st U.S. made car I had bought in a very long time.