Decommission a patrol car...

[HomerS]

A couple years ago, I bought a handful of built models at a local auction.  It's nice combination of drag cars, stock cars (including a first gen Ford Fusion COT stock car) and police cars.  Most of the drag cars have been traded off/sold but still have a few.  Looking the police cars, I'm going to turn the 74 Impala back into a regular coupe as will the 71 Cyclone (need to get stock seats as the builder user low back bucket racing seats?).  The 76 LTD will be converted back to a street version of the last new car my grandparents bought.

The 56 Buick is a resin, no glass...I wonder if it was cast off the Maisto kit?  I believe the 74 Chevrolet sedan is a Modelhaus release.  No clue on the four door Mopar.  There's another half dozen 70 Ford Galaxie patrol cars not pictured here.

[Plowboy]

That's some good stuff Jeff! I'd probably do the same as you have planned. Someone really liked police cars! 

[Joe Handley]

That's what I like doing with the Revell '05 Impala police car, but instead of a civilian Impala, make it a retired cruiser that is made into a whole different sort of "cruiser"

[Snake45]

One of you Mopars looks like a JoHan '68 Plymouth. That's a very desirable kit these days and yours looks complete and clean. If you offered it for trade here, I'll bet someone would swap you something you're looking for. 

The other one looks to be a resin 4-door '68 Belvedere/Satellite, never kitted in styrene (resin transkit finished off with '68 Road Runner parts). I forget who made these but they're also desirable, particularly so due to the Adam-12 connection. Again, you should be able to negotiate a good trade for it. 

[Mike999]

13 hours ago, HomerS said:

No clue on the four door Mopar...

Great score!  And as Snake said, great trade fodder.

The '68 Plymouth Fury 4-door appears to be an original Jo-Han kit, not an Okey Spaulding re-pop.  It looks like it has clear glass.  All the Spaulding kits had green-tinted glass, as far as I know.  I have one built (by somebody else) and one still in the box.  Both have the whole glass piece tinted green. 

Several resin outfits made a '68 Belvedere "Adam 12" conversion kit for the AMT Road Runner.  Check the interior.  The kit from R&R Vacuum Craft had corrected 4-door interior side panels.  Some conversions just included the body and hood.  R&R Vacuum Craft has been gone for many years, so if that's what you have, it's a rare one. 

That Buick sure looks like it was copied from the Maisto kit.  I just checked and I have a set of glass from that kit, if you want it. It's 2 pieces, the windshield and back window.

Edited June 12, 2021 by Mike999
goof2

[1967RMP]

5 hours ago, Mike999 said:

The '68 Plymouth Fury 4-door appears to be an original Jo-Han kit, not an Okey Spaulding re-pop.  It looks like it has clear glass.  All the Spaulding kits had green-tinted glass, as far as I know.  I have one built (by somebody else) and one still in the box.  Both have the whole glass piece tinted green.

The Spaulding kits also came with vacuformed clear glass as well as the green.

Edited June 12, 2021 by 1967RMP

[Mike999]

9 minutes ago, 1967RMP said:

The Spaulding kits also came with vacuformed clear glass as well as the green.

That's interesting.  My '68 Fury kit didn't.  I just checked.  It only has the green-tinted clear plastic glass.  No vac-formed glass in there at all.  I bought it open at a kit swap meet, so it's possible the vac-form glass got lost.  But it's otherwise complete.  And molded in baby-blue plastic.

[keyser]

The 74-78 Ford is resin. The 75 Impala 4d is resin, maybe Modelhaus. So is the 68-69 Plymouth 4dr. 
Early issues of 67-68 Fury had 4 holes in the axle inserts for chassis. Later ones did not. 
Careful what you strip the resin with, it can be damaged. 

[Andrew D the Jolly Roger]

Wow, I noticed Adam-12 right away....that's the one that I'm drooling over, wishing....

Amazing stuff all around, though!

[Brian Austin]

If you're going to decommission a police car, perhaps you can turn it into a taxi.  :-)

[Tom Geiger]

14 hours ago, Brian Austin said:

If you're going to decommission a police car, perhaps you can turn it into a taxi.  ?

Back before cell phone cameras I used to pass a paint shop that had a lot on one side full of decommissioned police cars that appear to have just been purchased at auction. The lot on the other side was full of shiny yellow taxis.   Great diorama idea!

[NYLIBUD]

I Love police cars.I own an 09 former FBI black Crown Vic.I wanted a Marauder,but couldn’t find a nice one.Then I saw this really clean black CV.Threw on a cold air intake,under drive pulleys and a set of Flow masters,and blacked out the whole car.The car flys once you get on the the highway,and it sounds mean.I must own over 200 different scale police models,plastic,and diecast.