Agent G Posted June 28, 2012 Author Posted June 28, 2012 Bacon, donuts and scorched brakes. It is after all a Hemi. I scratched the siren speaker to look like what CHP uses. G
Agent G Posted July 2, 2012 Author Posted July 2, 2012 Nearly finished and I cracked the windshield! G
Agent G Posted July 3, 2012 Author Posted July 3, 2012 Thank goodness for my brother from another mother who has my back. This should be finished soon. G
Agent G Posted July 3, 2012 Author Posted July 3, 2012 Ok took these before the camera died. Here's where I sit tonight. The last parts will be the windshield and antennae. I scratched/modded the awful kit spotlights into something I think looks more realistic. Come on CHP slicktop, there's GOT to be a red spotlight on the driver's side. Besides that is SOP on a slicktop. G
DanielG Posted July 3, 2012 Posted July 3, 2012 Yes it does. Especially how the darn laptop blocks the entire dash, and intrudes into the passenger seat area. Fond memories of constantly closing the computer to adjust climate controls, a certainty in the midwest. G What is a laptop? For that matter what are climate controls? We had a motorola radio (three frequencies) and a S&W siren, NOTHING to clutter up the dash! Nice work on the car.
Agent G Posted July 3, 2012 Author Posted July 3, 2012 Daniel, my first car was a '78 Plymouth inherited from the Traffic Division. It had a Motorola radio, Federal Signal siren box, and a toggle switch on the dash for the roof lights. Oh, and a Remington 870. Times have changed have they not? Hey! That thing's got no windshield! That's the CHP's answer to budget cuts. Windshield delete option, gee just like Nevada....................................... G
DanielG Posted July 5, 2012 Posted July 5, 2012 1977, only the charlie (highway) car had a light-bar, contra-rotating red and blue and they crossed in front of you, drove you crazy on a long trip at night! It was the only car less than a year old and the rest just had a single red gum machine on the roof. It was about the time I left in 1983 that we were getting light-bars and ditch lights and shotgun racks. One thing about it, those big boats were roomy back then!
Agent G Posted July 5, 2012 Author Posted July 5, 2012 Just before I started, we had those Godawful huge Grand Marquis traffic cars packing a 460. Trouble was they had those Godawful huge scissor lift lightbars on the roof. Remember those? Had the directional arrows and such, big old honking incandescent bulbs that could light Busch Stadium during a home game. Those must have weighed 150 pounds easy. The Plymouth had a twin gumball rack with a bazillion watt siren in between. It's no wonder all the coppers from that era are deaf. G
Danno Posted July 5, 2012 Posted July 5, 2012 The Plymouth had a twin gumball rack with a bazillion watt siren in between. It's no wonder all the coppers from that era are deaf. G Eh? Huh? What'd you say?
Agent G Posted July 5, 2012 Author Posted July 5, 2012 Soon Dale, very soon....................................... Danno, Daniel, remember calling a pursuit and having to shout because you couldn't hear yourself? And then everyone else thinks you were too excited, until THEY had a pursuit? And had to shout too?
Danno Posted July 5, 2012 Posted July 5, 2012 Soon Dale, very soon....................................... Danno, Daniel, remember calling a pursuit and having to shout because you couldn't hear yourself? And then everyone else thinks you were too excited, until THEY had a pursuit? And had to shout too? At the S/O, we had Motorola speakers (the rectangular ones) in the center of the old Federal Visibar (too cheap to buy the Federal CP speakers). One of the Motorola's "best" features was the fact that it would fill up with packed snow when you were patrolling in a snow storm. Then, when you needed to "go" ... the snow muffled the sound so much you could just barely hear the siren ... even though you were sitting right under it! It was comical. And dangerous.
Agent G Posted July 5, 2012 Author Posted July 5, 2012 Or when the chain driving the rotators froze? No spinny spinny flashy thingies either then. Real dangerous. G
DanielG Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 We had 'yelp' and 'wail', yelp was deafening and on a long ride the high-low wail would start to put you to sleep so we oft times would just shut everything down and make our best time. Pursuits usually ended when we lit them up so they were mostly short, it was the forty mile runs that were the nightmare. The charley car was I think the only Ford and the rest were a mix of chevs and plymouths.
Danno Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 We had 'yelp' and 'wail', yelp was deafening and on a long ride the high-low wail would start to put you to sleep so we oft times would just shut everything down and make our best time. Pursuits usually ended when we lit them up so they were mostly short, it was the forty mile runs that were the nightmare. The charley car was I think the only Ford and the rest were a mix of chevs and plymouths. I always told my troops they could usually make better time (on emergency responses) just running without the emergency lights and siren, especially in day light. Before every car had DRLs, a car running in daylight with its bright headlights on usually parted traffic even better than all lit up Code-3 style! They were usually skeptical ... until they tried it. With the cheapo Motorola electronic sirens we had, long Code-3 runs could get ... interesting. After continuously sounding for 30-40 miles, the silly things would get hot and start emitting the *strangest* sounds, and before you knew it, they'd just kinda die. Shut 'em off for 5-6 miles then turn 'em on again and they'd start all over ... good for another 20-30 miles before freaking out and dying again! Never a dull moment. Fortunately, we didn't have long runs like that very often, but the size of our county meant it would happen ...
Agent G Posted July 7, 2012 Author Posted July 7, 2012 Work was a B yesterday, but my care package was waiting when I got home. THANK YOU my brother from another mother! Windshields in, final details going on, pics later. G
Agent G Posted July 8, 2012 Author Posted July 8, 2012 Finished with the exception of antennae! Here's a teaser, look in Under Glass for the final photos. G
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