It's a rather undignified process, being pulled over by the police. Next time you're sitting at the side of the road with the lights flashing in your rearview mirror, just think of this: at least you weren't pulled over by a VW Beetle. Unless you reside in Blount County, Tennessee, where Archie Garner, a 40-plus-year police veteran, nabbed this 1972 Beetle in a DUI case and summarily converted it into an Interceptor. Not that it does too much intercepting, being capable of only 70 miles per hour or so using the stock air-cooled 1600cc engine.
The "bug-erceptor", as it's affectionately referred to, just so happens to be car 53, wearing the same number as the lovable bug from the Herbie movie enterprise, and sees most of its duty in parades and on public relations missions. Wouldn't it be fun, though, to see your buddy pulled over in his souped-up Camaro by a Beetle? That's a story he'd never be able to live down.
Drivers in California will need to start keeping their eyes peeled for a new profile as they cruise the freeways. The traditional Crown Vics have apparently been joined by a fleet of 88 new unmarked Dodge Chargers. The new cop cars were spotted at the Sacramento vehicle preparation facility that the California Highway Patrol uses to outfit new cars. Unlike the model that we recently drove, these are unlikely to draw much attention from onlookers before they pounce. Speaking of Dodge police vehicles, drivers traversing I-94 in the vicinity of Detroit Metro Airport should watch their velocity ,as police in that area have recently been spending an inordinate amount of time writing tickets. On the way to a meeting in Dearborn yesterday, there were four unmarked Dodges, including a pair of Magnums (one each in red and grey) and a pair of Chargers. Those Magnums have been in that same location three times in the past month.
Each September since the Fifties, the police force of state of Michigan carried out the test of performance of vehicle on the last cars of pirn of wire. Before the beginning of the Seventies when the first oil embargo occurred, it would leave for offers each year and then would examine just bottom conveys of offer. In these days, the test was limited to acceleration, the higher speed and the braking distance.
According to the lieutenant. David Halliday of the police force of state of Michigan, as car manufacturers fought at this time and scrambling to sell their larger vehicles, they all the offers of tender started around the same price with only of the $45 drew aside to cover all candidates one year. Around this time they decided to start to examine all the vehicles available and they also made their test results available to all the interested agencies of police force. For the last three decades, a piece of that annual test was led at the Chrysler proving the ground as Chelsea, SEMI.
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