bhambulldog Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Jay Leno's Roadmaster before resto-mod <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OH2JSFedhfo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 LOTS of interesting "messages" in that vid! LOL But those lights in the grille and the license plate . . .Kind of funny how we remember how great cars were when they weren't "perfect".Thanks for that link.NTX5467 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD1956 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I'm with NTX on that remark about not perfect but great cars. Also, Yellow and Black, oh yeah!!! Of course now it's just a shadow of it's original self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old-tank Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Lights in the grill...hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 (blue lights for a blue car?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhambulldog Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 Lights in the grill...hmmm...(blue lights for a blue car?)The Police might frown :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Conley Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 My grandparents had a '55 Super 56R in those exact colors. Boy, that sketch brings back memories... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 The Police might frown :-/A lighter blue than the police lights are, plus they wouldn't be flashing. Add some blue LEDs along the rocker panels and/or inner fenders for greater effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fr. Buick Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I've seen and heard the car in person, and it is impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhambulldog Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) A lighter blue than the police lights are, plus they wouldn't be flashing. Add some blue LEDs along the rocker panels and/or inner fenders for greater effect.In Alabama blue or red lights facing front are illegal.Except for qualified emergency vehicles of course.I have seen in other states tow trucks and wreckers with red warning lights. In Alabama, those trucks have yellow or white lights. Edited February 25, 2015 by bhambulldog more info (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick5563 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 A friend of mine had an old Louisiana fire chief's car with a red bubble top. He got pulled over in Texas cuz the light needed to be covered when not in service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 (edited) Fort Worth PD has similar "Not in Service" bags for their cars when they go to off-site repair facilities. Also keeps some people from taking un-fixed vehicles back to their precincts, plus "others" from impromptu demos of their "police car attributes". Other local municipalities and law enforcement entities don't do similarly as their officers are the ones who deliver and pickup the vehicles from the repair facilities. Haven't seen any such bags on vintage police cars at car shows, though.Several years ago, I rented a Crown Vic from National. It was a general beige/tan metallic. When I'd meet a police car on the streets, the officers would really look at that car as if somebody they might know was driving it. Or if it was "one of theirs" they hadn't yet seen. When TX did annual license plate replacements, they also did the letter series for designated counties. With Austin being the state capital, that's where the letter series started with "A"s. If you might see a four-door sedan with some "higher performance cues" (wider tires and wheels, rear sway bars, mid-level trims, dual exhausts where available), you might suspicion by "the look" that it was an undercover car or "unmarked". Closer inspection would probably reveal a "Certified" speedometer and "gauge package". When these cars might later turn up on used car lots (as one lot in Cleburne, TX we found in the middle 1970s), you knew what they were (right down to the BFG police radial tires). Did that spacecraft have something of a "X-frame" under it?NTX5467 Edited February 28, 2015 by NTX5467 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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