Nice improvement over the late-eighties Monte Carlos or whatever it was they used back then with the old single blueberry-special on top!

Is this vehicle owned by Honolunu/Waikiki PD or do their officers still use personally-owned cars on the islands? Makes me want to go back and watch episodes of 'Jake & The Fatman'!

i built my own esu truck and hinge the back doors on mine .need to find decals or make them can any one help me ? please respond .


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A v-6 is not always a bad thing. At Eglin AFB we don't do a lot of high speed work so the v-6 Impala dose just fine. Maybe Fayette County is the same way, or maybe this is a traffic or some other special use car. That said, the 5.7 HEMI will earn "cool points" for any officer that drives one.

No, I like to stick to plastic kits, I find them to have better detail, and to be easer to work with.

the only th9ing that sucks is that this charger has the little v6 in it instead of the hemi v8

Have you tride making this car in a Gearbox metal body in 1/43 scale? Id love to see it!

very acurate, I was a member of the Frederick Police Dept, and remember driving vehicle, that color combonation

You're absolutely right. The passage of years has muddied my memory. It was 2/26/83 the night he was murdered. I was still working in VA at the time. News down there didn't cover the tragedy, but a relative from home called and told me about it. I was very disappointed that I could not make it to the funeral to show my respects.

This is the former Ottawa-Carleton Police Service, which has since become the Ottawa Police Service

Sorry about that. The Ford oval was the only difference that I knew of.

It was February 1983, not 1982

"To sum Anonymous' statement up, the only difference between the 1979-1982 LTDs was that the 1982 was the only year that they had the blue Ford oval on the grill, as it was the year that it was introduced. "

Wrong. '79 and '80 LTD S's had a slotted front bumper, clearly seen in the photo. '81 and 82's had solid bumpers. My PD operated both a '79 and an '81. Small difference, but a difference none the less.

"Ya think they got "State Police" written on their cars enough times?"

Yup... but invariably some civilian will still walk up to the cruiser without and, being totally serious, ask the trooper.. "are you state police?".

Yes, this was Trooper Hanna's funeral. He was assigned 668. As an aside, that number has been forever retired from MSP fleet assignments

In the early to late 60's, MSP cruisers were equipped with round-topped Federal Beacon Ray's with split domes. Blue to the front, red to the rear. As the years progressed, the single flat-top PA style Federal 4-bulb beacons succeeded the older beacons during the 70's (and were used right up until the AeroDynics were introduced) had only blue lenses. The Aerodynics were first introduced on the Mass Pike (a long-time proving ground for equipment used by the MSP) and Logan Airport troop (which also at one time had cruisers equipped with Whelen strobe beacons on either side of a siren/PA speaker on a cross-bar... very much ahead of the strobe trend in Mass. I remember them as we had similar set-ups on my departments cruisers from the mid-seventies up until '84) around '76 or '77. They didn't start showing up on regular troop cars (A,B,C,D) until 1978, if I recall correctly.

Mass law prohibits police vehicles from showing red to the front. Consequently, fire apparatus are not supposed to show blue to the front (but it is done... in both instances).

The Aerodynics with red to the front were most likely cruisers assigned to E-Troop, or the Mass Pike. The Pike is a private road, and as such, does not fall under MGL Chapter 90 laws or regulations. The Pike has it's own set of violations and citation forms unique to that roadway alone.

If I'm not mistaken, that photo was from 1982, at the funeral of Trooper George Hanna, who was brutally gunned down on a traffic stop on Rte. 20 in C Troop. Cruiser # 668 has forever been retired from the roll of MSP vehicles.

That has to be the worst police car I have ever seen!! I understand that chief there has screwed things up so badly that moral in in the tank and people laugh at the police there.

Ya think they got "State Police" written on their cars enough times?

Phil, was this Trooper George Hanna's funeral?

The aerodynics that MSP used were mostly like the St. Regis above (all blue in front, red/blue to the rear). There were a small handfull that had half red/blue to the front. On these units, the red to the front was over the passenger side for some reason. I also remember some rare sightings of MSP cruisers with all blue aerodynics (front and rear).

To sum Anonymous' statement up, the only difference between the 1979-1982 LTDs was that the 1982 was the only year that they had the blue Ford oval on the grill, as it was the year that it was introduced.