Well here is the story on that ole car...
That car really was a patrol unit back in the 50's and was stored in a barn and was owned by a municipal dept and everyone forgot about it. A friend of mine went to a city wide event (4th of July I think and they had that car up on a trailer with a sign that said closed bid. No tires, rust, interior ratted out, just imagine this car in an old barn for 40 years. My buddy was a great paint and body man and he put in a bid for 500.00 and walked away. Two weeks later he got a call to come get his car
I went with him and we picked it up... Back when I was on the PD this guy used to come and ride out with me all the time and when I got off my shift I would go up and we would work on the car. As the years passed we kept working on it making it better. He was older than me and really taught me a lot about a lot of things... He taught me how to do paint and body and interior work as we worked on this car and a hundred others. he was was older than me and he always said that car was his wifes because she loved to go places in it. One day out of the blue she came to me and asked if I was ready to buy that car and within a day it was done. They basically sold it to me for what they had in it since I had done so much work on it.
We painted the car, dash and outside, new interior.
It has a crate Vortex V8
Power Steering
Power Brakes
Cruise Control
Air Conditioning
All the lights work
Siren Works (Old electric motor driven)
There isn't anything original on it I don't think because we just drive the heck out of it. We get asked to go in parades, we've taken kids during Christmas for Cops for Tots, you name it we've done it..
Just a pile of fun!
A few years we were contacted by a hollywood production studio and they took the car for about 6 weeks and used it in a movie that needed cars from the 50's. They trailered that car all over the country for the movie.
