Palm Beach county sheriff's office is getting better with their unmarked police cars.

[draggar]

Sure, nothing can beat the yellow mustang that they had (full tinted glass, high end rims, etc..) but after what I saw today I can say they aren't slowing down.

- (Med) Grey (I think some call it "smoked taupe") Mustang (I guess they like those Fords!), full tinted glass, high end rims
- White Mitsubishi eclipse, high end rims and full tint

Yeah, if you're driving on 95 or the turnpike in Palm Beach county, be careful, they're getting sneaker and sneaker.

Also - a lot of Florida highway patrol cars are Corvettes.

[tropicsgoddess]

Good looking out on that, Draggar! Duly noted. I noticed a lot of the unmarked cars in Broward County tend to be the Chevy Malibus and Impalas.

[draggar]

I nocied several speed traps in Palm beach today when I was going south on 95 between Boynton and Delray.

They also had a HUGE on this morning on the off ramp from 95N onto Broward Blvd (obviously in Ft Lauderdale).

[Greenday]

Sure, nothing can beat the yellow mustang that they had (full tinted glass, high end rims, etc..) but after what I saw today I can say they aren't slowing down.

- (Med) Grey (I think some call it "smoked taupe") Mustang (I guess they like those Fords!), full tinted glass, high end rims
- White Mitsubishi eclipse, high end rims and full tint

Yeah, if you're driving on 95 or the turnpike in Palm Beach county, be careful, they're getting sneaker and sneaker.

Also - a lot of Florida highway patrol cars are Corvettes.

That's pretty interesting since cops do not drive foreign cars. US police ONLY drive American.

[protege]

At least in Pennsylvania...most of the unmarked police cars are *blatantly* obvious. They're all white or dark-colored Ford Crown Vics. They also have the usual spotlight on the A-pillar, the cheap-looking steel wheels with small chromed hubcaps, and the MG-prefix (municipal) license plates. However, after a rash of idiots (locally) using similar cars to pull people over, many departments no longer use them. Why? Well, many people...thinking the cop was a fake...wouldn't pull over!

However, there's at least one state police barracks (Washington, PA, IIRC) that uses a high-powered white Mustang to nail speeders. I've seen him more than once on I-79 and I-70.

[thegiraffe]

That's pretty interesting since cops do not drive foreign cars. US police ONLY drive American.

Not necessarily. A lot of their unmarked cars come from drug seizures....if the car was involved in the seizure, it becomes property of the police department.

Also, my city has a *marked* VW bug. We saw it pulling over a tractor trailer one day...that was hilarious. It's a SRO (School Resource Officer) car, but the city has a deal with the local VW dealership.

[protege]

Also, my city has a *marked* VW bug. We saw it pulling over a tractor trailer one day...that was hilarious. It's a SRO (School Resource Officer) car, but the city has a deal with the local VW dealership.

I bet that was hilarious! The Allegheny County (PA) sheriff had one of those Minis awhile back. Not sure if his department still has it, or if he uses it in active duty--it tends to show up at car shows and parades most often.

[Hobbs]

I bet that was hilarious! The Allegheny County (PA) sheriff had one of those Minis awhile back. Not sure if his department still has it, or if he uses it in active duty--it tends to show up at car shows and parades most often.

Oh, my word....that's just embarrassing. I'd get arrested for failure to stop laughing and pointing at the officer.

[sportsmom]

The County Police the county over have a charcoal gray mustang unmarked car.

That officer doesn't mess around, either. I was driving on the bypass (it's like the interstate - 65mph, 4 lanes seperated) and he had a car pulled over. In my state when there is a disabled vehicle or a police officer on the side of the road you must either pull into the other lane, or slow down. There was a car in the right lane that was not doing either and the office turned, looked at the driver and pointed to the other lane. When the driver did neither, even though they had plenty of room to move over and plenty of time to slow down, he ran back to his car and took off after the car.

I laughed the rest of the way to work.

[Nurian]

I once saw a state trooper with a marked late model Mustang sitting with a marked equally late model Camaro.

I REALLY considered joining State Troopers.

[draggar]

I still think the best was the town next to mine when I grew up.

It was a mid-70s Ford Maverick (remember those?) - I can't find one similar since all the ones I can see now are too sporty.

The thing liked like it had gone though hell and back - several times.

Rusted all to hell, half the grill was missing, two of the tires had no hub caps, dented in the front and the side, it was a horrible shade of rust (the parts that were not rusted).

But - they had the lights hidden well and the officer didn't wear a heat so you couldn't tell he was a police officer.

[protege]

Thought I should post this

I apologize for the blurry pic--my camera was having focusing problems when I shot that in 2005.

But, that's not the only oddity we have around here--Mt. Lebanon once used a dummy police car. That is, a cruiser...with stuffed dummies behind the wheel. I shit you not, folks. They'd set it up, usually on the Route 19 hill, with another (real) cruiser further down. But, after the fake car was vandalized, they quit using it. Seems that someone not only let the air out of the tires...but stole the dummies

[draggar]

Thought I should post this

I apologize for the blurry pic--my camera was having focusing problems when I shot that in 2005.

I bet that thing could outrun most cars on the road...

But, that's not the only oddity we have around here--Mt. Lebanon once used a dummy police car. That is, a cruiser...with stuffed dummies behind the wheel. I shit you not, folks. They'd set it up, usually on the Route 19 hill, with another (real) cruiser further down. But, after the fake car was vandalized, they quit using it. Seems that someone not only let the air out of the tires...but stole the dummies

A lot of jurisdictions do that, FHP loves to put a car parked at one end of a service center (empty) and another at the other end. Both would have a running radar to set off fuzz busters.

The dummy - yes, that, too (plus sometimes they'd put a coffee cup in its hand, too).

[edible_hat]

The South Australian police have a couple of Holden Monaros. They drive around pulling over anybody who challenges them to a drag race. The funniest story I heard about it was a guy in a Nissan Skyline got challenged to a drag race by some ricers in a Honda Accord. He accepted but when the light changed drove on at normal speed, only to see the police Monaro pull over the Honda. (he'd seen the Monaro waiting behind the Honda in his rear view mirror)

Also they have a car fromt he 1950s which appears in parades etc. The local fire deparment have a vintage fire truck which they use for the same purpose.

[sld72382]

The unmarked car of choice nowadays in Broward county is the Impala SS. I've seen a few pulling people over.