Big_Slick737 Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Im in Texas and over the past month I have seen 2 Mustang GT's Highway Patrol Vehicles. And Just today i saw a Mustang GT City Patrol Car. So It got me to thinking... with the High performance of the Shelby GT500.... Does anyone think or has anyone heard of any State or City's contacting Ford Dealers to try and add the GT500 to their Police Car Stables? That would be pretty cool to see IMHO. Unless He was following You !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt500hp Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Im in Texas and over the past month I have seen 2 Mustang GT's Highway Patrol Vehicles. And Just today i saw a Mustang GT City Patrol Car. So It got me to thinking... with the High performance of the Shelby GT500.... Does anyone think or has anyone heard of any State or City's contacting Ford Dealers to try and add the GT500 to their Police Car Stables? That would be pretty cool to see IMHO. Unless He was following You !!! Yeah... MY plate reads GT500HP.... I wonder if I would get a break? Just maybe they would think that HP stands for highway patrol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Slick737 Posted June 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Yeah... MY plate reads GT500HP.... I wonder if I would get a break? Just maybe they would think that HP stands for highway patrol. If a GT500 Patrol Car pulled over another GT500... I think they would be pulling you over just to talk about the CAR... you would probably never see a ticket coming your way ... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flattusmaximus78 Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 If a GT500 Patrol Car pulled over another GT500... I think they would be pulling you over just to talk about the CAR... you would probably never see a ticket coming your way ... LOL That would be the an awsome idea, and the best for actual pursuits. Since theres a couple gt's I'd love to see pursuit videos! Does anyone have any lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regalt87 Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Yup, just as soon as they confiscate one of yours for doing 150. They will have it in the radio shop getting strobes and light bar and a star on the door by the time you make bail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alloy Dave Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Im in Texas and over the past month I have seen 2 Mustang GT's Highway Patrol Vehicles. And Just today i saw a Mustang GT City Patrol Car. So It got me to thinking... with the High performance of the Shelby GT500.... Does anyone think or has anyone heard of any State or City's contacting Ford Dealers to try and add the GT500 to their Police Car Stables? That would be pretty cool to see IMHO. Unless He was following You !!! If I lived in a state where they bought these for the police, I'd be writing my Congressman...that's OUR tax money they are spending...I think the GT is plenty powerful enough. JMHO. <_< Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mach1fever Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Most of them come from drug dealers etc. Although there are two mach-1's running around the orlando area. Alot of times they will get donated like the mauraders as well. Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETSOLVER Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 . Alot of times they will get donated Yes by the insurance companies. Just like the radar and laser equipment they hand out. Thats not a conflict of interest is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUFDRAFT Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 I'd say the probability is very high I'll see one - in my mirrors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flattusmaximus78 Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Most of them come from drug dealers etc. Although there are two mach-1's running around the orlando area. Alot of times they will get donated like the mauraders as well. Roger hmm haven't seen any of those. The only muscle around here that the state uses are the z28 state troopers. But the marauders should be the standard police vehicle... it's perfect for the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Slick737 Posted June 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 hmm haven't seen any of those. The only muscle around here that the state uses are the z28 state troopers. But the marauders should be the standard police vehicle... it's perfect for the job. My Wife Does work as a Police Dispatcher and their city was looking to upgrade their standard patrol cars... i cant remember which one they went with, but they did have an SRT to drive around. I know they chose a smaller cheaper and less powerful car for their standard cars. The Officers I know were VERY Dissappointed about that too. This spond my curiousity about seeing a GT500 with lights and sirens. I guessing if somewhere, some police dept had a GT500, that they would make sure that it WAS NOT speed limited to 155mph. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alloy Dave Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Most of them come from drug dealers etc. Although there are two mach-1's running around the orlando area. Alot of times they will get donated like the mauraders as well. Roger I checked with my dealership, and they have a list of 5 people. They said the first 4 are drug dealers, and I'm 5th. JUST KIDDING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUFDRAFT Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Terry - is your Camaro that high-revving engine? If so - do you have any audio clips of it? I had a friend who had one - and that thing ripped - and sounded...like an engine should sound. :bandance: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alloy Dave Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Terry - is your Camaro that high-revving engine? If so - do you have any audio clips of it? I had a friend who had one - and that thing ripped - and sounded...like an engine should sound. :bandance: Yes, my Camaro has the famous 302 DZ engine. It was only produced for one year, and only available in the Z28. No low-end torque, which explains why I have a 4:11 posi and a Tremec 5-speed Road Race version with a 3.27 first gear. It's a dog under 3500 RPM, but wakes up after that. It get's sideways on my going from 1st to 2nd at 6800 RPM...yikes. I don't have audio clips, nor do I have the equipment to take such clips. But it does have a sweet sound, mostly because of the cam. The solid lift cam has an extremely long duration (around 323 degrees total, although only 254 degrees @.050), with considerable overlap, .485 lift, and lobe centerline at 114 degrees. This same cam was used in the earlier 327 hi-perf Corvettes. It uses the same valve lash on both intake and exhaust valves, .030/.030...and is therefore referred to as the "30-30" cam. The funny part is that I initially used a Mallory dual point distributor when I built the car, but I had so much trouble with point bounce at high RPM that I had to switch to a Mallory Unilite...and it works flawlessly. Here are a few other pics of the car. I put a new set of heads on last year, thus the engine pics where it's partially disassembled. If you look very carefully at the one engine pic from almost straight on...you'll see a familiar component on the left side (facing the car) of the firewall. Yes, it's a Ford starter solenoid. GM had a bad problem with "hot soak" of the solenoid since it was mounted right on the starter, just under the headers. Therefore, I bought a Ford solenoid and remote mounted it. Never had a problem since....it's been 15 years since I added that component. That's +1 for Ford! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUFDRAFT Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Wow. That's the one. I would love a ride in that Chevy. The Engine. Be proud of it - it's sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadTony Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 nice ride! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6707Shelby Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Im in Texas and over the past month I have seen 2 Mustang GT's Highway Patrol Vehicles. And Just today i saw a Mustang GT City Patrol Car. So It got me to thinking... with the High performance of the Shelby GT500.... Does anyone think or has anyone heard of any State or City's contacting Ford Dealers to try and add the GT500 to their Police Car Stables? That would be pretty cool to see IMHO. Unless He was following You !!! I would like to see a pic of a 05-07 Highway patrol car. I havent heard of any in service? If you can snap a photo and post it that would be cool! Here in California the CHP is considering the 07 Shelby, but the Chp and FOMOCO are at a brick wall at the moment. Chp wants them at MSRP and Ford wont let them go for less than 15k over MSRP. j/k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUFDRAFT Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 The only reason this one got me was my wife was "helping my stress level" when he started following me. I wasn't able to properly heel-and-toe while she was...helping me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerGT Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 I would like to see a pic of a 05-07 Highway patrol car. I havent heard of any in service? If you can snap a photo and post it that would be cool! Here in California the CHP is considering the 07 Shelby, but the Chp and FOMOCO are at a brick wall at the moment. Chp wants them at MSRP and Ford wont let them go for less than 15k over MSRP. j/k Here we go : Mustang GT 2006-Highway Patrol Car Video : New Coronado Police Car Draws Stares-NBCSanDiego.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mach1fever Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Flattus are you from orlando? Also alot of the normal police departments are looking at chargers for crown vic replacements. http://www.newagemusclecars.com/index.php?...&p2_articleid=4 Can't find the other links for the machs and the 05's. They are on mach1 registry if your interested. Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68fastback Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Also alot of the normal police departments are looking at chargers for crown vic replacements. A lot of folks over at Blue Oval forums are so upset that Ford is phasing out the CV/GM/LTC, thought the CVPI has to be around a while longer since there's no Ford rear drive to replace it and they're still selling 70K units /yr.! I've heard they thing the 500 might do ok... NOT! I sure hope Ford is planning SOME v8 rear-drive family car to double as a CVPI replacement. The 500 much work well for livery/taxi, but not for police. The Hemi charger has got to be on the short list for a lot of PDs at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STSVT Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 The only reason this one got me was my wife was "helping my stress level" when he started following me. I wasn't able to properly heel-and-toe while she was...helping me. Rufdraft you are one funny cool pic Yes, my Camaro has the famous 302 DZ engine. It was only produced for one year, and only available in the Z28. No low-end torque, which explains why I have a 4:11 posi and a Tremec 5-speed Road Race version with a 3.27 first gear. It's a dog under 3500 RPM, but wakes up after that. It get's sideways on my going from 1st to 2nd at 6800 RPM...yikes. I don't have audio clips, nor do I have the equipment to take such clips. But it does have a sweet sound, mostly because of the cam. The solid lift cam has an extremely long duration (around 323 degrees total, although only 254 degrees @.050), with considerable overlap, .485 lift, and lobe centerline at 114 degrees. This same cam was used in the earlier 327 hi-perf Corvettes. It uses the same valve lash on both intake and exhaust valves, .030/.030...and is therefore referred to as the "30-30" cam. The funny part is that I initially used a Mallory dual point distributor when I built the car, but I had so much trouble with point bounce at high RPM that I had to switch to a Mallory Unilite...and it works flawlessly. Here are a few other pics of the car. I put a new set of heads on last year, thus the engine pics where it's partially disassembled. If you look very carefully at the one engine pic from almost straight on...you'll see a familiar component on the left side (facing the car) of the firewall. Yes, it's a Ford starter solenoid. GM had a bad problem with "hot soak" of the solenoid since it was mounted right on the starter, just under the headers. Therefore, I bought a Ford solenoid and remote mounted it. Never had a problem since....it's been 15 years since I added that component. That's +1 for Ford! Dave Terry that car is freaking awsome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaylan1521 Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 I was working on Saturday about an hour west of Toronto and saw they use Chargers now. Dave, that's a clean engine/bay. Nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 Yes, my Camaro has the famous 302 DZ engine. No low-end torque, which explains why I have a 4:11 posi and a Tremec 5-speed Road Race version with a 3.27 first gear. It's a dog under 3500 RPM, but wakes up after that. It get's sideways on my going from 1st to 2nd at 6800 RPM...yikes. The solid lift cam has an extremely long duration (around 323 degrees total, although only 254 degrees @.050), with considerable overlap, .485 lift, and lobe centerline at 114 degrees. Yeah, with those cam specs you'll never get any grunt off of idle. Those specs are meant for high RPM power, not low RPM torque. With your low rear end ratio and the 5 speed you have a good compromise with where the engine likes to run at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest evilchris Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 My Wife Does work as a Police Dispatcher and their city was looking to upgrade their standard patrol cars... i cant remember which one they went with, but they did have an SRT to drive around. I know they chose a smaller cheaper and less powerful car for their standard cars. The Officers I know were VERY Dissappointed about that too. This spond my curiousity about seeing a GT500 with lights and sirens. I guessing if somewhere, some police dept had a GT500, that they would make sure that it WAS NOT speed limited to 155mph. LOL No police department in their right minds would EVER allow a pursuit to reach such speeds. The pursuit would be called off in the interest of public safety and deferred to an air unit if available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdwaterHotrod Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 You can't out run the radio....I know, I tried once.... just once! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadTony Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 "my mother hung me on a hook once.....once" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68fastback Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 "my mother hung me on a hook once.....once" ...sounds like it wasn't a good day for ya AW? :huh: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadTony Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 thought it sounded something like the previous post, bus was really a quote from a classic comedy - any guesses which one and who said it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUFDRAFT Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 Home alone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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