nikon01

Check this out...I was surfing around on the web tonight and I stumbled upon this site Used Police Cars . You can actually purchase slightly used Police Interceptors for personal use...that would be an awesome beater to have. You would also own the left lane, since everyone would move over for you. Check it out and tell me what you guys think.

Doc.Booty

Police cars get beat on BAD, i woudln't want one.

BigPimp

Old news man. Good concept but too expensive to maintain since most of the cars have over 100k on them.

Sdog2012

that and you know who the previous drivers are

PiMpiN wHITe Cl-S

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i would buy one of those just to beat on it and then blow it up

vinarnold

they have been driven hard not for me

Pure Adrenaline

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This is what happens when you merely read the thread title and make a comment without checking out the web site.


Nearly all of them have 61k miles. It says on their web site that they purchase the cars from the PDs at about 60,000 miles.

GreenMonster

(Elwood & Jake in the old police car that Elwood uses to pick up Jake after getting out of prison)
"ELWOOD:" You don't like it?
"JAKE:" No I don't like it.
(Elwood floors it and jumps over an open drawbridge)
"JAKE:" Of course it's got a lot of pickup.
"ELWOOD:" It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Blues Mobile or what?
(Jake after lighting a cigarette)
"JAKE:" Fix the cigarette lighter.

AK_MOBBER

no thanks, those cars have been ragged HARD!

Plus the fuel tank explodes when you get rear ended. There are dozens of cases where the fuel tank explodes when the car is rear ended...

zeroday

really? on a Ford??? No way. I don't believe it.


haha.

BigPimp

Ok then, you go buy one.

I have been dealing with these vehicles for many years, part of the biz. The only reason they are decomissioned before 100K is because they were involved in a serious accident. And those are not easy 60k in miles either. And they are not that cheap, somewhere in the area of 6k.

Chaptorial

A friend was thinking about buying one awhile ago. He was thought he could just go through red lights and speed at will.

That "benefit" outweighs the cons big time.

Pure Adrenaline

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You totally missed my point. What I was saying is that you didn't read the web site at all and just blatanly threw out the number 100k miles. When, in fact, they have just a little over 60k. That was all I was saying.

And you don't think I don't know these cars go through tough times? What else is new?

And, no. I wouldn't touch a Ford with a 20-foot stick.

Deity42

A friend of mine bought nothing but old cop cars through high school and college. Basically he'd buy them at 4K or so and then drive them for two years or so before they blew up. They way he figured it, but buying a 4K car every few years and not taking care of it, he actually saved money on maitenince costs for a regular car.

On top of that, they were a lot of fun. Just floor the thing everywhere, not worry about dings and whatnot, haul six people around, scare speeding soccer moms, etc.

Chemmech

Rnning 24/7, jack rabbit starts and stops, at 100,000 miles, ouch!!! Yep, the ultimate beater machine .

civic4982

I wanna buy one and take a sledge to it.. THAT would let off so much frustration.

fuzzy02CLS

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I had a 97 Crown Vic P71. It had 75K miles on it, it was black, with grey interior, Had the spot light. It was one of the worst cars I had. I sold it at 80K miles. Tranny, AC, power windows, struts all went in that 5K miles I had it. I'll never get one again.

Reddly9007

to bad they don't have the mustangs and camaros, i mean those cars are fast. I guess it wouldn't be so bad as a beater, but then again, you have to expect tons of problems, i mean those cars are just used and abused all the time they are on the road.

lrutt

Yea, you're right, they blow when rear ended. But how much do you know of the subject. Those explosions occure when hit by another car doing like 70mph straight into the back. The other problem was all the stuff that cops put in the truck floor, when hit, was pushing straight through the truck and into the gas tank. So tell me how exactly a company is supposed to design a damn car. So that it can withstand 100mph impacts while carrying totally unknown articles and protect occupants totally.

I'd like to see an Acura full of cop crap in the trunk take some 70mph hits. Any car is going to blow when subjected to that. It just shows up as a Ford more often cause they make up like 80% of all the cop cars out there.

fender4

Give me a break,,, most of those cases are with 70+ mph hits to the rear, nothing stock is designed to meet that, if the towns cops want that protection they need to drive Sherman Tanks. Can the gas tanks be better with fuel cells?? Yes so buy rubber cells for all cop cars and then we won't have FORD to blame.

irutt you beat me to it,, I have to defend the engineers that are blamed for a spec that they weren't given to design too,,

juniorbean

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My neighbor has one and he loves it. Black Crown Vic.... I think it's a 2001 Interceptor with about 75k miles on it (now). There's a place upstate on Rt23a going towards Hunter Mountain that sells them. He got it for like 8k and he's put about 35k miles on it over the last year with no problems.

He only uses it as a commuter car and really doesn't care too much for it. He washes it once in a while and performs the maintenance... but that's it. He did say that people are always moving out of his way, and cops waive at him, etc. If I could get a decent one for a good price I'd probably do it....

mrsteve

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Cop cars get beat down HARD. My friend is a cop and I've done a few "ride alongs" with him and he will pull up to stop someone on foot and just jam the transmission into park at like 15-20 mph.

Not to mention it is usual for police cars to be "deadlined" at 100k miles. Anything before that and the car has been involved in some sort of accident.

Also generally you multiply the mileage on a police car by 2 to get the actual "mileage" of the engine since half of the time cops are sitting in their cars idling or get out and leave them running.

Shawn S

Back in the mid 70’s my dad had an old 1969 Dodge Polaris 4-Door that was a decommissioned STATE cop car.
It had a 454 Hemi w/ dual 4 barrel carbs.
That car FAWKIN FLEW !!!!
It still had the center cage in it and the spotlight on the side.

Unfortunately it only got like 7-8 MPG and he had to get rid of it when the price of gas skyrocketed to like 60-cents a gallon.

Shawn S

fender4

At now prices at around $1.80 and averaging 24 mpgs that would mean we are all driving cars getting 8 mpg's at 60c/gal; I guess we all would be in Hemi's in the 1960's HATE the oil companies, as soon as cars get 50 mpgs the gas will cost $5 per gal..