The story on the photo of the Pinto in front of the Mt. St. Helens eruption elicited plenty of comments from those of you who were there in the Pacific Northwest at the time, and we appreciated the p...
Photos courtesy Aguttes. Typically, the members of France’s Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale operate much like an American SWAT or SEAL team, with massive uparmored bulletproof vehic...
1978 Plymouth Fury Police Pursuit (top); 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (bottom). Images by the author. During the summer of 1978, Foreigner’s Hot Blooded hit the airwaves, mixing it up with tunes from th...
Police package 1977 Plymouth Gran Fury for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Genuine police package 1977 Plymouth Gran Fury with original 440 engine and HD 727 trans. These cars ar...
From the seller’s description: For sale is a 1995 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, 9C1 Police Package . It’s a documented, Ex-Beverly Hills California Police Department, undercover detective unit. Mileage ...
It’s a good bet that the 1921 Ballot straight-eight that John Ballard Engineering recently assembled for a customer may be the last time anybody will take on such a project. Fortunately, Ballard docu...
If you plan to race in Baja’s Class 11, be prepared to meet Eric Solorzano and come away from your encounter with a tale or two, as this Playboy profile of the long-time racer illustrates. * Do you t...
1938 Autocar tanker. Photos courtesy AACA Museum, unless otherwise noted. Without commercial vehicles, modern life would grind to a halt rather abruptly. Despite their importance, these workhorses ar...
Ex-CHP 1989 Chevrolet Caprice for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: True California Highway Patrol Car and has been professionally restored to original condition as when on patrol ...
NYCPM at the 2016 NYIAS. Photo by the author. Five years after Hurricane Sandy rendered it homeless, the New York City Police Museum will move to Governors Island and mark its return with an exhibit ...
One-off 9C1-equipped 1978 Chevrolet Nova coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is the only Nova 9C1 Coupe with 100 percent documentation as to its authenticity. I am the...
While the Toyota 2JZ isn’t quite the ubiquitous engine swap as the SBC or the LS, the straight-six still manages to make its way in between the frame rails of a good diversity of cars, trucks, and ot...
Photos by Casey Maxon, Historic Vehicle Association. As primed as most police cars are for lengthy sustained service, with special heavy-duty options and equipment installed at the factory, they stil...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The choice of the van was intentional. The pseudononymous street artist Banksy has claimed many a run-in with the police and made authoritarianism a common motif in his artwo...
In the early 1970s, Chrysler had a significant share of the law enforcement market, thanks to offerings like the Plymouth Fury, the Dodge Polara, the Dodge Cornet and the Plymouth Belvedere/Satellite...
This 1973 AMC Matador for sale on Hemmings.com, a four-door sedan ordered by the government to use as an MP car, probably couldn’t be more basic with its bench seat, column-shifted automatic, lack of...
Photos courtesy of Historics at Brooklands. A two-seat convertible sports car hardly seems like a sensible choice for police work, but from the 1930s into the 1960s, British automaker MG provided a v...
That plan to create a 21st Century Duesenberg a few years back? It’s since morphed into an effort to replicate the Duesenberg Model J phaeton with the six-man top, led by movie car builder Eddie Paul...
The VW Type 2 in the photo above is apparently a one-family, low-mileage example that also happens to be one of the oldest right-hand drive Volkswagens ever. And as bad as it looks in the photo, it t...