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Oh alright I’ll add some more Plymouths. I was surfing online and feeling nostalgic. The first two have “dog dish” hubcaps to
cover the lug nuts. Larger hubcaps usually didn’t work on police cars; with all the normal hard swerving and cornering there’s
no way they would have stayed on. The white SPD car lightbar on the top had (only) two, maybe three rotating bulbs and mirror
on each side.

Oh look here’s me with a deputy taking down some desperados, in the front parking lot of the old PD, of all places:

We also had a blue unmarked Ford that I used on occasion. It had a couple of incandescent round blinking lights hidden in the
grill and one deck light in the back window. Also the headlights could alternately flash, a feature called “wig wags.” The metal
roll bar/Plexiglas partition behind the driver’s seat was sealed pretty tightly to the roof, creating a unique problem: at highway
speeds with the front windows rolled down a bit, a huge difference in air pressure was created between the front and back seats
which led to a severe air-sucking WHUMPWHUMPWHUMP that sounded like a helicopter inside, the kind of quick alternating
air pressure that creates significant discomfort to one’s ear drums. It was especially severe with this car. The problem though
was easily fixed by opening the back windows more, or rolling up the front windows to seal the car from air getting in.

My Plymouth Gran Fury was replaced a couple years later with a larger boxy white 1980’s model Ford LTD Crown Victoria. I
have nothing too exciting to say about this one. Look close and you can see the steering wheel had a vinyl after-market grip
wrapped onto it, which was very common back then. I drove mine for a couple years. I did not have any notable events in it,
other than once having a lightbar on the roof overheat and catch on fire during a traffic stop. Bad wiring job. Not my fault.