1971 CHP training film w/ Polaras and a Superbird

[AZBlues]

..And other neat stuff.



-AZB

[Steam McQueen]

What an AWESOME video !!

Lots of great stats and info, too. I'd love to spend some time on that skid pad driftin' and slidin'. I wonder if they have any of those '69 Polara's still hanging around?

[forzav12]

Mar 19, 2012 14:42:47 GMT -5 Steam McQueen said:

What an AWESOME video !!

Lots of great stats and info, too. I'd love to spend some time on that skid pad driftin' and slidin'. I wonder if they have any of those '69 Polara's still hanging around?

They do not.

[forzav12]

Here is a picture of my car in the wild.

[sigmfsk]

Apr 2, 2012 13:53:38 GMT -5 forzav12 said:

Here is a picture of my car in the wild.

Sweeet!


Welcome, forzav12!

I see red-ring dog-dish hubcaps. Do you know how they decided what cars got them?

We have this monaco-police thread on them:
bluesmobiles.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=police&action=display&thread=500

It seems that on Monacos (and Polaras?) that they only came on cop cars. But that thread shows that they were also on chargers. Maybe only HP motors?

your friend in new board members,
arthur

[forzav12]

Apr 2, 2012 16:07:50 GMT -5 sigmfsk said:

Apr 2, 2012 13:53:38 GMT -5 forzav12 said:

Here is a picture of my car in the wild.

Sweeet!


Welcome, forzav12!

I see red-ring dog-dish hubcaps. Do you know how they decided what cars got them?

We have this monaco-police thread on them:
bluesmobiles.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=police&action=display&thread=500

It seems that on Monacos (and Polaras?) that they only came on cop cars. But that thread shows that they were also on chargers. Maybe only HP motors?

your friend in new board members,
arthur

Thanks, to my knowledge they were not police specific. The early versions are stainless steel and more desirable(and costly). Later editions were aluminum and easier to find.

[Steam McQueen]

Some of that skid pad footage shows up in this 1974 vid, "POLICE PURSUIT"

Hosted and narrated by none other than Jack Webb, this Motorola Corporate production is the grand daddy here. The period of this film would coincide with Webb's own Dragnet 1968 and Adam-12. It was made with the cooperation of local police, as usual. Webb's clipped delivery is great!
Motorola used these no-budget films, probably directed by Sid Davis, as ways of creating extra revenue when marketed to police departments along with their communications line.

Pretty cool vintage stuff.

[sigmfsk]

Aug 4, 2013 19:13:06 GMT -5 Steam McQueen said:

Pretty cool vintage stuff.

Way cool. Thanks, Steam. It was like watching Bullitt, but with red-ring dog dish hubcaps:





It's funny that the youtube description says:
> ...probably directed by Sid Davis...

when the director (Michael Ross) is shown at the end of the film:

[flcl64]

70's porno music played to a cop car drifting. More fitting than some think.