unknown cop monaco

[sigmfsk]

Any recognize these police markings?



It looks like it has vent windows. The 74 New York State Police had vent-windows


but the livery is strikingly different.

[tk826]

As most here may know, that photo was taken by D.Aykroyd while scouting ideas on what type of car to use for the BluMo.

I believe it is a Rocklin County, New York Police car.
Rocklin County is just NW of NYC.

[sigmfsk]

Jul 14, 2012 18:41:15 GMT -5 tk826 said:

As most here may know, that photo was taken by D.Aykroyd while scouting ideas on what type of car to use for the BluMo.

Wow, it sounds like I'm missing quite a bit. Is there a source for that, or link on BBC?

Jul 14, 2012 18:41:15 GMT -5 tk826 said:

I believe it is a Rocklin County, New York Police car.
Rocklin County is just NW of NYC.

Ahh, that makes sense about the vent windows. I guess they piggybacked on the larger NY State order, similar to how we think my Marin County was piggybacked on the larger CHP order.

Thanks!
/arthur

[sigmfsk]

Jul 15, 2012 4:41:40 GMT -5 sigmfsk said:

Jul 14, 2012 18:41:15 GMT -5 tk826 said:

As most here may know, that photo was taken by D.Aykroyd while scouting ideas on what type of car to use for the BluMo.

Wow, it sounds like I'm missing quite a bit. Is there a source for that, or link on BBC?

Is this really a Dan Aykroyd scouted prototype blumo?
Why would most people think this? April Fools? BBC? Behind-the-scenes on a DVD?
Is there a secret club I can join to find out more?

your friend in all things blumo,
arthur

[tk826]

Performs secret handshake.

The photo was originally posted back on the other message board, when I asked Robert K Weiss about any surviving Bluesmobiles.

On a side note...

With all the "upgrades" that were performed over there, the search function sucks just as much as always.
I literally searched for an hour for the thread that he was posting in... with no results.
It seems the whole system over there is screwed up.
For example, when I do a simple search for my own posts, it states that I have a little over 50 posts.

"RKWeiss" has 14 posts but the system can only find one of them.


Anyway... I did save his comments in my own notes at the time:

March of 2010

Quote from Mr. Weiss:

The question was regarding any surviving Blumos (the productions shorthand for Bluesmobiles).
These cars (as all in the picture) were constantly being rebuilt.
There were different cars for different kinds of driving (high performance/speed, unfinished freeway flip back, etc.).

Many survived but I have no idea what became of them. We did give one away, as part of a radio promotion.
Attached are a couple of photos Dan Aykroyd took during his creation tour of the Blues Brothers film story.
They are part of the inspiration for the Bluesmobile.

[sigmfsk]

Ahhh, thanks, TK.

I don't remember the prototype scout pics, but I think that was before my time on BBC.

I do remember reading something about this puzzler:
> We did give one away, as part of a radio promotion.

Here:
bluesmobiles.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=sightings&thread=396&post=2247
I put this link to it on BBC:
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/3917-stories-from-the-people-who-were-there/page__view__findpost__p__102395

It looks like that link no longer works. Aye Carumba. BBC took away searching, and took away linking to pages. Maybe that page has just been deleted.

your friend in keeping info around,
arthur

[countrybunker]

Jul 24, 2012 0:47:24 GMT -5 tk826 said:

Performs secret handshake.

How come Arthur didn't get the paddle? I had to go through 2 rounds of it!!

Jeez... Just anybody can stroll right into the bluesmobile scout photo archives these day's... haha

Attachments:

[sigmfsk]

Jul 24, 2012 8:25:00 GMT -5 countrybunker said:

Jul 24, 2012 0:47:24 GMT -5 tk826 said:

Performs secret handshake.

How come Arthur didn't get the paddle? I had to go through 2 rounds of it!!

Jeez... Just anybody can stroll right into the bluesmobile scout photo archives these day's... haha

heehhee, I think I got lucky. I heard Tuesdays were easy-in days, while all other days required one round of the paddle, except for "Thrashin' Thursdays" which required two paddles.

[Steam McQueen]

Jul 14, 2012 18:41:15 GMT -5 tk826 said:

I believe it is a Rocklin County, New York Police car.

Just nitpickin' is all is it Rockland County?

rocklandgov.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockland_County,_New_York

[sigmfsk]

TK, what makes you think it is Rockland county car?

A sheriff's car, like Marin County?

Here's a modern day Rockland paint scheme:



your friend in paint matching,
arthur

[tk826]

It's been a while but let me do some checking.

The photo I found of an identically painted '74 Monaco was labeled:

"Rocklin Police - 1974 Dodge Monaco with a New York PD type paint job and state of the art Radar at the time."

Then, while researching "Rocklin" and "New York", I found this:
www.mtstars.com/gab-rocklin-county-NY-armed-gunman-56155.html
Listing "Rocklin County, NY"

Then... I must have confused Rocklin/Rockland on the NY county map,
because now I'm not seeing a "Rocklin" in NY.

I'll see if I can go find the website that I originally found the image on.

[tk826]

Found it:



www.flickr.com/photos/mattinrsvl/3053698924/in/set-72157609810851671

Looking at the other photos in that album I now see that it is the town of Rocklin, CA.

I would still place a bet that this is the correct department.
If not this one, I think I would turn my search toward Canada.

[sigmfsk]

Great photo and reference, TK.

I'm not sure it's the same agency:

But it's interesting looking at these old cop car pics. The next time one of you guys is partying with Dan, see if you can ask him about it.

[ti4438]

Is the car in the above photo a Royal Monaco? Looks like a turn signal on the front of the fender to me.

[tk826]

I believe it is a '76 base model.
Hidden headlights, but with a non-lighted fuel access door.

It also does not have rear bumper guards.