1969 CHP Polara Wagon

[cm23uoc]

Unless they're Polaroids.

 

[commando1]

If Polaroids could talk...

 

[MrMoparCHP]

Really like to see the engine shot, I hope you can score the negatives.

Here are the engine shots, I was told last night that this is a 440 but not the 375 HP.

This car is also unique in that it has the electronic siren not just the mechanical one. These were just being tested at that time.
The speaker on the wheel liner is the clue.

 

[polara71]

what a great reference photo.....disc brakes too, not much on the tag

 

[cm23uoc]

Came with A/C. Stan would have ordered this if he were a police officer back then.

 

[polara71]

Being a CHP car I would have thought it would

 

[MrMoparCHP]

Here is the tag to a car that was scrapped out...

Because it might be a little to hard to read...
E86: 440 CID 4 barrel V8 (High Performance) 375hp
D32: Heavy Duty Automatic Transmission
B41: Front Disc Brakes w/Standard 10in RR Drum
F15: 65 Amp Alternator
H51: Air Conditioning with Heater
V02: Two Tone Paint Treatment
Y39: Special Order
Not listed, rear air

This was the way ALL the 1969 sedans were ordered, it was the first year for all the cars to have AC.
The 99 special order paint was actually the standard Dodge black but a special order white.
CHP had disc brakes on all cars for several years already, probably as soon as Dodge started offering them.

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[commando1]

Came with A/C. Stan would have ordered this if he were a police officer back then.

I was in the top 98% of the Massachussetts State Police entrance exam and physical and about to enter The Academy when a Boston judge ruled blacks had to be admitted over whites...
No cop car for da white boy....

 

[1978 NYB]

The military does that "affirmative action" bullsh*t too for promotions!

It should be the best qualified person is selected..... period!

People are people.........color, religion, ethnicity, etc., is irrelevant!!!

 

[commando1]

The military does that "affirmative action" bullsh*t too for promotions!

This happened back in 1971.
Nothing's changed.
They still act as if they are still "the oppressed" people.
My ***........
50 years of Affirmative Action and they are still sucking off the government teat.

 

[1978 NYB]

In 1976, there was 3 of us standing in the hallway waiting to appear before the promotion board, a white guy, a black guy, and me. There was 2 promotion slots open. We could here them talking inside the promotion board...the damn door wasn't closed all the way. One of them said to the others on the board......"there's 2 each 63C slots open for promotion......one of them has to be black". Guess which one of us standing in the hallway was smiling. That individual was so qualified he could barely tell you which end of the barrel the bullet came out! I was shocked that he was even considered for promotion!

 

[kmccabe56]

Here are the engine shots, I was told last night that this is a 440 but not the 375 HP.

This car is also unique in that it has the electronic siren not just the mechanical one. These were just being tested at that time.
The speaker on the wheel liner is the clue.

I don't believe it was possible to package the 375hp 440 into the wagon bodyshell. I vaguely recall it had something to do with the exhaust system.

 

[polara71]

Despite being able to order it in any other body?

 

[73 suburban]

I tried to buy a 69 Fury wagon, former Florida Highway Patrol car from a older fellow who is deceased now.It had the 140 Certified speedometer, a 440 with AVS, and nearly had him ready to sell when he died. His kids sold the property to neighbors who wanted all that "trash" gone.

 

[polara71]

and you didnt dress up as a trash collector?

 

[70NPORT]

This happened back in 1971.
Nothing's changed.
They still act as if they are still "the oppressed" people.
My ***........
50 years of Affirmative Action and they are still sucking off the government teat.

Now that's just plain ridiculous. That's like saying all white people are in the KKK or all Italians are mafioso, Japanese are Kamikaze, or blah, blah blah. You get the gist.

 

[polarus]

Great photo's, what are the odds that somebody would take pictures back in the day and they're still around 40+ years later. Is that an extra ground wire attached to the A/C unit?

 

[MrMoparCHP]

Great photo's, what are the odds that somebody would take pictures back in the day and they're still around 40+ years later. Is that an extra ground wire attached to the A/C unit?

Yes, that was a CHP addition to help prevent radio noise, some cars the even put ground straps on the hood.

 

[Samplingman]

I'm starting to really like these cop cars. Someone should clone that wagon.

 

[commando1]

Now that's just plain ridiculous. That's like saying all white people are in the KKK or all Italians are mafioso, Japanese are Kamikaze, or blah, blah blah. You get the gist.

Gary, you really hate it when a particular group are painted with a broad, derogatory, brush, don't you....