SpaceWagon --
An interesting comment about that '64 Dodge with the 413 being an ex-New Mexico State Police car. In 1965-66, I was going to grad school at the UNM, but my home was in Pueblo, Colorado, where I had special ordered that '65 Sport Fury with the 426S/4-speed I wrote about earlier in this thread. In those days, to keep the warranty active, regular maintenance had to be done by a Chrysler dealer, so sometime in the fall of '65 I took the SF to Lloyd McKee Chrysler-Plymouth there in Albuquerque. While it was on the rack, I noticed a NMSP 2-dr post Fury I on the next lift which I had to check out (I had a brake issue which is worth a thread all by itself). It was a 383 car with TorqueFlite and after that I took notice of all the Plymmers, but I don't recall any Dodges.
The most notable encounter I had with one was the next year when I was heading home through northern New Mexico on a typical NM 2-lane highway with the little traffic characteristic of those days. There was an old pickup chugging along going north (NM was an old truck-graveyard then) on a clear stretch so I went around him, although I didn't see the NMSP black-and-white parked on the other side. I must admit I was going a wee bit fast at that point -- it was a nice clear day, no other cars, and I was 22 -- but I didn't expect him to make a rapid U-turn as I thought he was after someone else and was surprised when he flashed his lights at me.
In fact, I was rather indignant and got out as soon as I stopped -- Big Mistake No.1. After Barney Fife put his gun back in his holster, he commenced to berate me for going too fast and passing another vehicle while he was investigating an accident on the opposite side of the road. Then came Big Mistake No. 2: "Officer, I didn't see you behind that other old truck as there always are some clunkers parked on the side around here. I was making a legal pass and you know it's reasonable to get around a slower vehicle on this kind of highway as quickly as possible. Besides, if I thought I was doing something wrong, you never would have caught me." (The Colorado line was about 15 miles away.) I'll never forget his reply: "Boy, ain't you never heard of radio?" The way he said "Boy!" was especially memorable.
Anyway, the only NMSP Mopars I ran across in those days were '65 Fury Is although by the late summer of 1965 the '64 Dodges may well have been worn out.
Joe