| I owned two FL era cop cars. One a California HP car - a 57 Coronet 2s. The other a Washington SP 60 Pioneer 2s.
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Jim, I disagree about the 2 doors. While most police used 4 doors so they could haul away the perps, most State highway cars were 2 door sedans. California bought a large number of 56 Dodge D500 2 door sedan Coronets for Highway patrol use. Back in the 60s, Minnesota exclusively used Plymouth 2 door sedans for their cars. I always wanted one, lightweight with a 413, 426 wedge, or 440. Dave Homstad 56 Dodge D500 ----------------------------------------- From: "Jim" < 0000093b5b69d73c-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxCc: Sent: Friday February 26 2021 4:53:31PM Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Forward looks in Highway Patrol
The show ran from 55 to
59. The early episodes that I've seen so far had Olds and
Buicks and Mercs usually 56, 57, and 58 models. I'm only
guessing but it seems like when the Forward looks came out whoever
was in charge of the show liked them and immediately started using
them but you'd still see the olds, buicks and mercs show up.
The outfitting of the cars as police cars seems pretty well done
except many of them are two doors which I don't think too many
police departments would have actually used.. But they look better
and perhaps the same "car guy" who picked the Mopars had a hand in
that choice too. Many of the shots of the cars are really
rather extended.. certainly more extended than would be the case
today.. maybe just to fill time or maybe because the cars looked so
good they wanted to film them. I watched the show originally
when my age was single digits... watching it now I'm impressed with
the quality of almost all the scripts, really realistic and far
less sappy than many 50's era shows. Gene Roddenbury, who
went on to fame with Star Trek, wrote one of the scripts. He
had been a patrol officer for LAPD, maybe even was at the
time.
Jim Delton ¨¨°°¨°°¨Ô¨°°¨°°¨¨
I seem to recall most of the episodes I saw
where Mopars were the stars. I remember an occasional Buick and
Merc.
Bill the
Magnumguy
John 3:17
On 2/26/2021
2:52 AM, Larry Ashbaugh wrote:
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