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letterman7

Honorary Admin
I'm fortunate enough to work with more than a dozen departments in my area lettering the police and support vehicles. Years ago when I had finished my first car...well, almost. It was painted, but the interior still needed work, I was telling my township chief about it. He is a big Corvette fan, and couldn't quite wrap his head around the description of the car, even with photos from the old Nova site and the then very new National site. So, I asked him to bring his car in one day and I'll bring mine over (as I'm less than a mile from the police station).
He called me at the end of the day during shift change (roughly 4:30), and I went over. I could see from the road that there were at least 8 officers in the parking lot with the chief, awaiting this weird thing that he couldn't describe. As I burbled up to the group of officers, each one with a big grin, I didn't pop the top quite yet. I shut the engine off and simply talked through the windows which were tipped open, and the T-top (which I didn't have inserts for). Of course, they asked how I got in and out, as the canopy lines don't give any indication of a door. Hitting the button, the top rose under the hydraulic pressure and a gale of laughter and ''you've got to be kidding''s from the group of officers. Being a mostly younger group, they weren't really familiar with kit cars, but nobody believed it was a VW under the skin. Flipping open the engine hatch, my Chief said "there's no way that's a VW. It just doesn't sound like it!" With dual cannons, no, it didn't, but there was no denying the fact!
Short story, but one I enjoy telling. My chief has moved to Scottsdale to mind the rich people in Paradise Valley, but we do keep in touch. I can't wait to show him this latest version...maybe I'll even drive it out there!
 

ydeardorff

New member
Very nice, believe it or not cops are often motorheads, and love fast cars. My whole family has been law enforcement since I was a kid. Nope dont worry, not me.

Too bad they wouldnt let you do a transformers decepticon barricade on one of their cruzers. I love that "To punish and Enslave" on the tail of the car
 

Jim Sanker

New member
Cincinnati Police

Just got a call from the mechanic who is replacing my engine. He stated that when he arrived at his shop, his trailer was covered with transmission fluid. He thought that a line blew on my car. I told him that I had problems with my top motor and discharged a couple of quarts of transmission fluid into the bay. It drained into the battery case.
We decided that it gathered in the couwling and then blew out under transport. He then said that a Cincinnati Police car paced him for several miles. He thought that he may have spread fluid on the cars behind him. You and I both know that the police were just adimiring the car.
 
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