any info on the Olds?

If anyone comes off looking like a dork after reading all the comments under this picture, it would have to be JW. Even more than Car Guy. At least he realized his mistake and tried to correct it. JW makes no sense at all. I thought he said he was done leaving comments.

Tater- [by shortening & alter] (1759) dial: POTATO
Merriam-Webster dictionary 10th edition

Why stop at "labaron"?
How about "your" and "dame"?
Are you a product of the Canadian public school system or something?

Oh dame,,, I spelled LeBaron wrong.

Have to say, I think your right. I think that car looks better than the labaron anyways. Never liked the labaron's taillights.

Apparently you don't understand the premise of the Constitution and state's rights, wherein the Federal government can't have total control over everything. As it is, the Feds have their hand in way too much anyway. And with that idiot GW in charge, that is scary.

Are you just some kind of moron? How does one get confused when seeing an emergency vehicle coming at them regardless of whether it is a fire truck, ambulance or police car? Should there be a choice of what you pull over for, too? "Oh, gee, that's an ambulance, I'll just keep going". DUH!

Maybe we should just print the officer's names on the light bars so that you can decide whether you want to pull over for that particular officer.

They should just make a national law all police vehicles should have blue lights and all fire and ems should be red. That way there would be no confusion.

Arkansas remains largely an "all blue" state. The state statutes require that police vehicles display blue lights, though it does not specify that ALL of the lights have to be blue and this has been a subject of controversy in the past at times. While the state police and highway police use all blue lights (with rear facing amber flashers as well) some local agencies do incorporate red lights with the blue lights, maybe up to 20% of agencies. There have been times when county prosecuters have tried to mandate that all the police agencies within their respective judicial districts use nothing but blue lights which has resulted in squabbles with police chiefs and sheriffs which is always amusing.

Didn't they run the Merc's on the Turnpike? Looks like a 72 or 73 model year. I know NYSP tried some on the Thruway.

The New Hampshire State Police has not gone to blue and red lights with their new Whelen Liberty LED Lightbars. They are still using only blue lights (Except for the white takedowns and alley lights).

The Rhode Island State Police use a mix of red and blue on their lightbars now. Their Vista Lightbars are mostly red and white to the front (With the exception of two blue lower-level lights). The rear of these lightbars are now red and blue on the upper level, with an amber directional bar and red/blue lights on either side.

Yeah, I started thinkin' about it real hard and came back this mornin', and realized that I left a few off in both sections.

And New Hampshire's ditched the all blue's and gone to red/blue Whelen LED bars too.

NJSP are no longer using all red light bars (see post above.)

New Mexico and New York are the only state police agencies still using all red lights. Maine, Florida, Vermont, New Hampshire and Virigina I believe are the only state agencies left using all blue.

Many states are changing their laws requiring law enforcement to go to the red/blue color scheme.
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Not so fast. I was in Jersey two weeks ago and only a few of the NJSP cars have added blue lights. Most are still all red. Michigan is also still red. Minnesota is still red to the front. Missouri and Rhode Island are still mostly red, but I think they may have only started to add blue recently.
As far as the all blue, you've left out the State police from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, all Hawaiian Island PDs, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts (to the front), Mississippi, Montana, North and South Carolina and Tennessee.

Greg
copcar dot com

They should have stuck with black and whites (But lose the white rims)!

There has been several studies that show that Red lights are the most visible in bright sunlight and Blue lights are the most visible at night. In addition, Amber lights are a good compromise between Red and Blue in visibility in both day and night conditions and are the best for foggy conditions, but since Amber lights are a standard for non-emergency uses (wreckers, highway road crews, snowplows, etc.) the use of Amber is normally restricted to the rearward facing lights on the police and emergency vehicles. One more thing to note, a recent study finds the new LED style lights are normally far brighter but with far less glare then the older style halogen and strobe lights, regardless of the color used.

Tony is correct about the reason why they have it on the right fender. It's become a tradition to not have the markings on the left side. The idea for it was that when the cruiser parked on the side of the road with the front to the road, the left fender faces the traffic on the same side of the road. If the cruiser is parked behind a billboard or in some other hiding spot while watching traffic, the nose can stick out without giving away that it is a police car. This doesn't mean much on limited access highways like I-95, where a car parked on the median or off the shoulder is almost always a police car, but it works great on roads like Rt.1 where the cruiser can park in a business' parking lot or other places where non-police cars may normally park.

Just wondering what the story behind this Chrysler is? I know Chrysler offered the LeBaron in police trim in '81, but this looks more like a 5th Ave or a New Yorker with that padded roof in the rear.

Thanks for any info!

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according to the contributor, this was the NJSP Commissioner's (or Deputy Comm.) car, if I remember the info that came in with the photo.

Dave

Good photos! Those look like '79 to '81 Gran Fury cruisers. I recognize the location, as I lived near there many years ago. It appears to be near the Bear Mountain Bridge, just south of West Point (US Military Academy) where US 202, US 6 and US 9w meet.

That bridge has a toll where you only pay going east, but not westbound.

very nice car i bet no one trys to run from you.if its on the keep it on the