Enough already with this crap about asking if every shiny car you see is for sale. If you didn't buy the first that was offered, why should anyone take to seriously or even entertain your question?

This car is really nice and I would like to know if it was for sale.

I like this car and if you could write back and give me details about it, that would be great.
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Matt, you are one lucky guy. We are once again in the middle of our March Madnesss Spring Fever Annual blow-out sale. You can pick up this Diplomat for only $595. No joke. Everything must go. We've got to make room for the new arrivals and don't have the space for these older classics.

Just go to www.copcar.com and scroll down to the bottom and look for the "make a donation to copcardotcom" banner. Click on that and this fine old Cleveland steed will soon be in your driveway.

Lenny

Manager, Internet Sales Dept
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Youre correct in that there may not have been another department using this exact color in that era. However the bright colors were very common then. Look at the NYSP and Maryland SP cars of that era, they both used very bright colors. It was also in this time period that NYPD went to the bright baby blue cars from the green and black.

"The color was not that unusal for the time."

Somewhat true jj but this color definitely was a very specific color code that was not used by anyone else as that was the then mayor's favorite color. In the photos the color does have a tendency to fade thereby looking more yellow than green. The "safety yellow" was a more common color for departments that tried the high visibility coloring.

The color was not that unusal for the time.

Might be a way around those nasty dash cracks, though

That is one huge hunk of dash missing to install a MDT.

I know where there is a 73 Fury that would make great clone for this car.

Hey, is that the color "Safety Green"? At least I finally found a color photo that shows a CPD unit with that unusual color sceme. I always wondered about that particular color when I purchased Edwin J. Sanow's 'Encyclopedia of American Police Cars' a few years ago. The author mentions it on pages 140 and 207, respectively, that "Safety Green" was a "horrible shade of lime green" and an "obnoxious shade of lime green" in the picture captions, but all of the photos in the entire book are published in black & white. So I wasn't able to get a clear picture up close of what that color "Safety Green" looked like. Thank You Greg for getting my facts straight. Very interesting and striking. Anyway, Keep up the great work, copcar.com.
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There's another color photo of a Cleveland "safety green" Ford on Greg Reynolds' page:
http://public.fotki.com/copcardotcom/greg_reynolds/cleve78.html

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23,000 photos. If we don't have a photo of it, they didn't use it.

Kinda strange to see an interior with a horn ring and a computer.