Sorry jw. You're incorrect. The picture you linked is a Plymouth "C" body Gran Fury, which was the full size car and a completely different vehicle line. The car depicted in the model is a 1977 Dodge Monaco. In 1977 the Monaco name was used on the smaller (midsize) B-body cars. Prior to that, the B-body cars were the Dodge Coronet (71 to 76) and Plymouth's Fury (75 and 76) and Satellite (71-74).
In 1975, the Plymouth C-body became the Gran Fury and in 1977 the biggest Dodge became the Royal Monaco.

See how polite yet informative I can be?

Bob
In the link below there is a picture of a 77 OSP Grand Fury. In 78 the Grand Fury looked identical to the Dodge Monaco. http://copcardotcom.fotki.com/contributions_by_name/by_last_name_m_through_r/john_reynolds/ohio.html

Sorry to till you Bob but the Monoco is the only police vehicle of the late 70's and early 80's any company has cast a kit of. The only kits I can think of that would be reasonbly close to that era would the Modelhaus 75 or 85 Impalas.

I'm tempted to call you a dick but then the rest of the whiners and no-names would complain. Do you think he stitched the shirt together himself? It's a freaking G.I.Joe, you pinhead. Oh, and another thing. It's spelled epaulet.

uniform good except shirt pocket flaps should be same color as shirt, OSP only has black epolets

OSP didn't have Monacos. also the id numbers were on from & back, but not sides. warning lights were all red until switch to jetsonic bars

Well, a year later I'll answer this -
I believe the antennas on this one are just small diameter wire, probably from a hobby shop. I've also used various guitar strings. They have a little more "spring" to them.

No, they wont issue a warrent. As long as you do not use the emblems illegaly and use them to do harm to others or impersonate, you are ok. Though they prefer you ask prior to photographing the cars, which they would not object to.

So youre saying if I am on vacation in New Mexico and I photograph one of their cruisers and put the picture on this site or if I build a model of one of their cruisers and put it on this site they will issue a warrant for my arrest?

I probably wont check this again but heres my opinion. the car is great and alot of work was probably put into it. I actually did see a LAPD caprice with this lights liek this in downtown LA at a conference as security. Why should it matter? Its great and good work to the replicator.

I agree. As for the street hawk issue... my fault on not mentioning the DOT here wasnt really fully out back in the 40's, as a matter of fact, they werent around then, it was all NMSP. so ill correctly word it that the lightbar was mentioned for the early days of the silver NMDOT car mostly in the early 90's and late 80's. as for picture snap's, True there is a freedom of press (basically taking pictures of things in public - wording this for the kids)however if you take the shield emblem/lic plate and publicly sell it, pull it from a image, or display it on a real car, its trouble for you which many people have been caught doing. They dont mind if you make models as long as you notify them. And I wouldnt wanna just walk up to a cruiser and sit near it for a real close up shot as I would be outside ready for the worst not knowing what someone is doing or if they had bad intentions. It is better to ask and let someone know as you dont cause any alarms to go. Then again you can do what you want but it was advice. It suprises me that many people dont know NM is a state, funny. But anyway for the models, the NM plate is different now from that models picture. As for Motor Transportation (DOT) they have a different plate all together.

William, don't worry about what half of the morons say around here. Thursdays are computer day at the remedial school and the retards think it's fun to leave comments here.

They've never built a model or even know where New Mexico is an a US map, so taking a picture of one of the NMSP cars is something they'll never be able to do. Besides, most of them still think a camera is a fast car built by Chevrolet.

This is a free country as well. I don't care what their policy says if their crusier is parked on a public street I'll take a picture of it if I want.

So youre saying they had Streethawks in the 40's. Wow I never saw a Streethawk until the late 80's/

Yes. NMDOT has same color for both the law enforcement cruisers and the inspectors units. Only difference is the door emblem or is left without it and a black factory stripe. NMSP old cruiser is all black which NM switched to for a while at that era in the 40's. Then changed to all white cruisers for visibility issues then shortly after this back to white over black. They have had the same markings since. Only difference in the 1940's is the stripe was like the wyoming SP car, i believe its wyoming, across the door and over the hood meeting in the middle with the exception of white roof. But when I got time its mainly on car details as the graphics are easy on these particular cars. as for NMDOT in the early days, they mainly had silver blank cruisers (which some districts still do) and some had a small cheap logo on the front doors with red lights on the roof, mainly street hawks then.

Sounds like you are working on a lot of projects at one time.

i never seen a nhsp before. i like it, unique colors.

very nice, you live in NM? i live in district 8 and am currently working on a 1940 nmsp cruiser, a 2004 fcv nmsp special k-9 unit, a 2004 nmdot dps cruiser and a 2004 nmdot inspector cruiser (looks like a law enforcement one but is only used by inspectors, not officers). i bought a set of the decals similiar to what you have however was not happy about the detail. since i have a any time option i took some of nmsp emblems and made my own. but very nice blazer, nmsp still has a few left on the states fleet. one model i would love to see is the old dodge ram charger. very nice! just fyi to all for heads up, nmsp has a policy on its emblems and pictures taken of its cruisers, so be sure to ask prior to walking up a patrol car and snapping shots.

Well Mr Anonymous lets see some of your models. Oh I forgot you have never built any have you.

Then it really isn't that accurate after all, is it?