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Chicago Police vehicles 1975-1990

White vehicles with a blue stripe and Mars lights. A photographic
history of the Chicago Police fleet from my personal archives and
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1986 Caprice O'Hare Airport car

notice the 3rd mars light mounted above the lightbar. At least one red light is a federal requirement on airport police vehicles

Taken: April 18, 2004
Uploaded: April 19, 2004
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Captured with:
Sony CD Mavica

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  • Joe A (Private)
    7 years 3 months ago
    Ahmed, read the description, it's an airport car and the 3rd light (red) was required.
  • Ahmed (Private)
    7 years 3 months ago
    This looks like a traffic patrol car from the 1980's. Never saw a lightbar combination like that, nor did I know that the CPD bought from Chevy in 1986. I don't even remember these cars when I was little.
  • stuart jones (Private)
    8 years 9 months ago
    hi greg, i'm sure you remember me from earlier on this year, i bombarded you with some of the most innane questions about police work from the early 80's and you came through with an amazing amount of information for me to use in my book. the book is finished now and although i haven't had any acceptances for it yet it is really down to your help that i have even got it to the stage where it could be sent off to publishers, so again i thank you for all your help. i am thinking of maybe trying to get it published in the U.S since maybe it is more to your type of taste. anyway thanks again and watch this space. stuart.
  • tpr1 (Private)
    9 years ago
    Good point. I guess I never thought about that. In that case I can understand this lighting combination.
  • tpr1 (Private)
    9 years ago
    Seems like it would have been easier just to remove one of the blue lenes and place the red one over it.
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    Think about it. Being able to have a separate circuited red light means they can use only that light if they are on the runways. They can leave the blues totally off and only use them on the street, where people recognize what the blue means.

    Dave
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