JIPJOBXX Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Coatney Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 How old do the cops have to be to drive this car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40P10touring sedan Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 Cool...our local police department has an old plymouth inside the front entrance...a 37 I believe..no drives were being offered even for the cubscouts during our tour...I asked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mulders Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Interesting & cool, would that be bulletproof glass with holes to shoot through? I like the tire and radiator protection John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle-Pekka Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 How old do the cops have to be to drive this car? Don, here is a photo of an old police (for the car) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desotodav Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 I got this one a while ago and thought it may be on-topic here... .Now that's trust and true love for you - having your wife help you test bullet proof glass in 1932. I would imagine that workplace health and safety people would have way different ideas of how to test that sort of glass these days! Desotodav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niel Hoback Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 I think I have found evidenced of people stupider than me! That is the dumbest thing I've seen yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1940_dodge Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 (edited) Figured I could be On topic in this thread 2 police cars we've restored in the past! Edited January 30, 2012 by 1940_dodge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Benjaminson Posted February 3, 2012 Report Share Posted February 3, 2012 The car in the photo is a 1935 PJ Plymouth fitted with bullet proof windshield with gun ports, radiator and tire protection and probably an armour plated body. I'm not sure if this is the Sioux Falls, SD police car or not. In 1934 John Dillinger and friends paid a visit to Sioux Falls. Dillinger was on the lam from the jail in Crown Point, Indiana (I believe). It was thought the SF bank held something like $800,000. During the robbery the gang ended up taking most (if not all) of the Sioux Falls police department hostage. After the robbery the city popped for an armour plated '35 Plymouth. By the time it was delivered Dillinger and most of his friends were either dead or in prison but I've often wondered what happened to that car??? The armour plating was installed by companies such as Perfection Windshield in Indianapolis and other companies. A fully "loaded" armour plated car added about 700 pounds of weight to the vehicle - equivalent of driving around with an extra engine and transmission in the back seat. I have a price sheet for the '35 conversions and its reproduced in my book "Plymouth Commercial Vehicles". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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