I live in Troy, NY just outside Albany.  The state police have at
least 1 IROC car, marked with light bars and the rest of the
NYS bells and whistles, and it is used primarily in speed enforcement
in the I-90 I-87 areas around Albany. It has instant-on K band radar
equipment (probably Kustom KR10 equipment).

I saw the IROC twice on the highways last weekend (July 18-19).Z

The TROY city police have a marked Corvette that was donated/siezed during
a drug raid and converted for law enforement use.  It is mostly used for
school demonstrations and as a "show car". I have not seen the Corvette
during City patrols.

Just FYI,

Jamie Tedeschi
nor…@rpi.edu

>PURE WHITE ON WHITE Interceptors!!!! <for those who don’t know..interceptors
>are the mustang lx’s {5.0s} that the CHP uses.>

>Gosh..I am glad I am moving to Florida soon…I also have seen white on white
>cruisers..but those are easy to see with the light bar and / or drop light.

Wrong place to move!  When I was down in Florida on spring break two years
ago, I must of seen 10 COMPLETELY UNMARKED LX 5.0s in Florida….  Luckily,
I was in tons of traffic so I wasn’t doing the 85mph avg. that I’d gone the
rest of the way down!!!  These cars weren’t just black or white, either…
I saw one metallic blue and a bright red one too!  Very hard to tell they’re
pigs until you get right ontop of them and see the goofy hats!  (or the riot
gun on the fence behind the front seat!  :^)  )

BTW, ‘interceptor’ is just a designation given to higher performance persuit
vehicles…  For instance RI has a few RS Camaro interceptors with the B4C
option, which is basically a 1LE with Air…  Damn things supposed to do sub-
14s quarter-mile, too!  That’s as scary as the Syclone, since the B4C RS will
outhandle and outbrake the Pig-Phoon, and probably outrun it on the highway!

>BTW..the interceptors had NO DROP LIGHTS..but i saw the damn shotgun!

>Geeze!

>I also saw something else cool…2 flat bed semi’s that were CDF (calif. dept
>of forestry) carring earth movers that were CODE 3! The semis had light bars on
>them and the sirens were BLAIRING…..

>That just struck me as odd..I guess they had to make a firebreak pronto!!
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|> j…@philabs.philips.com (John P. Curcio) writes:
|> >Have you actually seen one?  From what I had read in the
|> NY Times and
|> >the local rag, New York will be replacing the Mustangs
|> with high-output
|> >Camaros, not Corvettes.
|>
|> Hmm; perhaps a slip of the memory.  (Sportish American
|> cars beginning
|> with "C"…)  I’ve seen an artist’s rendering of one, but
|> I don’t
|> remember off-hand any details that would distinguish a
|> Camaro from a
|> Corvette in the picture…  I’ll post details when I go
|> home and check.
|>
|> andrew

Misc. data point:
        I have seen one of the NYS Camaros on the section of I-90
between Albany and
the Mass Pike.  I actually thought it was quite nice looking
( as police cars go.)
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|>
|>>Perhaps something that *is* new: New York will be replacing its mustangs
|>>with ‘vettes as they clock 90k.  FYI, marked ‘vettes are as hysterical
|>>looking as they sound…
|>
|>Have you actually seen one?  From what I had read in the NY Times and
|>the local rag, New York will be replacing the Mustangs with high-output
|>Camaros, not Corvettes.  I can’t see them spending THAT much money on
|>chase cars when the state is in such a pitiful financial mess….
|>
|>-JPC
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I have seen the new Camaros on the highway – they are an "interesting"
neon blue color.

> I also saw something else cool…2 flat bed semi’s that were CDF (calif. dept
> of forestry) carring earth movers that were CODE 3! The semis had light bars
> them and the sirens were BLAIRING…..

> That just struck me as odd..I guess they had to make a firebreak pronto!!

The funniest police-type vehicle I’ve ever seen is a GMC passenger bus
that the NYC transit police have converted into a mobile booking station
for fare beaters. The sight of a big city bus, with light bars (2) and
sirens blaring is enough to give me a badly-needed laugh every time I see
it.

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The country needs them more than ever: Bill ‘n’ Opus in ’92!

>Have you actually seen one?  From what I had read in the NY Times and
>the local rag, New York will be replacing the Mustangs with high-output
>Camaros, not Corvettes.

Hmm; perhaps a slip of the memory.  (Sportish American cars beginning
with "C"…)  I’ve seen an artist’s rendering of one, but I don’t
remember off-hand any details that would distinguish a Camaro from a
Corvette in the picture…  I’ll post details when I go home and check.

andrew

>Perhaps something that *is* new: New York will be replacing its mustangs
>with ‘vettes as they clock 90k.  FYI, marked ‘vettes are as hysterical
>looking as they sound…

Have you actually seen one?  From what I had read in the NY Times and
the local rag, New York will be replacing the Mustangs with high-output
Camaros, not Corvettes.  I can’t see them spending THAT much money on
chase cars when the state is in such a pitiful financial mess….

-JPC

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>Not impressed.  The APD have been using unmarked Caprice cruisers,
>lights hidden in the grille, in *civilian* colors (beige, light blue).
>This used to be a nuisance until you realized you could spot them
>quickly by their blue plates (for all official vehicles) … so the
>city put civilian-color plates on them!  Now about the only things that
>can tip you off are the CB antenna and the driver’s-side Q-beam spot-
>light.

Well, most of the "civilia-colored" Caprices I’ve seen share another
common flaw (I dunno if the ones in your area do or not…)…
They always have the Police/Pickup Truck small round hubcaps on black
wheels.  (Often with one or more missing).

The City Of Pittsburgh’s standard fleet is 1985-89 LeSabres/88′s/Bonnevilles
all in the white with two scotchlite blue stripe scheme.  All of them
also have the aluminum wheels… which is sharp looking, until they start
mixing and matching styles on the same car(!)

Oh yeah, if you go *too* fast, they’ll send one of hte pure-civilian
silver Regal Grand Nationals after you.  They’re quite effective as
speed-trap chasers… but I saw one parked next to an intersection while
the drivewr did traffic-cop duty… a good way to eliminate the under-cover
nature of the car, eh?

-Den
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>FYI, Albuquerque city police also use 5.0 LX interceptors (white-on-
>white, too) and the New Mexico State Police have a fleet as well.
>I’ve also seen interceptors in use in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and
>Colorado.  ’Tis nothing new.

Perhaps something that *is* new: New York will be replacing its mustangs
with ‘vettes as they clock 90k.  FYI, marked ‘vettes are as hysterical
looking as they sound…

andrew

Marshal> Remember a week or so ago..I was talking about the "Police’
Marshal> Syclone I saw [prob. CHP]….well today..I saw even worse
Marshal> things.  PURE WHITE ON WHITE Interceptors!!!! <for those who
Marshal> don’t know..interceptors are the mustang lx’s {5.0s} that
Marshal> the CHP uses.>

FYI, Albuquerque city police also use 5.0 LX interceptors (white-on-
white, too) and the New Mexico State Police have a fleet as well.
I’ve also seen interceptors in use in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and
Colorado.  ’Tis nothing new.

Marshal> I also have seen white on white cruisers..but those are easy
Marshal> to see with the light bar and / or drop light.

Not impressed.  The APD have been using unmarked Caprice cruisers,
lights hidden in the grille, in *civilian* colors (beige, light blue).
This used to be a nuisance until you realized you could spot them
quickly by their blue plates (for all official vehicles) … so the
city put civilian-color plates on them!  Now about the only things that
can tip you off are the CB antenna and the driver’s-side Q-beam spot-
light.

I’ve also seen a civilian-camouflaged Mustang interceptor in town —
baby blue with a white top (looked almost like a softtop), no markings.
It did have the city’s blue plates, however, and all the usual radar
equipment on the dash.

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