The 2014 New York Auto Show is now in full swing until Sunday, April 27th. While we provided you with awesomeomgamazeballs coverage of the new, relevant, and interesting stuff, there is always more. On the lower level of the Javits Center, which is usually reserved for trucks, there is a section with after-market bro cars/trucks, movie cars, some classic cars, and others. This year, this others was a bunch of privately owned ex-NYPD cars. The cars came from NYC Police Museum, which is temporarily housed downtown at 45 Wall Street, because the original location was damaged my super-storm Sandy. All cars are privately owned, mostly by retired NYPD cops, on the loan to the museum and the show. Hit the jump for too see all of them. Head to Bangshift.com for my buddy Craig Fitzgerald’s Bangshift.com write up on these cars, simply because he knows them better than I do.
This is one of last Dodge Diplomats made, I think, because it was equipped with an airbag. There is an NYPD facility near the Javits Convention Center where the show takes place. One time, in the early 1990’s, I saw a similar wrecked Diplomat parked on the street, near that facility. At the time I was blown away when I looked inside and noticed the deflated airbag. According to Wikipedia, the Diplomat was one of the first vehicles so equipped.
My favorite Caprice, the last years of the square third generation.
The cops who were at the show told us that they hate these, mostly because they are just too small, especially once the partition is installed. This is a smaller vehicle than the Taurus, which itself has received many complains about its size from the cops. But NYC directed NYPD to get hybrid cars, so they have to live with it. They used Nissan Altimas for some time too, and they were also hated.
[Images copyright 2014 Hooniverse/Kamil Kaluski – sorry about the iPhone quality]
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