Last week we asked you what you would drive as a PI, and you came back with some great suggestions, with cars that reflected the personalities of its detectives. But after that botched drug raid with Hernandez’s men (that you point out was successful), you’ve been reassigned! You’re too reckless, Sargeant Callahan says. You need someone to reign you in, to prevent an incident like that incident at the Miami docks last month where you successfully destroyed Hernandez’s cocaine shipment (and a few of his goons). You don’t play by the rules, you argue. You get results, dammit! But he thinks you’re a loose cannon, a liability, and it’s better than some stinking desk job.
That’s bad enough to end your career, you think. But to make things even worse, Sergeant Callahan’s assigned you some uptight loser from downtown. One look at this rookie and you know you two ain’t gonna get along. He’s gonna get the two of you killed! You’re a hot-tempered iconoclast, he’s a wimpy pencil pusher. You’re a tough-as nails crusader cleaning up the streets, he’s a kid who’ll get transferred to the suburbs in a month. You’re old-school, he’s still in school. And now Sarge expects you to change his diaper and show him the ropes? That Hernandez drug ring is never get busted now…or will it?
Well, at least you still got your sweet-ass car. 1971 Plymouth Satellite Sebring, Evening Blue Metallic, steel wheels, tape stripes, 4-barrel 440 V8, gumball light on the vinyl roof. It’s the best the department could assign you, but once you nail that Hernandez bastard you’ll finally get to confiscate that sweet Lamborghini Silhouette P300. Give that Starsky kid a run for his money.
And if your new partner doesn’t like it, he can walk.
What’s your Zebra Three?
Hooniverse Asks – What would you drive in a buddy-cop show?
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40 responses to “Hooniverse Asks – What would you drive in a buddy-cop show?”
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Camry. So every show I could total it out, shrug my shoulders and give my end of show tag line. "Oh well,"
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or something equally inconspicuous…http://tinyurl.com/23odvvx
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A pre-downsized big American sedan. If your weenie new pencil-pusher partner pees his pants, pukes, cries, or does anything else inappropriate in the heat of the action, you want to be as far away from him as possible. Better yet, put him in the cavernous trunk.
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I'm with you. And, the cop specials usually had vinyl mats instead of carpet and seats covered with the toughest hides of bull Naugas, ensuring a quick hose-down cleanup of unwanted substances.
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Definitely. I'm thinking a light blue 1994-'96 (the LT1 years) Roadmaster sedan with Caprice 9C1 suspension, brakes and cooling with a Vortech blower under the hood. Oh, and a red gumball to stick on the roof when the chase is on.
Come to think of it, that would make a kickass car for civilian life, too (minus the gumball, natch).-
I love those things. I'd like to get a standard police issue 9C1 but lo, they's be gettin' mighty hard to find.
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er…that's Firenza
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I've always wondered why some cop shows/movies have really nice cars. Like the Ferrari in Miami Vice, or the GTO in Nash Bridges. WTF. Cops don't make that much. At least in Bad Boys Will Smith had a backstory that he was rich to explain the Porsche.
Anyway, along that line of thinking, the perfect car for me and my panty-waist partner would be something reasonably obtainable and maintainable on a cops' salary. I'm thinking something like an Austin-Healey Sprite or, if I'm a cop not in a coastal city that would appreciate my foreign car, a 1969 Mustang Fastback.-
Confiscated cars could be an explanation.
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I had thought of that, but most normal police departments auction off the high value cars to raise dollars. I could see an Escalade or pony car, but some of the supercars or collectible classics are a bit of a stretch.
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Some police cars use confiscated drug dealers' cars as patrol cars to "send a message". Basically being, if you have a sweet ride and sell drugs on the side, cops will look for and most likely find reasons to seize it.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/10/post_117.html-
Interesting. That makes sense, too. I just figured PDs would need the money and would auction off nice cars as fast as possible, but sending a message that a nice car will get you pinched is probably worthwhile, too.
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I have an uncle that used to work for a local sheriff's dept. They would use some cars for example, they used a Mercedes SL until it needed new tires. They could play with/use the car all they wanted but the department had zero budget for upkeep and maintenance of any seized cars.
Yet another reason to be wary of police auction cars.-
The Tombstone Department of Public Works uses pickup trucks from the impound lot. It's a motley fleet of ten year old beaters, at the very least, but it seems to work. I think if you work for the city, and have your eye on one of the trucks in the lot, they'll adopt it for you then auction off the spent, beat, used up husk of a city owned truck and get you the nicer one taken from the drug smugglers.
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The idea of confiscated cars doesn't do it for me; they would just sell the higher end cars to cover budgets and whatnot.
I was totally going to comment on Bad Boys, mostly because that movie made me smile. Fastback, FTW -
I could kind of accept Nash Bridges's Cuda given that it probably would've been in the vicinity of dirt cheap back in the mid to late 70's. Then again, I never saw it, so I can't really say.
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Oh, it was a 'Cuda. Still, it was cherry and way too nice for a policeman unless he did pick it up cheap in the '70s.
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The Ferrari in Miami Vice was the subject of a recurring subplot — it was a confiscated car that Crockett kept 'forgetting' to turn in. Every so often, the city would send some functionary to try to reclaim it, particularly if the department was annoyed at Crockett for some reason. Not entirely credible, but they did pay lip service to it.
Now, how Crockett and Tubbs paid for their designer wardrobe on a cop's salary…that's another matter. -
The car portrayed in Nash Bridges was a 1971 Hemi 'Cuda convertible, not a GTO. It belonged to Nash's brother, who had disappeared in Vietnam. (No, it wasn't a real 71 Hemicuda Convertible. It was a hodgepodge of 'Cuda bodies and parts, as were its stunt car brethren.)
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I want that Falcon.
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If I'm the archetypical Cop On The Edge, my ride should reflect my personality: Brash, loud, rough around the edges, and kinda quirky. So after my weekly chewing out from the Surly Black Lieutenant, I'd be hitting the streets in a grey primered '70 AMC Rebel Machine with the "The Machine" decals on the fenders.
OTOH, if I were a bad guy in said buddy cop show, I'd have a Mercedes 190E Cosworth in black. Understated, yet sinister looking at the same time. -
I think my would be what my cousin cruises in as a detective. White Ford Excursion Diesel.
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A Joe Friday Special: 1967 Ford Galaxie 500, four door, 390 auto. Vinyl seats, rubber floor mats.
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Id roll around in a 1 ton dump truck and just fill the bed with bowling balls. I figure that ought to come in handy in at least one episode, right?
Otherwise I'd look for a car that was tough and tough looking. I'm thinking something like a mid 60s full framed car with an assortment of driving lights for show. Add a minimal roll cage, maybe some better seats for safety. Maybe an Imperial, those things are indestructible. -
A 1967 Imperial convertible in similar shape to the one in my avatar. Do a little work to the 440 and maybe even try a 6-spd swap. Tons, literally, of style, built like a tank (banned from demolition derby competition) for any pit maneuvers and and a trunk or backseat big enough for suspects. Old and ratty looking, so you don't care what happens to it.
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Why does everyone keep taking my awesome ideas?!?
Good choice, and good job on getting the pic rightsized.
Now I have to come up with something really good…. -
no more bland than the new Impala cruisers that will be replacing it in a few months
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Hah! Seeing that now, I can't help but think of Smuggler's Run. Makes me want to dust off the old PS2 hehe
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I'm quite fond of Gene Hunt's taste in cars, or the Subaru from the end of Hot Fuzz. Thinking North American though, I might lean towards a Magnum SRT-8 (or a used R/T if we have to justify how I can afford it on a detective's salary).
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You prefer the Subaru over the diesel Astra? I did like the Cortina though.
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That is one sweet photo. I hope it was remotely triggered.
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My uncle used to drive one of the Mustangs when he was on the DUI patrol in the early 1990s. I always thought that would be cool. I also like to see the P2 Volvo V70s decked out in UK police trim.
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It all depends on whether we were uniformed patrolmen or detectives. If we're going to have to roust drunks and such, the cherry vintage car is not the best idea…
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As this is an imaginary tv show (a Hooniverse/Quinn Martin production), I don't imagine we'll be trolling for drunks.
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….unless of course, we're protecting a mob witness with a drinking problem.
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1987-1990 SSP Mustang. Something about those cars was just awesome, especially in black and white. Back in the day, they were not a very welcome sight in your rearview.
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There is no doubt in this olelongrooffan's mind that the only correct answer is By The Numbers, '403'.
http://bealing.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/peugeo…
http://eurocarguy.blogspot.com/2007/11/peugeot-40…
Classic, rare, no ego involved, a ragtop and that pansy *ssed partner will fall through the rusted out floor pans at the first pothole hit.
Yep, that's the one for me. -
So you'll be a very rich policeman*. But I won't be asking how you got your money if you drove a GTHO, since I don't want to end up buried in the sand dunes at Kurnell.
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That's ingenious. Talk about being invisible.
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YES!!
That car is so ugly it's hot.
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