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Now we need a UK police car over here in the states. I don't think our police would be as okay with it though.
 
kledar586 said:
is that legal?
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Many states have laws against driving anything on the street that looks like a police car. It varies from state to state, but out here in California the laws are pretty strict.
 
The kids around here replace panels on Cars to make them like black and white squad cars they get pulled over all the time for cuzing and impersonating a police officer.
 
The 38-year-old drives her four children, aged 15, 12, eight and three, to school and back each day, but hopes to hire out the eye-catching vehicle for proms and weddings.
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Yes, because that's classy as fuck.
 
meh...

she'd be pulled over in about 3 seconds from a REAL police officer if she was over here in the US. Should have spent more time taking care of her teeth than pimping here crappy dodge.
 
A dude in Mass recently got cited for impersonating a police officer in a Maserati with Decepticon badging all over it...so yeah, that shit probably wouldn't fly over here.

Given that this is in a country where police cars are white, yellow, orange and/or blue though, I doubt it's a big deal.
 
Wow, that's impersonation of a LEO if i ever saw one. Here in texas, you're asking for it.
 
When I turend 16, my mom bought me an ex-police car from one of those county auctions.

I thought it was cool, but then I realized how annoying it was.

As soon as people saw me, they'd immediately do the speed limit.

My car didn't have any badging or "POLICE" written on it, but it was a real police car. People just thought I was undercover.

I painted the front with blue scallops, and the problem immediately went away.

Getting a girl into the backseat was fun. No inside door handles or window winders.
 
How do you even get away with that?? Out here in AZ the cops don't even let you have a blue light on your car, let alone black and white panels. About eight years ago I got pulled over for "impersonating an officer" in one of these: :eek:
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Common sense says, this is a bad idea for a ton of reasons.

And illegal in most places for many more good reasons.

Want to drive some cool-as-hell unique vehicle? Fine. I don't even give a crap about the modern safety standards. It's YOUR life and that of your family. Your decision and those in the car.

But driving any vehicle that impersonates law or emergency services has to be regulated no matter how cool it is. Common sense!
 
It looks nothing like a UK Police car. We'd never use black on police vehicles (well, not since the 1950s or so). It is all Hi-Vis Blue and Yellow on either white or silver cars.

She would get in trouble is she turned on the light bar though. Anyone showing a Blue Light would get nicked.

This is a standard UK Police car as found on the motorways
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Sometimes the cars are supplied by a local car dealer, who then tends to loan the police the odd special motor. This one was use by the local Sussex Police near me.
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Other random images of UK Police cars as found in that thing called Google.
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SarverSystems said:
When I turend 16, my mom bought me an ex-police car from one of those county auctions.

I thought it was cool, but then I realized how annoying it was.

As soon as people saw me, they'd immediately do the speed limit.
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I know someone who bought one. It is amusing though when he drives through bad neighborhoods and certain people run and hide when they see the car.
 
Pretty sure a lot of people didn't read the article. It's in the UK and she was told by a cop there that it was "fine to drive" as it looks nothing like their police cars over there. Obviously though, I would be the first person to tell you not to take a lone officers advice on the law as many of them don't know a goddamn thing except that they have a fast car and a piece of metal on their hip that goes "pew pew". Legal advise should be sought from a lawyer.

Anyways, it's still stupid. I don't think anyone is going to recognize that from need for speed. Maybe over there they will because it's so much different then their normal popo. I don't know.
 
It did not have the cage, that was the only way out...crawl over the back of the front seat.

It did still have all the hookups to run it off of propane though. It was interesting to see the looks on their faces when I tried to get it inspected, with all the copper tubing in the engine bay, filters, valves, etc... And the big 20 gallon tank in the trunk.

Police issue no-flat tires, dog dish hubcaps, beefed up suspension, and some kind of low gear lock out. I never did understand that.

Oh, and I did find a bullet in the seat one day when I was cleaning it out.
 
It's funny reading the comments before reading the article, and seeing just how few people actually read past the headline and photo.


The black and white Avenger car is fitted with flashing yellow lights, but has no siren.

"I have been stopped by the police, but they checked and told me there was nothing wrong with it." "It can't really be mistaken for a British police car. It looks nothing like one. The colours are different and the markings aren't luminous," Ms Sims said.
"There is no way you could say I was impersonating a police officer. I wouldn't want to drive it in the US though."
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BlueMeanie said:
It looks nothing like a UK Police car. We'd never use black on police vehicles (well, not since the 1950s or so). It is all Hi-Vis Blue and Yellow on either white or silver cars.
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Exactly. Everyone unwad your panties!
 
Doesn't even have a brush guard. Literally just looks like a sedan with some crappy decals and a light bar. I could see how little kids would think its cool, but no way teenagers are going to want to rent that out for proms lol.
 
For some reason I feel the need to watch Let's Be Cops! again tonight.
 
kledar586 said:
is that legal?
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Depends, does it actually look like a police car? I'm not familiar with what european police cars look like.

For our airsoft games, you can dress up as any foreign police or military agency, but you start treading a line once you start copying local armed forces.
 
We had a guy in Vancouver driving around in a Barricade replica and he got in trouble (it doesn't even look like our RCMP / municipal police cars), due to the 'impersonation of a police officer' laws.
 
I think the car looks awesome but I echo most of the sentiments in this thread when I ask "is that legal?"
 
If you read the article, it also mentions that the lights on the top are yellow and not blue. Which makes it even less like a UK police car. It looks closer to a taxi with the colour scheme.

(Even the 911 phone number is wrong for the UK as we use 999)
 
SarverSystems said:
It did not have the cage, that was the only way out...crawl over the back of the front seat.

It did still have all the hookups to run it off of propane though. It was interesting to see the looks on their faces when I tried to get it inspected, with all the copper tubing in the engine bay, filters, valves, etc... And the big 20 gallon tank in the trunk.

Police issue no-flat tires, dog dish hubcaps, beefed up suspension, and some kind of low gear lock out. I never did understand that.

Oh, and I did find a bullet in the seat one day when I was cleaning it out.
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I was curious about the low-gear lockout and after a fair bit of googling found this https://michigan.gov/documents/localgov/8200141_Append20A_Berger_235972_7.pdf :
"To be 3- or 4-speed, fully automatic, heaviest duty available. Must incorporate low gear lockout to prevent manual shifting. Transmission selector lever shall be shortest design available, to minimize intrusion of the equipment mounting area. "

Apparently it's there to help keep the officers from driving like idiots.
 
DocSavage said:
I was curious about the low-gear lockout and after a fair bit of googling found this https://michigan.gov/documents/localgov/8200141_Append20A_Berger_235972_7.pdf :
"To be 3- or 4-speed, fully automatic, heaviest duty available. Must incorporate low gear lockout to prevent manual shifting. Transmission selector lever shall be shortest design available, to minimize intrusion of the equipment mounting area. "

Apparently it's there to help keep the officers from driving like idiots.
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I don't know the specifics of it, other than I know I couldn't physically shift the transmission to 1st gear. 2nd and 3rd were all I had. And reverse of course.
 
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