For Sale 1978 Plymouth Fury Real Police car-Ebay, not mine

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1978 Plymouth Fury Real Police car

1978 Plymouth Fury POLICE | eBay

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The cooling fins for the power steering fluid indicate that it actually is real. The optional seats and 440 make it rare. These were nice cars when they were new.
 
I am surprised that they did not take some of the "police" parts off.
 
The cooling fins for the power steering fluid indicate that it actually is real. The optional seats and 440 make it rare. These were nice cars when they were new.
And the "special handling car" tag on the radiator support.
 
What I find most interesting is pwr windows on a govt ordered car from the 70's. THAT is a rarity.
 
I am surprised that they did not take some of the "police" parts off.

They tend to frown on you scaring the heck out of your friends with all that stuff. :rolleyes:

That alternator is just plain huge. Also, I take it that the car has been down some freshly tarred roads, or is it eating up ignition boxes???
 
Late '70 police stuff, especially the analog radios are useless on a modern cruiser which is probably why they did not remove it. This car must have been forgotten about some place at a state motor pool or it would have been sold as surplus many years ago with the police equipment removed. Also possible that someone bought the vintage police stuff at a surplus auction and reinstalled the period correct items. This cruiser probably had a two to three year useful life as a state patrol vehicle and then was stashed someplace. Lean burn has been deactivated and the heat stove is missing, other than that the car looks to be pretty much complete and correct. Note the mesh type center divider between the front and rear seats was noted for giving the rear seat occupant a "facial" on hard stops.

Dave
 
There's been an addition to the description:

This car started life as a North Carolina Highway Patrol car .. A Tn Highway Patrol Officer is the one that changed it to a Tn car .. Didn't mean to misrepresent it ...
 
Late '70 police stuff, especially the analog radios are useless on a modern cruiser which is probably why they did not remove it. This car must have been forgotten about some place at a state motor pool or it would have been sold as surplus many years ago with the police equipment removed. Also possible that someone bought the vintage police stuff at a surplus auction and reinstalled the period correct items. This cruiser probably had a two to three year useful life as a state patrol vehicle and then was stashed someplace. Lean burn has been deactivated and the heat stove is missing, other than that the car looks to be pretty much complete and correct. Note the mesh type center divider between the front and rear seats was noted for giving the rear seat occupant a "facial" on hard stops.

Dave
We used to call it the screen test. You would mumble or say something in low tones. The mope in the back (handcuffed from behind) would say “what?”, and even lean forward. Then slam on the breaks. Screen test.
 
This car was lambasted over in the cop car for sale FaceBook group where someone pointed out some items I overlooked.

"AC NEEDS CHARGING" is a joke as very rare to get hoses are missing in the engine bay plus it has no condenser! HA HA! Someone that has a very keen eye also suspects it has a GM carb on it. Poster also said fender emblems are incorrect and wonder why as he knows the correct ones are easily obtainable. oh and also the PVC hose (missed that).

From someone that knows the history of this car and similar ones from North Carolina, is that it is a North Carolina State Trooper car that was purchased/obtained by a retired Tennessee Trooper that got it into what it is today. They said they know of two other restored NCSP cars of this year, one is in the SP museum and I guess one is in private ownership.

He said the seats are correct as are the power windows.

Car was in a pole barn and whoever has it on eBay is obviously a flipper.
Y'all know the story...

Hope the next caretaker restores it to it's original colors.

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special handling just means it was ordered, not a suspension package
I'd seen it other police cars of this type in the early 80's. The only other one I saw was on a 74 imperial listed on Ebay a number of years ago. The claim was it was ordered by Frank Sinatra.
 
This car was lambasted over in the cop car for sale FaceBook group where someone pointed out some items I overlooked.

Someone that has a very keen eye also suspects it has a GM carb on it.
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mopar cop cars in the 80s had GM carbs, so its possible they were using them in 78....
 
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