A 2003 Ford Crown Victoria P71 Police Interceptor, found in a Denver-area self-service wrecking yard.
for the second half of the 2000s. It had been a parole officer's car in California's Central Valley and wasn't used for many arrests, so it had a lot of low-stress highway miles, no urine smell , and a non-black-and-white paint job.
off the car. The nice condition of this seat suggests that's what took place, though this car may have been a private-security patrol vehicle, into which few fluid-leaking perps were cuffed-and-stuffed.useful feature of the P71 was the thick rubberized carpeting, which formed something of a waterproof trough inside the car. If any objectionable substance ends up on the carpeting, you just hose it out.
This one has the extra-luxurious CD player in the dash, something most police departments wouldn't have been willing to pay extra to get. Perhaps someone swapped in this radio after the car got auctioned off by its initial fleet owner. I hear that these cars are often found with intergalactic-grade odometer readings, but most of the ones I find in car graveyards have somewhere in the 150,000-250,000 range as their final mile count. The taxis usually have higher readings, especially the ones that started life in the law-enforcement business, but so far my personal junkyard record-holder.
With all the talk of special cop equipment on ex-police cars, the P71 was never particularly quick in a straight line.
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