June 2001

In honor of this month's North Coast Emergency Vehicle Show, the Committee has decided to flip you a few Ohio units.  The show hosts, James Duff and Greg Savernik, decided to put together their first event.  Faced with overwhelming odds, they ran into problems in April when the City of Eastlake bowed out of the event because of a threatened lawsuit by a man in Florida who was ordered not to attend because of threats he had made.  They could have just closed up shop at that point but they instead chose to forge ahead and find a new location.  The City of Euclid stepped up to the plate and will now be the site of this show.

 copcar dot com presents:   North Coast copcars

Here's one of Eastlake's Fords 

But we decided to move the city a little farther west, rename it Westlake and paint their cars to something we liked better

Cleveland PD has the right idea, they issue each officer a Corvette to take home.  

Okay, everybody but this guy.

And Cleveland has some very unique ideas.  This Harbor Patrol unit, for example.  When they get to the water, they merely flip it over and it becomes a patrol boat.  And in Cleveland's terrible winters, which won't be a problem for the show, they merely put it on its side and use it as a toboggan. 

And Euclid PD, the host agency, isn't afraid to step out there and say "We drive Intrepids with Kojak lights". 

And if the guy from FL thinks he's getting into this show, he'd better be driving this.
(actually, this is Ft Lauderdale, FL, PD's urban assault vehicle or battle commando or 
Trojan horse or whatever they call it but I needed the joke)

(these photos are from the collections of Joel Edelstein)