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June
2003
| HBO's "The
Wire" is probably one of the better cop shows on TV
nowadays and June marked the return of the show with a second
season. The only way to get The Committee to break itself
away from the TV was to allow them to take a look a Baltimore
copcar history. |
copcar dot com
presents: "Balmur"
PD
| Looking like it's
seen better days, this 62 Fairlane comes complete with snow
chains but it takes a backseat to a Mopar wagon. |
| This 1962 Ford came
equipped with a stationary 4-beam flashing light, commonly used
in the period along the east coast. The lights are hard to
find now. |
| But this 1962 Ford
wagon had the more common Federal Beacon Ray. |
| In their police car
brochure for 1965, Ford used an artist rendering of a Baltimore
car to show the use of Fairlanes as a police package car. |
| By the 1970s,
Baltimore was using a white car with red, white and blue
graphics as seen on this 1978 Dodge Aspen. |
| The red had
disappeared and graphics had changed when this 1990 Caprice was
in use |
| And the graphics got
even simpler on this 1993 Ford Taurus. |
| But the BPD appears
to want to make a radical change. We know that the
department's chopper has these graphics but we've yet to see a
patrol unit in these graphics. |
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