December 2000

Okay, alright, I know it's December 8th and you still haven't seen December's copcar of the Month.  Well, let me tell you, I had very serious problems going on.  The Committee was tied up making little toy Caprices for all the Chevy Geeks and plastic Crown Vics for all the Blue Oval freaks.  I had to pull them away to convene a meeting and it wasn't easy.  I had to serve them Egg Nog and Christmas tree cookies, you know, the ones with the red and green sprinkles.  Well, it was a tough job but they did manage to get all the kiddies fixed up and then turned their attention to the matter at hand.  Feeling in the Christmas Spirit, they decided to gift everybody with some great pictures featuring the progression of copcars of the Long Island State Park Police in NY.

So, without further ado....

 copcar dot com presents:   Parks Enforcement Cars

This 46 Ford patrolled the parkways maintaining a safe and secure atmosphere and keeping a Parks invasion impossible.

A 1948 Ford rests comfortably after a lengthy Parks Enforcement activity, having only suffered minor dings and dents.  But the Parks invasion was still thwarted.

Realizing that they should add insult to injury, the Long Island State Park Police turned to a Chevrolet  in the Parks Enforcement crusade.

But in order to completely fool the suspect (as everyone knows, it's not hard to do, either), they got back into Fords in 1954

Figuring they could creep up on Parks activity simply by camouflage, they decided to change the paint scheme in 62.  It fooled the target  for a while.

With a megaphone bigger than Rhode island, this 63 Plymouth cruised the terrain announcing "Post no Bills".  It had no effect, as usual.

By 1967, the Long Island State Park Police nixed the black hood for an all white one.  It allowed the Parks violator to take a good look at himself while bent over the hood of the car while being cuffed.  Besides that, it was thought to be more culturally correct to not remind the Parks violator of a slap by "Blackie" upside the head.

Just to show everybody who was boss, this 70 Fury supported a big old push bar and 440 emblems.  Of course, when the Committee was pretending to be real policemen, they found that this car could go 158 miles per hour and was invisible to radar.  You could look around you and see Parks trembling. 

By 72, they changed out the Furies to black and white in order to honor "blackie" and try and weed the Parks. 

The Parks violators whined so much that in 1973, they went back to an all-white car.  But this one could go 163 MPH in somebody's mind

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE