Not The Police

LOL, I can see why he did it. Anyone seeing that Crown Vic would automatically think "cop".

 

I think if I owned a crown vic it would just piss me off to no end as people kept slowing down in front of me everywhere I went.

 

If I wasn't such a van guy, crown vics/grand marquis/town cars would be the only cars I would own.

 

Especially when you turn on those grill lights right?

 

You left out Bro Ham

 

Love this... LOL

 

Crown vic with a ski rack on top.

Of course, you can also p#ss people off. Where I'm from, the local good'ol'boys hated bicyclists. They saw them as weak city-folk with attitude -- which was for the most part true. They were outsiders who had moved in. The locals soon began throwing anything and everything at the cyclists. Beer cans, sure; however, one cyclist got hit with a sandwich. One cyclist "accidentally" ran off the road and into a line of mailboxes. He suffered a lot of brain damage and ended up dying.

 

Me, I love real cars. Have been driving SUVs for a couple of decades. Used to, it was 4-dr sedan Oldsmobiles ... just like my dad.

For here-to-there driving, smaller cars are OK.

 

My grandfather always bought the biggest Dodge he could buy with the biggest motor he could get in it.

 

Had an uncle who told me that he'd drive the biggest truck he could afford. Told me that a dump truck would be just fine with him (he'd driven big trucks back into the coal mines after he got back from Europe WWII). My dad drove monster things that carried tanks during WWII. Another of these brothers was crippled so he hauled shine. These men simply "had to have" monster engines in whatever they drove. Hellish circumstances kind'a drove it into them.

One uncle said to me when I was grammar school age, "I'd drop a Cadillac engine into a Chevy." He'd weigh down his car with ballast when not hauling whiskey. His cars had heavy suspension systems.

 

I owned a Crown Vic cop car. It was a fantastic car and came stock with heavy-duty suspension truck brakes and an interceptor engine that would scream. That 4.6 mod engine was beautiful with dual-overhead cams, dual distributors, and was fuel injected. To me, the most amazing thing was that if you kept your foot out of it you would get 25 miles to the gallon on the highway. A regular Crown Vic did good to get 16mpg.