Nice Police car but it is not a Laurentian it is a Pathfinder Deluxe. The car has the narrow mouldings around the door windows and a Laurentian has the wide mouldings top and bottom of the doors. In those years taxpayers would have gotten pretty upset if the police department bought the top of the line model of any car line for a patrol car. They would of ordered a striped Pathfinder with a V8 and heavy duty suspension and foam cusioned front seat and maybe a posi traction diff starting in 1957.
Funny you mention taxpayers getting upset with bright and flashy gov't cars Ray. Here in PEI the gov't got flak over the same thing. They have removed a lot of glitz from their cars because of this. I see many come in to work with the aluminum wheels gone and steelies in their place. I wonder where the original wheel and tires ended up?
73SC said
Oct 12, 2014
It was true back in the day. When I worked for a Municipality it was still acceptable for the Mayor to have a car and driver but we were always careful on what we chose forthe car. In my time there we had a 71 New Yorker, then a 78 Lesabre followed by a 92 Bonneville. Our staff cars were completely stripped Novas with sixes, then Tempos that could barely get out of their own way. The Fire Chief managed to get an Olds with a V8 because he made the argument that he needed to have a fast response time. Even the big Dodges and Plymouth police cars were 95% slant sixes.
dualquadpete said
Oct 12, 2014
Here's one that came out of Georgia, factory red, 427 auto [all documented] my friend in W.V. who's a retired police Captain, said "some police divisions required the Chief to "buy" their own cars in small towns, looks like the prior Chief went for "something" under the hood on his if he was paying for it, WHY NOT!!!! & no it's not a Fire chiefs car!!!
The LaSalle Ontario police department recently created a replica of a 57 Laurentian police car that the force used to run
(I don't think the floor shift manual trans is original though!)
CLICK HERE
Thats KOOL same as Charlston Police did with Chevelle that they got in a drug raid
Nice Police car but it is not a Laurentian it is a Pathfinder Deluxe. The car has the narrow mouldings around the door windows and a Laurentian has the wide mouldings top and bottom of the doors. In those years taxpayers would have gotten pretty upset if the police department bought the top of the line model of any car line for a patrol car. They would of ordered a striped Pathfinder with a V8 and heavy duty suspension and foam cusioned front seat and maybe a posi traction diff starting in 1957.
Al
That is very nice,
we have one in Toronto too, a Chevrolet.
It was true back in the day. When I worked for a Municipality it was still acceptable for the Mayor to have a car and driver but we were always careful on what we chose forthe car. In my time there we had a 71 New Yorker, then a 78 Lesabre followed by a 92 Bonneville. Our staff cars were completely stripped Novas with sixes, then Tempos that could barely get out of their own way. The Fire Chief managed to get an Olds with a V8 because he made the argument that he needed to have a fast response time. Even the big Dodges and Plymouth police cars were 95% slant sixes.
Here's one that came out of Georgia, factory red, 427 auto [all documented] my friend in W.V. who's a retired police Captain, said "some police divisions required the Chief to "buy" their own cars in small towns, looks like the prior Chief went for "something" under the hood on his if he was paying for it, WHY NOT!!!! & no it's not a Fire chiefs car!!!
And then there's Sheriff Roy......