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

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?

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!!!