That's very cool. I had always hoped to run across an old highway patrol car. Sadly, most were relieved of their big blocks soon after they were sold. My first job was at a Shell gas station at Broadway and Nanaimo in Vancouver. I worked there after school each day. The owner always bought 2 or 3 old police cars to paint and sell. I remember some 68 Biscaynes from the city of Vancouver that I helped on. They were 307 cars, but had the ralley wheels and disc brakes. That got me interested in old police cars. It was at that gas station that I saw an unmarked 69 Strato Chief with a 427. It was black, with a flip up red light on the dash, and was a highway patrol car in Burnaby.

Later, when I worked at Dennison Chev Olds in Richmond, we got a slew of RCMP cars in on trade, mostly 72 Dodges and Plymouths, but one 72 454 Biscayne and one 72 Ford Custom with a 429. The Mopars were all 440's. I was seriously thinking of buying the Biscayne, and drove it. Not much off the line, but a rocket on the highway. I drove a couple of the Mopars, and they were fast! The highway patrol guys back then did prefer the Mopars right up until the Lean Burn engines came out, and then they hated them.

Most old police cars became taxi's back then. I took this photo in Richmond, of an unmarked 73 Biscayne, pulling over a former police car, now taxi.

Next photo is a 75 Biscayne 454 in Keremeos BC

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Went to Langley good times cruise this weekend and found this beauty

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 A bit optimistic on his horsepower decal???!!! Great looking car.