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2020 Ford Police Interceptor Utility: Meet the new cruiser
AutoWeek ^ | 1/4/2019 | WESLEY WREN

Posted on 01/06/2019 3:22:59 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie

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To: TexasGator

See post 33.


41 posted on 01/06/2019 4:43:01 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Rio
Anyone else remember the Dodge Polara?

Wasn't there a muscle variant of it that could do well over 150MPH?

42 posted on 01/06/2019 4:44:14 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: yarddog

I have a near pristine similar car, the Grand Marquis with dual exhausts etc. Not quite a Marauder but close. It is more like driving your living room but easily impresses the youngsters and gets 27 mpg. One of the best cars ever made. The B body from GM was in the same league.


43 posted on 01/06/2019 4:47:48 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: Celerity

“From what I understand ...”

Incorrect. After delivery drilled holes were not sealed allowing carbon monoxide to enter ecspeciallialy during idling while parked.


44 posted on 01/06/2019 4:51:19 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: yarddog

I think it was a 425, at least that is what the guy that bought it for a race car said it was.

I never knew until I went to the auto parts store for a new carb, the carb for a 352 wouldn’t fit, but it had 352 valve covers.

That car had NO top end! At about 125 it would start floating all over the road, but it had pedal left.

It was pretty fast, but it still had the crappy station wagon transmission.


45 posted on 01/06/2019 4:53:09 PM PST by Beagle8U (Beto went to Liz Warren's genealogist to prove that he was 1/1000 Hispanic.)
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To: Sequoyah101

In 1984 my father bought a Caprice Classic. It had a 350 V8 with a four barrel carb. Basically the same engine and transmission they used in cop cars. My that was quick.

In 1989 he traded that in for another Caprice although this one had a 305 and the 2 bbl.

“Why, Dad, why?”


46 posted on 01/06/2019 4:54:13 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: fishtank

“Shut the gate on this one Maxie and it’s the ducks guts.”


47 posted on 01/06/2019 4:57:57 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: TexasGator

Ah that sounds more like it. The description “cinching it up” I’m sure involved drilling holes.


48 posted on 01/06/2019 5:10:32 PM PST by Celerity
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To: yarddog

A while back my son was on the Interstate and panicked for a moment when a Crown Vic rode up on his ass. It passed him and the relief turned to a laugh as the personal license plate read, NOTACOP.


49 posted on 01/06/2019 5:10:47 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: yarddog

If you search enough you will find that the 64 Ford police inceptor 427 was really a 425 and it was made for racing only.

http://www.theclassicford.com/1964_Ford_Engines.htm


50 posted on 01/06/2019 5:14:11 PM PST by Beagle8U (Beto went to Liz Warren's genealogist to prove that he was 1/1000 Hispanic.)
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To: Beagle8U

I think you are confusing cubic inches and horsepower.

When someone identifies an engine they just about always indicate cubic inch displacement (now Liters). Sometimes they may fudge a tiny bit but generally the cubic inch rating will be accurate, at least with an inch.

Horsepower can be stated in all kinds of ways. Many times what you get is nowhere near what is indicated on a dynamometer. Interestingly they often understate it.

Sometimes they measure it with all accessories such as alternator etc. removed. Sometimes at the wheels.


51 posted on 01/06/2019 5:23:56 PM PST by yarddog
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To: Beagle8U

I didn’t see a single 425 on that list. 2 X 406, 2 X 427.

I do know that Ford built a few different 427’s, a couple of 428’s and a couple 429’s.

I’d not heard of a Ford 425 until you mentioned it.

Same with Yahoo:

https://ca.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=avg&hsimp=yhs-fh_lsonsw&type=ff.52.vs.dsp.04-03.ca.avg._.0217tb&param1=rVFNb9wgEP0rvZgbFgwY8IHDbtcbVcqhatLkzJc3ruKPgtdJ_33HG7XnHirB8PR4M8M8whBtpb2U3aHlWlNomoZK1Wp6ANbR9sgPJ9l2EqSpdCRhXDCBAderJ9FyaTjTkgvBGCOx2MPTHXl108WmiYyoTIb7PgqQzPVSh2CUTJErE0QvWx4FBcOjS1qHaLiOyrHIvHcaGt1woY1hSYGIvSF737f1SpZs-0w2K2tR61o2QD5fc07T-tVd0vdv9_ZlXZdKuAp6XOOvklwOL7XbLnWYR6QW1BU8_1yU5b0SfRhiJWKFfY__5AUKTxWo8Zb236bEirt7e8kJcSyI0FKEYb51wjFWj2Fn9q9A6uMzkMC1ZCT6vKciAMYV5UCZxucCYxxtAYOhEajYUPHXxD33Vg0tRlwuNzNUcWhljGVB_BPRec5IewkNxt0y8Bs15CHlLeUvJ_t4BPrQ3Z_p87ljigyLVbLmhuE2NYeWzMU-D1Oc38qnp6Gsjnh7HnLq53fiN9tAzUhI9jFfE_lRPsBv0&param2=browser_search_provider&param3=ff.52.vs.dsp.04-03.ca.avg._.0217tb&p=Ford+425+cid+v-8


52 posted on 01/06/2019 5:28:48 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I’ll bet the maintenance costs are substantial.


53 posted on 01/06/2019 5:32:37 PM PST by DaxtonBrown
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To: Celerity

You can’t blame Ford for improper mods


54 posted on 01/06/2019 5:53:03 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Don W

“The 406-cu.in. V-8s were replaced in 1963 1/2 models by the new 427-cu.in. V-8 that used a 4.23 x 3.78-inch bore and stroke (This engine actually displaced 425 cubic inches, but marketing considerations dictated using the 427).”

https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/mus/2004/12/Ford-Galaxie-500XL—1963-1964/1281003.html

Hemmings made Ford racing engines, and that was in some of the 64 Ford police inceptors.

I didn’t know what it was until a guy a the auto parts store, who was also race car driver, came out in the parking to look at it because the new carb I bought for it wouldn’t fit. The guy went wild saying it was a special build Hemmings race engine, a 425!


55 posted on 01/06/2019 5:58:23 PM PST by Beagle8U (Beto went to Liz Warren's genealogist to prove that he was 1/1000 Hispanic.)
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To: yarddog

see 55.


56 posted on 01/06/2019 5:59:40 PM PST by Beagle8U (Beto went to Liz Warren's genealogist to prove that he was 1/1000 Hispanic.)
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To: Beagle8U

Well you learn something new every day.

Still it is always called the 427.


57 posted on 01/06/2019 6:10:50 PM PST by yarddog
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To: Hot Tabasco
The English version...

Cop who shot Minneapolis woman was precinct's first Somali officer

58 posted on 01/06/2019 6:14:11 PM PST by moovova
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Why can't they just update this one:


59 posted on 01/06/2019 6:18:27 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: yarddog

“Still it is always called the 427.”

Except the racing engines, they knew it was a 425.

I’m NOT a wrench wizard, far from it. I don’t even work on my own cars.

I only knew about this one because it came from the factory with a engine that wasn’t supposed to be in it.


60 posted on 01/06/2019 6:22:16 PM PST by Beagle8U (Beto went to Liz Warren's genealogist to prove that he was 1/1000 Hispanic.)
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