[Lurking in Kansas]

There are a lot of older LEO's out here who swear by their pre-'72 Mopars, but time tends to give a rosy tint to a lot of things..

I had a '70 Plymouth Fury --nice engine, but those cars hanlded like $%^&. Ditto, on the rose coloring...

[niteowl77]

Yeah, I will sometimes yak about the good old days of "real" cars, but there is no way I would willingly return to daily driving in those old machines. I remember reaching speeds where cars would seem to go from stable to "oh @#$*, this is scarier than &%*# but I'm not going to admit it" just like that... and nowadays thinking about driving at high speed on those old bias-ply, not rated for high-speed tires makes me cringe.

About all I will say in favor of the police cars of those days is that as poor as they were compared to today's vehicles, they generally handled better than their civilian counterparts. Bigger brakes, better tires, "reduced rate suspension," beefier anti-sway bars and such made the interceptors mighty blunt instruments that were nevertheless always just a little bit better than their musclecar equivalents (the latter made even less effective when jacked up in the rear to accomodate a set of slotted "mags" with 60-series Mickey Thompson RWL's).