Looks like it's a white ex-cop Crown Vic for me...until the cop-package Dodge chargers start coming out of service. :)

No doubt that looks better than the real-life van used in the movie, which I saw at a show near Stockton, CA a few years back.

This Caddy appeared at the time that the big-luxo-car brands either brought something mass-produceable & more affordable to market than their top-line, custom-bodied cars, or else they disappeared. This was the time of the Lincoln-Zephyr, the "junior" Packards (the 110 & 120), the LaSalle, and mass-produced Cadillacs…

Most favorite (a response to the "My Kid Beat Up Your Honor 5tudent" ones): "My Honor Student's Godfather Is Looking For Your Kid"

avantiguy:

Too bad that "advanced thinking" resulted in fuck-ups like Studebakers' tendency to rust through in a hurry (they didn't give their as-welded bodies the multi-step dip-and-spray primer treatment before painting that everyone else was doing in '63)...or their craptastic overall build quality...or the fact that Stude…

+5 points for hitting the Bronco while all four of the Subie's wheels were off the ground.

@1974:

That engine looks more like a smallblock Chevy, but I like its totally-wireless (& totally plugless) ignition.

With all that cladding on, it looks like a Mercury Grand Marquis with the De Sade option.

If you're fortunate enough to find a '60-'62 Valiant or '61-'62 Lancer that you want to have more than a little fun with, check out this project-car build + related Leaning Tower of Power history:

I wonder if this case will make it as far as Honda taking this guy's deposition.

This was one of the last designs that Virgil Exner did before ChryCo management screwed him over with their panic attack in 1960.

I'd like to hear a 30-second radio commercial for a dragstrip that has (had? ) BOTH the "Little Red Wagon" AND Sox & Martin appearing on the same day, along with all the GROUND POUNDING Super Stocks, EARTH SHAKING 200 MPH dragsters and WIIILD! Fuel Altereds that would usually BE THERE! on a SUUUUNNNNDAAAAYYYY!!!!!!

Sounds like the Royal Oak PD is doing its best to bring back the spirit of the '60s, when it seemed like they wanted to bust anyone on Woodward on summer weekend nights (and, in more than a few instances, did)

@jonnylieberman:

The Roaring Dwarf has found another source of cash to be exploited, eh?

Too bad my turntable isn't working, or else I'd have "The Mothers of Prevention" starring Tipper Gore (co-starring her hubby & other clueless Senators-at-that-time) cranked...that's something that Frank Zappa produced back when Tipper was doing her PMRC shit instead of parenting.

Our family had two previous (rear drive) Grand Ams, a '74 4-door and a '79 coupe.

The Rambler American you see here is a freshened-up (sorta) version of the Nash Rambler that first apeared in 1950, and stayed in production thru '55, appearing in Nash & Hudson guise in the first year after the Nash + Hudson = AMC merger.