Police Museum.
This past Saturday, Base10 took Mrs. Base10 to the Police Museum. As a special exhibit they had their annual antique police car display. While Base10 does not usually go for this type of thing, he must admit that he had a very good time. Most of these vehicles have been lovingly restored and maintained by retired members of various police departments and their families. Base10 dug out the digital camera and snapped some images. (Caveat: I did not get detailed information about any of the vehicles and did this solely for the purpose of practicing use of the image tag).


This seemed to be the oldest NYPD vehicle there. I think it is from the 40's. It was very neat because it had a stickshift. And it was so small. I mean really small. How did two guys sit in there?


Then there was this one from the 50's I think. Can't you just picture someone saying, "Clancy, take the boys and surround the house!"


A police car with fins? Astonishing! Are you sure that's not the Batmobile?


Can't you just picture Burt Reynolds getting out of this car on that old police show "NYPD?" This car screams polyester.


Here is another example of that 70's car from a different angle.


One Adam Twelve...One Adam Twelve...Please respond to a dispute...


Base10 doesn't know what jurisdiction it was from, but this was a pretty cool three-wheeled motorcycle.


Last but not least, this patrol car is part a small group of vehicles on permanent display at the Museum. It is a Housing Police car that utilized the colors from before the merger in 1994 with the city police. Now if you want to feel old and decrepit like me, consider this: Base10 used to drive this car on patrol.

That's it. If the images seem to be displaying okay, I may do more photo blogging.
- posted by Base10 @ 12:15 PM