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We first caught wind of this, I mean, years back and turns out to be several hobbyists in Europe that like to collect American cars and repaint them, refinish them with police and law enforcement style finishes on there," Gandhi said. "And, luckily, we've become pretty popular in a few countries."
Everyone needs a hobby.
TIL Gandhi is still alive and commenting on polish car collectors.
Alex Roy's cannonball run M5 is painted like a German police car. Plenty of Americans accidentally leave misc cop equipment on their retired crown vics to cos play as police. The irony is only a small amount of the remaining population is scared of crown vics - under 30s may have never seen them used and a ton of people straight up don't spot cop cars. I can't say I see early as many retired chargers/impalas/caprices/tahoes/explorers/tauruses let alone with old equipment.
I grew up with Crown Vics as the standard cop car, but now it's been so long since they've been in use that when I see them, I just imagine it's a poor person who couldn't afford a newer car.
They still get me though I'm not particularly old - the last gen vic takes me to my teen years. Those headlights and huge inner markers are nearly unmistakable in the rear view. Sometimes it's a Jetta but both of those generations have fallen off.
Counterpoint: Not everyone needs a hobby wtf no ew.
People who don't have hobbies are usually miserable. Its healthy to have hobbies.
Yes, but not like that D:
Art cars are still art, man
I misread this as "Portland" and didn't immediately think it was weird at first. Oh no that's very different.
For some reason I also did this lol
When asked for comment, the driver of the vehicle responded, "I'm gonna get that summbitch if it's the last thing I eva' do."
Thank you, I got that reference.
Did the driver also happen to be a French police man chasing a man who stole a loaf of bread?
Sheriff Buford T. Javert
You sound a lot taller on the radio.
Eeaaassstttt bound and dowwnnn
They broke my watch.
Wait... Poland is EU, the blinker has to be yellow not red. This car isn't street legal, and not because it looks like a police car.
It's not the same in the whole EU. In mine you can have red as the back turn signals, just not in front.
It has UK plates
And the Sheriffs office not being dicks about it is a refreshing change of pace.
What can they do about it? They know their jurisdiction doesn't extend to Europe. May as well have some fun with it.
Just because they can't do anything to stop it doesn't mean they can't get all huffy about it. That is what I'd expect out of a lot of agencies, tbh.
He said a private owner likely bought stickers or decals that match the Sacramento County sheriff's logo.
Collectors are not able to purchase vehicles with decals already on them at auction, Gandhi said, as county vehicles are sold without any logo.
So is the company auctioning off the car able to have a table just outside the auction that sells these stickers?
Huh, I never would have imagined that. What a quirky hobby. How fun!
Wait until you hear about the Chinese police fans who do up their cars to look like People’s Police vehicles and drive them around cities in Europe and North America with large Chinese expatriate populations, apparently just for fun.
Why Sacramento though? I would have thought LA county, or Yolo county.
My first guess is that they probably Google what the capital of California is since California is "cool," and instead of Los Angeles they get Sacramento.
Yeah very weird. They mention LAPD and NYPD being popular, which makes sense, but I don't know how they got set on Sacramento. Maybe the image resources were just easy accessible online so it was easy?
Cheaper to license
I don't think these are licensed.
Yeah what license? You dont have to fucking pay the PD of some other faraway country to paint their name on your personal car ffs
This is what happens when you don’t pay your tickets kids, the sheriff hunts you down
Just recently I saw a Ford Crown Vic in full police attire on the Autobahn. Really weird, not even cool, just weird.
It appears to be a fully functional vehicle, sans the California license plate and instead is replaced by a UK plate.
Anyone can paint a car, but wtf is a UK car doing in Poland?