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Location: northern germany | just got the full set of "highway patrol" (20 dvd's) from http://www.bestoldshows.com/81082.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id... i only watched two episodes but so far i've seen 58 and 59 dodge cop cars and 58 plymouth and 59 desoto (coupe) getaway cars! i love broderick crawford too. the pictures are blurry but still great fun too watch. don't think it's a chrysler sponsered show (like "fury") because they drive fords and gm cop cars too. i lmao i didn't know they had 58 buick patrol cars! did they realy expect to catch someone with a 58 buick?
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Location: Beavercreek, OH | A police car which is a 58 buick?!!!!????? How about just tying two elephants on top of a normal squad car and trying to pursue a lawbreaker! |
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Location: Williams California | California Highway patrol did use Buick 2-door sedans in 1955, but that was the last year [to my knowledge] that a Buick was chosen for Highway Patrol use here. And Jimmy, you're right, the '58 Buick would be a poor choice for a patrol car, just on the basis of the weight of those models. ---John |
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Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden | I heard: California Highway patrol was special built at Roadmaster frame, ho has the bigger wheel bas. |
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Location: northern germany | well, the normal cop car with 2 elephants on top and 4 flat tires would have had a chance, but a 58 buick...?
i watched some more episodes (this are 160+ episodes! must have been a succesfull show) forwardlookers galore, including a 57 chrysler convertible (driven by a "well known pusher") 57 dodge cop cars, 57 plymouth wagon, etc etc. boy i love the fifties.
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | I'd be afraid to take a 58 Buick around a tight turn at moderate to high speeds - you would lose the hubcaps on one side if not completely lose control and roll the thing.
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Location: Poznan, Poland, Europe | Have you seen some rarer cars, like let's say Hudson or Studebaker ? |
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Location: Southern California | I watched it as a kid. Broderick Crawford always wrapped up the episode with a moral saying. The best was "Leave your blood at a blood bank. Not on the highway". |
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Location: Dellslow, West ("By God") Virginia ! | Sid, others. You should beable to find out this bit of trivia on Crawford.
I read 'this' someplace, years ago.
Filming for the 1/2 hour episodes where Crawford was involved, had to be finished before noon. For he got drunk in the afternoon.
He also lost his driver's license for DUI. Close up filming of him driving a car, getting out, was done on a sutdio lot.
A stunt double was used for actual driving, long range shots.
Remember, a CHP was present for all filming as a technical advisor.
Something was mentioned,,,, that most of the filming was done out in some Valley, where there was actually NO other traffic. |
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Location: Williams California | Now Rick, that's pretty dang funny!! You weren't shipping those bottles of shine out his way were you? ---John |
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Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | I never knew that about Broderick Crawford! It kind of shakes your faith in TV cops...I too watched it in the fifties. I never saw a Buick being used as a cruiser by the CHP after 1955 so they probably realized what a stone that car was. "The Adventures of Superman" was MoPar heavy during the last two or three seasons. I remember an episode about a disappearing town that had 1956 Plymouth police cruisers and a 1956 Imperial 4 door sedan. (Clark Kent/Superman was driving that one to lure the crooked cops to try to stop him for speeding. The car belonged to the "Daily Planet" motor pool.) |
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Location: NorCal | Windsor59 - 2006-05-29 9:19 AM
I heard: California Highway patrol was special built at Roadmaster frame, ho has the bigger wheel bas.
The '55 Buick Highway Patrol cars were Century 2-doors (I had one), basically a Special body with a Roadmaster drive train. They had 3-speed column shift and 3.91 rear end gears.
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Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Always watched it when it was new... we got it 7:30 Friday nights if I recall correctly...
And I'm sure the credits thanked Chrysler Corp for the use of their cars. They supplied cars for a lot of shows those days. |
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highway patrol!!!!
