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[fael_inis]

Speaking of cars!

Today on my way home, I saw an all-black Dodge Charger police car.

It looked like this:

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[ceinwyn]

A lot of the police cars you see in Ottawa are Impalas hun.... only the engine is switched for a model more like the that in the Vette (Automatic transmission of course... but still).

Or at least most of the ones I've seen (marked and not). There are exceptions of course, but the vast majority are Impalas....

[fael_inis]

Cor, hun, trust me, the Impalas that you see driving around the city are front-wheel drive cars with a V-6 engine. There is no economical way to get the Corvette's V-8 to fit into that engine bay (My dad has an Impala, I've looked at it). Not to mention the fact that being front wheel drive, the transmission would not connect up to the LS1 (Corvette) engine at all.

This is a Corvette-engined Impala. The Ottawa Police have not used a Caprice (which is what this Impala was based on) in something like four years, maybe more. The last Caprice/Impala like this was built in 1996.

[fael_inis]

You have alll the equipment you need *laughs*

(The main police station is just down the street from us, if I'm not mistaken!)

[fael_inis]

It's a nickname for the police station, you nut :P You'd have to look online for police issue items such as those, I think :)

[fael_inis]

I grew up in a small town.. we had lots of slang expressions :P

[fael_inis]

I'd come up with something truly obscure as a reply, but I can't get into the right frame of mind while I'm at work :P

[fael_inis]

Well of cour-... HEY!

[fael_inis]

Also, I should mention that I cal still recognize a car from farther away than pretty much anybody else I know, just by the headlights.

I know (contemporary) cars. There is no questioning that.