Classic California Highway Patrol Cars - Jay Leno's Garage

We saw, no, okay, uh, no, we suggested that to the district attorney, but it was fruitless, no, they weren't, how long did you lose your license for a long, long time? Long time, any chance we could try this oh I think we could do it, well this is a huge car, I had my stats wrong, this thing weighs 4,400 pounds and look how huge we couldn't even hit each other. the face look at that look how far away we are it's fun to stop behind the

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and watch people get nervous you know it's funny all these noises that turn on the indicator I remember that noise yes and that famous chrysler starter motor you just know it brings you back the sounds and the smells especially for you too huh, really yeah, you really miss those days you like modern things more, well I miss those days, but I like modern

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more, so yeah, yeah, there you go. come on yeah yeah we just gotta make noise you gotta fill them with gas every two hours uh normally we would feel two or three times a shift in eight hours yeah that will tell you how much they burn because gas is 25 cents a gallon it's say, 25 cents per gallon. right, what is the pilot light, what does that do, the pilot light just tells you that you have a red light on, so if you turn it on and you forget to turn it off, that will remind you, okay, and these are your exterior flashing lights ,uh.

That's a speaker though, you know, so you can turn it on. I don't know if it has a speaker, but you can turn it off outside and use it. I know it doesn't seem to be working, but it's okay, that's outside talking, you can talk. for them uh-huh and this is your siren siren and the horn and your siren works properly through your horn and this, of course, is your red amber lights, red light on the back and you have your old original radio, imagine that are difficult to find. They're Motorolas, uh, really hard to find, I mean, when you look at what they have now, what is this, what is this doing now between these two?

This was simply used for the entire operation of the red light system in the car, oh that would come on. the lights are green and it might as well, if it had a different tone than your siren, you could get a well, it doesn't seem to be working, but it's okay, let me try it, yeah, yeah, I don't think it's connected, okay, and then you have . your scanner down here, yeah, it had an external speaker where you could talk to someone, tell them to stop if they didn't or to continue to the next stop and what shotgun it is, that's a 12 gauge shotgun, two infamous things.

They had this because guys used to put their cigars in the barrel, yeah, and the department got mad about it, so they demanded they put on this cap, which really pissed everyone off and they didn't want us to use the shotgun, so you put a seal and you broke that seal during your eight hours, yeah, you had to write a big memo so that no one wanted to take out the shotgun and break that seal properly because no one wanted to have to write the Bible. Sure, sure, I'll stop, please, I'll stop, please, he likes the record.

I received a call. I have to go. See you later, it's amazing. People just get out of their way. You can see the hood moving. The good thing about this car. It's 100% authentic, it has all the details that they had in 1969. You know, compared to modern vehicles, it's actually not that fast, it's not that this car is fast, but it's powerful and those are two different things, it's a big 440 engine with lots of power. torque and when you put your foot on it you can feel like you are moving over two tons, this really brings back memories because I worked on this road, oh yeah that's right the office was in Glendale at the time and we had all this.

It's not a

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, right, yeah, this is this, it was the end, oh, this is a

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, huh, let's take over the highway, see how people react, okay, let's do it, I love that siren, really It's nothing fast, oh, it doesn't compare to what you, not what. You have today wow, it's fun to see the other half's lives increase, thank you sir, thank you for the history lesson and for showing us these cool cars, so this is something a little different, I get to drive a police car, this It is fun. In fact, it's surprising how polite people are on the road.

Nobody gave me the finger. Nobody interrupted me. Simply wonderful. I have to get one of these. See you next week.