Some Ranger Nostalgia!

[Glocker]

I was looking through some old photos and I came across some neat stuff.

First, I took this back in 2015 in Sydney. I fell in love with the 4-door Rangers back then when I saw them all over in Australia!

And then, this was actually my old UC police vehicle. I was in an unmarked Crown Vic, but it was really impractical for what I do at work. I was having to haul weapons and ammunition back and forth and getting stuff in and out of the back seat or trunk of that Vic was a PITA! I also wanted something in 4x4 for some of the stuff I had to do at work. I poked around behind our county's fleet management facility and found this old Ranger had been put out to pasture for retirement. It had been a county building inspectors vehicle, and was covered in red clay, both inside and outside. It had lived a HARD life driving though muddy construction sites. My boss was cool with my "procuring" it. We put police lights in it, and the guys at fleet put bigger tires on it, and adjusted the suspension for a little more height. It was awesome! Running code in it (lights and sirens) always got attention. HAHAHAHA

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Love it brother. But, you have to admit that you couldn't kill one of those old Crown Vics with a stick of TNT. I beat on a many of those things on patrol, and they just took a lickin' and kept on tickin'.

 

[Glocker]

Love it brother. But, you have to admit that you couldn't kill one of those old Crown Vics with a stick of TNT. I beat on a many of those things on patrol, and they just took a lickin' and kept on tickin'.

I loved my Vic!!!!!

In fact, my old Crown Vic from when I first went out on patrol is the oldest car in the fleet right now. It's just been put out to pasture and they're trying to decide what to do with it. For awhile, I was actually thinking about approaching the agency to see if they would let me buy my first police car from them. I was going to fix it up and "restore" it back to when it was a fresh issued car, and then loan it back to the Sheriff's Office to put on display. But, I'm leaving soon and buying a new house so I've got other financial things to think of. But damn, it would have been cool to own my first ever police car!

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