There were plenty of Checkers used by small munis as cop cars. When we moved to Mountlake Terrace in March '69, they had two marked cop cars and one unmarked detective's car, and all three were Checkers.
Funny. Gotta be one goober of a boy that has to stare at the photographer, rather than learning about the tools for firefighting.
He's the one out of the group who ended up earning the most amount of money, because he grew up to film fires, while the rest of those kids ended up busy putting them out. If business got slow, he even might have started a few of the fires he ended up filming
That is one big piece of fiberglass (I assume it's fiberglass) from the cowl all of the way to the roof!