Vintage patrol cars

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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    Now that's what I call "Walkin' the dogs."
     
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    Naughty boy :naughty: Appearantly, was the '56 Chevy patrol car with a dual-quad 265 police package(?) not enuff of a distraction :whistle:
     
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    Unfortunately, the latter had to wait a year and get a notch higher compression, to get those 315 horses. The '61s even topped 1 HP for every cubic inch:

    https://www.enginefacts.com/chevrolet348/

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    Actually, according to the experts over at 348-409.com the 315 HP 348 came out in Late '58:

    -"Late in 58, another version was released, this time being the 315hp 348."-

    http://www.348-409.com/general.html
     
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    57 of those stretched out to 427 cubes rolled off the line, in '63:



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    A rear-engined Simca

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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    Looks like the blue sedan from "The Incredibles."
     
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    All I wuzz abel to find wuzz your dearly beloved '57 Hornet :D

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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    That's "The Incredibles II," I think. No, Jack Parr's commutemobile, from the first movie.
     

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