[geeks] Re: Need an opinion

[Mike Nicewonger]

On Friday 17 May 2002 06:36 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:34:03PM -0400, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > I dunno what he had but I can tell you for sure the car did not have a
> > supercharger. While I was working for $BELTWAY_BANDIT installing the new
> > network for the I-95 facilities, I got to see the new MSP cars for the
> > I-95 barrack getting thier radios and light systems installed.  Plain old
> > EFI under the hood. Of course these cars were not Crown Vic's they were
> > "Police Interecptor" cars.
>
> ok, i heard a whine that you don't hear on a normally asperated car.  and
> i'll be damned if there was anything stock about that car.  they don't go
> that fast. really.  i don't drive one, so i'm not intimate with them, but
> there was definitely something fishy about that one.

I will agree that the Police package adds quite a bit of performance, pehaps 
my statement of stock was an understatement. I will agree that they have some 
rightious pickup to them :) but supercharged, no.

>
> i'm not saying you are wrong, just that in my opinion after being in the
> car, that it was hardly a stock vehicle.
>
> > I also was an EMT in the local FD and got to see loads of MSP cars. All
> > 'normal' other than the police package from the factory.
>
> and the bad-guy shaped dents in them. :)

Boys on the hood!

Mike N