When he punched his 'Vette, I punched the 440, and practically drove him off the freeway, it jumped so quickly. The 1974 Dodge Monaco Police Pursuit shown above is Ted Kedala's authentic New York State police cruiser, #9066, originally assigned to They were decent cars, but several came through with Plymouth nameplates on the Dodges, and vice-versa. The guy had bugged me for months, blowing down the freeway and leaving us in the dust. Prior to this, CHP had insisted on a 122" wheelbase as a requirement for squads purchased by them. It was also the year of the last of the lead gasoline 440s.
He described the Olds squads as smooth and powerful but not holding the road as well as the Dodges. The opening credits of "Hill Street Blues" opened with a face-on shot of a Royal Monaco squad with all lights blazing, including open hideaway headlights. Even though the car throws a The vehicle's model is never referred to in the original film by Elwood, who purchased the car, or the various police officers and dispatch operators coordinating the manhunt. He should have been trying to drive a Ford of the same era! It has the 440 High Performance Magnum engine — U code, with all police specifications. Should you ever see a 1955 Buick 2 door sedan with four portholes, you now know its likely history.) The torsion bar suspension was the best out there. The one inane exception to this rave review came at the hands of Models of this last generation Monaco squad were made by MPC, but must be considered with caution. gasoline (petrol) engine with displacement: 5898 cm3 / 359.9 cui, advertised power: 149 kW / 200 hp / 203 PS ( SAE net ), torque: 393 Nm / 290 lb-ft, more data: 1974 Dodge Monaco 4-Door Sedan 360 V-8 4-bbl. He loved the Polaras, the 1969 being his all-time favorite, and would go out of his way to avoid having to take a 1972 Polara since it had noticeably less power than the 1971. 1977 marked another move downmarket for the Monaco name, which now appeared on B-bodies, replacing Coronet. Copyright © It always irritates me when some buffoon writer knocks the MoPars for not handling well. I believe they came up with this figure as an outgrowth of research done by legendary LAPD squad guru Ray Moore, who believed different cars were best for different uses and that one car could not do it all. (Steve Gibbs wrote, "I drove a 76 Royal Monaco for the Marion County Sheriff's Department in Indiana. The Washington State Patrol bought Royal Monacos in 1977... these were beautiful cars in solid white with big meaty tires and those sweet hideaway headlights. The Bluesmobile is a 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan that was prominently featured in the 1980 Universal Pictures film The Blues Brothers. It has the 440 High Performance Magnum engine â U code, with all police specifications. Great Bluesmobile candidate. The 1960 CHP squads were a strange mix of Polara body and Dart front clip, which tended to look like they were made out of two different cars after they were retired, especially with the Earl Scheib paint job most typically seen on retired squads in those years. Finally, Dodge blinked at midyear, stretching the wheelbase of the existing police package Polara to give CHP that extra inch. TorqueFlite (aut. The extra gauges were also offered as part of the trailer package on civilian Furys and Monacos, but not seen as often there.1975 was also the year the California Highway Patrol started large-scale tests of the B-body Coronet platform. 3) Horsepower/Torque Curve. After about a mile or so when he could not shake me with the twistees and turns, he gave up. With any of the MoPars, if you went into a corner at 80, I could go through it at 90. They were running on reputation, and, thankfully, 1960s engineering for the engine, transmissions, brakes and axles.Not much else could be said to recommend these vehicles highly I know of the existence of three Mount Prospect ex-patrol vehicles. I caught up to the guy in about a quarter mile. The 1974 Monaco, and to a lesser extent the 1974 Fury models, had an additional handicap in that they bore an exceptionally strong resemblance to the 1971-72 fullsize Buicks... a three-year-old GM look for the price of a new car. The 1977-78 B-body Monacos were also the last of an era, with a body that dated back to 1971 and powerplants including the 440.