1977-1981 Dodge Diplomat OEM Single Original Wheel Cover Hubcap Part 57000393A (Fits: Dodge Diplomat) 5 out of 5 stars (1) 1 product ratings - 1977-1981 Dodge Diplomat OEM Single Original Wheel Cover Hubcap Part 57000393A My best friend’s dad was a deputy sheriff and had one of these when I was in middle school. We use data about you for a number of purposes explained in the links below. What this mostly ended up doing was driving the prices of A bodies higher than most of us imagined, at least for a while. 1981 also saw the last Chrysler marque squad car, the LeBaron. The vehicles now had a dark blue hood and trunk. That’s before you even think about the front suspensions.CJ interactions with The Man might have involved urban area PDs, notably NYC that bought their Dippys with /6s for better economy in bumper to bumper traffic.If only for those racist buy American mores hadn’t existed, the boys in blue could have had the high speed capabilities of non turbo Volvo 240s like a few liberal enclaves bought. One of the style icons of this movement was the A body Darts and Valiants, a kind of yuppie hair shirt to prove how economical they were. But as the ’80s dawned, the newly-minted K-car took precedence as the volume model, and the Diplomat became sedan-only, all the better to take advantage of its popularity as a taxi cab and police car. The RIPD used them right up until late 1990, when they were replaced with the redesigned 1991 Chevrolet Caprice. The equally long in the tooth Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon got them, too! Per the ad: “This vehicle has an original 28,500 miles. Thanks for posting.I know it drives dreadfully, might be the last car other than a pickup with leaf springs, but I really really want one of these. Considering how great LA engines were at certain stages in their development, it was a sad time to be a Mopar fan. The Diplomat and LeBaron were restyled for 1980, and the police package version arrived in 1981, classified as a mid sized cop car .The Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare (F- body) were the mid sized cop cars for 1980, their last year. I do know that my parents had a string of them a Canadian 62, we lived in Canada till 1970, and her and his 71s. He took us out once to do doughnuts in a snowy parking lot in a fully marked cruiser (before the age of cell phone cameras) – it was awesome. 1986 Dodge Diplomat The mid-1980’s saw another new design for our patrol vehicles. With so many CAFE friendly k cars, Chrysler could make as many of these as they wanted.Even has it is, it was nice. Also had the red and blue filters for the brights when the wig-wags were running.I’d love to get a not-so-nice Diplomat and drop in a fuel injected 360 with a manual.It seems it is a common pastime of a smallest domestic to take a shot at an anti fashion, sensible, long life car. ?I wonder what would have happened if ChryCo had simply dropped the Aspen/Volaré, and had done strippo versions of these to fill the gap, e.g., a Valliant/Dart redo, with styling tweaks to the front and back, and maybe with lesser interior fittings? 1981 Dodge Diplomat. Both were popular police cars in the 80's, but the Diplomat was more widely used. And when Officer Friendly visited our school when I was in first or second grade, he was driving one of these.The Dodge Diplomat initially appeared as a corporate cousin to the new, Seville-sized and very Seville-like 1977 Chrysler LeBaron. 1987 dodge diplomat 318 5.2 police car package chp lapd nypd adam-12 1985 Dodge Diplomat Salon 5.2 L 4 Bbl Retired Police 4-door sedan AHB fender tag Dodge Diplomat Mopar Police … I guess the best you can do these days is to get into a LX body. HD wallpaper for backgrounds Dodge Diplomat Police Car 1981–89 ,261.55Kb, car tuning Dodge Diplomat Police Car 1981–89 ,261.55Kb and concept car Dodge Diplomat Police Car 1981–89 ,261.55Kb wallpapers.
The big Chevy dealer in Milan, Bob Erickson, had all the decommissioned black and white Diplomats for sale on their lot shortly afterward, and I remember seeing them every once in a while in traffic. 1981 was one of Chrysler Corporation’s most important years. If you remember in the early 80’s there was a movement of sorts to go back to simpler times and things. Police car is fitted with the CHP Police package. By the early 90’s things changed significantly in just a short time, the first “shamu” Caprice 9C1’s could reach 130 without before the LT1 was added. What a terrifying sight in the ghettos of Aspen, CO they must have been.A recommended resource for anyone wanting to do a deeper dive:If you put your email address in here, you will be relentlessly harassed by our blog every time there's a new entry.I'm Jack Baruth.