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By Jen Dunnaway
Editor



Lisa Sams first saw a Mustang highway patrol car at Carlisle in 1999, and was instantly hooked. She got her first one that same year, the black '89 Florida State Patrol car in the background (vinyl decals removed). Then she got the '91 Georgia State Patrol car shortly thereafter from a private seller who'd picked it up at a state auction. This car's special-service package is 100% complete and functional: it's got the heavy duty alternator, silicone hoses, transmission cooler, oil cooler, extra fan, and reinforced seats and floor pans required for a high-speed pursuit vehicle. And all the cop gear that got stripped off before its sale had to be painstakingly re-aquired and hooked up: it now has a working lightbar, rear deck lights, PA system, radar unit, and Eyewitness Video System—that camera they use to get all those "unbelievable police chases" you see on TV. Lisa says she has to put covers on any markings that identify it as a police vehicle when she's driving on the highway—and she's forbidden from driving it at all in Georgia—but it's worth it, she says, because most of these old pursuit cars get turned into racecars or trashed, and a few of them deserve to survive intact. I think the Krispy Kreme box is a nice touch, don't you?












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