I find many ex-cop cars in junkyards, as you’d expect, mostly Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors with the occasional Chevy Caprice, Dodge Charger or crunched SUV mixed in here and there. Today, we’re going to look at Dearborn’s not-so-successful replacement for the Crown Vic P71, an ex- Tulsa PD prowler now residing at a boneyard in Englewood, Colorado.
Way back in 2009, this publication reported (I’d say we reported, but I didn’t begin working here until 2010) that Ford would be discontinuing the good ol’ Crown Vic Police Interceptor in 2011. This turned out to be the case, and the world wondered what its replacement would be.
But before we get to the story of today’s Junkyard Find, I need to provide a photograph of an ex-law enforcement Chrysler product in a car graveyard, because all the modern cop Chargers I see in junkyards nowadays are just too trashed to be worth documenting. Here’s an ex- elroy 1974 Dodge Monaco at Speedway Auto Wrecking in Dacono, Colorado.
It’s disappointing that I don’t find many 20th-century ex-police Mopars in Colorado junkyards because Front Range police departments drove some fine Chrysler-built machines during the previous century, e.g., this Lakewood Police Plymouth Fury…