{"id":13200,"date":"2024-04-03T02:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T02:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13200"},"modified":"2024-04-21T02:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T02:06:24","slug":"god-bless-the-crown-vic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/03\/god-bless-the-crown-vic\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless The Crown Vic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/stockpiled-ford-crown-victoria-cop-cars-still-serve-in-california-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Drive<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LA Sheriff Still Has 429 Ford Crown Victorias in Service Because It Stockpiled Them<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of decade-old Crown Vic Interceptors roam southern California, though they\u2019re getting more and more difficult to keep on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/author\/james-gilboy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JAMES GILBOY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13201\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ike the United States Postal Service&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/this-mercedes-turbodiesel-swapped-usps-mail-truck-express-delivers-boost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grumman LLV<\/a>, the Ford Crown Victoria is a disappearing symbol of a time past. From taxi services to police departments, large operators&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/36122\/the-last-ford-crown-victoria-cop-cars-have-finally-retired-from-the-california-highway-patrol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">like the California Highway Patrol<\/a>&nbsp;have been retiring their fleets of the once ubiquitous sedan for years now. Even so, their numbers remain strong through 2023 at the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, where hundreds are still in service. But even there, the herd is beginning to thin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As one of the largest police forces in the country\u2014and the largest sheriff&#8217;s department\u2014the LASD has been one of the Crown Vic&#8217;s top users for decades. The department guaranteed it would remain so into the sedan&#8217;s twilight years with a huge last-minute order of 600 cars in 2011, the final year of production, as accountants reckoned it&#8217;d save money in the long run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26423305@N00\/6114595788\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Photos of this last big batch survive online<\/a>, showing hundreds of the cars around the time of their delivery. Surprisingly, the vast majority of these 600 remain in operation today, with 429 still on the roster according to Sergeant David M. Davis of the LASD Fleet Management Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Crown Victoria is a rugged and durable platform that has held up great over the years,&#8221; Sergeant Davis told\u00a0<em>The Drive<\/em>, stating that the Crown Victoria remains the top choice with older members of the force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/stockpiled-ford-crown-victoria-cop-cars-still-serve-in-california-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Drive<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Drive LA Sheriff Still Has 429 Ford Crown Victorias in Service Because It Stockpiled Them Hundreds of decade-old Crown Vic Interceptors roam southern California, though they\u2019re getting more and more difficult to keep on the road. BY JAMES GILBOY ike the United States Postal Service&#8217;s&nbsp;Grumman LLV, the Ford Crown Victoria is a disappearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}