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[bamabluesbro]

While reading AOL news today, found this article:
Top 10 cop cars of all time - CNN.com

Quote:
Blues Brothers Interceptor Mashup

Everyone knows the Blues Mobile -- Jake and Elwood's 1974 Dodge Monaco in "The Blues Brothers" movie -- but few know where all the cop cars famously smashed to pieces in the film came from.

Paul Anderson, a journalist in Los Angeles, says it was his dad, also Paul, a Chicago, Illinois, police radio engineer who was tasked with fixing up the Dodge Polaras and Monacos wrecked in the film (with the Chicago city council spurred into action by the possibility of Steven Spielberg and John Landis coming to their city to make a big-budget movie).

He once recounted to Paul: "I just remember one day my boss, the lieutenant who always gave me a hard time, came to me and pointed to the auto graveyard where all the out-of-service squad cars were and said, 'See all those cars? Your job is to get them started.'

I said, 'Are you kidding?'" Paul adds: "[My Dad] had a savant-like ability to rescue beaters from near-death experiences. When the movie came out, he went to see it like everyone else and he could remember each and every one of those cars." E-mail to a friend

Nice little info there hadn't heard before.... Also, pic of car is a replica from someone out there, nice!

[Ghostbluesman]

Great post! (I didn't see the car pic, tho....)
Rob

[bamabluesbro]

cnn only ran the pics for yesterday's article. It was just the article today, sorry, should have copied then but didn't. A very good representation of the replica though!
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