{"id":34873,"date":"2022-10-30T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34873"},"modified":"2022-10-30T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:03:49","slug":"junkyard-gem-2010-chevrolet-impala-9c1-police-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34873","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 2010 Chevrolet Impala 9C1 Police Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

From its introduction for the 1992 model year<\/a> until its discontinuation<\/a> in 2011, the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor<\/a> so dominated the North American police-car universe that it seemed like you hardly ever saw The Law driving anything else. Still, General Motors<\/a> made a determined effort to pry away some<\/em> sales to law-enforcement fleet buyers during that period, mostly in the form of the 9C1\/9C3 Chevrolet Impala\/Caprice<\/a>. I’ve documented just a single rear-wheel-drive 9C1 Caprice<\/a> in this series<\/a> so far, so the time seemed right to seek out a later front-wheel-drive Chevy<\/a> police cruiser. Here’s a W-Platform 9C1<\/a> Impala<\/a>, found in a Denver self-service yard<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n

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The Impala was a rear-wheel-drive car from the time of its introduction for the 1958 model year<\/a> through the final “whale” cars in 1996<\/a>, with some interruptions in between when only the Caprice name was used on big Chevy sedans sold here<\/a>. When the Impala name was revived\u2014 again\u2014 for the 2000 model year<\/a>, it was applied to a front-wheel-drive car based on the same platform<\/a> as the Pontiac Grand Prix<\/a> and Chevrolet Monte Carlo<\/a>. That’s where it stayed until The General axed the Impala<\/a> yet another time, in 2020.<\/p>\n

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It’s easy enough to get ex-cop vehicles at auction<\/a>, as I learned when I bought the seven-year-old P71 Police Interceptor<\/a> that became my daily driver for the latter half of the 2000s. That car was an unmarked unit used by a parole officer, while today’s Junkyard Gem obviously started life as a regular patrol car.<\/p>\n

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I think my next ex-police vehicle will need to come from Japan<\/a>. As the owner of a Subaru kei van<\/a>, I’ve had my eye on Japanese auctions for a solid Subaru<\/a> Chiffon Police Interceptor (this despite the fact that the Chiffon is really a Daihatsu<\/a>\u00a0and<\/em> won’t be legal for import<\/a> to the United States for another 19 years).<\/p>\n

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Power came from this 3.9-liter High Value V6 engine<\/a>, rated at 230<\/a> horsepower with the 9C1’s dual-exhaust system.<\/p>\n

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The only transmission available was a heavy-duty version of the 4T65E four-speed automatic. There appears to be a spare in this car’s trunk.<\/p>\n

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The 9C1 got all manner of special equipment, including oversized fluid coolers and heavy-duty suspension and brakes<\/a>. This one still has some of its police electronics inside.<\/p>\n

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I wonder how many perps rode in this back seat (which may have been a urine-resistant fiberglass unit during police service).<\/p>\n

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The original wheels must have looked too cop-like with their dogdish hubcaps, so a set of Pontiac<\/a> alloy rims got swapped in at some point.<\/p>\n

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The digital odometer means we’ll never know how many miles were on this car, but we can assume that they were many and challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From its introduction for the 1992 model year until its discontinuation in 2011, the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor so dominated the North American police-car universe that it seemed like you hardly ever saw The Law driving anything else. Still, General Motors made a determined effort to pry away some sales to law-enforcement fleet buyers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}