intermodal's Journal: Pushbumper pics

Showed up around 1:10, and rolled out around 2:10 with a new black grille, a new Go Rhino pushbumper, and a repaired (for free) license plate bracket freshly re-bolted onto the front. Here's the pics:

  Before: front shot
  Before: side shot
  Before: angle shot
  After: with headlights on
  After: with headlights off

Next project: emergency lights, stealth-style with hide-a-strobes and flashing red lights.

Note: mind the line on the hood in the after shots, it was parked partially under the overhang of the roof where the rain was dripping on it.

1998 Ford Police Interceptor
nearly 127,000 miles
ex-San Antonio Police Department marked patrol car

Slashdotted?

[jawtheshark]

Or has your IP address changed during the night? I can't reach your pics (neither ping the machine) and the IP address of www.systemalchemy.org resolves to a ppp connection:

[Silky:~] jorg% nslookup 67.70.30.244
Server: mowgly.jungle
Address: 192.168.0.200

Name: Toronto-HSE-ppp3863237.sympatico.ca
Address:&nbsp ; 67.70.30.244

[Silky:~] jorg%

Re:Slashdotted?

[jawtheshark]

Hmmm... the IP address just changed again! (Now: 67.69.185.13) It still doesn't work. I'll try to check on the pics later, once you get things fixed.

Re:Slashdotted?

[intermodal]

if it's failing for you, you can always try removing the www or changing the domain in the urls to minimanga.com/~cargo or www.minimanga.com/~cargo (my account on another domain of the same server). What you're probably running into is a cached IP for the domain, which is on a dynamic DNS.

Re:Slashdotted?

[jawtheshark]

Now it works.... I have my own cached forwarding DNS, which gives trouble sometimes. But usually after reloading the second time it goes through.

Re:Slashdotted?

[jawtheshark]

Fucking shit!

Is that even legal. If you hit someone with that it is certain death! Look, I already dispise "bull-bars" on Jeeps/SUVs, but this is a bit overboard.... My opinion of course.

Re:Slashdotted?

[intermodal]

actually it's very legal. Many car dealerships here in Texas even offer it installed on brand new trucks. Almost all law enforcement vehicles here have them, too.

Re:Slashdotted?

[jawtheshark]

I can only say it is dangerous and I hope that you never hit a pedestrian. That this is allowed on special vehicles like (real) cop cars, I can understand. They could need to ram a car during a pursuit. For a normal citizen, it is beyond me.

Re:can I ask a question?

[heliocentric]

No, the real worry is someone posing as a cop to falsly take people into custody for matters like rape and murder. Its happened before.

Then there's that Blues Brothers movie get-away scene and the "It's got cop engine, cop this, cop that..." speech. But they could have had any high-horse car, it was just they had access to that one for cheap. No problem there.

I don't mind the public having horse power, I just mind when they can pretend to be cops for bad behavior. I also don't mind restoring a former

Re:can I ask a question?

[intermodal]

I quite agree. on multiple points:

-people in the past have abused former law enforcement vehicles for murder and rape, but this is akin to people saying that people have abused guns and other weapons for the same purpose. Both are true, neither is the higher percentage of (weapon/ex-police car) users. Also note that there have also been cases of law enforcement officers using their real patrol cars for these purposes, like a Nevada Highway Patrolman who used his to capture, rape, and murder women in the

Re:can I ask a question?

[intermodal]

anwers:

1: I don't exactly need a police interceptor, but I chose it beause it can better handle what I do with it than many other vehicles, or was considerably cheaper to buy/restore.

Criteria: can handle going off the side of country roads that lack a shoulder. Not expensive to insure. Known for lasting for a long time. Cruises well at high speed. powerful cooling and electrical system. V-8 engine. Rear wheel drive.

Other vehicles that could potentially have been considered: Chevrolet Z71 (overkill

North Texas?

[tenman]

Car from San Antonio? Trip from Sherman to Howe? Where is cop stuff located?

Re:North Texas?

[intermodal]

Cop Stuff is located in Howe, TX which is on highway 75 south of Sherman. San Antonio is where I bought the car in pre-11th September 2001.

Why the gettup

[robi2106]

I have been wondering why the emergency vehicle do dads? Are you EMT? Currently police? If not, I thought only EMTs or currently employed and official police vehicles could have the light bars, etc.

jason

Re:Why the gettup

[intermodal]

Firefighter. Volunteer.