Another Alabama force gets Porsche police car... this time a "935" Slantnose?!
We're not sure what's in the water in Alabama lately, but we've just received word that the YellowHammer State is getting its second Porsche police car in about a month. Back in late February, it was announced that the Hoover PD had obtained a newer 911 thanks to drug seizure laws. This time, the car in question was a donation and the constabulary recipients are the boys and gals in blue at Homewood Police.
This time, new cruiser is a bit more interesting than a garden-variety 911, too – it's a 1981 930 Slantnose (the source article calls it a 935) – and reportedly it's a genuine example, not a conversion. As with Hoover's 911, the 930 has been given a police-spec stripe job, and it will likely lead a reserved life on parade and school tour duty. One interesting note is that Police Chief Phil Dodd is hoping to get the two patrol Porsches together for charity events – and potentially even dice it up at Barber Motorsports Park.
Alabama authorities, we'll be happy to get pulled over when you get yourselves a 917.
[Sources: Birmingham News; Al.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
nick 11:06AM (3/27/2009)
wow, what a waste of a beautiful machine.
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superman211 11:43AM (3/27/2009)
It might be cool to get arrested and taken for a ride in it!
not really.
abbas350 9:19PM (3/27/2009)
man, f**k the police
ashleyvandyke 11:03AM (3/27/2009)
What's next a Poliezi version? I would think it's a prank if they tried to pull me over!
-Ashley Van Dyke
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DreamTheater 4:58PM (3/27/2009)
not sure what you're trying to say but i think it should be Polizei if you're trying to say Police in German
Avinash machado 11:09AM (3/27/2009)
Hey its black in color. If it was a PD in California they would have to paint it another color.
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MixiM 12:06PM (3/27/2009)
Nice flame man haha =)
fixitfixitstop 3:57PM (3/27/2009)
superman211 is afraid that he's gay.
Acefighter 3:13AM (3/28/2009)
Hey morons, he was referring to a recent Autoblog post about Cali banning cars that are black. No need to flame him.
Dave in MI 11:09AM (3/27/2009)
Donation?
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ij70 1:27PM (3/27/2009)
Tax write off.
abbas350 9:21PM (3/27/2009)
drug dealer confiscation, it always is... poor drug dealers :'(
ronnie schreiber 11:11AM (3/27/2009)
This is just wonderful. When the country is going broke in part due to the burden of the huge number of overpaid, overpensioned, generally incompetent and unproductive government workers (a number that will swell greatly under the Obama/Democrat "stimulus" and budget), that's just what we citizens need to see, more toys for public employees - in this case those public employees who most routinely abuse their positions. Is anybody willing to bet that some cop isn't going to just put his foot into one of those 911s just to see what it'll do?
The slantnose should have been auctioned off to benefit families suffering from the economy, not been some kind of cop toy. Or for you holster sniffers out there, the proceeds from the auction of a genuine 935 could probably pay the yearly salary of more than one cop.
This is of a piece with the Oregon public employees that spent more public funds investigating a guy who paid his fines in urine soaked coins (after all, dumping them in a bucket and washing them with some Mr. Clean is beneath government employees), than the revenue generated by those fines.
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Epyx 11:14AM (3/27/2009)
I agree, another example of misuse of goverment power. Should have been auctioned or destroyed (prefer auction).
nastinupe 11:16AM (3/27/2009)
Yea... it's Obama's fault.
mdmadph 11:17AM (3/27/2009)
Please take your trolling somewhere else. There isn't a lot of Obama fans in Alabama, and they've been doing this stuff for years, anyway.
Epyx 11:28AM (3/27/2009)
I guess I should have been more clear.
Another example of a LOCAL governments misuse of power.
I don't remember inferring President Obama requested this to occur.
Police are government correct? This could be considered an abuse, correct? How does Obama factor in again?
Brian 11:51AM (3/27/2009)
This happened in Alabama, one of the most strongly Republican states in the country. Yet you somehow try to blame it on Obama and the democrats.
Epyx 11:55AM (3/27/2009)
He did not directly blame Obama. What he did was blame government and inferred that more government will equal more abuse of power. He used this as an example of what to expect as any government becomes to encompassing. You guys all miss the forest for the trees.
Epyx 11:57AM (3/27/2009)
He did not directly blame Obama. What he did was blame government and inferred that more government will equal more abuse of power. He used this as an example of what to expect as any government becomes to encompassing.
You guys all miss the forest for the trees and have a knee jerk reaction when you see a name.
Take out the Obama part and do you disagree with anything else he said?