I don't know enough about police cars to say what was what in 1973, my point was this alledged car is a one off, 1973 GTO w/455SD. Not from a fleet order of 30 cars and one of them being this GTO, but rather a single order. To me, this seems as though a small department would have ordered it. And that would really have to be an aggressive police dept., with a large budget. Something that in 1972(when it would have been ordered) was probably unheard of. I don't think there were any homeland security grants to be had for smaller communities like there is today.
If this story is true, then it would have had to be puchased by a large city that could afford a purely pursuit vehicle and seems to me there would have been quite a few more ordered, like the CHP ordering 20 5.0 Mustangs or Z-28's
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