Coming down Government road and saw a pickup in my rear view mirror racing up towards me. With all its police kind of lights going. I look down at my speedometer and I am doing the speed limit. He catches up to me and just goes right around me towards Barber Mill road. Too close
I saw a Chevy Silverado pickup years ago in Greenville in black and silver with the state seal on the door. I think they are usually used for maintenance. Maybe this one was animal control. In many instances, the animal control vehicles have blue lights so perhaps they had received a call of a vicious dog or an animal in distress.
Years ago the Johnston county troop of the SHP had a tricked out, super charged, nitrous injected unmarked 5.0 mustang that they would use as a "pursuit" vehicle if needed.
We saw a slick late model black Corvette being used as a SHP car on Wednesday on 40. We were :shock:, because it was REALLY nice. Had some little souped up import pulled over.
LOL...you could say that as I was onsite when they used said car to "chase" down a ferrari on I-95 on day.
I'm not saying that there wasn't some modified 5.0 Mustang sedans running around modified, but I know a lot of those stories were fabricated. The NCSHP purchases cars based on their reliability records and their ease of repair. Supercharged, nitrous-fed engines requires an outstanding tune and would need 100+ octane to keep from having detonation at sustained high speed. In other words, those things are good for quick bursts of speed, but on a police car, would likely mean...KABOOM! Plus, every HP Mustang I've ever seen was an automatic that looked mostly stock. No way the slushboxes could have handled that much power without major modifications. Most were stock 5.0 LXs. They were plenty fast enough in their day since most cars were recovering from the days of detuned fuel-injected econoboxes. The Z06 Corvette most are seeing around Raleigh belongs to the Wake County Sheriff's Department recovered from drug bust. They'll use it for awhile and then sell it at auction.
