Watch out if you're in Indiana!

http://www.flyergroup.com/local/loca...137165444.html

Indiana State Police officials recently purchased 18 2008 Ford Mustangs, and what better way to break them in than by hitting the road course at O’Reilly Raceway Park?

ISP Sgt. Rich Myers said the department used Ford Mustangs in the 1980s for traffic patrol, but then switched to Chevrolet Camaros. When Chevrolet stopped making Camaros, he said the ISP began using their Crown Victoria patrol cars for enforcement details before deciding to switch back to Mustangs.

Myers said there will one Mustang in each ISP district.

“They will be a traffic enforcement tool, just like the motorcycles,” he said.

Several troopers gathered at O’Reilly Raceway Park earlier this week to test their driving skills and get a feel for the new Mustangs.

ISP Sgt. Shannon Kennedy said the troopers were first introduced to the cars during a one and a half day training session at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. There, she said, they practiced basic skills on both inside and outside tracks. She said they decided to go to ORP to get practice taking curves.

“(The Mustangs) handle differently than the Crown Vics,” she added.

Kennedy said ORP’s road course simulates the road conditions the troopers will be facing on a regular basis.

She said the Mustangs will rarely be used on interstates as they plan to focus on two-lane highways and other roads where fatalities seem to be more common.

Kennedy also said motorists will likely not notice the troopers since Mustangs are a popular car and these models are not marked.

“They don’t even have the antennas,” she added.

 

theres a few in nebraska and in iowa that drive them too...

also theres a number of chargers, and also later model camaros around here too

 

uh oh!

 

we've got a couple stangs, and the only way you can tell them from a street car is that they have lights in the corners of the window, and they're very hard to see.

 

That's why Indiana rocks!





Uh, wait nevermind.....

 

I recall reading a thread a few months ago about a guy in a gt that had another gt pacing him that pulled up alongside like wanting to race, the guy floored it and the lights in the other mustang came on- oops

 

That sounds like entrapment.

I saw one of the new ISP Mustangs on I-465 this week. I believe it was Vista Blue, and he had a "customer".

 

Yeah, watch your @ss Tom.....they gonna get cha!

Lets meet this year at some shows man, I want to see your beast up close.