Welcome to my own little 9C1 shrine! This is my site. I choose to exercise my right to free speech, and some language that some may consider offensive on my site. If you can't handle that, please leave. There are evidently a number of people who vehemently disagree with my position regarding these cars and their superiority to the junk GM produces today. If you think you might be one of these people, I ask you to leave now, and look at something that you will enjoy more than this site. If you choose to stay here, you better not send me rude e-mail just because you disagree with what I've got to say. I'm not making you stay here and read it. If you do, its your own damn fault.
The B-body Chevrolet Impala 9C1 and later Caprice 9C1 were simply the best police cars ever built. In their final years in production, Chevrolet perfected the combination of performance, heavy-duty construction, and durability into a full-size, body-on-frame production police car that made up over sixty percent of the nationwide police fleet in the United States. I'm not talking about today's Wimpala trash, so if that's what you're looking for, please leave. You won't find any information about Chevrolet's current joke of a front-wheel-drive "car" here. The Caprice won the Michigan State Police Patrol Vehicle Tests in 1987, in it's second year as a police car, and continued to win the tests every year until GM killed it at the end of 1996, lusting after SUV profits. There is no other police vehicle that can claim such an unparalelled record of excellence, except for maybe the Crown Vic, and that's only by default from 1997 on. The main purpose of this site is to feature my cars, and to pay homage to the hundreds of thousands of real Impala and Caprice 9C1s that have served law enforcement officers.
9C1 is General Motors' option code for Police Car. 9C1 is also often referred to as "police package", referring to the "package" of extra or heavy duty equipment and options installed into a police car at the time of assembly. The differences between 9C1 equipped cars and retail production cars are mainly in areas of heavy-duty equipment. Although people will tell you that police cars have some magical performance chip that makes their performance similar to that of an SR-71 Blackbird, this really isn't the case. Most of what makes up a police package is special equipment (spot lights, extra fluid coolers, etc.), relocation or elimination of retail equipment and options, and heavy duty equipment and components (rubber floors, heavy duty seats, heavy duty wheels, thicker frame members, and so on). There is really very little appreciable difference between the powertrain configuration of police package cars in comparison to retail cars. Most of what you'll read and hear about elsewhere on the internet and in casual conversation on the topic of police cars (often by people without a clue) is urban legend and BS.
In the last decade, the big three "American" (quote placement intentional) manufacturers have even gone so far as to offer more powerful powertrain options in retail cars than are even available in their police package counterparts. Some examples are the Mercury Marauder, which featured a dual overhead cam 4.6-liter V8 that ran circles around the single overhead cam 4.6-liter that is standard in the Crown Vic P71, the 2004-2005 Chevrolet Wimpala "SS" which featured a supercharged 3.8-liter V6 when a normally-aspirated version of the engine was all that was available in the police package, and the 2006-present Wimpala "SS", featuring a wrong-way mounted 327 V8 driving the wrong wheels, when all that's available in the police package is a V6. So, now, what's that stupid urban legend about police cars being higher-performance than their civilian counterparts? Total BS. Even Dodge is doing it, with a 6-liter HEMI available in the SRT8 retail LX platform RWD cars putting out in excess of 400 horsepower, when the biggest engine you can get in the police package Charger is the 5.7-liter 340-horsepower HEMI V8. Yes, there was a time when police cars were some of the best performers on American roads, but that time is sadly now long past.
The forum is tits-up. Again. What else is new? Oh well. Its filling with trash anyway. The backup forum is available (and being promoted here) for use.
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