Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Not An Ordinary Police Car


The 2007 winner of Law and Order magazine’s International Police Vehicle Design contest in the small town category (for municipal police departments with fewer than 50 members) was this Dodge Charger from the Hummelstown Borough Police Department in Pennsylvania.





But this was not the only honor for this car. It later became the prototype for a Matchbox model. (If you do not know what a Matchbox car is, you were never a young boy.)





Recently, the full-size car was displayed at a Matchbox collectors’ convention in Hershey, Pennsylvania. In the photo below, a young Matchbox collector -- the son of The Badge Company of New Jersey's web designer -- stands in front of the real thing.