All-light Streethawk from Russia

lapshin

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May 29, 2015
12
Moscow Russia
Dear friends, I am member from Moscow, Russia: american lightbars are extremely rare in our country, because only in 90s some vehicles were equipped with blue Aerodynic, Strobehawk (ambulance) or red Code 3 (cop cars), and later on russian industry developed our own lightbars. So, i was really shocked to find in Perm city (try to find it on the map, it's Siberia!) all-light Streethawk. Never have seen it before in Russia!
Seller said, that his friend becomes used cop car as gift (!), and needed to dismount lightbar. Larer on lightbar was mounted on the car service shop, but police said, that it is illegal. And now, for $140+shipping, i am happy owner of Streethawk.
I need to replace one bulb H1, clean the bar and remove black tape from rear part of domes (it means, that cop car with Hawk was used in Russia for leading of convoys).

Rotators outside are slow, inside and in the middle — fast, flashers outside are alternators, inside rear (red/amber) flashing together.

Who nows —
1) from which police department it is? MDPD — what means?
2) How to switch on alley lights and takedown? Now are working only rotators and flashers.
3) Where is possible to buy not
expensive two Streethawlk labels (are dismounted from bar before me)?

Many thanks in advance


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801

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Jul 14, 2014
679
NV
Interesting color/rotator combination, you very rarely see fast rotators to the outside and slow rotators to the inside. Most Streethawks in the US have slow rotators to the outside and fast rotators to the inside of the light bar.
You should be able to trace the wires from the alley lights and take down lights back to the main wiring terminal that runs to the vehicle to determine which wires to power up, unless they have been removed.
 

894

Member
Jul 14, 2014
1,028
North Central US
Interesting 1/2 center blue cover. They used a cut Model 14 dome!
That was a factory option! One of my municipal customers would turn them sideways for a 1/2-1/2 red/blue flash... At that time our LE vehicles were not allowed to flash clear and a standard colored dome or filter would make it lop-sided.

Knowing where it came from is cool but learning the story on how the hell it ended-up in Siberia, now THAT's the REAL story!
 

denko3

Member
Jul 31, 2010
866
SLOVENIA,EUROPE
guys the clip from fixing it is probably the same as clip from streethawk rotator kit which holds the filter lens on rotator.....it looks almost the same.
didn't check on part list....
by the way very good options you can get there with thet kit....
 

ERIC6913

Member
May 29, 2010
3,621
California
guys the clip from fixing it is probably the same as clip from streethawk rotator kit which holds the filter lens on rotator.....it looks almost the same.
didn't check on part list....
by the way very good options you can get there with thet kit....

It is not the same Denko.
 

Scoot163

Member
Nov 15, 2013
848
Tacoma, WA
Back in the late 80's and early 90's a number of used American police vehicles were sent to Russia. I heard that some of our Ford LTD 5.0's made it to the streets of Vladivostok.
 

lapshin

New Member
May 29, 2015
12
Moscow Russia
No, no, car comes from USA for museum, this Crown Vic never worked in Moscow. Not so many used units with lights/sirens were sold to our country.
But in 90s aroud 125 new Crown Vic with Code 3 were delivered to Moscow. Now I am try to find this light bar in Russia74_03_09_08_1_22_13.jpg
 
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coop359

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Apr 16, 2012
495
USA Tennessee
NAPERVILLE Illinois PD had a CSO vehicle that had an all light street hawk with clear lenses - amber filters on the rotators. They cut a solid red dome for the inside of the rear lens. Custom job done in house. Wanted red to the back. For non sworn CSO
 

CrownVic97

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May 21, 2010
3,350
Hazen, ND
No, no, car comes from USA for museum, this Crown Vic never worked in Moscow. Not so many used units with lights/sirens were sold to our country.
But in 90s aroud 125 new Crown Vic with Code 3 were delivered to Moscow. Now I am try to find this light bar in RussiaView attachment 158841

The lightbar used on the Crown Vics at that time were 48" Code 3 XL5000s. They had clear lenses with center speaker cover, 4 standard rotators with blue filters on the drivers side, red on the passenger, stationary takedown lights, and rear flashers with amber filters.
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I remember a "World's Wildest Police Videos" episode that featured those exact cars in a video involving a pursuit in Moscow.
 

lapshin

New Member
May 29, 2015
12
Moscow Russia
On the beginning it was red driver/red passenger, but later on it was changed to standard red/blue for russian traffic police. "Normal" russian police uses blue-blue

Here is video of decommissioned Crown Vic

But where is lightbar from this car))???
 
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JazzDad

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Aug 5, 2011
5,165
USA
Автомобиль 54 , где ты?
 
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