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These are from a 1978 issue of JCW. I looked forward to my free copy every month as a kid. Until they dropped warning lights almost entirely in the late 1980s.

1970, 1971

Anyone have leads on catalogs for these manufacturers? I'd even help get them scanned if interested.

I'm surprised to have not seen a flash pattern like this before. Maybe it's only possible on a bar that wide. I dislike the blending of colors on the bar and on the individual light-heads. Love red/blue. Just not the intermingling of the two colors so close together.

Found this on eBay. Got it for $4. Had to take the catalog apart to get these pages scanned. Pretty interesting stuff!

Looking for outer domes for a Streethawk bar. Interested in almost any colors as long as they are in new condition.

Many municipalities in Michigan have "public safety agencies." Especially in several of Detroit's more affluent northern suburbs (Huntington Woods, Oak Park, Berkley, Farmington, Bloomfield Hills, Canton Township, Fraser, Grosse Pointe city, Grosse Pointe Woods). This means their police and fire...

I debated with whether this should be posted in this thread or somewhere else. But the base and dome of this Commander series of 120v beacons is very traditional. It looks like the they just swapped out the internals with Solaris Rotators. These rotators are amazing. I had my doubts until...

That's the name. And I guess it is accurate since I just spent three hours consuming the pictures. Pretty amazing stuff. https://www.lcpdfr.com/forums/topic/33072-the-mind-boggling-classic-cop-car-thread/

Small screenshots from larger images seen on the Facebook page "Vintage Wreckers" (an interesting resource). What is this lightbar? At first I thought maybe it was one of those second generation Sireno Condor bars (vertically half the height of the earlier flying bricks). But then the internals...

I'm just realizing that there isn't a single page of old Signal Stat literature here. Surely someone has some to share.

Once the technology improves in both performance and cost effectiveness would it ever be possible to apply OLED systems to warning lights (lightbars/beacons)? Imagine a bar that could simulate the flash patterns of a Twinsonic bar... change colors.. do a total whiteout for scene lighting. Or...

You only get to see it from the front. But I giggled stupidly waiting to see what popped up next with each cycle. This part is at the 2 minute mark.

A friend that I grew up with in suburban Detroit now works as a consultant in the auto industry. His work occasionally takes him to ATV and motorcycle factories. In one of these tours he encountered a fleet of electric bikes made by ZERO. He test drove one and was so impressed that he bought one...

No need to describe what's meant by "clown cars." Let's see what you can come up with.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/04/19/ford-offers-new-f-150-pickup-truck-ffor-police-duty/83219928/

All accounts indicate that GM will no longer produce a long wheel-base sedan on its Holden platform in Australia after the 2017 model year.. including the Chevy Caprice Police Pursuit. This would leave General Motors with the Impala PPV as its only police sedan. Will the the Impala Police...

I had to retrofit these myself with the blue/clear domes and the red sealed beams under the clear side to mimic the lightbars used by the police in Troy, Michigan from the late 1970s thru to about 1990. The blues domes need to be polished. 

I have four MX7000 all-light lightbars. They all work... five rotators, alley-lights, takedowns, front flashers, rear traffic-advisors, and oscillating intersection lights. The domes are all clear while the rotators have red & blue filters. I'd rate their overall condition as 7.5/10. With a...

I joined GovDeals two weeks ago. On a whim I bid on a pallet of surplus lightbars. I ended up winning six Code 3 MX7000 bars (all loaded with takedowns, alleys, intersection oscillators and traffic advisors) and two Federal Signal StreetHawk bars (one all-light, one with a speaker section). Also...

Other than a few missing sealed beams and an endcap it looks pretty good. http://stcloud.craigslist.org/pts/5206584237.html

Spotted on NB I-65 north of Nashville. Pulled from the Facebook page "Antique/Vintage Warning Light Collector." Ralph Barry posted it. It looks to me like something cobbled together from various, older models. The mounting hardware looks totally homemade and the bar itself appears to be sagging...

Is the flasher used to make the inboard sealed-beams wig-wag flash a fairly universal item or does it have to be a specific type/model? When I search "Signal-Stat flasher" on the Internet I get dozens of types.. most I assume are used for turn signals and hazard lights. My guess is that none of...

I know there are a lot of web-based stores. Does anyone here have an opinion about a good source for buying these items? I'm looking to buy several 4416-R (red par-36 sealed-beams) for Signal Stat Dual-Comm lightbars and a 4436 (the larger, 5.75-inch sealed beam) for an RV-26 Unity beacon...

What in THEE hell were they thinking? :eek:   :nono:   :confused: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Car-Roof-Top-FLASHY-Hazard-Light-Roadside-Emergency-Police-ATOMIC-AGE-/271784104908?pt=Vintage_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3f479853cc&vxp=mtr

This video is an hour long and I watched almost the entire thing. The variety of vehicles and lighting is unbelievable. Vintage, modern, vintage/modern combos, unusual, super expensive, super econo.. 

There's a Facebook page for fans of old Mars products (Mars Lightbars). On it came the topic of the Michigan State Police conversion of RV26 Unity beacons into LED units. Someone suggested that Mars could do the same with their classic Skybolt beacons. In that thread a guy from Ohio shared some...

HELP: I've been nosing around some other posts on this topic. I'm now even more confused. Too many conflicting opinions. Too many dead links.  What is the best way to power up lights in the home from standard household/AC power? I do not want to use a battery or a battery-charger. It would be...