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I really like that dome... is it made with two colors as a single piece or can the two halves be swapped?

That Chevy van with the two beacons (2:59) seems to actually be Japanese property, I saw it in a video of a UK motorcade as well.

The things we have to do for the sake of science...

I'm sure it'll be fine at first but in ten years when the lens gets cloudy it's gonna be no better than a normal 9x7 with one of those dying fluorescent tube flash patterns like the pinwheel or whatever.

I'd hate to hear what you all think about em in Ohio... http://www.policecarwebsite.net/st35.html

So this is a regular patrol car and not a show car? In the US, Georgia State Patrol had some BMW cars for the 1996 Olympics but they seem to have been just to show off more than anything. edit: My Google-Fu tells me that they were donated by BMW and used for the torch run.

I could never get over that mix of colors in the strobe bars they used, but hey... period correct is period correct. Beautiful graphics and paint job on the '88 too.

Maybe it was made green and the sunlight made the color fade... seems like a pale light blue now.

Never knew the front facing light would flash on those. Either way, that's a super classy piece!

If you're gonna have a beacon... gotta be halogen, CIE blue, fast motor, ideally from a European brand like Hella or VAMA or whoever makes those French teardrops.

At least the beacons all work:

Did those filters come in clear? Seems like that would match better with the same flash to match the red ones... but hey, if the red ones were hard to come by, have you thought about trying out a 3D printer?

Whether it's for an engine that's in service or just a museum piece, I'd say whatever it came with originally, or at least something that is period correct for what might have been factory installed. Either a Federal Q or some other old-school woop-woop, definitely not an EQ2B or something else...

I would love to see this thing responding...

Dutch fire truck with an AeroTwin:

The model in question is called the Jeep Gladiator - the grille gives it away.

Oh like this one you mean? https://www.fedsig.com/product/fireems-navigator

8.5/10 on the lights. Passable flash patterns on the LEDs but they're 1st-gen and not synchronized, and I do very much like the oscillating SLR beacons. And any Centurion without too many empty sections is just, like, idk this world just needs more of them or something, extra points for that...

Couple of rounded-line brush trucks in New Hampshire:

Also not a fan of red on a non-emergency vehicle but other than that really not bad at all. Superb flash patterns for what the car is used for. If it were me I'd just use a Class I magnet-mount beacon but I'm weird.

As it is now, assuming you don't want to add any amber or change colors to add amber to the rear, I'd say adjust the flash pattern for the rear upper lights so that both lights on the left side of the truck flash against the pair on the right hand side of the truck. That way, at a distance, the...

I always wondered if this was actually the same company that makes guns, that logo gives it away for sure.

Whelen sells some products with smoke tinted lenses, so they could fit in the headliner or grille without being seen as easily.

Just because we Internet forum warriors can think straight about what different colors mean, doesn't mean the actual users can as well.

There was that one guy here that put a Streethawk on his department's Suburban a year or two ago, that's more the kinda thing I prefer. But those LEDs are sure to pack more of a punch than the strobes he used.

New Mexico police use red/blue mostly, and the state police uses all red. Mostly I think it's just a matter of what the vehicle looks like - a sedan with a red light is one thing, but a flatbed truck with a red light and a car on the back is clearly another. Whether it has a siren or not is...

Best advice, near as I can tell, is if you pretend that there isn't any ammo there and act like it's just like any other fire then you'll be fine. ...no, seriously

True on this side of the pond, but not on the other side. Pretty sure they got 5-pod Vectors as well.

I'm no firefighter but wouldn't a commercial chassis like that be smaller than a lot of built-from-scratch trucks?

Having a 360-degree warning light is necessary, but it doesn't provide proper forward-mounted intersection coverage, and if the car gets stuck behind a tractor trailer in the left lane, there's no way to get the guy's attention because the light is blocked.