Craiglist find - Federal Signal Visibar R/B used by Texas DPS.

[K9Vic]

Went on a short road trip to get this today and found out when I go home it was used by Texas DPS. It did not have a speaker, but does have the bracket for the speaker. It has standard gutter mounts so it was used on a box body that had gutters. Works well, only one bulb is out but has a crack in one of the blue domes. Still a good deal for the price as these are not easy to find and may change it over to amber domes for my old military truck. I would rather use it over putting it on a display as it fits the time frame of my old CUCV trucks. Plus I think it looks really cool on the truck pictured and it is registered as a antique vehicle, so I would cover the lights when in transit to shows if I kept it R/B.

















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Update 09/20 @12pm CST


Installed & mounted to roof, still have to run the wiring to my switch box. Need to work out a relay switch to keep the load off the panel. Amber domes will be in Friday, I actually got a new pair of Federal Signal Model 14 lights that I will use. The lights are 24v, but that is fine as the truck is a 24v & 12v hybrid system. So I can run either a 12v or 24v light, so I may swap the whole beacons out with the model 14 as they are not chrome.








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[plybeep68]

That's Sweeeeet!! Nice Find:thumbsup:

 

[Hoser]

Nice find, looks great on the truck.

 

[Skip Goulet]

Very nice find, indeed. Most unusual, too, as TX DPS didn't furnish lightbars themselves at the time, despite the ID tag I just saw. Until thelate '60, if Troopers wanted anything aside from the red spotlight and small underhood siren (usually a Fed. EG), they did so on their own. Could be this one was sold to the dept. when the trooper left. I use to see some unusual combinations when the troopers furnished their own lights, etc. When they first starting experimenting with the VisiBars, most had red domes and a small Federal WG siren in the center of the bar. They eventually went to red/blue and electronic sirens. I'm not sure when DPS started equipping the cruisers themselves, but they are using some very, very bright LED lightbars on their current vehicles.

 

[JennyCop]

Great find! I had a similar experience only my Twin Beacon Ray turned out to be a Minnesota State police lightbar. I love finding lights with property tags!