Junkyard Find: 2004 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, American Flag Option Package

by Murilee Martin

January 18th, 2016 7:56 AM

junkyard find 2004 ford crown victoria police interceptor american flag option

Ford Panthers are easy to find in American self-service wrecking yards, to put it mildly, and the most common Panther of them all is the P71 Police Interceptor version of the Crown Victoria.

I daily-drove an ex-San Joaquin County Sheriff’s ’97 P71 for most of the 2000s and thought it was one of the best car-per-dollar-spent deals I’ve ever had. However, it takes a very special Crown Vic to stand out sufficiently from the junkyard crowd and get into this series.

I shot a professionally-painted stars-and-stripes ’89 Olds last year, but nicely executed American-flag paint jobs are quite rare on junkyard cars (badly executed flag paint jobs, on the other hand, are easy to find). This ’04 Crown Vic, which started life as a police car and ended it as a patriotic-looking San Jose taxicab, has a pretty good Old Glory costume.

You’ll find one in every car, sometimes in a puddle of rainwater.

It appears that this cab was operated by American Cab, which specializes in star-spangled vehicles.

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Ostrich67 on Jan 20, 2016

Look under the hood, it still has the siren!

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MrMag on Jan 23, 2016

Yes 'Murica! I just found a Phoenix Suns car (click my name). Gotta love the strange paint schemes and wraps. Every once in a while you might even find an art car.

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- 28-Cars-Later on Jan 23, 2016
  
  The most humorous yet disturbing aspect is the ape head on the basketball player. Did this car come from the future when they blew it up? If so, damn them, damn them all to hell!
  
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- MrMag on Feb 04, 2016
  
  @28-Cars-Later Yeah, the gorilla is the Phoenix Suns mascot, hah.
  
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- 28-Cars-Later on Feb 04, 2016
  
  @MrMag That's out of left field to me. Thanks for the reply.
  
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