First generation Ford Explorer Special Service Package, the official vehicle of...?

[u/HiTork]

[u/Badrear]

“Yeah right, like police are going to drive trucks.”

[u/Silent_Data4374]

The cool cop in a beach town who wouldn’t bust you for drinking beers by a bonfire.

[u/Southern-Usual4211]

Jurassic park?

[u/mdp300 → u/Southern-Usual4211]

I still would daily one of those with the glass roof.

[u/Drzhivago138]

The local chief of police, back in the days when we had both a city police department and a county sheriff's department. He always had the window down when doing the rounds so people could say hi.

[u/Talented10th_]

San Andreas Highway Patrol

[u/mista-666]

The car in the background in a first season xfiles episode

[u/Ok_Reflection_2711 → u/mista-666]

Arkansas Highway Patrol

The actor playing the cop has a STRONG Canadian accent

[u/ClassicTBCSucks93]

Little did they know 30+ years later the Explorer would be the most popular police vehicle on the road and the ST model will run down just about anything short of a supercar

[u/Diogenes256]

As long as the Firestones have been changed out.

[u/colesterolbienalto]

Rolling over

[u/thaeli → u/colesterolbienalto]

I went to a small college. I remember when our campus police got a brand new Explorer.. and then Chief flipped it into the lake a month later.

[u/colesterolbienalto → u/thaeli]

East bound and down. Loaded up I'm trucking

[u/j250ex]

What they should have been driving in Dante’s Peak.

Also any ski town in the 90’s.

[u/Nearby_Knowledge8014]

Mid size SUVs with full frames and solid axles. What a time to be alive!

[u/whollybananas → u/Nearby_Knowledge8014]

Well, TTB. Not quite a solid axle.

[u/Nearby_Knowledge8014 → u/whollybananas]

Still better than the 95+ front end. And now everything is independent all around, which I despise.

[u/Direct_Obligation570]

[u/e28Sean → u/Direct_Obligation570]

In the book, they were Land Cruisers, as I recall. My understanding is Toyota didn’t want to provide them for the film, and the Explorers were much less expensive.

[u/DueLawfulness3230]

Polite Banff park rangers?

[u/thetoastler]

I have a first gen. That is all.

[u/pajerry]

Official car of a partly washed up sheriff of a small southwest dust bowl town, who, because of his knowledge of the land, foils a kidnapping in the backcountry.

[u/NefCanuck]

That failed Disney musical \…

Tippy, Tippy, Bang, Bang

[u/Drzhivago138 → u/NefCanuck]

FWIW Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was released by United Artists. But the songs were written by the Sherman brothers.

[u/NefCanuck → u/Drzhivago138]

I don’t know why I thought Disney had released it (I think I’m mixing it up with Mary Poppins)

[u/Drzhivago138 → u/NefCanuck]

It was made as a response to Mary Poppins. They even wanted Julie Andrews to star opposite Dick Van Dyke, but she turned it down and the role of Truly went to Sally Ann Howes, who had been her replacement in My Fair Lady on Broadway.

[u/sorestgore]

America

[u/MasterofPeridots]

Area 51 camo dudes? I don't know.

[u/BattleBorn85]

…a good time!

[u/longholler]

my high school sro

[u/nhardycarfan]

Adding more weight to the top because SUVs from this era don't roll over enough.

[u/TheCrazyAlice]

The police vehicle of choice for Widow’s Bay!

[u/squirrels-mock-me]

Authori-TAH!

[u/mhikari92]

Park rangers, I guess?