Oldsmaniac

Came across this article on the net from Hemmings. http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/..._feature8.html
I am not buying all comments from officers who used the vehicles. Especially the comment "'The worst thing the State ever did to us!" I drove a 66 Delta everyday for years and it was a great car. I drool over the restored CHP pictured in the article.

wmachine

Great car!

Oldsguy

You should remember that comments like that are subjective though. You never know, that patrol person may have been a died-in-the-wool MOPAR guy and that is why he said what he did. I think those Deltas and Delmonts in the sixties were superb highway cruisers in stock form and with Police equipment and HD upgrades would have been even better on the road.

1969w3155

I read that article when it first came out. It was a good read, but I am inclined to think that politics were involved back then.

Olds64

Thanks for the link.

rocketraider

I'll be honest. Brutally honest. Jeff Koch has published his fair share of outright BS in the Hemmings magazines, to the point that I generally bypass any article with his tagline. His continuous misinformation is the single reason I stopped subscribing to HMM. If I wanted crap car journalism, I'd read Muscle Car Review.

66400

They were not junk, however the majority of CHP officers did not like the Delmont. In researching my car I've conversed with 2 retired CHP officers that were assigned Delmonts and they would rather continue driving 66 Dodge Monacos. A few officers had enough "pull" to keep their assigned 66 Dodge Monaco in service and skipped over the 67 Demont until the new fleet of 68 Dodge Monacos arrived. 66 and 68 Dodge units had bucket seats and had better road handling, more suitable to police work.

Henry

66 Olznut

My Dad and Step Dad, both joined the CHP in 1966, HATED the '67 Olds. Dad said the power was ok, Step Dad said his had carb issues and visibility was horrible, he ended up backing into one of those poles at the end of the gas pump islands that had the cash register on it. They both said the hottest CHP car ever hands down was the '69 Polara.

Diego

Well, whose opinion was it? Was it Jeff's? So why the angst directed towards him?

What other BS has he published?

I know Jeff to be a Mercury Man first, for what it's worth.