In an earlier post this week, I explained a bit where my love for Japanese cars comes from, as well as what I like more and more the deeper I get into Japanese cars.
One of the aspects of my affinity for Japanese cars centers on what they were like when they were on the roads of Japan. It means I am expanding beyond GT-R’s and more into street cars, buses, trucks, and kei cars.
And definitely police cars.
The Japanese police livery is so damn cool, it is not a surprise that Tomica Limited Vintage is putting it on as many police cars as it can. We assume all the castings used had real car police counterparts, as TLV are sticklers for that. Then again, you can put this iconic livery on a tricycle and it would look cool.
Our collection of TLV Police cars continues to expand. It is not even close to being complete, but it is fairly substantial now. In case you want to know our favorite, go to the Seibu Keisatsu section at the bottom at look at the first car, a Nissan Gloria with mag wheels. A true beauty.
So to keep our JCCS Week celebration going, a whole bunch of Japanese marked and unmarked police cars. Enjoy…
(You can find most of these at Japan Booster
.)
Tomica Limited Vintage Police Models:
MITSUBISHI COLT GALANT Miyagi Police
TOYOTA COROLLA 1100 4DOOR SEDAN PATROL CAR (Tokyo Metro Police)
TOYOPET CROWN Japanese Osaka Police
NISSAN FAIRLADY 260Z 2BY2 PATROL CAR (Metro Police)
NISSAN SKYLINE VAN POLICE CAR LIMITED EDITION
TOYOTA LAND CRUISER FJ56V FUKUOKA POLICE LIMITED EDITION
PORSCHE 912 AICHI POLICE (1967)
PORSCHE 912 (KANAGAWA POLICE)
DATSUN BLUEBIRD VAN OSAKA POLICE LIMITED EDITION
TOYOTA COROLLA 1500 Gunma Police
NISSAN CEDRIC PATOROL CAR 66s (Kanagawa Police)
ISUZU BELLETT TOKYO METRO POLICE PATROL CAR
Toyopet Crown Unmarked
Seibu Keisatsu Series:
Nissan Gloria Police
Nissan Laurel Police
Nissan Cedric Police
Nissan Cedric Unmarked
Nissan Cedric Unmarked Police
Nissan Gloria Unmarked Police
RS-Machine 1
RS-Machine 2
RS-Machine 3
those are really great!
That livery is still being used for the modern police vehicle models Tomica offer. Especially the Toyota Crowns as well as the Nissan Skylines, Fairlady's and Mazdas.
The lightbar used for the Seibu Keisatsu series Nissan Cedric looks like a Japanese copy of the Federal Signal TwinSonic…
Clarifications on the Seibu Keisatsu units.
The Laurel and Gloria are Fukuoka Prefectural Police cars, while that Cedric with the lightbar is a Tokyo Metro Police unit.
To make the wheels they used for the Cedric police unit here, they modified the casting for the wheels used on the Laurel from 4 wheel nuts to 5 wheel nuts.
That info was taken from the TLV website…