[DeTomaso] Police Deauville

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/31/13 14 11 30, wgeisler66 at gmail.com writes:


> According to their internet site they are exhibiting a Police Deauville:
> http://museoauto.poliziadistato.it/cronologia_1970.htm
> Not a standard police car, right?
> 
>>>Jim Demick wrote a "Collector's Corner" piece on a model of this 
Deauville.   I can only imagine it was some sort of VIP car?

When you go to the link above, look over to the right under "1979" to see 
the Deauville, with two small photos and some information listed there.   The 
Google translation of the bumf there is:

"Vehicle equipped with armor plating on 2nd level, used in representing 
service and the transport of personality"

De Tomaso made quite a few armored Deauvilles, one of which inexplicably 
wound up in Arizona, and was exhibited at Concorso Italiano many years ago.   
It looked rather ordinary, but the bulletproof glass was really, really 
thick, and of course it weighed much more than a regular car.   If you look 
closely at the photos of the car in the link above, you can see that the 
doorframes around the windows are extremely thick (the bulletproof glass is 
partially lowered).

Mike