Man buys ‘full code’ 1988 Ford Crown Victoria police car before things take a wild turn

An American man bought a 1988 Ford Crown Victoria that used to be a police car and things got…weird.

The Crown Vic he purchased still looked exactly like a police car.

The man who bought it knew he could drive it, but still decided to sell it after a strange but no doubt stressful interaction with the police.

There’s a lot to unpack here.

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The most recognizable police car in the world

Police departments across the US are now ‘diversifying’ their fleets.

Several police departments, from California to Minnesota, are buying Teslas, while others are buying Dodge SUVs.

But, for the longest time, just about any and every police department across the U.S. used Ford Crown Victorias.

As a result, you can find several decommissioned police cars that still look like a police car.

That’s what happened to this guy.

A weird situation

As explained in the video shared by VINWiki, the owner was able to buy the car directly from the police

That’s where things went a bit wrong for him.

The car was ‘full code’, as in with all the decals and livery of a police car.

Once he got pulled over in Indiana, and the police officer would simply not believe he was able to buy the car that way, even though the owner had papers to prove it.

So the car was impounded, and the police called both a local Ford dealership that had worked on a car and the officer who’d sold the car.

As it turns out, they both lied, claiming the car never had decals when he’d bought it.

Things were taken up to the prosecutor, who looked into it, determined the owner was indeed in the right, and gave him a piece of paper to further prove he’d nothing wrong, and he could drive the car.

But, the whole thing was clearly a bit too stressful to deal with, so he just ended up selling the car anyway.