Super Beetle owner here. The 1302 has not flat laying tire you recognize them by the flat windshield, only the 1303 has a flat laying tire in the front, also the tail lights, floor plan, seatmounts and dashboard are differnt. Also the slats in the front for the oil cooler were not standard, some had it some didn't. It was an optional feature by Volkswagen which they allowed their customers to get or not. The original coolers are very inefficent and are no longer available because they had an actual fan powered by the car's battery and draining power as well. Today the coolers are swapped out against a single radiator that cools down by the wind of driving. About the head rest... it's easy to convert the ones with head rest into a pair without head rests. You just need a new seat cover and a differnt filling, even tho for older ones, it's highly recommended to actually give them head rests because in case of a back accident, they prevent your neck from snapping... So in that case I would not give a thing for accuracy and more on safety...
It's only illegal to run the licks on the road, I know guys with ex-cop cars that take them to shows and the only thing they are asked to do is to put a cover ofer the lights saying "Out of Service" only thing is that only aplies to Non-LED lightbars. All modern day LEG lightbars must be removed or only be amber. In general is illegal to drive down the road with any lashing red, white, blue or green lights on your car. My dad knew a guy that got in big trouble bc he vocered his car in christmas lights.
I'm not sure about the US but I plow snow and my truck runs a light bar and strobes orange and blue. And they can be left on while driving on roads with traffic. Any time I encountered police they don't even look
I understand where your coming from. I have my old security uniform cover in Ghostbusters patches to cover up the stuff from the company I use to work for and people would come up to me often and want to talk about Ghostbusters and a couple time I had people act as if I really was a Ghostbuster they were so excited.
I think a lot of the law stems from intent of impersonation, I don’t think anyone is going to mistaken an Ecto 1 for a police cruiser, and at least in my state I don’t even think they actively enforce emergency lights because the amount of people I’ve seen using red and blue under glow and panel lighting on motorcycles and legal registered off-road vehicles is insane. Sounds like that Athens cop needed a little power trip
in Australia, our production companies cover the lights to prevent them from being seen by the public when they are transporting the vehicle from place to place and put magnets over the portions that would get them into trouble like "police" "fire" or "ambulance" I kinda have to agree with the production companies because these days the slim line lights are easy to cover over with something custom made, they protect the areas that might get damaged plus it reduces confusion. But when it comes to ecto1, sorry to say but I'm not going to be fooled into thinking it's emergency services so I quite frankly wouldn't be a buzz kill and complain
The position , here in Scotland , is that while preserved emergency vehicles can have blue lights fitted , and they can be working , for use at shows etc , or even on organised parades , in normal road going travels , they should be covered by a hood . Incidentally - on your side of the pond - don't your police cars etc have red lights , not blue ? I do have blue lights for my own car , can't remember when I last used them , but I work for the Fire service , so if on an official journey , I could use them , but the only time I've had them on in recent years was if I happened to be first on the scene of a road accident and I wanted to protect both myself and anyone who might have been trapped in a crashed car . Which was twice in the last decade .
Officially here in the UK they should be covered up when on the road outside of events, parades etc. But most police would have just told you to turn them off in your situation
i was filming a scene locally using old cars that was supposed to be set in California so we created paper licence plates to tape over the local ones. I asked a friend of mine who is a police officer if we could do that and she said "No, it's illegal, but do it anyway. We won't care".
In the states, it varies by state. Here in Pennsylvania, blue lights can be used by volunteer EMS and Firefighters and I've known people who had them mounted to their cars. The advice was to cover them with garbage bags when traveling in nearby Ohio, as red was for volunteers and blue was reserved for police.
Here in Pa blue is vol firefighter lights you dont even have to pull over for them they are the same as amber. Red is fire chief n undercover police red n blue are police. If we had lights on our vehicle going to other state we had to put out of service cover on them. The vehicle code kinda says anyone can have them on the vehicle its when the are turned on you face issues unless on pvt property ir a car show
I mean.. yeah its not legal but whos pulling over an ecto-1? Who would want to be hated for towing it? How would that court case even go? "Sir you are here for cop lights on your car.." *exhibit A your honor. a picture of the car..* "have a good day sir."
I know. I worked at a recycling center decades ago, and we bought this stretcher for 15 cents a pound. Found one of the screen-accurate ones for sale a few years ago for $450. What would you do?
Police cars of a certain age are being sold in Finland, the coloring has been spared, the name has been removed. some company figured out to put the word bandit on the side. so we have a cop and a robber of the same color. from the point of view of the law it's illegal, from the police's point of view it's funny. the law requires the police to sell used equipment for reuse, but since state funds must be saved, they are not painted white in order to avoid the risk of making a mistake as intended by the law.
You can buy custom snap-on blackout covers for the lights. Police dept. mechanics here cover the light bars when driving out-of-service units for test drives.
Take the correct light bars off the 65 and put them on the 60 that 65 is already not the correct car anyway so put the not correct lights with that one and the correct ones for the 60. It's common sense. Your dad's wrong.
Why bother building an Ecto-1 if you can't get the real car? I mean, you don't see any BTTF fans turning a Fiero into the "DeLorean," do you? To me, it seems like a waste of money.
Technically in Michigan any modification to the lights from factory original is illegal... its just selectively enforced. So its illegal if it bothers a police man who wants an excuse to arrest you.
No lights are illegal. The use of private property is not a crime. What is illegal is declaring a false emergency, which is something police officers do every single day on duty.
It is only illegal if they are operational and used. If they are used in a parade or special event while stationary they would be legal. They are not legal on the street in any event unless authority having jurisdiction allows it.
red/blue lights are legal to have but NOT legal to use..... however 99% of all LEO's wouldn't do anything so long as the lights are used for the effect of the prop.
My mean comment: I am not a car guy, it looks like ALOT of work to even get to where you want it. It's your project, but seems a shame to get a car that close to the right year and style and make it an AFTERLIFE car and not they 84 car. 🤷 But seems like alot of work, but good luck in your projects.
the blue lights on the road NO not allowed by law only police (Red for FD) (Yellow for D.O.T) so no lights like that if not within department's. fact: Bill Murray (Peter) Said in Q&A that they just drove around NYC with lights on talking about how they ran through a few red lights walked into random stores with all the gear saying ''The cops looked at us and I mean we had wayyy cooler gear than them and the car'' so yeah the scenes with the ecto-1 headed down NYC are real shots of them just speeding around the town passing stop lights and things fact 2: Ghostbusters 2 the ecto 1A was so top heavy the ending scene where it shows them driving to the museum art place to stop vigo for a final battle. on that curb turn it shows the car on 2 wheels for a short time. that's real as it almost tipped over many times due to them using ALL REAL 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance's I saw on another video people talking about some of the cars being props in the movies. No All 4 movies with the OG cast used real 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance's
