1969 Race Dart w/ 426 Hemi- garaged for 45+ years

Speaking of small town police, years ago I bought a 64 Belvedere 426/425 HP 4 speed former SS car. It needed a LOT of work to go back on the street semi legally. I was courteous to the neighbors by not running it with open headers early in the morning and late evenings. At the time, I lived in a newly incorporated city with a chief of police and two officers in some old clapped out Ford Crown Vics. One Saturday I went to get my trailer to take the car to the exhaust shop to get a good system installed. As I was pulling the car up on the trailer, the chief stopped by and asked about the car. He asked me to please not cause problems because the old cop cars they had probably couldn't keep up. I laughed and told him I wouldn't do anything foolish in the neighborhood. Two weeks later, I took the car out with proper registration and a decent exhaust system. I drove over to the chief's house and asked if he'd like to take a ride. We left the neighborhood to an old county road where I stopped the car, brought the R's up and dumped the clutch. The chief was impressed and said that his cars would definitely not keep up. Sadly, I went through a divorce and had to sell the car but it lives on up in Ames, Iowa to this day.