{"id":683,"date":"2006-02-10T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/dukes_of_harlem_go_from_zero_to_sixty_like_a_bullitt.html"},"modified":"2006-02-10T09:45:28","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T17:45:28","slug":"dukes_of_harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/dukes_of_harlem.html","title":{"rendered":"Dukes Of Harlem Go From Zero To Sixty Like A Bullitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Police Department is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/390114p-330974c.html\">purchasing muscle cars that go from zero to 60 in 6.52 seconds<\/a> because &#8212; as everyone who drives in New York knows &#8212; it is absolutely necessary to be able to attain speeds of 150 mph while patrolling the wide-open streets of Manhattan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If it&#8217;s good enough for Daisy Duke and her outlaw kin, it&#8217;s good enough for New York&#8217;s Finest.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a car that can peel rubber and keep pace with the revved-up rigs of rebels, the NYPD is adding the Dodge Charger &#8212; the preferred ride of the Dukes of Hazzard &#8212; to its fleet of cruisers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re always looking for good equipment, including a little muscle in the car department,&#8221; said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>The 2006 Charger can giddyap to 150 mph, and reach 60 mph in 6.52 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The car that does 110 mph doesn&#8217;t do it anymore,&#8221; said Leonard Lesko, the NYPD&#8217;s director of fleet services.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD is buying 15 of the muscle cars, equipped with 5.7-liter, V-8 Hemi engines and a road-warrior reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Dodge introduced the car in 1966, but Steve McQueen made it famous in the 1968 flick &#8220;Bullitt&#8221; playing a San Francisco cop tailing a blood-thirsty underworld kingpin who drove a Charger.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Police Department is purchasing muscle cars that go from zero to 60 in 6.52 seconds because &#8212; as everyone who drives in New York knows &#8212; it is absolutely necessary to be able to attain speeds of 150 mph while patrolling the wide-open streets of Manhattan: If it&#8217;s good enough for Daisy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}