Sporting a monstrous big-block V8 engine, it is protected to say that not many miscreants in home autos had been capable of outrun Tochigi prefecture’s livid pony. The Japanese Mustang police automotive is a 1973 Mach 1 Cobra Jet, one of many few examples that had been legally exported within the ’70s, in keeping with Hagerty. Ford North America supervisor Mark Wilson suspected that the Mustang Mach 1s got here into the nation round 1972 to 1973, and had been possible marketed in direction of American troops staying there after the Vietnam Struggle. As for the oddly international Japanese police automotive, it was apparently donated to the prefecture, in keeping with native information outlet Asahi Shimbun.
After being in service for greater than a decade, this pony is now tied down on the Tochigi driver’s license middle exhibition room in Kanuma — and it is not the one American car within the showroom that fulfilled its duties overseas. A Chevrolet that had been in Tochigi prefecture’s service for over twenty years — which was even used to escort the emperor — is parked proper beside the celebrated Mustang. After all, that does not imply Japan’s police automobiles largely include American muscle; there are additionally some beefy JDM stars in its lineup.
