Team Polizei Wallpaper #17 (yes, I know they’ve gone from daily to weekly to nearly bi-weekly!) is Polizei E39 Meets Ronin E34. Haven’t seen John (the best car director of all time) Frankenheimer’s Ronin
Here it is in hi-rez, along with the rest of Team Polizei’s official wallpapers!
Before I get into how much I love this thing, let’s be clear. I’m not an SUV guy. Most SUV’s handle terribly, and accident statistics show how often they are driven by people who don’t know it. Personal observation also suggests most of them don’t need them, but hey, it’s a free country. If I had to buy one, some are obviously better than others. The Cayenne. The Toureg. The Range Rover. The X5.
But none of them are remotely as cool as this Hummer H1 Alpha - custom-modified as a Storm Chaser. And it’s for sale.
If you haven’t read "The Driver", I’ll let you in on a secret. We at Team Polizei like to think outside the box…the Polizei uniform box, that is, which is why - on our final cross-country run in October 2006 - we didn’t merely strip the Polizei M5 of our traditional livery. We re-liveried as Storm Chasers, and although we were lucky enough never to have to resort to what little Storm Chaser knowledge we studied prior to departure, let me tell you, the mere thought of encountering a real tornado made me realize how hilariously bizarre a Storm Chasing M5 must have looked.
You want to see balls?
Continue reading ‘Hummer of Love - The H1 Alpha Storm Chaser…For Sale!’
Team Polizei Wallpaper #16…for your amusement, I created this comically doctored window invoice sticker for "The Driver" book tour, which is now available (slightly cropped) as a desktop wallpaper. Read the fine print. Enjoy.
Team Polizei Wallpaper of the Day #15 shows the Polizei M5 stopped at the foot of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco on the 2004 Gumball 3000…one of the few calm moments on one of the fastest and most difficult driving days in Gumball history.
Team Polizei Wallpaper of the Day #14 shows the Polizei M5 passing under a fan-plastered bridge within an hour of leaving the London start line of the 2007 Gumball 3000. I love this one, as it is so rare that anyone catches a clear shot of us moving, especially from overhead.
I lost my notes on which fan sent me this, so whoever you are, please let me know so I can give you credit!
Team Polizei Wallpaper of the Day #13 shows the beloved M5 parked in front of the Spanish Embassy in London mere days after the end of the 2005 Gumball 3000.
Team Polizei Wallpaper of the Day #12 is from the start of our very first rally…literally…it was taken in the first ten seconds after our leap off the Start Line of the 2003 Gumball 3000 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Our trusty Valentine 1 Radar Detector is visible on the top left, our now-retired Uniden BC795 Radio Scanner is on our BMW M5’s dashtop, and one of our roof-mounted police light’s power cables is dangllng down through the sunroof.
I’ve restored 99% of the images lost, reposted the wallpapers and fixed most of the category and archive issues, although some remain. Rather than rewrite the missing posts from scratch, I’m going to return to blogging new stories…unless someone absolutely has to see something they recall reading or watching before this disaster. In any case, I’m going to daiy manual backups, as my ISP can’t be relied upon - sadly - to backup more than once a week.
Thanks to everyone who’s emailed me with suggestions, and please let me know if you come across any other issues.
Best,
Team Polizei Wallpaper of the Day #11 shows my last minute adjustments to the jury-rig of the Polizei electronics suite to Michael Ross’s Bentley GT at the London start line of the 2006 Gumball 3000.
Team Polizei Wallpaper of the Day #10 shows the interior of Master Pilot Michael Ross’s Bentley GT at the start of the 2006 Gumball 3000. This is what happens when one has only 24 hours to jury rig the Polizei electronics suite…in the absence of our beloved Polizei M5…
