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COPPING A USED CAR.(Revs)(buying a used police car at Chicago Motors)
Byline: JEFF SABATINI
It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks... What do you say? Is it the new Bluesmobile or what? -Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers
Watching Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi destroy their 1974 Dodge Monaco in a high-speed chase through downtown Chicago is enough to make any self-respecting gearhead consider purchasing a used cop car. Conveniently enough, the Windy City is home to Chicago Motors, "America's No. 1 Used Police Cars Station House.''
Anis Ghaniwala and two of his relatives opened the dealership on the city's west side in 1990. At first they moved about five cars a month, selling mostly to cab companies and private security firms.
"I went door to door to all the cab companies and introduced myself,'' said Ghaniwala, a former garment merchant.
Business has grown, and today Chicago Motors stocks between 80 and 100 former police cars at any given time, an inventory spread over a few small lots in the neighborhood. The firm deals about 40 cars per month, a quarter of which are sold to private individuals. Before the sale, cars ...
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