That's a neat article. Thanks for posting it.
Deep inside the Allpar.com website are some articles by Curtis Redgap. Mr. Redgap's family was a Chrysler Corp dealer in the 1950s and later. One of the articles details the performance of the mid-50s Dodge Police Cars in the CHP tests.
Seems that Dodge/Chrysler started to use metallic brake linings on their police cars back then. He noted that the Dodge made it through the brake test with flying colors (and brake drums that were glowing red hot). Then they reran the tests again, and it still stopped as good as it did before. Another victory for Chrysler Engineering! His articles are great reading, too!
Allpar.com also has sections devoted to "Chrysler Squads", too. There are also two excellent books on Chrysler Police Cars, divided by model years . . . one prior to about 1978 and one for the more recent years. BOTH excellent reading, too!
In the earlier model year book, lots of interesting information on CHP cars and what made them unique and desired. In the later book, there's a chapter about the turbo fwd "test" cars . . . which never really made it, but were out for testing with certain police groups. Then the "unofficial" Intrepid police cars, before Chrysler did them on the 2nd Gen LH platform to compete with the then-new Chevy fwd Impalas.
Enjoy!
C-BODY