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Ya know, you're right, there are photos on the NYS troopers website, link attached below, and now that I think of it, I always forget that the ones between '74 and late 80's were that yellow and blue, because they have been some shade of blue for a long time, that yellow fades in my memory of them for some reason. I remember storage lots of those new cars by the thruway main offices at exit 23, waiting for distribution, could not miss seeing those at all. The year they went to the new colors, they were still using chrysler or dodge cars, same model as in the blues brothers movie, I'm not up on the old dodge models, but I do remember when they made the change, must have been the same color scheme as the 1983 model, those colors were used over 10 years at least. I can also remember those guys scrambling to get that spray paint off those cars, they were inside the building when they sprayed them if I remember correctly, some brazen idiots, plus they were in our old milk house/tool shed. One thing is for sure, had they been caught in those days, they might have fallen down a few times before being arraigned, to say the least, another thing that has probably changed drastically since then. Living next to the barracks, I remember the black and white cars quite well, exactly like the 1973 model pictured on the NYS trooper website, with the horn shaped tail lights and one rotating light on top. I remember one particular trooper that would turn the light on if we made a funny face from the barn behind the barracks when he was going out on the 3pm shift, we used to climb up on the first level of beams on that huge barn, and hang out the door, he was humoring us, but everytime we did it we thought we were in big trouble. I think we have some old photos where you can see in the background, the black and white patrol cars in front of the barracks from inside of our old house through the window where the photo was taken. This was the Troop G Brunswick Barracks, it was new when we moved here. The guys assigned here then were good neighbors and great friends, many just out of the service like my father. I remember Maureen Tuffey being assigned here in the mid 70's, photo of her on the NYSP site too, had to make sure I remembered correctly, sh has not changed much since, she was part of the first class of female troopers, and she was the first one I ever saw in NYS trooper uniform, which was really odd then, also a very nice person as I remember her keeping a watchful eye out on our place when it was vacant, used to be very busy at one time, later on if I was working down there when it was quiet for awhile she or someone would always come out and check, I'd tell her who I was etc., I highly appreciated that, they did not have to do that by any means. Lot of good history and memories from those days when we were neighbors, they moved to a new barracks down the road a bit a few years back, lot of young guys training in this area now.
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