[Silly Little Cars] A New Meter Maid Vehicle

Thu Feb 14 13:29:07 PST 2013

Fortunately, the Interceptor Metermaids are not used by the police here (San Antonio) and never have been.  So, most of the time I just get a “what the hell is that” look, or the “who, what, when, where, how much” questions from passersby.  Graffiti is of no concern  . . . so I still have the blue and white paint job.  Have so many plugged holes in the roof from the cop paraphernalia that I need to get then filled in and painted or possibly wrapped.

From: silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com [mailto:silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com] On Behalf Of Alec Bennett
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [Silly Little Cars] A New Meter Maid Vehicle

.  Take where I live (San Antonio) as an opposite end of the perspective continuum.  Marking up another’s vehicle, three wheeler or not,  owned by a cop or not, will likely be settled by Smith and Wesson if caught; so no one really ever goes there.  Now buildings, that’s a whole different thing.

The thing is, they don't mark up people's cars here in sf either. Only metermaid cars, whether ex metermaid or not. 

That said, most of the times I've been grafitti'd have been when my car looked like it could plausibly be a metermaid. Put a Barbie or an E.T. on the roof and all that goes away. 

From: silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com [mailto:silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com] On Behalf Of Powers
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [Silly Little Cars] A New Meter Maid Vehicle

How cool, a portable wall for graffiti ! 

Don't they think about these things before they make urban vehicles with vast white panels??

On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Jille Eikenberry <agent.hosen at gmail.com> wrote:

I just saw one of these on my way home the other day (in sf)!

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 14, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Alec Bennett <wrybread at gmail.com> wrote:

Charley sent me this email about a new metermaid buggy, I thought I'd forward to the list:

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Charley wrote:

Alec,

Here is a link to the latest in electric meter maid vehicles that may become competition for the Westward Industries GO-4 Interceptors. Roanoke, VA has recently purchased several of these to replace their GO-4 Interceptor meter maid fleet. 

Charley

http://www.ecarco.com/prodFireFly.htm

Wow, super cool. Looks like they're also deployed in Santa Monica. Their website doesn't have very many pics of them, but I pulled one from their goofy Powerpoint presentation, attached.

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