30 Years ago, the Blues Brothers brought the cinema screen to the quake. The chaotic music comedy by ultra high crash ratio made famous the inconspicuous Dodge Monaco.
Jake can not believe it: da his brother Elwood picks up finally him after three years in prison, and he drives forward with what for a car? With a former COP car! The Cadillac of her common band, which has mobile, blues Elwood exchanged against a microphone. “That’s view”, Jake must admit. But what should this shabby cart with the faded black and white livery, in which one can guess even the police star and lettering “to serve and to protect”?
“You don’t like so the car”, says Elwood and taught his brother of better: he enters through the accelerator to the floor plate, storms the compete Dodge Monaco ahead with squeaky tire and flies over a half open bascule bridge. “The car has inflated a bull engine, 350 HP.” Has bulls tires, Bull gear, Bulls shock absorbers. “What you’re saying now, this is the new Bluesmobil?” asks his impressed brother Elwood. However, Jake has still something to gripe: “The car is broken.”

in 1980, the Blues Brothers in the cinemas, rolled and until today the comedy, none of its fascination lost. Jake has with their incredible car tracking hunting and Elwood are on behalf of the Lord on the road, because they should raise $5,000 for the Catholic orphanage where they were raised once. For this divine mission they must rally back their old band, whose Mitglieder have now all “proper jobs”. As the band is finally back together, the problems begin to only: since Jake and Elwood had put a complete shopping center to rubble in a chase with their Dodge, the entire police of the State of Illinois on the heels is them.
Director John Landis assembled for his film alongside John Belushi (Jake) and Dan Aykroyd (Elwood) various music legends that occur in supporting roles: Cab Calloway, which already in the 1930′s the New York cotton Club brought to the boil, plays Curtis, the good soul of the orphanage. James Brown occurs as a preacher in a church, Ray Charles equips the Blues Brothers in its music business with instruments and Aretha Franklin is the wife of the band member Matt “Guitar” Murphy.
While James Brown or Ray Charles even without the film would become legends, that of compete would have mobile hardly managed to Dodge Monaco without his role as the Blues. In the prospectus of 1974 as “unmistakably new” advertised, the large Ami shuttle was the Dodge brand’s Luxury flagship, visually, he came along but fairly conventional. Real luxury Chrysler brand was responsible for the Group anyway. It as a coupe, sedan and station wagon, as well as in the trim levels were the Monaco “Monaco”, “Custom”, and “Brougham”. The options included whitewall tires, cruise control, climate control, vinyl roof, electrically adjustable seats and cloth / vinyl upholstery for the seats. The lighter was fitted as standard on board in the base model.
Under the hood already downsized and lower compression were announced in the 1970s, but were left for the Monaco three powerful V8 engines with up to 7.2 liter displacement. Fleet customers such as taxi companies and police stations the smaller sedan Dodge Coronet or which were used in rather Plymouth satellite, but also the Monaco came to the train. As the patrol car, he was sparsely equipped, but with useful extras such as reinforced chassis and more powerful engines.
American patrol car, this is still so today. Therefore, they are quite sought after in auctions even if they have an astronomical mileage. Before one makes the surplus cars to private individuals, they be disposed of course – the blue light is unscrewed, the radio equipment expanded and removes any mark with much effort. Elwoods cars, which he bought at auction of the mount prospect City police in Chicago, are still the RAM bow at the front and the searchlights.The film Blues Brothers by the way recently really his divine blessings received: the L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican, Church newspaper recommended the Strip to the 30-year anniversary as a “Catholic classics”, you must have seen.