“I have always kept buried this dream of having a car similar to that of the American police and I had to wait until I was 47, wisdom too, to acquire a white family sedan whose model corresponded The car of my dreams Built in Canada, it rolled out of the GMC factories in Toronto in 1983. A GI who was part of the troops stationed at the Berlin Wall in Germany had brought this sedan there to feel America and walking with his family in the Black Forest, Berlin and Belgium. One day, I was on a business trip and I noticed this car in front of a small garage “Boury father and son” in the village of a place called “Le Clavier” near Bouglon. A garage specializing in the sale of second-hand vehicles, with a repair workshop, and in the marketing of exceptional cars. An atypical place full of Ferraris and Americans. It is a Gersois who s separated from it. On Friday, she came it to be delivered, on Sunday I had it in hand. It was the model of my childhood that I was looking for, it took me 30 years of patience”.
In love with his lines, pampering his Dallas, Philippe Percy changed a few odds and ends and the serigraphs two years ago following the incident of a mechanic who had a faulty axle. “My car fell 2 meters, fortunately I had a “collector’s car” gray card, otherwise I lost everything”.
With his wife Thérèse, whom he was able to lead into his American dream, the couple scoured country music festivals and concentrations of remarkable cars: The Mirande Festival, a monthly meeting in Captieux which has a police car club US (from the 60s to 2000). But also Lavaur or Bergerac which also foreshadow their beautiful escapes to meet other enthusiasts of cop cars.
He points to a healthy curiosity, wonderful and unforgettable encounters for 18 years, but also people who are a little too comfortable who, without his knowledge, take selfies on the hood of his car, including once, a woman with a studded shorts that scratched his bodywork. The Sheriff likes to keep an eye on his American.
When he parades around town in Agen, he does not have the possibility of parking “because the car takes up one and a half parking spaces and you have to put in two tickets”.
He is the only one to own a police car in Lot-et-Garonne.
