German Teen Restores North Reading Cruiser

Photos courtesy North Reading Police Department. 1) the cruiser after being refinished, 2) the cruiser before being refinished by von Kolontay, and 3) von Kolotnay (left) with the Police Car Owners of America, European Chapter.

When some police officers retire, they might consider moving to Florida.

When a police cruiser is retired, it might find itself moving to Europe.

That’s what happened to retired North Reading Police cruiser #18.

Dominik von Kolontay of Osnabrueck, Germany acquired the department’s retired car 18 and had it shipped to Germany.

He’s spent many painstaking hours restoring the cruiser to what it had once looked like while it was an active member of the North Reading Police fleet.

While restoring a retired police cruiser might seem like the kind of project taken on by a retired person, von Kolontay is only 18.

He is a member of the Police Car Owners of America, European Chapter, and organization that finds old American police cruisers and then refurbishes them to their original state.

Von Kolontay used the North Reading Police Department’s website to research the color scheme of its police vehicles.