From the museum’s collection, we are happy to show a two-piece radar system used to catch speeders.
It was manufactured by Kustom Electronics of Chanute, Kansas and used by the Minneapolis Police Department in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The cone bracket (as pictured in the photograph above) fit over the the squad car window and the receiver sat on the dashboard. The driver’s speed was displayed in the small window of the receiver.
This radar system could be used in a stationary mode or could be operated when the squad car was moving.