It's the Old Bill.....

[FredTransit]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... ieves.html

 

Not just any Rover, but an SD1, the last of the great Rovers.

 

I think this belongs to the Heritage Met collection. I saw it on the M4 once, coming back from Ascot where we used to get the vans painted. I was in a freshly painted (often police) Mk2 transit minibus, followed by a Mk2 LWB panel van. It sauntered past, and for a minute we were the only things in site on the motorway, and it could have been 1985.

 

As it's still officially a police car and only let out with serving officers, it's allowed to have all the livery and blues on display.

[Milford Cubicle]

Surely the last of the great Rovers is the STREETWISE.

[Cavcraft]

Surely the last of the great Rovers is the STREETWISE.

My arse.

 

CityRover ftw.

[mk2_craig]

Hey maybe they should go to Rimmer Bros and get another run of shells made up. Lob in a RR Sport supercharged V8. SORTED.

[seth]

WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE IN THIS COUNTRY THE THUGS MAY GET OFF ON THE TECHNICALITY THAT THE POLICE USED AN OLD CAR INSTEAD OF A NEW ONE.

 

[morris_ital_lover]

Hey maybe they should go to Rimmer Bros and get another run of shells made up. Lob in a RR Sport supercharged V8. SORTED.

That is quite a plan, now if only I had the omney. Currently near where I am someone has kitted out a defender with what sounds like ones of those monsters and feck me it does half go like sh*t off a shovel, having been crossing the road when it opened up at II can vouch for it being able to cause many brown trouser moments.

 

Back on topic, brilliant story, didn;t something similar happen with a P6 in the past couple of years in a similar vain? The weird thing is if you compare this to the army, they do this almost everyday, as all the ancient Bedfords and a load of the tracked things as well, some dating from the late 1960s, early 1970s!

 

m0rris

[Tayne]

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[Owain-328i]

There's plenty of commercial aircraft over 25 years in daily service.

Very true, i flown on some right grotty old crocks

[shite_meister]

Back on topic, brilliant story, didn;t something similar happen with a P6 in the past couple of years in a similar vain?m0rris

Yes they did, it was the dark blue P6 from the Meat-Wagon Display or whatever its called.

[morris_ital_lover]

BAlimey, thanks for confirming that, before we know it someone will have been chased down by a wolseley 6/90!

 

m0rris

[CIH]

BAlimey, thanks for confirming that, before we know it someone will have been chased down by a wolseley 6/90!

 

m0rris

presumeably somebody on foot lol

[Mash]

BAlimey, thanks for confirming that, before we know it someone will have been chased down by a wolseley 6/90!

 

m0rris

Theoretically that could happen. As Fred says, the cars in the Met collection are officially still in service and AFAIK that includes their 6/80.

 

Imagine it tearing along The Embankment with the bell ringing racing after some miscreants in a stolen Hillman Minx.

[morris_ital_lover]

presumeably somebody on foot lol

No.. you've got give the wolseley a chance, maybe someone with a Zimmer frame perhaps ! I will put my neck out there and say that of all the cars the british police have used in my opinion the 6/90 is the prettiest of all of them!

 

m0rris