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7 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

I've never seen those alloys on an SD1. Wonder what they are and why? 

They’re Minlites and the Metropolitan Police started fitting them on their 2600 auto Area cars after some brake fade incidents. Traffic cars , which were usually V8s and manual rarely got them, although my first speeding ticket in 1981 was from a sneaky copper in a green 2600 Traffic car with Minilites on the North Circular.

Presumably any Minilites you see on SD1s, P6es etc are part of that Police batch.
 

The 2600es were replaced by 2.0i GLS Auto Sierras , the brake issue wasn’t a problem for them, but they all ended up with 4x4 Sapphire bonnets, presumably because of overheating problems.

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