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a week or so ago i saw a Proton, not sure of the model, had pulled a motorcycle on Raynesway Duel Carriageway in Derby. Whats the strangest police car you have seen?
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There's a forty year old Morris Minor painted as a Panda Car currently doing a Police road safety promotion around these parts, (I understand it's owned by a PC).
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Ooh! It's not MBM559G is it? I loved that car when I had it, and I see it's still out there somewhere...
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a proton?
sure it was a motor bike and not a bmx that it pulled?
unless the road in question is a steep hill and it was a windy day ;)
I recall many years ago seeing a porche on the M6 near Lancaster
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Warwickshire Police had an XJS in the 80s. Not so much "strange" as incredibly imposing! Go back to the 60s and Lancashire had an open-topped MGB
There was a (LHD) Smart 2 seater patrolling Poole Harbour (the paved part of it) some years ago.
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In the 1980's the Surrey police had a Skoda Estelle doing traffic patrol on the A3.
Blue lights in the grille and calibrated speedometer for speeding pulls.
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At the Goodwood Festival of Speed last year, Sussex Police were showing off their fully marked Lotus Exige. The traffic cop in attendance was a thoroughly nice bloke and was happy to show us around it, and chew the fat about motoring in general.
That said, he went a bit quiet after a "you'd have to be driving something pretty special to get away from this" line, when my mate who was staring thoughtfully at the front airdam retorted "or just head for a road with some speed ramps". :-)
Cheers
DP
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In the 60s Southend Constabulary had Daimler Darts, late 60s West Midlands Constabulary had MGBs In the mid 70s Morris Marinas and then best of the lot Austin Princesss ( wedge) not. One night shift at the Bevan 12 out of 13 off the road, three months old. Oh the days of reliable and great road holding cars, especially the Marinas !
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Humberside police have been using Protons for years. I worked for a one-man Van Hire company a few years ago and he had an N-reg on the fleet as a cheap runabout. We did nothing to it and it ran for the year I was there and never missed a beat. I've had a grudging respect for Protons ever since but living in Doncaster and the nearest dealer in Sheffield they have never figured in my short list.
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Northumbria Police dropped diesel Fiestas a few years back because suspects in the rural parts of the patch could hear them coming from a long way off.
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The Algerian army and police used to use long-chassis petrol Land Rovers in the huge Saharan south of the country with its tiny population and thousands of miles of remote frontier. The Tuaregs who live down there (a nomad camel- and slave-owning Berber people, not a VW jeep thing), who have small regard for frontiers, were on their own enormous great mind-boggling manor and therefore did lots of smuggling and casual crossing of borders, used Toyotas which were faster and more comfortable, but it was said less long-lasting. Don't know if it's still like that though.
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avon and somerset police have some small smart cars in police livery parked up at their HQ, not sure what they use them for
yep seen Proton police cars, would have thought that lotus/proton gti thing would make a good Q car for an unmarked car
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Charing Cross police station in Central London have an electric Smart Car, all liveried up.
Quite quick off the mark, won't do more than 62 mph and no one's managed to have it run out of juice in the middle of nowhere yet.
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The italian police have several Lamborghini Gallardos. All done up in bright blue paint with the flashing blue and red lights on the roof. I'm not sure what the point is but it's certainly a spectacular sight (and sound) when one goes past on the Autostrada. German police used Porsches a long time ago but not any more. I guess an aeroplane or helicopter is more effective.
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The italian police have several Lamborghini Gallardos.
Sigh!! Volvo doesn't have quite the same ring to it!!
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Would have thought a couple of those would be a credit to any motorway force...
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I'd love one of those Lud. Just think of the fun of driving one wearing a flat cap and affecting puffing serenely on a pipe. Then actively seeking pimped up Corsas to pull up alongside at suitable traffic lights............. Heh heh !
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In the early fifties, when Germany was still occupied, the local customs plod obtained a couple of Porsche 356s to chase coffee smugglers bringing the fragrant berry across the border from Belgium where it was very cheap. The smugglers were often US servicemen whose big fat Buicks and so on could outpace ordinary customs vehicles, but tended to run off the road and overturn when chased by the little Porkers...
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years back, saw a white Porsche 968 CS on the M3 (between M25 and London). Livery on the side and no lights on the roof. Can't recall where the blues were though, but the front ones were on as they were dealing with a "customer" at the time.
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Strange cop cars?
A Laguna in York last week. I did a double take.
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