Oldest model of police car

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What is the oldest model of police car you can remember?

What about the Rover 3500 and the Morris Marina? Can anyone go back further than this?

What do your local police favour? Our local force seem to be into Peugeots in a big way.
 
i can beat u all, although i aint old enough i do now a mate who restored a wosley police car, still with the original bell and police pplates it even happens to be the last police vehicle to transport the last woman un the uk ( i think its the uk) to be hung
 
Rover3500 is about the oldest i can remember as well.

Last time i saw them the locals still had a couple of the astras and some landrovers. may have changed now though,
 
Our local police force seem to love Skoda.

::EDIT:: *love* == "Get given".

Did you ever see one of the Police, Stop! (or similar) shows where a T5 powered Volvo was losing ground to an Octavia vRS? Pretty sure it was a MkI with 1.8T at the time - it's no wonder they're all the rage :D Good price as well.


My Father is a retired bobby, and one car sticks in his mind. I can't remember which model it was exactly (other than it was a BMC maque) and not a "fast" model, but anyway they had constant engine problems with it.

Eventually, it went back to the manufacturer. The manufacturer phoned to say the problem was fixed and they could pick it up. The driver who bought it back came in white and shaking like a leaf - he'd had well over 100mph from the engine without pushing it on the way back. All the other bobbies thought he was pulling their leg, but eventually they phoned up about it, to be told "Oh, yeah. Our engineers couldn't find anything wrong with the engine, so one of our managers told us to put in a competiton engine."

I'm guessing that one caused a lot of upset to speeding drivers.
 
Austin allegro and mini vans, I remember them.

When you talk about the rover 3500 are you talking about the SD1 or the proper old rover 3500??? as I remember them too, Oh almost forgot Jaguar
 
The police used Rover P5s before the SD1 became the vehicle of choice.

Allegro's, Escorts, remember seeing all these in the 1970's.

I also recall once seeing a Morris 1000 (similar to the Minor) in about 1974.
 
That was the car the preceded the Consul and Granada MkI, right?

A bit before that, I was talking about the Mk2, my father bought an ex police one when I was about 5 years old.
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in ireland the oldest i can think of was the ford sierra very early 90s

but what youve dug up gets me thinking, was there even a police force in ireland that long ago
 
Ahhh - memory lane. Ford Sierra.

It's a shame for Ford that it was too radical for it's time. By the time Ford's Sierra was replaced with the Mondeo it was a well honed car with the benefit of rear wheel drive and all round independent suspension.
 

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