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vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on November 28, 2019, 03:40:26 am ---
--- Quote from: G7PSK on November 27, 2019, 05:14:42 pm ---My first car was a 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, absolute rust heap that had been botched up with newspaper and bondo/filler when I bought in the early 70's for £15-00 Sold it a year later for £50-00 having fixed the sills with concrete and wire mesh.

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That's funny!! You do what you had to do back then !!  :D
Your car reminded me of the 'Police' car, used in the "Heartbeat" TV series, set in the 60's in the Yorkshire
region in the UK. Imagine that car in the USA today, trying to get someone to pull over !!  :scared:


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The cops in West Oz also used those in the 1960s, but they were really just general purpose " runabouts" for the "cop shops".

Serious pursuit was done using various things like Ford Zephyr Zodiacs (in early years, the Mk2) then later, Mk3s (which weren't normally sold in Oz) & Studebaker Larks (I think there were only a few of them), then Falcon & Holden V8s.

WA had a strange system, where outside the Perth Metro Area, the "speedcops" were actually "Traffic Inspectors" employed by the local Shire Council.
Most of their pursuits were done with motorbikes, but later, into the '70s, you might get pulled over by a Monaro GTS, a Falcon GTHO, or a Valiant E49 Charger.
The councils gradually gave up traffic enforcement to the police.

When I went to the UK in 1971, in Hampshire, where I spent most of my time, the cops used Ford escorts for the "runabout duties", but from memory, Jaguars, Volvos & Range Rovers for pursuit work.
British police forces were not very integrated when it came to equipment back then, and at least one force used Mark 5 Ford Zodiacs, as well as mixtures of those types already mentioned.

I saw a Morris Minor 1000 "Panda car" in London,-----much as I like the old "Morrie" I would rather be behind the wheel of the 105E at pursuit speeds.
We had a Ford 100E, which was a nice little car, with obsolete mechanicals, & driving it on Motorways with Jaguars & the like tailgating you was a little alarming,to say the least!

On a re-visit in 1974, I saw a big Chev with Dutch plates "hooning" down the Motorway, with a couple of Ford Granadas snapping at his heels.
He seemed to just be ignoring them!
They soon disappeared in the distance  only for me to come upon the Chev pulled over by a couple of Range Rovers a few miles on.

As james_s says, " You can't outrun the radio".





G7PSK:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on November 28, 2019, 03:40:26 am ---
--- Quote from: G7PSK on November 27, 2019, 05:14:42 pm ---My first car was a 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, absolute rust heap that had been botched up with newspaper and bondo/filler when I bought in the early 70's for £15-00 Sold it a year later for £50-00 having fixed the sills with concrete and wire mesh.

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That's funny!! You do what you had to do back then !!  :D
Your car reminded me of the 'Police' car, used in the "Heartbeat" TV series, set in the 60's in the Yorkshire
region in the UK. Imagine that car in the USA today, trying to get someone to pull over !!  :scared:


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The village bobby had one as well when I was young, but prefered a push bike the reason he said was that he could see over hedges and other obstacles better and traveling slower was able to see more and better anyway. Apparently when the radio was keyed to transmit the car dropped ten miles an hour due to the load on the dynamo that supplied the radio. They were not fast in the first place mine only got 65 eventually.

GlennSprigg:
At least they weren't as bad as the old English 'Reliant', with 3 wheels !!  :-DD
I liked it when "Mr. Bean" used to always cause one of those to roll over!!!
I actually saw one on a Freeway in England 10 years ago when visiting.
Evidently, someone with a MotorCycle license only, was allowed to 'drive' them??  :-//

vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on November 29, 2019, 10:58:46 am ---At least they weren't as bad as the old English 'Reliant', with 3 wheels !!  :-DD
I liked it when "Mr. Bean" used to always cause one of those to roll over!!!
I actually saw one on a Freeway in England 10 years ago when visiting.
Evidently, someone with a MotorCycle license only, was allowed to 'drive' them??  :-//



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There were quite a few in "SOTON"------one I saw was covered with floral wallpaper.

nali:
Reliant used to have a nifty version of their 3-wheeler called the Bond Bug, my mate had one when we were teenagers. Fun, but scary cornering!



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