268 Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Thought some people may be interested in this as we're all Escort fans. Just found it I'm no part of it!! Click the gallery for more pics http://www.fdcchl.org.uk/Gallery/V168%20LD...estoration.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etrebus Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Thought some people may be interested in this as we're all Escort fans. Just found it I'm no part of it!! Click the gallery for more pics http://www.fdcchl.org.uk/Gallery/V168%20LD...estoration.htmlgreat project, but cant see the gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsy Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Interesting this especially as i used to live in plymouth, what a great project for those lads to learn their skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
268 Posted June 19, 2012 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 http://www.fdcchl.org.uk/Gallery/V168%20LD...DV_Gallery.html That's the gallery above, if its still not working just enter the reg plate into google images and the pics appear on there. Yeh, I'm in the police Devon & Cornwall should of kept it in my opinion! Better than the diesel Ford focus estates we're lumbered with. I often drive my escort around on duty if there's no marked vehicles still fit for the job! Quicker too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etrebus Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 http://www.fdcchl.org.uk/Gallery/V168%20LD...DV_Gallery.html That's the gallery above, if its still not working just enter the reg plate into google images and the pics appear on there. Yeh, I'm in the police Devon & Cornwall should of kept it in my opinion! Better than the diesel Ford focus estates we're lumbered with. I often drive my escort around on duty if there's no marked vehicles still fit for the job! Quicker too!had a look at some pics on facebook looks great ,are you able to sticker it up with genuine police decals as officially its no longer a police car is it ? have seen a few older granadas/cortinas and they have removable roof lights or covers and the word police is removable (magnetic signs) or covered up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
268 Posted June 19, 2012 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 (edited) From what I can work out the police still own it and they're going to put it on the police museum once it's been restored. The Metropolitan police have done this with alot of their ex cars. If you look at the link below there's a few that are still owned by their forces. http://www.pvec.net/gallery/Other%20Preserved.htm Also the met recently used one of their classics on a response job!! http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...es-thieves.html Edited June 19, 2012 by 268 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffa Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 the 'finished ' picture dont look that finished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawdreamer Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Austin Alegro Rozzer car! Even If Id not done anything wrong Id still put my foot down to avoid being pulled by someone in that.... it'd just be toooooo embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
268 Posted June 20, 2012 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 Apparently a good few years back before I joined the entire fleet were Austin Maestros!! To this day The old school coppers actually still give them good reviews!! I'm sceptical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawdreamer Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Apparently a good few years back before I joined the entire fleet were Austin Maestros!! To this day The old school coppers actually still give them good reviews!! I'm sceptical. despite it all they were actually pretty decent runarounds, nothing that could be considered "high performance" but for general driving about town (panda car duties I suppose) they were pretty easy going motors. granted, they wernt exactly "lookers" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hezz Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Apparently a good few years back before I joined the entire fleet were Austin Maestros!! To this day The old school coppers actually still give them good reviews!! I'm sceptical.i remember police maestros and montegos !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsy Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Wasn't the maestro turbo a pretty hot hatch think it used to give the other hot hatches from the 80's a good run for their money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottybo Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 lol seeing this reminded me, i watched a touch of frost the other day hahah (goins back to the ninetiiiiiiiies) they had escort police cars in that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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