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General Car Related Discussion.To discuss anything that is related to cars and automotive technology that doesnt naturally fit into another forum catagory.
Originally only available to the police weren't they? They do look good in white and if I'm right they were made at the end of the mk2 production run so there are/were a few about on a 51 plate. Sorry I cant help with your original question though.
They were ordered for the police, but as sometimes happen, the order was cancelled. Some had or would make it into service, some didn't.
They were offered to the public or taken on as Ford Company Cars, and this is where things get a little strange.
When these cars were built it was supposedly without the front seats. So they had fronts seats fitted depending on the size of the wallet doing the buying.
Police and the none wealthy had standard cloth seats. Flush people had Mk2 Ghia leather fronts, people who were sensible had the ST200 Recaros put in. I have also seen one with Ghia X Mk3 Front Seats!!
There is however an anomaly with this theory. My car had seats from the factory as the VIN label was on the runners! Well that's an assumption on my part but does hold true on the whole.
Anyway, the white cars can have an unusual combination of seatage!!
As for the production, they did I suppose in relative terms, come towards the end of production. The only UK cars after the white ones were the LE's and 4 Blue hatchbacks!!
European cars, all variants, were a plenty though.
I had one on a W plate. It was an ex police car with the IRS Nottingham calibrated clock and black door handles. I had this in 2003 and from memory come from Staffordshire.
When I worked for Peoples of Liverpool they obtained a few that apparently come from Ford cheap. They had no radio or leather Recaro seats (mine did) When sold the customer had the option of either take the car as it was or add the front seats and radio. These had Essex plates on as they had come from Ford and displayed EN prefix and not the M prefix that we used for Manchester.
Also ive just remembered Merseyside police had one or two both hatchback and on a Essex E 51 plate. I mainly saw these around Prescott, Huyton, Kirkby area 2002 hence me looking for one and buying it.
I also remember mine had a sticker on the drivers B post saying SVP for parts call SVP with a telephone number. All the shock absorbers had SVP on with a chrome type sticker and a sticker on the drivers side of the centre console saying "caution modified suspension. Careful when unlaiden"
From the dials there was a small red wire it was routed from the irs clock plug to where the radio should of been.
The head lining had a console fitted so the front light was in a different place and it gained a pair of extra lights to point in each rear seats.
On the steering column under the indicator stalk there was a extra stalk to flick on and off for the two way radio during a chase etc.
Last edited by chris cdti; Nov 15, 2015 at 02:57 PM.
Hi there, a chap I know has one in white, I
Thought it was a fake as didn't know they made white ones! Not sure on the reg but he normally pops along to my local rs meet so I'll get it next time or I'll send him on here
Hi there, a chap I know has one in white, I
Thought it was a fake as didn't know they made white ones! Not sure on the reg but he normally pops along to my local rs meet so I'll get it next time or I'll send him on here
Tulliallan Police College had a Ford ST200 demo in white with leather rear seats and cloth fronts.
The instructors found me examining it in a car park because I worked for a FoMoCo company at the time and didn't know the white ones existed.
I was then invited to the college and had a very interesting evening getting a demo drive in a traffic car, a shot on the Comparator skid car, and a demo of anti-hijack/terrorism driving with j-turns and stuff.
I can only remember the latter part it was SBF not sure on the.numbers as I had a load of V,W,X plate mondeo's all around that time.
Well thank you for the info, unfortunately SBF isn't a reg I'm familiar with, like you say, you many Mondeos at the time
Originally Posted by Iain Mac
Tulliallan Police College had a Ford ST200 demo in white with leather rear seats and cloth fronts.
The instructors found me examining it in a car park because I worked for a FoMoCo company at the time and didn't know the white ones existed.
I was then invited to the college and had a very interesting evening getting a demo drive in a traffic car, a shot on the Comparator skid car, and a demo of anti-hijack/terrorism driving with j-turns and stuff.
Sounds like a good day out, thank you for supplying what you can. Every little helps
I owned a white st200 many moons ago, was an ex police car. When i called out dent devils to do the dents in it the guy said he had never seen a car with so many in haha
I owned a white st200 many moons ago, was an ex police car. When i called out dent devils to do the dents in it the guy said he had never seen a car with so many in haha
Yeah it has tbh I'm selling it not that I want too. My idea was to turn it into a track car but couldn't bring my self to strip anything from it. I'm am using it as my daily car ATM but Iv got my mk3 Mondeo sitting there doing nothing. I don't know if it was an ex police car or just a training vehicle
I have 4 W registrations for these cars, W744TCE, W848UCE, W484RFX and W991OCC, all hatchbacks.
I too had heard about the radios but not enough to confirm it.
EN is the most prevalent of the registrations, with a few EK's in there too.
W848 UCE was my car. I bought it 7 months old done 2,000 miles from Blackbushe car auctions in 2001. I had the roof lining replaced and roof painted as for holes. New radio (6000 CD) from a Ford breakers. It was amazing I was just 21 and it was the absolute nuts. The front seats were half leather zetec sport seats. Not the full recaros. Loved it.
W848 UCE was my car. I bought it 7 months old done 2,000 miles from Blackbushe car auctions in 2001. I had the roof lining replaced and roof painted as for holes. New radio (6000 CD) from a Ford breakers. It was amazing I was just 21 and it was the absolute nuts. The front seats were half leather zetec sport seats. Not the full recaros. Loved it.
Have you owned a White ST200?
