Saph Cossie Police Cars, 1 more found 05/09/11, well sort off
04-03-2011, 09:19 PM
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back in the day their was two saff cossies in the isle of man ,they were running 300 bhp ,and the traffic core used to drive the socks off them and were always in the maindealer getting work done .
they were replaced with t5 volvos after about 2 years from what i can remember .
04-03-2011, 11:57 PM
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06-05-2011, 05:05 PM
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09-05-2011, 11:51 AM
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When I went down to Chester to buy my 3 door the guy who gave us a lift down wrote his car off on the way back, was torrential rain so I was just cruising up the motorway so when I came across his accident there was about 5 cop cars there and 2 ambulances caus so many people phoned it in they thought it was a massive pile up but it was only a 1 car incident , any way when we pulled in about the cops swarmed round my car and were tellin me stories of when they had the saffs and how they used to treat them, said most of them got smashed up! Was quite funny caus they seemed so uninterested in the fact my mate wrote his car off on a straight bit of road (burst tire + 80 mph + wet road! ) , so when I pulled out the lay-by we were sittin in I spun it up through first and second then cruised off up the road , was expecting them to pull me over as I hit the limiter and it let out a big pop but they didn't !
13-05-2011, 03:33 AM
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irish cossies
the Irish Garda got two 2wd saffs back in the day and promptly wrote both of them off,remember the drivers would have been driving 1.6 cortinas the day before or 2.0 vertions if they were branch......
was in a fuel station recently filling the car for a little testin (no tax or nct) when a wagon pulled in,a few garda piled out for coffee and doughnuts and proceded to swarm over the saff tellin me stories about the forces write off and chasing a white and a silver one about cork not knowin they were buddies of mine....lol
never spotted the missing discs either, nice blokes
was in a fuel station recently filling the car for a little testin (no tax or nct) when a wagon pulled in,a few garda piled out for coffee and doughnuts and proceded to swarm over the saff tellin me stories about the forces write off and chasing a white and a silver one about cork not knowin they were buddies of mine....lol
never spotted the missing discs either, nice blokes
04-09-2011, 07:10 PM
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldfield1976/6109977892/
06-09-2011, 06:03 PM
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It was actually nicked from Quicks, I dug out a microfilm copy from City Library Manchester after people didn't believe me that I'd seen it with my own eyes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldfield1976/6109977892/
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Originally Posted by cosy trav
The manchester police cosworth did get stolen when they chased someone on foot and left the engine running .
Further.... it was actually the Police marked Astra GTE that was left running outside of a block of flats (the notorious Sunnyside Court). It was recovered almost unscathed quickly though, didn't meet the same grisly end as the Cos.
06-09-2011, 10:21 PM
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iv got a pic someplace of when i was at primary school and i won a competition and got took out in a traffic car still remember it to this day and it was a saph cossie 
01-11-2011, 07:56 PM
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It was actually nicked from Quicks, I dug out a microfilm copy from City Library Manchester after people didn't believe me that I'd seen it with my own eyes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldfield1976/6109977892/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldfield1976/6109977892/
i remember this well. a guy wearing a fake police uniform walked into the service reception and they just presumed he was legit. they handed him the keys and he smoked out of quicks in oldham sideways then took it on a 5 hour rampage with the blues n twos blaring.
this was the best joyride story ive ever heard!
this took BIG balls to pull off from start to finish and i bet the buzz he had was immense!
could you imagine it? seeing the car, thinkin fck it ill find a shop selling ex police clothes, walking in saying im here to pick up the cosworth. the service desk trainee hands him the keys, then smoking out of the dealership sideways then thinking lets see what this badboy can do!
somewhere along the way this car would have had to be refuelled because a tank of fuel aint gonna last 5 hours in a cossie! therefore you would have had to smoke the rozzers and bought you enough time to refuel! just imagine the adrenilin rush whhhoooooooo!!!
i mean its stories like this make movies.
i dont condone stealing, joyriding or burning out cossies but foooooooooook this guys a legend!!!!!!!!!! and couldnt have picked a better car to do it in!
01-11-2011, 09:50 PM
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Hi. Any details on the cars from the isle of man as my White sapphire cosworth came from the isle of man.
back in the day their was two saff cossies in the isle of man ,they were running 300 bhp ,and the traffic core used to drive the socks off them and were always in the maindealer getting work done .
they were replaced with t5 volvos after about 2 years from what i can remember .
they were replaced with t5 volvos after about 2 years from what i can remember .
26-04-2012, 07:21 PM
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i remember this well. a guy wearing a fake police uniform walked into the service reception and they just presumed he was legit. they handed him the keys and he smoked out of quicks in oldham sideways then took it on a 5 hour rampage with the blues n twos blaring.
this was the best joyride story ive ever heard!
this took BIG balls to pull off from start to finish and i bet the buzz he had was immense!
could you imagine it? seeing the car, thinkin fck it ill find a shop selling ex police clothes, walking in saying im here to pick up the cosworth. the service desk trainee hands him the keys, then smoking out of the dealership sideways then thinking lets see what this badboy can do!
somewhere along the way this car would have had to be refuelled because a tank of fuel aint gonna last 5 hours in a cossie! therefore you would have had to smoke the rozzers and bought you enough time to refuel! just imagine the adrenilin rush whhhoooooooo!!!
i mean its stories like this make movies.
i dont condone stealing, joyriding or burning out cossies but foooooooooook this guys a legend!!!!!!!!!! and couldnt have picked a better car to do it in!
this was the best joyride story ive ever heard!
this took BIG balls to pull off from start to finish and i bet the buzz he had was immense!
could you imagine it? seeing the car, thinkin fck it ill find a shop selling ex police clothes, walking in saying im here to pick up the cosworth. the service desk trainee hands him the keys, then smoking out of the dealership sideways then thinking lets see what this badboy can do!
somewhere along the way this car would have had to be refuelled because a tank of fuel aint gonna last 5 hours in a cossie! therefore you would have had to smoke the rozzers and bought you enough time to refuel! just imagine the adrenilin rush whhhoooooooo!!!
i mean its stories like this make movies.
i dont condone stealing, joyriding or burning out cossies but foooooooooook this guys a legend!!!!!!!!!! and couldnt have picked a better car to do it in!
Everyone in Ordsall knew who it was, my mate has got the camcorder of it screwing up and down Phoebe St!
06-08-2014, 10:12 PM
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Sorry to drag up an old thread but a mate of mine has just bought a early e plate mercury grey 2wd sapphire and it has calibrated clocks, hole in the roof, lots of extra wireing under the dash and all the front light wireing altered, could this be a police car do u think?
05-09-2015, 08:21 AM
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A m8 of mine from oldham used to go out with a bird about 8yrs ago who's dad was head of G M P & when i picked them up one night in my cossie she told me about that cosworth getting stolen, the guys who nicked it when the coppers went on foot filmed themselves thrashing the shit out of it driving round & then supposedly set fire to it but the video footage was later seen by the police & the guys got nicked 
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