Does anyone know if the 4x4 cosworth police cars were standard power?? just wondering.

 

Knowing the Old Bill they were more than likely 'tinkered' with


Luciano

 

the copper giving a ticket standing next to the rs200 is a quality pic

 

I bet the cossies were chipped.

 

they must have been stage 1 at least.

 

Thanks to Cilly-Jey for emailing me photos of a mates ex cosworth police car.

 

Nice one mate.It looks like a clean one.

 

look ace as cop cars

 

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 .

 

the car has bin locked away for 4 years,my pall says its still mint but im not 2 shaw. gona try and get in and have a look over the next cupple of weeks and have a sneeky peek

 

Devon & Cornwall Sierra Cosworths cars were standard and some had the boost turned down.

 

Not quite, its a Devon car working from Plympton. This car is still around I know the guy restoring it back to a Police car spec

 

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 !

 

Nice story Wattie that's cool.

 

If I remember right I think they did a mondeo cosworth police car

 

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

 

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/

 

oh bugger another dead one lol. thanks for the post.
are there any or any one known one that still has the police colours now?

 

Bastards eh.

 

Quote:
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.

 

Interesting read, great pics/info

 

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

 

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!

 

Fair play for digin out the info, bit of History found again lol.

 

My mate used to buy the ex police saphs fresh from the fuzz and change the roof skin and interior then sell them on as proper cossies as it were lol

 

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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.

 

Not quite true... he used 'tools of the trade' - i.e. he robbed it from the forecourt, wearing a bally all the time.

Everyone in Ordsall knew who it was, my mate has got the camcorder of it screwing up and down Phoebe St!

 

Put the video up if you can get it pls

 

Video would be mint

 

yeahh try and get the video. would be cool !

 

+1 Yes please

 

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?

 

It could well be. Maybe it was a unmarked cop car.

 

Did the girl used to live in top mossley by any chance

 

Dragging up an old thread here, but K388 OJR used on blues and twos still exists, just picked it up today. Now sat in my garage.

 

Come on Jim! , more info plus photo's please.

 

will try and sort some pics this week, it’s on a crappy cdz northern Irish plate at the moment hence why nothing comes up on the Dvla. First priority is to get that plate off and get the original back on.

 

looking forward to the pics jim