While driving near Pwllheli recently I spotted a motorist being
booked by the local constabulary.
The police car, with flashing lights in it's radiator grille was a grey
Skoda estate. Alas I could not get the number but be warned!
Having seen the comment re Welsh Nationalists in today's Telegraph
HJ might like to report this in the paper too.
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If you're driving in the midlands lookout for a Volvo Estate, SKoda Octavia Vrs, Ford Mondeo ST. They've all got flashing lights in the grill as well.
Or you could just concentrate on your driving and you won't have to worry.
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I love those hidden blues. The Queen has them, and the classier sort of government limo, and the Prince of Wales's Bentley, and Special Branch and such with their battered Q cars.
Just wish I had a proper reason to have them myself. Must be amazingly helpful in the London carp.
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I see lots of those blue lights around, apparently its fashionable to have your washer jets illuminated in blue tint, very camp.
Wonder if MLC would recollect the unmarked sierra 1.6L that cruised the M1 around Beds/Northants some years ago, it was reputed to be a 4 x 4 2.8 but still badged up 1.6 and on steel wheels with no trims, and in faded base red, very stealthy.
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How very dare you!! I'm not that old.
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Oh heavens, i've upset the old bill now, just my luck.
Its not so long ago they stopped using that car, it was much older than most of the cloak and dagger motors.
I once owned a rather good blue 827si manual rover, which had been a training car for you lot.
I don't need to tell you quite how rapid that car was, and it must have been a regular model used unmarked as the road ahead would magically clear of any of Luds mimsers.
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Wonder if he worked the M5 in '86 ? If so he was charming (if firm) about three figure transgressions ;-(
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Nope. Was just polishing my one year old licence in '86 :)
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magically clear of any of Luds mimsers.
Are we to understand gb that you kept the blues for an occasional subliminal one-second flicker?
Goodness I do hope so. But you can hardly admit it of course.
:o}
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Vauxhall-ish, there's a yard and a service bay where there are sometimes marked cars together with a lot of nondescript plain cars, vans and motorbikes.
Who's that, then?
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Are we to understand gb that you kept the blues for an occasional subliminal one-second flicker?
Good gracious no Lud, it never had the blues fitted anyway, it had been a class 1 training car, with special seats to get a nice sheen on those police trouser bottoms>>:):)
I suppose as it was the correct blue, and i always keep my cars clean, it would still have passed inspection as a cloak plod, it certainly could cause some swift shifting to the left lane if one should come up behind one of your pet hates.
I wonder if the purchase of one of the current trainers would have such an effect now...stupid me answer own question, that would require use of the rearview mirror other than for coiffure of the barnet, or applications of lippy if in feminine mode:)
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swift shifting to the left lane if one should come up behind one of your pet hates
... at, one earnestly hopes, two or three times the speed of sound with main beams switched on at the psychological moment? I get the picture.
I only wish I could be bothered to keep my cars clean. I had a white VW 411 once whose bonnet was tattered, and I got a navy blue replacement panel from a similar car and fitted it.
Pulled one day for nothing in particular and chatting to the plod, I said I was toying with the idea of painting POLIZEI backwards in white on the bonnet. He looked at me very lugubriously and said: 'I shouldn't do that if I were you sir. You'll just get stopped more often.'
I heeded his words, and here I am still at large.
Edited by Lud on 22/06/2008 at 01:21
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Our company had an ex-police Granada-no external markings but when driving it,I regularly got flashed or waved at by police cars,so the reg. number must have been recognized.
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Suffolk for years had an XR8(South African Sierra with V8);it ended it days as a local Panda car.
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>>Unmarked car>>
Now there's a surprise,...:-)
All in favour of them, especially in the case of one driver of a truly clapped out Rover stopped in a bus lay-by with one of Lancashire Constabulary's unmarked cars behind it, complete with flashing rear screen blue lights.
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Also in the midlands I've seen unmarked Vectras (facelift version) and Volvo S60s, both in various colours.
I've seen the Mondeo ST that MLC refers to just as the lights were turned off. The effect was astonishing. From full on flashing lights all round that you could almost see from space, to something that was almost impossible to tell from a regular Mondeo in the flick of a switch!
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Currently in Kent isa transit connect tricked out to look like a builders van, blue lights in the grill.
Also V6 Mundeo with roof box with blue lights in the roof box!
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