Met Police Jaguar S Types

That will be "Victor 2", Kingston's R/T car. It certainly looks like one of the NVB***E Jaguars to me, too, but I cannot make out the numbers, despite me blowing up the image as far as possible. It clearly has the roof mounted floodlights, but, as I have said before, these were not always fitted on the outer division Area (R/T) Cars. In the "Policeman" recruiting film of 1969, filmed largely in Kingston, "Victor 2" is SUU412F, a black Jaguar S-Type, which I would expect to have the roof-mounted lamps, but not in that case.

Developments on KYU419D. The DVLA have issued me with a shiny new V5C, after some toing and froing with photographs, particularly of the chassis plate, which shows all of the relevant vehicle numbers. I was perfectly happy for them to send an inspector out to verify the car's identity, but I think that this is now only done when there is some doubt. As the car had a V5 in the past, then the DVLA already had a record of it, so all they had to do was satisfy themselves that mine was the same car. The vehicle had been "de-registered", due to the fact that it had been untaxed since 1st April 1982. That is nearly 42 years! Registered new to the Met in December 1966 , it was a little less than 16 years old when it was taken off the road. This is consistent with the information told to me by the son of the late owner.
The car's fate will be decided in the spring. Some parts will come from it for the continuing restoration of SUU480F, but I think that with a current V5C, it stands a better chance of finding the dedicated, skilful and highly solvent new owner it certainly deserves.

More on poor old KYU419D;
We (eldest son Jim and myself) spent the whole of yesterday (13th April) working on this old girl. The idea was to remove the manual gearbox and overdrive by lowering the front subframe and then taking the engine and 'box out together as a unit from beneath the car. This is easier than attempting to split the two by leaving the engine in place. When I say the "whole" of yesterday, I certainly mean it.
When attempting to work on a car which has stood in damp conditions for forty-two years, it is wise to assume that every nut, bolt and screw will fight for it's right to stay in situ until the bitter end, or, in reality, when you apply the angle grinder. What was not ground off, snapped off rather than cooperate with the spanners or sockets.
But that was not the worst of it. Despite owning this car for six whole months, this was the first time that I had the opportunity to crawl all over and indeed underneath it. What I found has convinced me that the car was a bit of a "resin rocket" even before it was laid up all those decades ago.
The underside is a combination of ferric oxide and Isopon P38, held together with some underseal. The bodywork is much the same, but with several layers of black and white paint doing the job of the underseal. Removing the subframe exposed the front chassis rails for the first time in many years. Interestingly, the nearside rail is in a better condition than the offside. The opposite from what you normally find on a UK car. I say "better" simply because it is merely rotten, while the offside has dissolved along around fourteen inches of it's length, all around where the subframe mounts onto the body, it is utterly absent. The sills are little better. Imagine opening a large bag of crisps, standing on it, and then pouring the contents onto the floor. Times that by fifty, and you have what was left on Jim's driveway, by the time we were done working.
Dirty, disheartened and very tired, we called it a day, but not before placing the front subframe back under the car and reconnecting the steering, so the car can be moved when required.
The crowning turd in the water pipe, was when we then discovered that the overdrive casing was damaged beyond repair the upper mount being snapped off, probably many years ago.
We have had better days. Anybody wanna buy an old police car?

Well, that's bloody annoying.....

At least she'll still give up some other vital parts.