Nee Na Nee Na, You were going how fast sir ?

[nalaeroom]

Thanks for looking

Alan M

[velocemitch]

Blimey, just in case somebody was spotted speeding in a forest I guess !

[lindsayhbrown]

Not been taxed since 1990, is it still a police car ?

[na]

doubt it was ever a Police car, I'd guess a publicity stunt for Ford and the Essex and suffolk police forces, wouldn't get much of what the motorway cars usually carried in the RS200 I'd also guess

[phumy]

If i remember correctly that car was written off by two coppers in Essex not long after it was handed over, maybe someone else car confirm this but i do know that an RS200 was crashed by the Essex police...

[NHK244V]

set up, none were deliverd to the police.
that pic was taken on the A130 before it opened as it was near to dunton test track where the press cars were kept at that time and just tother side of chelmsdord from Boreham airfield where they were built.

[nalaeroom]

I have it on good authority that it was on a closed section of the A12 Chelmsford by-pass close to Boreham where the car was based, it was a publicity stunt, they never actually had a RS200 Police car, I am told this one was most likely an early prototype dressed up and may not even have had a registration number. And, I am told they didn,t crash a RS200 but did a Sierra Cosworth.

Alan M

[NHK244V]

nalaeroom said:

I have it on good authority that it was on a closed section of the A12 Chelmsford by-pass close to Boreham where the car was based, it was a publicity stunt, they never actually had a RS200 Police car, I am told this one was most likely an early prototype dressed up and may not even have had a registration number. And, I am told they didn,t crash a RS200 but did a Sierra Cosworth.

Alan M

there's quite a few police cossies crahed pics on the web, never checked the regs to see where they came from though ?

Your right on the A12, J15 A1007 to billericy

[aeropilot]

nalaeroom said:

I have it on good authority that it was on a closed section of the A12 Chelmsford by-pass close to Boreham where the car was based, it was a publicity stunt, they never actually had a RS200 Police car, I am told this one was most likely an early prototype dressed up and may not even have had a registration number.

Yes, it was a publicity stunt, but, it wasn't an early prototype, it was chassis number 122 and that was, and still is it's real registration number.

IIRC, this car is also well known for being 'heavily damaged' in an 'incident' at a RS200 OC day many years ago and has been on a very slow rebuild ever since.

[custardtorpedo]

My father worked for Ford at the Aveley Advance Vehicle Operations plant where these were put together - just after the rally group was banned there were 25 parked up outside his office with nowhere to go. That was when it was decided they would let the police 'have a go' in the hope they would buy them as interceptors. Anyway two traffic officers took one out and wrapped it round a bridge support on the A12 in Essex - very sad. Anyway that ended the idea of them being Police cars - that and the fact they were hellishly expensive to fettle.

[Dr Interceptor]

Has he pulled over an XR4i?

[Hooli]

Dr Interceptor said:

Has he pulled over an XR4i?

3dr Cosworth. XR4is had a double rear side window.

[Dr Interceptor]

Hooli said:

3dr Cosworth. XR4is had a double rear side window.

Course they did... my bad.

[smiffy220]

They would be pulled over Northbound on the A12 between Junction 16 for Galleywood and Junction 17 for Howe Green in that pic. I heard also that they were loaned one for a test to see if they wanted them, and stacked it. But I thought it was on the A127 near Basildon??

[a8hex]

Hooli said:

Dr Interceptor said:

Has he pulled over an XR4i?

3dr Cosworth. XR4is had a double rear side window.

Didn't the BiB have fun parking an XR4i on its roof during an eval?

[overshoot]

Yes, and still continuing to TEST cars:

[Fire99]

nalaeroom said:

I am told they didn,t crash a RS200 but did a Sierra Cosworth.

I remember when it happened. Launched the 'Cossie' into a tree, if my memory serves me right.

[LordBretSinclair]

Back in the day, D&C Constabularly wrote off quite a number of XR4is. Story goes that the light bars on the roof badly upset the handling at high speed (allegedly).

[Dave Hedgehog]

Fire99 said:

I remember when it happened. Launched the 'Cossie' into a tree, if my memory serves me right.

whilst saying "watch this"

[escortwagon]

custardtorpedo said:

My father worked for Ford at the Aveley Advance Vehicle Operations plant where these were put together - just after the rally group was banned there were 25 parked up outside his office with nowhere to go. That was when it was decided they would let the police 'have a go' in the hope they would buy them as interceptors. Anyway two traffic officers took one out and wrapped it round a bridge support on the A12 in Essex - very sad. Anyway that ended the idea of them being Police cars - that and the fact they were hellishly expensive to fettle.

You're not the first person to know someone who saw them being put together, you might be interested in this thread: http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...