Speed cameras in old cars

[pwd95]

Do they put speed cameras in old cars? Namely 'P' reg clapped out looking Astras. Just passed one with something set up in the windscreen facing me

[Hooli]

doubt it, guidelines say they cant be used through glass.

[pwd95]

Really? through glass? These guidelines must be puplicly available are they?

[Hooli]

im sure ive seen it on here. no idea where you'd look for them though.

[Chrispy Porker]

Could be ANPR
P reg sounds ridiculously old for a police car though.
Must have been round the clock a few times I should think.

[oldsoak]

pwd95 said:

Do they put speed cameras in old cars? Namely 'P' reg clapped out looking Astras. Just passed one with something set up in the windscreen facing me

"Something"?
So was it a camera or not?
Can't be sure?
Getting knickers in a knot over nothing then?
Could possibly be some wannabe vigilante type 'trying it on' to see if anyone rises to the bait and slows down thinking the 'something' on his dash is a camera and his clapped out flintstone-mobile is a bona fide plod hutch....

[RT106]

Probably the local council doing a speed survey or traffic count.

[Jasandjules]

Could be someone who is a bit of a vigilante who records everyone overtaking him then posts about it on those "dangerous driving" websites.

[Santa Claws]

Drive back around and burn it to the ground if it's still there.

It's the only way to be sure.

[pwd95]

Guy was sat in it, went past three times, last time about 20 mins after the second & he was driving away, had some sort of black writing on the side of the drivers door

[westmoorfarm]

I've seen this done in Austria.

Old Mk2 Golf parked in a layby (as if broken down) by the side of the motorway, camera and speed measuring equipment stacked up on parcel shelf

[Wigeon Incognito]

Well as you say old, there's a 1969 (built in 1967) Morris Minor still in active service in Lancashire. Apparently it's the oldest serving police vehicle in the UK.

It's fully liveried in the old duck egg blue and white colour scheme, and is in fact the car featured in Heartbeat. It normally just does promotional/publicity events for the police and does school visits etc or sits as a warning to drivers to slow down.

I was told that occasionally it is equipped with a camera however, although I'm not sure if that is true.

Article here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6284...

[tvrgit]

I've googled "p-reg Astra", "some sort of camera thing" and "some sort of black writing" and it came back with nothing, sorry. It's obviously so top secret that it must be out to get us.

Do any of the following fit P-Reg Astras - I've never had one so can't be sure.

Radar detector
portable sat nav
PDA holder
moby phone holder

If they don't then that would confirm my theory.

[PeteG]

Could be this sort of thing - http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/others/dsc02109.jpg

From http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/others/misc1.htm - near the bottom of the page.