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Tough to outrun, even with th' radio broken.

They used Lotus Cortina MkI's in the past too.
 

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I copied that picture off of a Lotus website a few years ago - can't remember which one,though.

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A general guess would be "Somewhere in England"???
 
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Better than the Lambo countach police car I saw in SC! At least the Lambo had Black N white paint job though!
 
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We have a mid 1990's C-4 corvette police car here in tuscaloosa too. One policeman's private ride though. He converted it as part of the D.A.R.E. program.
 
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A general guess would be "Somewhere in England"???

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ARGH! Or Scotland. Or Wales. Or even Northern Ireland.

Looking at "Y999YCL" where the YCL generally denotes the locality where it was first registered:

https://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regmarks/reg_marks_memorytags.htm

A better guess might be somewhere near Leeds in England, though the link may be very uncertain for cop cars may well be registered differently than personal vehicles....
 
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I'll bet that light bar knocks 20 mph off the top speed though!
 

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...and whistles "God Save the Queen" past 150MPH.
 

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past 150? hmmm...N/M...Since you said "whistles 'God Save the Queen'"... bet it only whistles annoyingly at 100KPH... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 

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Yup: "Pomp 'n Circumstance" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 

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Atleast they put all those big lights on top of it. Out in Cal they like to use the super thin one (about 3 - 4" thick) and they are clear.

The best just have lights inside the car and in the grill...
 

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hmmm... Glendale, CA and Burbank, CA police have a new set they're putting on cars that's even thinner than that... probably in the 1" to 2" range plus about 1/2" for the mounting system.
 

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d'oh! according to the site alana linked for us, it's a publicity car for Lotus, and not a real patrol car... *sigh* ah well.

It's nice to see that some of the cars on the above link are real police cars though... I wonder how many (if any) have been acquired in drug busts and converted to police use.
 
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