Post-Met, the Rover functioned as everyday transport until 1994 and the marquee Rover expert Nick Dunning took custody 19 years later. Kingham bought the car from him in 2014.

As soon as Rover installed its 3.5-litre V8 into the P6 saloon in the late ’60s, it was guaranteed a slice of the police car market thanks to the newcomer’s turn of speed and effortless ...

Introduced in 1963 as a replacement for the P4, the Rover P6 (initially marketed as the 2000) is perhaps best known for becoming the first winner of the European Car of the Year award (1964).

One of the cars, a 1975 Rover P6 3500S, originally started out as a Hampshire police car in Winchester before it was re-sprayed black and used as the official staff car of the Earl Mountbatten of ...

The design of the P6 was evolutionary, and has perhaps aged the best out of all of Rover's cars of the last half-century. Steele restored every part of the car, with the engine taking the most time.

The addition of a 3.5-litre V8 transformed Rover's stately saloon into a car that's fondly remembered by the great British public. The P6 appeared in 1963 but didn't get the 3.5-litre V8 until ...

This name comes from the police being called 'pigs ... to go on sale later this month. The 1975 P6 Rover was once Earl Mountbatten of Burma's staff car before it was later found abandoned in ...

This 1983 Rover SD1 is actually still officially a police patrol car, but it was only in active service until the early 1990s. Thanks to the big V8 engine (producing 190bhp) it was mainly used to ...

Here, then, are 10 British police cars from through the years - a time when the idea of one of our forces buying a Volvo, Skoda or Hyundai simply wasn't cricket. As soon as Rover installed its ...