Morris Minor panda car"I learnt to drive in a Minor and this is the first time I’ve driven one in 30 years. I’d forgotten how slow they are. If you were equipped with a decent motorbike or a ...

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 ...

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.

While the storylines didn’t strike much of a chord with me, the cars of the protagonists certainly ... slowed right down if a sinister-spec Rover P6 flew up behind you on the motorway.

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 ...

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).

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 only problem was, Rover had picked up and left the US a few years prior when the run of the P6 ended. This meant the ... the US DOT got done with the car it looked a lot less like a Ferrari ...

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 ...

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 ...