Most of the police cars in Canberra are bought from SA with some sort of Police Special Pak. Most of them seem to go OK, but the interesting one was a trial of a Volvo station wagon, 5 cyl turbo thing that looked a treat - but they crashed it badly whilst chasing a well know local Soobie. Back in the 70's they had a lot of XY, XA & XB 351 Fairmonts built specially for chasing work, with Genie tuned headers & 750 Holley, big wheels & brakes etc - they are still around and very much sought after vehicles by the local petrol heads. Same thing with the bikes used in the early days and ppl pay stupid prices for them, but that's the same supply and demand thing with a 1600.
regards, Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brad Hallett Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off Topic Hehehehe I like it - good bite Police vehicles, in NZ, Australia and Britain, are not permitted to have performance enhancing modifications unless for specialist duty such as counter terrorism. They can however have factory high performance options fitted. The Falcons you refer to were actually low volume performance jobs that were available to the public. In Australia we had the BT51 turbo Commodore and believe it or not a few HiPo Camiras (yucko). The restrictions come from workplace health and safety issues and resale. Which brings me to another point, anyone remember the Cordia turbo traffic cars and the Giacollata (?) --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
