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    CALLING CAR J844 KHG

    Nov 27, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS: ANDREW ROBERTS
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    MATT RICHARDSON
    “An ad on the MMOC forum asked: 'Anyone interested in a police car project?'”

    could almost be a scene from Wycliffe, Spender or any other 1990s police drama now haunting daytime television. The grim-faced leading man would arrive by Vauxhall Senator or Rover 827 to investigate an outbreak of skulduggery in the middle of Longbridge, while in the background would be the uniformed extras in their Maestro. Such patrol cars had pretensions to neither speed nor glamour, but they provided hardworking and reliable transport for many constabularies. Today, Anthony Ellis is the proud owner of the example pictured here, thought to be

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