Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
RRs were undoubtedly damned good at the job, & proved themselves many times over in a Traffic roleThe be fair to the illustrious Mr Sheppard, while I have never been up Darien's Gap (paging @Fnaar !) I was a police Class 1 driver. As such have hammered a P38 rangie V8 in the wet, dry, wind and indeed snow, fully laden and flat out (indicated 135 but I think 125 is probably nearer the truth) on public roads, speeds and conditions that he has never experienced. With that in mind I have just a little authority on the matter myself, certainly on their behaviour at the extremes of performance.
Useless fact. Even at early 2000's prices the P38's on the fleet used to guzzle their own value in fuel every year.
This is a cracking film, I remember watching it many years ago, about the M62
Eg, 'twin RR tow' of an artic at about 47:00
Sadly, I doubt many Officers nowadays would deal with the chump at the end, so 'bluntly' from about 49:00
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvw9DNQWymo
As An Aside'
A few years ago, when Vauxhall first brought the Monaro across, West Yorkshire Traffic had one on test
(at that point, it was the coupe, not the later saloon)
The crews loved it, the mechanics loved it
Apparantly, every time it was started up at the garage, or workshops, it emptied all of the offices due to the sound
(the neighbour of a friend of mine, had a VXR derivative, & that sounded awesome - she didn't like it, as it made her windows vibrate )
Sadly, the bean-counters didn't like it, due to the rarity (spares backup, may have been in doubt??) , the fuel consumption compared to the Bum-W 330s/etc.....
If Vauxhall had brought over the saloon first off, or the estate, we might have seen them everywhere instead of Bum-Ws??