Thursday 27 September 2012

What Are The Chances Of Having Your Picture Taken At Work,

with the company car 40 years ago,


 and finding the car again?

but that is what happened when ex-constable Tony Peters, 67, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, did when he saw the Ford Cortina Mark II Lotus police car while flicking through an edition of Classic Cars on holiday last year, it was the car that he had driven when he was on the force, Tony said this particular Cortina Lotus was built specially for the police and could out-perform other traffic motors at the time by more than 20mph, 'Ford made us the four-door version of the car because we couldn't ask criminals to climb over the front seats,' he said, the picture of him and a colleague was taken by a Crime Scenes Investigation officer at the scene of a fatal accident on the A604 between Spalding and Bythorn, he said,


the Cortina Lotus is now worth more than £16,000 and the owner hopes to restage the 40-year-old photo of Tony and PC Cooper with their old motor at the same spot, the ex-police car's story will be completed when it meets its sister - which is close to being fully restored by a Ford mechanic in Kent, what a great story.

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