08-03-2019, 10:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-03-2019, 10:56 AM by Reckless Rat.)
The P6 V8 was a nice car but when our Transport department decided that an auto box was far too soft for hairy arsed coppers to drive they were specified with a manual box that came from the 2000 model, and it just wasn't up to the job. The co-pilots job was to hold the gear lever in reverse if we had to do a rapid reverse up the motorway hard shoulder as the driver was far too busy trying to prevent an almighty tank slapper when going backwards. OK for two burly front seat passengers but sod all room in the back. Even our cases had to go on the seat not the footwell. Nice old bus all the same. I still preferred the Consul GT though despite its propensity to self destruct when the fibre cam gears gave up the ghost, usually when flat out.