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COP IT SWEET WE SPOKE to a NSW Highway Patrol officer about the last Aussie "pursuit specials": "I've always been interested in highway patrol policing because of my interest in cars. Two- and four-door cop-spec Falcon V8s were available for the following 15 years, until 1982, when the international fuel crisis saw Ford kill its Aussie-made V8s, ending an era of legal police brutality on our streets: the 5.8-litre V8 Falcon cop car. For much of the 1990s, Holden seemed to retain the upper hand for police use; after the V8 was launched in the VN Commodore, Holden launched independent rear suspension on VP sedans. [Extracted from the article] |
