JA5ONS

Doc/Mark,
Are ANY of the police V8 commodores leather? we buy all our cars from fowles, however we are now in the market (as we have been for a while) for a new car for ouselves, we currently have a WH V8 Statesman.
We need a V8 (tow the boat), and dad wont buy anything without leather.
Because the only V8's at fowles are cop cars (generally speaking) im doubting anything will satisfy our/dad's needs?

Cheers.
Jase.

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lx406

Not that I know of. All the SS commos at our work are cloth. I've never seen leather in a police car. We would wreck it with out equipment I reckon.

WB5LTR

and i rekon people would kick up a storm cos tax payers are payer for the law to ride in comfort. I cant see it happening for you, maybe an ex directors (calais, statesmans etc) car might be the go

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JA5ONS

thats where i see your point, however, my experiance with leather tells me that leather is a much much more durable option, yes it scratches, (like the rubber door seal, the two ex-police cars we have owned in the past few years have had major wear where the gun-belt scratches agains the door seal) however, for the 50,000k or there abouts that the police have them, the cloth wouldnt have enough damage to warrant the need for leather's duribility?

anyhow, yeah the statey is the other option, however due to their rarity, and the fact that they are statesmans, they are so much more $$

but that answers my question thansk mark...

another quick question(s), no police cars are manuals anymore are they? and is it true the mechanics disable the ABS, for quicker stopping for the trained tmu officers?

cheers.

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paterson02

leather is possible cause a mate of mine has a vt ss ex cop that has factory leather and sunroof

moot

i own the yellow gto that was used by vic police (only ever hsv used as a cop car) and it doesnt have any wear marks.i'm also a motor trimmer,and belive me,leather is tougher than the cloth

JA5ONS

wow! thats awesome
and the fact that your an auto trimmer may come in handy in the future, where are you based?
wasnt that GTO used as a promo car only? the same as Victoria Police's H3 Hummer?

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WB5LTR

i think your maaaate is either talking shit or has been had by someone, no cop car would ever have leather and a sunroof. its likelt that its not a cop car, or someone has done those mods to it at a later date. as far as i know the vt ss never had a leather option, it was first introduced in the vx ss

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moot

nah mine was actually used in highway duties.but alot of promo as well.i live in nsw,and so does the car

Gym_

Well he doesn’t say whether it was a unmarked car or not and that makes all the difference in the world years ago there used to be a commy going around here with P plates and a surfboard bolted to the roof..lol.. but i have here a pic of a unmarked car i snapped about 2 weeks ago in my local and it’s a Subaru. Ill ask Doc if it’s ok if i post it on here.

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pro_gmh

ive been in a car with leather bak seat, i spose coz its durable and easy to clean. come to think of it it might of been pvc coz it didnt look factory. this is sa btw.

toryman

Im pretty sure there was a thread a while back about that car and if its what im thinking it is our very own doc has had his bum in ur drivers seat before u moot!

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Not quite Tory. I have seen the GTO when it was fitted up as a police car but never driven it. I have driven the yellow VK known as Smoky 1 the old police drag car. I used it as a police car on the Western Highway before it was retired and turned into the drag car. They do have the odd promo cars that could have leather seats like the BMW Z3 a few years back. They've currently got a Hummer but it's promo only and not to be driven by your run of the mill police. We tried to get it for one of our local things but they wouldn't hand it over.

I've never seen a police car with leather seats but they would go down well in the SS.

doc

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Gym_

As Promised unmarked cop car. Saw this guy in the ute get pulled over by the sub about 2 weeks ago and thought i really needed to take a pic of the car the boyz were driving,,, fully kitted out with lights under the grill and all the rest. So if someone told u there subie was a x cop car you would be hard pressed to believe that even more then having a sun roof.

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moot

in the monaro 'book' it says that there were only several people asigned to drive it.dont know how true this is,but i remember that several people off the ls1 forums have speedind fines from it