1960 Daimler Dart retractable hard top - GIF

[old kodger]

Total necessity for UK cars from the mid-sixties 'til late seventies - as demanded by the quality, craftsmanship and reliability of their products:
Most of the ingoing parts needed to be serviced or changed, a little too often to many's taste.
OTOH: They also rusted pretty easily and well, so not many lasted ten years anyhow.

Their "Bobbies" back then had some cool rides just to show off and prove their absolute authority, the PANDA cars:



“A decision was made to take economical cars like the Ford Anglia and BMC Mini and give them a distinctive white band on both the front doors and the roof. As black was the first basic colour used they looked like Panda bears. For this reason we came up with the acronym “Patrol And Neighbourhood Deployment Area” Cars, although when Ford offered a substantial discount on their Anglia range we could only get them in pale blue and white."

It gets worse: 1970 Mini Cooper Police car at an auction: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25450/lot/22/

Whilst I don't know how much they sold their mini cooper S for, the Bracknell police (Berkshire UK )boasted that when they sold it it had done some 300000 miles and earned a pound a mile in service.