Because of the price of Cosworth's and their parts, owners might not be too keen on everyone knowing they own one.

Omg I want to buy one so bad

Can you email me? Geoffbuyscars@gmail.com 😊

I guess you'd then know my uncle, John Wheeler, was chief engineer...went for a drive as a kid in the video clip with either François or Miki Biasion back in 1994 through Woodhill forest in Auckland in New Zealand when they were testing for the WRC rally 1:29 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJicpMyLxLrUknk.html

My uncle Dave made the screws that held the falangie into the upper right hand left support. His wife, auntie Ethel was a weatherman on the radio back when it was in black and white who broadcast through the month on every third Saturday of the week. They had three children, two girls and two boys. Three of the girls went to private school at the local comprehensive and the boys were home schooled and were bullied by the other kids in her class. Both of them are now Doctors at a dental surgery in Birmingham helping the homeless find a dog or a box of jellied eels. They tell me living in the capital is difficult as the bus service is very infrequent they are everywhere and when five come that one has a horse drawn carriage pulled by a bull on its way to be milked by George, my fathers first cousin to his brothers third wife who lived in Scotland near to Portsmouth, he had one of those cars as well as the fifth one ever made which was the twelfth off the production line at Volvo in Germany. I'll email a letter that he typed for me by hand, hope green pen is okay as I can't read yellow writing, I might be an unknown number so I'll leave a message in case you do answer. It will detail everything about the car including the change from four wheels to two wheels which is when it got a new brake lever on the upper bar at the local dealership before being turned around and had two extra wheels fitted onto the left side on the underneath. Together we'll find these buckets on our own and get them found or at the very least located.

@@funkduck1842 Whoever the hell you are... Please, please stick around. I need you to comment on every one of my videos, and this comment is absolutely going in part 2. Thank you for making me spit my tea out this morning....!

@@funkduck1842 ha ha brilliant! I get the gag I really do !pmsl👏👏👏😂😂😂

Thanks so much for clarifying :) any photos of when you had it? Do feel free to email me geoffbuyscars@gmail.com

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Edit . The guy who said it’s in his mates garage has checked and it’s a different reg . I’ve done an Hpi today and it’s recorded as still stolen .

@@bamcossi Damn so do we think BRG disappeared when it was stolen in 2006?

@@GeoffBuysCars it was reported stolen November 2005

Yes please

It is on KZfaq the video posted years ago. It was being serviced at OMC Ford Chester Rd where they stole it from. Salford lads, it was being hand braked turned with the blues & twos, then got its doors bent back, then set a light

Right then, I guess that’s next!

I owned one.

I own one, now a race car

Well then I shall do some more! Check out my video buying cars from 2006, in my uploads

Ah no I didn’t know that.... do you know the plate though?!

Were you on blues and twos?

I remember a Blues And Twos episode with Humberside Police where a cossie and a Senator worked together. The cossie was M982 GAT. Mark Shingles was the dog handler in that episode, but I'm guessing you were still Humberside?

@@JimLem I was too ugly. We took it in turns to ride with the superstars.

​@@derekcole5593 Good old RCS... Straight onto your patch followed by "... Four I/C for money laundering. Can we get a local unit to..." Followed swiftly by the simultaneous groans of the IRT sargent, and the only Bobby in CID/Interview Team who hasn't picked up a prisoner that morning 😭

I’ve considered a rebrand as I’ve sort of got all the cars I want now... the 850 TDi was my favourite but I’ve now fallen in love with the gold T5 auto, so these two are staying... what else could a man want?! A 50mpg cruiser and the worlds highest mileage T5...

@@Beauloqs yeah exactly. I’d gotten bored of making the videos before Christmas but this new stuff has reinvigorated me and the channel has grown as a result!

Same

It wasn't followed by a bmw, it was always in tandem with a vauxhall senator.

@@simonmcmaster8949 A dog carrying Senator no less 😉

Best series ever! Me and my cameraman oways watch it.

@@ThomasEdward how good is it eh! You’d think it was a scripted drama it’s so good. Someone needs to make it into a TV drama

@@JohnnyPaton some episodes make you guess if it’s staged or not but I don’t think it is. The comedy value in them is class love banter between the guys on it.

@@ThomasEdward old school blokey magic. I’m sure a lot of policing is tough work but theirs was a dream job. Getting up each morning/evening to drive a Cosworth, RS2000 or 220GSi and chasing crims and busting up ringing gangs. Brilliant.

@@JohnnyPaton that’s thing I noticed other day actually after watching them all this time the 220 Rover R8 shape I love me rovers. But they used also Mk3 Astra GSI and GSI Cav’s too! I love ep where there’s flat battery on the RS200 and they all standing around it in the street with the boss looks like Mr Bean.

Amazing, pop me an email if you have any stories or photos :)

We had the lotus carltons for ram raids x

little tip, never do 150 mph with the windows down or crack a window at that speed.

Love that it might make the next video!

I knew a cop who when the local force was looking to replace their current car contract (think it was then Rovers), they had kind of an open event where different manufacturers gave them cars to test (BMW, Volvo, Vauxhall, Rover Ford etc) he and his partner drove them all over a few days (along with other cops from other regions). One of them was the Sierra Sapphire Cosworth, he said it had a sticker on the dash stating that the car was fitted with all round discs brakes with ABS and a warning of its stopping power, so he decided to test that statement. His story was that him and his partner (in the car) had been doing multiple very high speed runs and when he’d got it back up to about 150mph stood as hard as he could on the brakes……it stopped very very well (they were both very impressed), but a couple of miles down the road it started to vibrate a lot, so he stopped the car for a look around it, the brakes didn’t look or smell right. So they radioed in and the Ford team came to them, they had completely buckled all four discs and the Ford team couldn’t understand how that was possible. Next day Ford had changed all the brakes and they were off out in it again but with in half an hour the turbo had blown and the discs buckled again……

@@jno5 that’s an amazing story!!

Another Sierra Cosworth story (not police related); but my mate at school, his dad owned a Ford Dealership and because of sales figures was given by Ford UK a Sierra Cosworth the original (teardrop, whale tail) in Moonstone Blue, he got it a few days before they went on sale to the public (so was told he can’t drive it until the official release day). His dad appeared at school in it (the day before the official release day)…….My god it was stunning, it was the car equivalent of Bo Derek coming out of the sea in Tarzan the Ape Man (had the same effect 😂). I’ll never forget that day and sitting in it……. My dads mate had a Black one and he lost the back end several times in the wet on round-abouts (they were like the Capri in that sense), I think that’s why Ford switched to the Sapphire and 4x4……

Must have moon mileage at this stage.

I almost bought it for £21k back in 2018 but the seller took a slightly higher bid from someone else that never materialised and in the meantime I bought another. I liked the history behind it but it needed a lot of work, wrong head as you say, front wings had been replaced at some point and not done the greatest, a bit of rust and paintwork needed etc and there was talk that it had done 280k miles at that point (or more) as the mileage history on the HPI is scatty in the early days! Still gutted it never came off as I feel the history outweighs all the negatives and it’s good to keep cars with a backstory like these alive for all to see!

@@dangerousdave00 Did this car start it’s Police career in Hull?

@@John_Wood_ like a lot of old RS’s you try finding one, these escorts would of done 150k minimum on 99,999k speedos and nobody has ever sold a 200k mile Cosworth as the cars are worth too much and the type of people buying them are scrupulous about maximising the value

@@jeffheineken6709 unsure mate, the paperwork the seller sent me at the time with the original registration docs shows Northumbria police, Newcastle upon Tyne in June 1994

Thanks man! Check out my McLaren video series, it’s very similar but they never really got watched despite all the work I put into them

This is a great shout, because the cars would have been abused high mileage cars with little value so they’d have gone exactly where you say

Better than fed to the crusher

There were a fair amount of Escort Cosworth rally cars here in Ireland in the late 90's and early 00's some fond memories and noises I'll never forget 😁

“Doesn’t take much to prepare them”, Sure you can prepare one in 20 minutes and get change from £100 (or is that €) … 😂😂😂 dummy!

I was going to suggest that maybe they'd been exported, as years ago I sold a car to someone from eastern Europe who was living in London and subsequent checks have shown it never to be MOTd, taxed, or sold since (and it wan't by any means a scrapper). I assume they took it home with them.

Surprised the Cossie could keep up with you...

Cheers Paul!

I think they were ‘between seasons’ 😂😂

all escort cosworths are 4x4,based on sierra platform ,was longer wheelbase and length than std escort.il second that

I also used to see it near threshfield and grassington area around 94-97 era

It’s these sorts of comments I’m hoping for, to fill the gaps in! There are a lot more Saphs than escorts but I’ve started the research

@@GeoffBuysCars Many many years ago... I worked for a place called Dewitts race & Rally.. We Sometimes had to "Fiddle" with the ECU's and give the engine a little tweak on the South Wales Police's Sierra Cosworths.. They were around 400bhp after that.. It was the same tune we used on some Group N cars we built.. Great channel mate... Thanks..

Great comment thank you!!

Sounds like it was built as a PR exercise, to take to car shows and fetes etc, and may not have been actually used as a patrol car.

@@shoominati23 it was used quite a lot. As humberside had a huge car crime issue the car was a message that they are taking the problem seriously. The upgrades meant it could drive over speed bumps and follow cars off road without issues.

@@shoominati23 Hi Geoff.. A very interesting video. The escort cosworth for Hull and Humberside certainly saw some action. I was studying in Hull a the time and joyriding was a huge issue for the city. Sadly residents would argue tho that, if anything it increased the volume of joyriders. The criminals wanted that badge of honour. To say that they'd outrun that beast of a car. I remember seeing on a Hull fair night, it was certainly been given the beans over a railway crossing near Walton Street Hull, it as others have mentioned always was followed closely by a BMW. We loved seeing it here in Humberside/Yorkshire. It was also called out to give chase to a work colleague. I was working at a dairy whilst studying a lovely lad I worked alongside would just save and save to work and tune his Ford Escort RS Turbo.. Then one night in the very sleepy seaside town of Hornsea east yorkshire he decided (yes I like a fool) to see what it could do through the centre of this sleepy, tiny town. After about 45 minutes the cosworth showed up, again with the BMW in tow and proceeded to give chase. The speed is immaterial but it was over 100mph in a residential area. In case you were wondering he was caught, locked up that night and lost his license. However the police giving chase still treated nice and discussed his beautiful RS. They both had a love for cars.. Sadly one went about it the right way.. Thanks for the video.. was great to remember and can't wait for the sapphires!!

I’ve spoken to the guy who built all the Cosworths featured by Geoff so far who says the escort Cosworths had Group N brakes too which was abs modules disconnected inside the car, ap racing discs and carbon pads which there are 2 types (colours) and this was to supply a car that would lock the rear brakes up and have other pads that wouldn’t on the rear and they all had AP 600 racing fluid. He was there when Gwyndaf Evans would test the Escort Cosworths with the police officers at a RAF base and at that time Gwyndaf was Ford Motorsport development driver and rally driver who won the 1996 British Rally Championship in Ford Escort RS2000’s

You’re a div for not using a piece of wood to tilt the car over and clear the ramps, if I can do it you could but as you didn’t care it shows what people like you were like

I’ve had some brilliant emails, I’ll get a video out next week :)

Thanks so much! I enjoy putting these together so hit me with subject ideas

Feel free to email me some stories :) geoffbuyscars@gmail.com

Yes seems a lot of money but it’ll be interesting if it goes in the auction!

yikes, I'll stick to my chevys. I could build 3 or 4 really nice cars for that.

If that’s 67 large mines 100 grand as no way a thrashed abused copper rs is worth more than a proper low miler

RM AO AND HH WERE CUMBRIA Identification LETTERS HH WAS CARLISLE AND RM ,AO WERE WEST COAST but we only had 1 cossie in our area thankfully at the time

I also went in the famous Michelin pilot cossie which was Malcom Wilson’s as my dad was friends with his dad who owned the scrap yard at branthwaite Cumbria and a 6r4 he owned too when he had a Saab dealership just outside Carlisle also M-sport headquarters is near where my mum lives it was previously us a mental asylum now a huge testing facility but I’ve known him (MALCOM) from the age of 6/7 I’m 47 now

Welcome! There’s a Part 2 coming later this week!

There’s a old 91 or 92 video on KZfaq of a police cossy in manny getting ragged around then torched

YOU MEAN THIS 1 IN SALFORD HE WALKED IN AS A COP AND THEY GIVE IT HIM kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLSTe8Sqnt3bcYE.html

Had an E plater myself back in 97

Ha ha tell us the story!

@@GeoffBuysCars Nothing exciting, was just pulled in the early hours on my way home from a night out. I was in a Renualt 5 'GT Turbo' lookalike. It had a 1.1 engine in it so was never gonna outrun it.

Surely Aussie cops should be driving Aussie cars? We have the same problem here

We have only one vehicle manufacturer left in Australia, a company called IVECO formerly International Trucks. We have just been sent down the gurgler by different political groups. We had tarifs covering local production but once they were removed the local manufacturers folded. It started with Chrysler being taken over by Mitsubishi, but they were still producing Magnas here in OZ. Then the federal Government gave hundreds of millions of dollars to Holden, who promptly sent the money to the US and then shut down manufacturing here. Then Ford stopped the Falcon and started selling imported Fords, the most popular vehicle in Australia is the Ford Ranger. The whole downfall started with a senator called John Button, his dream was for model sharing. The Falcon ute became a Nissan ute, the Nissan Pintara became a Ford Corsair the Nissan Patrol became a Ford Maverick. The Holden Commodore became a Toyota Lexcen,and so the industry turned to shit!

Me too. It was fast

That is a brilliant anecdote!!! Might include this in my part 2

@@GeoffBuysCars the strangest thing was that shape escort never came out for about a year after we saw his

Brilliant comment

A video with a happy ending 😂

Skipton is in North Yorkshire so we had all the Dales to play in.We used to meet our West Yorkshire traffic colleagues down at Crosshills /Keighley in their Vectras .The Escort was the first time I had driven a 4x4 car .Our cars before that were Cavalier Sri...a great car of its time also.

If you can dig those photos out that'd be fantastic! geoffbuyscars@gmail.com

@@GeoffBuysCars i'll see what i can do but the pics could be anywhere. if i can dig them out i'll send them over to you. cheers Geoff

I've heard some brilliant story's from when aben was a WYP Traffic cop and obviously on channel 5s interceptors. He claims in over 15 years as a Traffic cop for west Yorkshire the Vectra VXR was the best car he drove certainly enjoyed them more than 330 and 530d's

Great comment.

Yes there was several used in my area too, West Cumbria (Workington/Whitehaven) though from memory the whale tail was omitted being only fitted with the lower boot spoiler.

Thanks Steven! Had some superb comments and emails on this one, part 2 is in the works, later this week :-)

@@GeoffBuysCars Nice one Geoff keep em coming! I'm a petrol head at heart and also like my cop cars for more than the above reason 🙂

Check out the part 2 video in my uploads, and welcome!

Please do! Email. Geoffbuyscars@gmail.com, script is written and I’m ready to film part 2 so it’ll be great if you can add to it!

@@GeoffBuysCars yeah he lives literally 2 mins away from me so will ask him he had it for a few years but he’s had some mental fords