Baddy 1 "We need a getaway car for an armed robbery. We need excellent handling, the speed to outrun anything and bulletproof reliability". Baddy 2 "I know just the car".
Anyone else reckon after watching these 1980's early 90s video's everything looks so much better? I really can't describe it, everything just looks so much more simple and more honest.
My parents had one of these Rovers and on a D plate, too. I thought it was cool as you like because this bad boy car was the first we had where you had an arm rest in the middle of the back seats! Oh, and electric windows. 😎
The fact that this was apparently filmed the year or year before I was born (1997) makes me feel so ancient! The blue spinning lights on the unmarked police cars and the two-tone "nee-naw" sirens are just incredible to me... Awesome footage!!!
@@eccIefechan So it's actually a whole year older than me and therefore 24 years ago! One big thing I noticed was how differently the cars handled compared to modern cars which could zip around those corners and weave in and out of traffic with ease. These old Rovers looked quite unsteady in comparison and even quite precarious at times (a lot of body roll!).
fun fact, all A, K and S series engined rovers came with a built in smoke screen feature as standard. Good old British engineering, Why didnt Bond have one?
lol I remember as a youngster nicking dozens and dozens of cars like that, you didnt need tools or anything, I actually got in to a fully locked metro and started it too whilst only using a stiff short stick from a tree!!!! Really all you needed for pretty much all of them was one of those old swis army knifes, the little nail file got in to anything so easily, with the little buttons we used to have, put in lock and turn hard and up comes that button, break steering lock, hand under dash rip plastic off to reveal ignition wires, grab um and pull and out came the little black box with a hole in it, put nail file into that hole and away you go lol Those were the days, altho i stopped anything like that when I reached around 16 and realised people work hard for what they have and no one has a right to touch thier stuff but really thinking about it, I just miss being a teenager as everything was better, getting old is not fun lol
@@calum1741 Oh godddd , now I think about it, we probably nicked more of those than anything else, well if not then its close to a winner lol Jesus that brings back memories, they were everywhere, those and metros, oh and the crazy sexy maestro lol Come to think of it Im remembering tons of cars now but my god astras everywhere. Id love to see one of those now, havent seen or nicked one in years lol
@@Mick-gp6vi utter rubbish there were still plenty of cars around, families started being two cars households. One for working and the other whomever stayed at home, took kids to school etc
@sorryunlucky I'm afraid not. The "5987" is definitely not a date. There are countless 90s cars visible in the video, particularly the Rover police car which would be from 1992 at the earliest as well as numerous parked cars.
TV show is "X-cars" from 1997. It's the TVCU who were targeting Manchester's rampant car crime of the mid 90s. They ran all sorts of fast (for the time) kit, Sierra Cossies, Cavalier/Astra GSi, Escort RS2000s and the Rover 200/400 turbos.
The "5987" is definitely not a date. There are countless 90s cars visible in the video, particularly the Rover police car which would be from 1992 at the earliest as well as numerous parked cars.
Lmao, a rover 213/216 as a getaway car, not the brightest of criminals. Used to love watching X cars on bbc, they had some well tasty motors, cosworths, subaru's etc With some great chases. Well better than the crappy cop shows they show nowadays, "PC legbreaker decides to have a word with this motorist who is not wearing a seatbelt" " hello sir, do you know i could fine you £1000 for not wearing a seatbelt but because the tv film crew is here i am going to appear really nice and not batter the shit out of you with my truncheon"
GMP hated me and my mates 😂 One of my friends took Chase in reverse around the estate for over 20min . Every passage way now has been blocked . And police installed CCTV cameras on the estate to watch 24 hours a day 🤯
1:11 chasing a Rover and getting stuck behind a Metro is just so comically 90s.
Baddy 1 "We need a getaway car for an armed robbery. We need excellent handling, the speed to outrun anything and bulletproof reliability".
Baddy 2 "I know just the car".
Anyone else reckon after watching these 1980's early 90s video's everything looks so much better? I really can't describe it, everything just looks so much more simple and more honest.
Well, this isn't 80s or early 90s. I believe it to be 1996.
Stupid Comment Of The Week certainly less cars on the road. Along with less houses.
Yeah I know exactly what you mean
@@jblack5323 fewer
Yea I know exactly wym it's more driver it's more original
He was only trying to escape a road-side emissions test - he'd prob have passed it back then.
Yeh and his driving test
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
0:01 This car was left parked securely by Richard and Hyacinth Bucket
it's BOUQUET!
Oh, nice *Onslo*
@@gary63693 lmao.
My parents had one of these Rovers and on a D plate, too. I thought it was cool as you like because this bad boy car was the first we had where you had an arm rest in the middle of the back seats! Oh, and electric windows. 😎
@@gary63693 this comment should be framed and showcased around the world 🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
He used the 007 bond switch to try and smoke them out
Special feature on those Rovers !
Nah thats just the headgasket on the way out typical for rovers
Silly bugger forgot about his oil slick switch.😁
FFS, a rover 200 for a robbery of a jewlers?? Seriously??! 😨
He deserves to get caught just for the choice of getaway car.
😂😂💯
They were quite pokey for nippiness and tight turning circle!
Thats what I thought. Out of all the cars he could of chose from. He'd of been better of with a donkey 🤣.
He should’ve choose a lotus carlton
Love this vintage uk police chase footage 1980s 90s golden era of car crime
mattep1ao 😎
"Ram Raiders Escape at 145MPH" I remember that headline well
@@richardclarke376 The Lotus Carlton 40 RA ???
"golden era of car crime" xD
If you got more of these older UK Police chase clips, i would love to see more.
The fact that this was apparently filmed the year or year before I was born (1997) makes me feel so ancient! The blue spinning lights on the unmarked police cars and the two-tone "nee-naw" sirens are just incredible to me... Awesome footage!!!
Well, I was 11 years old when I recorded it from TV back in September 1996. It's hard for me to believe that it's so long ago now!
@@eccIefechan So it's actually a whole year older than me and therefore 24 years ago! One big thing I noticed was how differently the cars handled compared to modern cars which could zip around those corners and weave in and out of traffic with ease. These old Rovers looked quite unsteady in comparison and even quite precarious at times (a lot of body roll!).
Makes you feel ancient? I was 8 when this was recorded! I remember when these cars were commonplace on the roads.
Born 1999. Love the oldskool stuff.
fun fact, all A, K and S series engined rovers came with a built in smoke screen feature as standard. Good old British engineering, Why didnt Bond have one?
The way they were going through those puddles I thought I was watching a scene from The Sweeney!😂
lol. it's hyacinthe's car. and daddy's gone off with it once again!!!!!!!!!!!
Back when cars where cars! Easy fixable from scrap yard bits! Not like the laptops on wheels we have these days!
Who wants to spend every Sunday fiddling about under the bonnet keeping them running?
british engineering & reliability
Pierre Argubi Except not because this model of rover is just a rebadged Honda Ballade..
it could be the S series engine which is rover made, instead of Honda's EV2 engine.
You have to love 90s cop chases. These days they would have called the chase off after he went down that alley.
The Rover 213/216 (Hyacinth Bucket car) has a more respectable image than a Montego. Very few are driven mad my lunatics, even when old bangers.
The exhaust smoke proves it's a post Leyland Rover
Back when brits used to drive british cars
Robber 1: We need a fast car, something that can evade the coppers
Robber 2: We ShOuLd JuSt UsE a 1986 RoVeR 200 mAte
Funny to see the old motors being used back then!
Very clever design of the smoke screen sent by the Rover, 007 like.. I want that in my car.
lol I remember as a youngster nicking dozens and dozens of cars like that, you didnt need tools or anything, I actually got in to a fully locked metro and started it too whilst only using a stiff short stick from a tree!!!! Really all you needed for pretty much all of them was one of those old swis army knifes, the little nail file got in to anything so easily, with the little buttons we used to have, put in lock and turn hard and up comes that button, break steering lock, hand under dash rip plastic off to reveal ignition wires, grab um and pull and out came the little black box with a hole in it, put nail file into that hole and away you go lol
Those were the days, altho i stopped anything like that when I reached around 16 and realised people work hard for what they have and no one has a right to touch thier stuff but really thinking about it, I just miss being a teenager as everything was better, getting old is not fun lol
I still got a 1991 MK2 Astra. Bet they were nicked a lot back then 😂
@@calum1741 Oh godddd , now I think about it, we probably nicked more of those than anything else, well if not then its close to a winner lol Jesus that brings back memories, they were everywhere, those and metros, oh and the crazy sexy maestro lol Come to think of it Im remembering tons of cars now but my god astras everywhere. Id love to see one of those now, havent seen or nicked one in years lol
@@Jessebella1 lol 😁
I am quite glad that immobilisers are commonplace now I have to worry about these things.
Police chases are better in england! And after wards the police pat you on the back and apologize for having to arrest you.
In Australia the even give you a cup of tea in princict
You've obviously never left America, son..
Why the hell would they apologize?! You seem confused
more like give u a hiding in england watching too much tv u haha
@@davidcollins870 yep. People see police interceptors and think they're all nice. How naive
We were using the Two tones into the 90s? Damn. Not in my area.
When Britain was beautiful with minimal cars in sight
That's because alot were working in then
@@MikeyManchesterno, there was a lot less cars about. That's an obvious fact
@@Mick-gp6vi utter rubbish there were still plenty of cars around, families started being two cars households. One for working and the other whomever stayed at home, took kids to school etc
According to statista, there's just over 21% more cars on the road now than there were in 2000.
I remember them police rovers from when I was younger vvm were the last 3 letters on the reg plate 👍
@sorryunlucky
I'm afraid not. The "5987" is definitely not a date. There are countless 90s cars visible in the video, particularly the Rover police car which would be from 1992 at the earliest as well as numerous parked cars.
Lads where good pilots back then!
Just love the happy ending.
Rover 213 had good little Honda engine but getting it up on 2 wheels was hooning it
he only got caught because he tried to drift
Robber 1: "Crikey mate, it's the rozzers!"
Robber 2: "Do not worry, this vehicle has 60 brake horsepower ON TAP"
I never knew the police force ran Rover 200/400s as their traffic cars... when was this? Early 90s?
I don't think these are traffic units. I reckon they're part of a specialist unit dealing with car-crime.
I thought it was the sd 1?
@@suds5866 oh yea yea
TV show is "X-cars" from 1997. It's the TVCU who were targeting Manchester's rampant car crime of the mid 90s. They ran all sorts of fast (for the time) kit, Sierra Cossies, Cavalier/Astra GSi, Escort RS2000s and the Rover 200/400 turbos.
@@johnroberts2905 TASS they were known as had a couple of mates worked for them used to play 5-a-side with them at Hough End GMP's social club :)
Excellent result by GMP, and criminals off to jail.
I love the starsky n hutch light on the rover!!.......lol
Piston rings are defo gone ..all that smoke , I think it was an insurance job gone wrong lol 😂
5987 is the police officer's collar number. T.A.S.U was the name then for GMP's unmarked traffic squad that targeted car crime.
Out of interest, is it actually a traffic unit? I thought it was a seperate specialist vehicle-crime unit (sorry for replying to an old comment lol)
Id be running too if I heard those obnoxious sirens 😂
Perfect getaway car with built in smoke screen, Rover!!😂🤣😂
The 'projects' are called 'council estates' in the UK, FYI lol
"You're nicked sunshine."
@sorryunlucky You will find thats not the date in top top right side of the screen........
Hardly the Sweeney is it?
Rover 200 series (SD3). I wish I had owned one.
Actually I think it’s a Triumph Acclaim made at the Honda factory in Swindon.
Triumph Acclaim was the older Ballade/Civic.
Where about in Manchester is this looked like blackley ?
0:06 was oil surge caused by hitting the kerb on a bend all "O" Series cars did that. :-)
Richard Bucket deffo wasn't minding the sheep, the pedestrian at the side of the road.
that sucks he was running pretty good
That's British roads for you!
They got 10 years for armed robbery and life without parole for stealing a Rover 200.
blast from the past
thats gotta be a blown headgasket.... all the smoke!
I remember that horrible bee bahh bee bahh siren fecking horrible it was
If you pause at 0:01 black Ford Escort 👍👍👍😉😉
Looks like James Bond car.
The Camera Car looks a bit like an Astra GSi to me, even tought you only see it very short at the end.
Grew up in Swansea car crime capital of Europe at one point in 90s. Brings back memories lol
0:06 the budget cuts are really hitting james bond hard
Imagine chasing a rover and getting stuck behind a metro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Life before speed bumps
Had a rover 200 about 20 years ago it was believe it or not quite fast
Love the 90s
class
fucking hell its James bond..Q must have had a few budget cuts!
Who would dare to steal Richard Bucket's car?!
its BOUQUET!
Lady of the house speaking
@Maxmulham
lolololol!
I miss that show.
Was it greta thunberg driving the rover.
1996 or so.
Man needs a Cosworth
bro stole the car and thought it was an audi but it was rover 200
Blackley Manchester/95/96
I’ll just lay some smoke to try and put off the cops!
0:32 I bet that Audi driver shit his pants!
lol thats a rover
Cunny funt! Did you watch the whole video?
Who?
Excuse me sir my moustache would like a word with you
Brought to you by Rover
Good they got the sods good
Nesbitt at it again 🤨
0:28 look the rover car is turned into the 007 smoke screen the way the exhaust is blowing the white smoke
5th August 1987
The "5987" is definitely not a date. There are countless 90s cars visible in the video, particularly the Rover police car which would be from 1992 at the earliest as well as numerous parked cars.
September is the ninth month not August lmfao
No way that's vicky ave blackley looks like he went up hill lane ah
Memories
damn lol, this chase showed one of the streets i live close to xd
niipz129 where is it
Lmao, a rover 213/216 as a getaway car, not the brightest of criminals. Used to love watching X cars on bbc, they had some well tasty motors, cosworths, subaru's etc With some great chases. Well better than the crappy cop shows they show nowadays, "PC legbreaker decides to have a word with this motorist who is not wearing a seatbelt"
" hello sir, do you know i could fine you £1000 for not wearing a seatbelt but because the tv film crew is here i am going to appear really nice and not batter the shit out of you with my truncheon"
Maybe HeadGasker?
I hope they didn’t drop the soap inside!
POLICE WANT DRIVE THERE £40.000 BMW ONE THEM BACK ROADS NOW
Mrs bucket stole the vicers car
its just funny mate lol
GMP hated me and my mates 😂 One of my friends took Chase in reverse around the estate for over 20min . Every passage way now has been blocked . And police installed CCTV cameras on the estate to watch 24 hours a day 🤯
Hope they did the rover chasing for one defective brake.light
I can smell this video
Should've used a Carlton..
Head gasket shit itself on the way lol
@cooolcars headgaskets go for fun on these
Why was the helicopter dispatched ? They could Of caught him in a fucking wheel barrow
lol was that rover running on oil instead of gas xD
@bagz216 lol i have one of those - great fun
An oil burning rover ?? Never lol