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Re: SP250 Dart

To: "Syl's Sydney Homestay" <homestay@infolearn.com.au>
Subject: Re: SP250 Dart
From: Mark Donaldson <ardmore@voyager.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 21:28:46 -0800
Paul, 
This raises an interesting point.
I remember years ago seeing a photo of an SP250 with a hard-top 
AND a blue flashing light on top. It was used by the Police on 
the M1 in Britain in the mid sixties.

Where did you get nobbled? I assume it was in Oz.
Pretty sneaky, eh?
Mark




Syl's Sydney Homestay wrote:
> 
> Mark's dead right about the Dodge Dart.
> 
> Daimler named their sports model the SP 250 Dart. When it was launched
> however Dodge, who had registered the trademark Dart, forbade them to use
> it.
> 
> With a V8 in a light body the car could move - I remember well as I was
> tagged on  a trip to the snow one time in an MGB by an unmarked police
> patrol in an
> SP 250.
> 
> Paul


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