Road toll - Police stupid obsession blaming speed

[granstar]

The last I saw of my victor was when it stalled and got rammed real hard by three cars. Mind you that happens in the Demo Derby.

[pete376403]

Hillman Hunters were not delivered from Todds with a radio but it was a "mandatory option" installed at the dealership during pre delivery check.

[Moi]

Hillman Hunters were not delivered from Todds with a radio but it was a "mandatory option" installed at the dealership during pre delivery check.

and an upgrade was a push button AM radio!

For those who like quality English vehicles...

[Scuba_Steve]

Going back to the road toll; I see we're on our way to besting last years total [379] at 199 killed in half a year currently
Slow the roads - increase the deaths... Just wait till they re-introduce 80km/h roads everywhere

[eldog]

Going back to the road toll; I see we're on our way to besting last years total [379] at 199 killed in half a year currently
Slow the roads - increase the deaths... Just wait till they re-introduce 80km/h roads everywhere

Already happening ‘temporary 80 kph’ becomes 80

by stealth

along with vehicle tracking

long live the Hillman Hunter beater Singer Vogue

[FJRider]

Already happening ‘temporary 80 kph’ becomes 80

by stealth

Regarding "Temporary" speed zones ...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-dai...a-technicality

[PrincessBandit]

I have no fond memories of 70's English cars.
.....shit like Cortina's, Vivas,....

I have very fond memories of my Mark II Cortina! I was gutted when it got stolen - twice

[Berries]

I have very fond memories of my Mark II Cortina! I was gutted when it got stolen - twice

Snap. Although only stolen once my 1300 Deluxe was used as a get away car.


Idiots.

[Swoop]

Really "flash" mean't it had a "Factory radio and heater" ...

I enjoyed "Car SOS" this last Sunday on the telly, where they visited a shop with the "aftermarket" radios with aerial sockets. It reminded me of our Austin 1100 land crab which had a Fergusson radio exactly like on the TV show!

Already happening ‘temporary 80 kph’ becomes 80

The NW Motorway around the Waterview tunnels is a classic case in point.
Surprisingly there are people who obey that speed restriction.

[AllanB]

Going back to the road toll; I see we're on our way to besting last years total [379] at 199 killed in half a year currently
Slow the roads - increase the deaths... Just wait till they re-introduce 80km/h roads everywhere

A pile of Selwyn District roads have been reduced to 80 in the past couple months.

[merv]

Hillman Hunters were not delivered from Todds with a radio but it was a "mandatory option" installed at the dealership during pre delivery check.

My 1970 Hillman Hunter was my first car and it never had a radio and I never fitted one right up until I sold it in 1988 so it can't have been mandatory in 1970. I always said who needed a radio when you could listen to the sweet sound of the engine. That sound never faded in the country either like the radio stations did.

For its day I thought it was a great car and took it down all sorts of terrain where people seem to think only 4x4s can go now. The boot was big enough to put my Honda XL175 in when I took the wheels and forks off of it and transported it regularly that way between North and South Islands.

[FJRider]

I have very fond memories of my Mark II Cortina! I was gutted when it got stolen - twice

I had a Hillman Hunter ... and it got stolen.

A few days later the guy brought it back and apologized. He said ... "with having to own/drive one of those ... I had enough problems" ...

I did clock up quite a few miles in it though. I didn't have any real issues with it until one of the pistons turned into a two piece unit.

[pete376403]

Already happening ‘temporary 80 kph’ becomes 80

by stealth

along with vehicle tracking

long live the Hillman Hunter beater Singer Vogue

Sunbeam Rapier FTW!! With a Holbay H120 engine.

[pete376403]

My 1970 Hillman Hunter was my first car and it never had a radio and I never fitted one right up until I sold it in 1988 so it can't have been mandatory in 1970. I always said who needed a radio when you could listen to the sweet sound of the engine. That sound never faded in the country either like the radio stations did.

I was at Marsden Alexander motors in Lower Hutt in the late 70s and it sure was mandatory then. Also for Avengers, Galants and NZ assembled Valiants.

Lots of Hunters (aka Paykan) still on the road in Iran. The first Paykan, which means "arrow" in Farsi, was first manufactured in Iran in 1967, a year after the Hillman Hunter appeared in Britain. It became an exclusively Iranian model after Chrysler UK discontinued it and sold sole manufacturing rights to Iran in 1979. Production ended in 2005.

Two million of the five million cars on Iran's roads are Paykans and sales were still 150,000 a year.

[Cosmik de Bris]

Going back to the road toll; I see we're on our way to besting last years total [379] at 199 killed in half a year currently
Slow the roads - increase the deaths... Just wait till they re-introduce 80km/h roads everywhere

If there are fewer deaths the police claim their campaigns are working, when there are more it is just a statistical glitch.

Cheers