I'm Richard Porter and this is Smith and Smith a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.

Hello, hello, hello, in a police convertible. I'm still singing it. I'm still singing it now.

We had quite a few messages about this pointing out that amongst other things

the British police have had convertibles.

Oh, a listener called Adam was one of the people who wrote in and said, my dad told me about the time in the 60s

when he was young and in his first car a mark one catina did you just say

did you say you said a mark one katina

ford katina

uh... i don't know where that came from

uh... he decides to have a bit of fun with a daimler

SP 250 dart only to end up getting pulled by it and finding out it was a met police

car doing some research it seems they had a few as high speed

pursuit cars problem is is back in the 60s you have to say it like that you have to go

close to the microphone and you have to say it with the

slight sort of speech of it. Of course things were very different in the 60s.

The 60s. Yeah and so what I was going to say was surely the said Dame Laddart had a bell on the bonnet that was the size of a dustbin and it was glinting in the sun. You're like, oh, I wonder if that's a police car.

What with it having a church bell on the bonnet?

Because a lot of them had an actual bell.

They did.

Or one of those, like a bell from a 60s school that they would use to get kids in play time in the 60s.

Although they used to do that in the 80s where I was at primary school as well.

I used to be a used to get nominated as the bell ringer which the bell boy yeah and I used to enjoy it no

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