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Doogies Car-Toon: Police Charger Pursues Stolen Monaro

Posted on by Doogiemeister
The Stolen Monaro

The Stolen Monaro

NSW Highway Patrol Charger

NSW Highway Patrol Charger

Monaro HK GTS 140 MPH Speedo

Monaro HK GTS 140 MPH Speedo

I hope you enjoy my stylised car-toon using 1/43 scale diecast models. As you can see the theme is a NSW Highway Patrol Valiant Charger in pursuit of a stolen HK GTS Monaro, complete with the GTS 140 MPH speedo.

If you have enjoyed this entry, and would like to see more, please leave me a comment or suggestion.

Cheers, Doogie.

Valiant Charger Police Highway Patrol

Posted on by Doogiemeister

I read somewhere that only South Australia and New South Wales used Valiant Chargers as Highway Patrol vehicles. I can’t remember seeing them in NSW, but I clearly remember them using the Ford Falcon coupes with 351 V8s. They were awesome. I witnessed more than one pursuit where they were used and I can confirm they sounded awesome when floored ( no I wasn’t the one being pursued, not by the Coupes anyway 🙂 ).

However I can confirm South Oz used Chargers. On our trip across to South Oz in 1978 ( see my earlier EH Holden Wagon entry https://doogiesdiecast.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/1964-eh-holden-station-wagon/ ) I saw them. From memory they were CL Model Chargers, light blue with high vis colour stripes. They stood out and were a bit of a novelty back then because  if you can remember,  most cop cars were rather drab in that era.

Anyway, here for your viewing pleasure is my Trax VH Charger Highway Patrol in 1/43 scale. I think it is supposed to be NSW Highway Patrol but I don’t know much about the NSW Chargers. I found some detailed info in PDF format http://www.cavoa.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=25 Not my info but take a look anyway. Also if you’re reading this and you know more about NSWHP Chargers, let us know in the comments section. Thanks.

Valiant Charger Highway Patrol by Trax in 1/43 Scale