David Coxon, Captain of Test Card F led his team to IOE Victory, the highest honor in 24 Hours of LeMons Endurance Racing Series. Proving the Rover SD1 to still be a venerable track weapon to be reckoned with. British police use The SD1 was popular with British police forces, particularly in V8 form. West Yorkshire Police were the first police force to use the SD1. A one-off police force Rover SD1 from the Grampian police force was sold at auction in 2015 on the television show For the Love of Cars to the Grampian transport museum, where it was used 30 years earlier. When SD1 production was ceasing, police forces stockpiled a number of the cars for later use, to be introduced over the late 1980s. On 8 May 1987 a pair of Metropolitan Police SD1s made the now famous "Liver Run", transporting a donor organ for transplant from London Stansted Airport to a patient at the Cromwell Hospital in Kensington, covering 27 miles in under 30 minutes. The run was part of a Police Camera Action! special broadcast in 1996, including the patient who survived the transplant. Police Stop! aired it a year later, showing the entire journey, to celebrate the program's 10th anniversary. Between 1985 and 1991, a Rover SD1 police car featured prominently in the title sequence of popular British police procedural television series The Bill. References Citations Bibliography External links The World of the Rover SD1 Rover SD1 Club Rover SD1 Australia, Australian Market website history SD1 British Leyland vehicles Executive cars Hatchbacks Sports sedans Police vehicles Rear-wheel-drive vehicles 1980s cars Cars introduced in 1976 Touring cars