The Doomsday car was actually a ’78
Rover SDX 2600, a smaller engined South African version that is
visually almost identical to the Heller model. It was decked out with a
yellow and red “jam sandwich” stripe with a dull yellow heptagram
insignia centered on the door. A number of viewings and copious frame
advancing lead to the digital recreation seen below. The center featured
the typical Scottish police crest of the thistle topped with a crown in
a wreath with a scroll at the bottom. Around this was a band of text
that was very difficult to decipher. It was three words, one at top
separated from the two on the bottom by two dots. I’m very confident
that the last word is “POLICE” and rather sure that “SCOTLAND” rounded
out the bottom… the top word however was rather tricky. At first I
assumed it was “CENTRAL”, the Central Scotland Police being a real
police force. However some digging proved the heptagram to be unlike any
insignia used by any Scottish police. I returned to the frame advance
and was able to determine that there were eight characters in the word
in question – something like “CANNIBAL.” I have no idea if this is
really what the crest reads – but it makes for a rather good in-joke by
the production crew, so I whipped up a graphic in GIMP to make into a
decal. The idea here is for a Doomsday inspired Combat Zone force…
♫Good thing, where have you gone?♫
