Always Drive Safe The road Towards ZERO ROAD CAMPAIGN is not new In 1972 The “Declare War on 1034” campaign in the Herald Sun’s predecessor The Sun had resulted in safer cars December 11th 1972 It was announced that 8 SPECIAL POLICE CARS were secured for a new traffic group by Victoria Police Mobile Traffic Section the Hume Highway Group here is a pictorial of the special high visibility FORD HIGH POWERED cars used from 1972 to 1976 the fleet grew from 8 to 12 in 1973 which included the Western Highway The CANDY CARS were White in colours with the LAST WHITE XC FALCON 5.8 ending the era The tradition continued with Yellow coloured marked units some still called them candy cars