First test run of the year

John

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Having bought my 3500 in the begining of December, and then waited until the New year for the thaw and still not driven it more than 10 miles this year, having passed an early mot a fortnight ago I thought I better give KTC a run out prior to my local car club shake down run which will go through the Trough of Bowland and up to the Lakeland Car Museum on Sunday. The only thing I found was symptoms of a possible servo pipe collapse, twice the pedal went hard so I will investigate that tomorrow. Here is the old girl on Oakenclough moor.

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Please excuse my "Tiger in mt tank" sticker and tail, but I always wanted one as a kid, and my Old Man was the operations manager for Petrofina, or Fina Petrol as it was known on GB, and I was not allowed an Esso advert on a company car! so 45yrs later I have finally got one!! :oops: c
 
Beautiful car! I really do like the colour, and it looks terrific in your photos! Nothing like a drive in the car on such a lovely sunny day! 8)
 
Dave, now you just KNOW that I will be going out to the garage to compare front to rear over riders, 'cos I wouldn't have a clue if they are front/rear oroff a Transit!
 
Hello John,

Your Rover looks magnificent.. :)

Must be hard when the weather is off and you have such a lovely car just sitting there in the garage, but then when it is nice and sunny,...just perfect,..an open road and the roar of the V8!

Ron.
 
John said:
Dave, now you just KNOW that I will be going out to the garage to compare front to rear over riders, 'cos I wouldn't have a clue if they are front/rear oroff a Transit!

I just thought they looked at a bit of an odd angle. Probably just my eyes at an odd angle :roll: :wink:

You can tell the difference by checking the back of the over riders. The front ones are open and the back ones are closed. I've edited the comment out of my last post as even I was starting to doubt my eyes 8)

Dave
 
Nice car John. I'm more than a bit jealous of everyone dusting off their cars for their first drives in the sunshine when my car's in bits, but thanks for the nice pics and the inspiration to skive of work this afternoon and make some progress on mine!
 
Thanks for the comments everyone, I wasn't sure if I could live with a custard coloured car but it is growing on me!

Dave, just been and checked the over riders, they are closed ones, but I had the back bumper and over riders off last week to trial fit a towbar, and when I put it back together the over riders looked decidedly wall eyed, so I swapped them to as they are now, and they still look slightly wall eyed to me too, but I have nothing to compare with. All my books do not show a definitive pic of position, so I used Pilkies sig pic as a guide, even though they are moved outwards to clear his towbar.

I also examined my servo hose, which was beginning to crack at the ends, and did not have any clips on the pipe ends, new pipe ordered and 2 jubilee clips fitted. I also found the valve at the inlet end was stiff, so usage and a new pipe with clips will hopefully cure the problem.
John
 
John

Probably just the angle of the photo making it look strange too. This is a photo I took of my own car from behind so I could use it as the car image on my sat nav. Perspective does funny things to photos that the human brain will automatically compensate for when looking at the real thing.

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Dave
 
Dave thats a quality idea about your car on the sat nav, did it work ? what does it look like ? what sat nav can you do that with ? could be quite a few p6 on sat navs
cheers Mick
 
happy days said:
Dave thats a quality idea about your car on the sat nav, did it work ? what does it look like ? what sat nav can you do that with ? could be quite a few p6 on sat navs
cheers Mick

Yes it works just fine Mick.

I have a TT Go 520 but you can do it on any sat nav that allow you to change the image used for your car. It's just a matter of replacing the standard pointer with an image. This is done by taking a picture of the back of your car, formatting it into the right size, filling in the background in red (apparently this works a bit like green screen filming on a sat nav) and saving the image file into the right folder in the sat nav. I'll post a picture of my sat nav with car when I get a chance and post it in a new thread so as not to hijack this one :oops:

Dave
 
Today, SWMBO bought a tree, which wouldn't fit in her Corsa.....

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40 mph for the 7 miles home, and a car full of yellow pollen, I try to colour co-ordinate my car to my pollen, I'm fussy that way!

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Can I claim it against my tax? :LOL: I got some strange looks at the garden centre, SWMBO is lucky is wasn't raining, 7 miles is a long walk holding a tree.
 
If I had a concience I'd have bought a 2CV, then filled it will soil and planted a tree in it, then watched the tree grow whilst knitting myself some sandals from recycled bubble wrap, but I haven't a concience, I have a V8, so I guess I'll just continue to blip the throttle on my V8 when driving between narrow walls, just to hear the sound of my V8 echoing back. Does that make me a bad person? :LOL:



Did I mention I had a V8 :twisted:
 
See what Rover missed out on in their marketing campaigns....

"The Rover 3500...the car you always needed for those garden centre jaunts". Did we have garden centres in the '70's?

Great pics John...hope swambo didn't have you planting it as well!

And yes...you did mention the V8! :)
 
Does that make me a bad person? :LOL:

Nope - you have a classic car and as 90% of the resource used in a carslife is in manufacture you're actually being extremely environmentally friendly! The rest is small beans comparitively!
 
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