My Rover

I wouldn't want to step on anyone's toes - but if anyone knows where in California these come from I am happy to try and pick one up and forward it - maybe save a few pounds/euro/dollars?
 
Chris,

The seller is in Maidstone - but the ebay blurb says they are made in California - happy to help if it's close to me.

Update - just done a quick search and these look like they are made by a company called Wheelskins - you can buy direct from them for about $49 or they are available for $39 from this website http://storesonline.com/site/564545/product/400-100

Every little bit helps
 
Time for some more photos. The first few were taken in 2007, and detail the last few days of the original 3.5 litre engine. The duco on the air canister is the original from 1974, while the inlet manifold, rocker covers and elbows I repainted in 1997 when I fitted new head gaskets. The engine had 203,139 miles (327,054km) when it was removed in July of that year.

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The next selection of photos were taken today, Tuesday April 19, 2011. The Rover is a little dusty at present, not to mention covered with squished bugs, but for 240,100 miles (386,561km) I don't think it looks too bad.

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Ron.
 
Hello Rich,

I do look after my Rover as best I can, preferring preventative maintenance where ever possible. I also subscribe to the idea that using the Rover regularly is by far the best way to ensure reliabilty and longevity.

Ron.
 
I think the outside of yours looks as good as the underneath, Ron! That colour somehow suits the notion of a 4.6 under the bonnet....

Chris
 
My eyes my eyes lol it's so shiny under the bonnet too :LOL:
Tumeric can be a nice colour !


graeme
 
Thanks Gents... :D

Tumeric Graeme....Saffron I think you mean... :D

Funny, when I had the 4.6 installed, my brother said to me Chris that I should put 2000 badges on the car, just as a joke mind. He said other drivers, especially those with their hats on backwards driving 4 cylinder perambulators fitted with drain pipe size exhausts would get the shock of their lives when instead of shooting past me at the lights,..they watched in disbelief as I disappeared up the road.

Ron.
 
One of those spices, there are so many to choose from, Tumeric, saffron, Paprika, pimento, avocado etc. Just think if there had been an indian factory we would have had curry as well :roll:
 
ghce said:
Just think if there had been an indian factory we would have had curry as well :roll:
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Curry as a word was invented by the British... as was the chicken tikka masala. You go into a restaurant in India and ask for a chicken tikka masala curry and chances are they'll look at you like you've got two heads. I've never been, though, so can't say definitively...
 
Mmm. Turmeric, Saffron, Paprika -- perhaps Rover had a premonition all those years ago that TATA would finish up owning the name..

Chris
 
Or one for the conspiracy theorists, may be Rover planned a big big marketing campaign or factory in India but it never came to fruition, much like the jet Rover......funny I dont see mention of it in Mr Taylors fine publication.
 
ghce said:
Or one for the conspiracy theorists, may be Rover planned a big big marketing campaign or factory in India but it never came to fruition, much like the jet Rover......funny I dont see mention of it in Mr Taylors fine publication.
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And nearly 50 years after the launch of the Rover BRM, Britain's premier carmaker (Indian-owned) unveils a stunningly beautiful mid-engined turbine-powered supercar based on a Formula 1 chassis...
 
I hate to disillusion you, Richard, but there's a quite astonishing amount of P6 in the chassis of both iterations of Rover-BRM! I had assumed like you, that there was a proper BRM chassis under there. It doesn't pay to assume!

Chris
 
chrisyork said:
I hate to disillusion you, Richard, but there's a quite astonishing amount of P6 in the chassis of both iterations of Rover-BRM! I had assumed like you, that there was a proper BRM chassis under there. It doesn't pay to assume!

Chris
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What? It's sat on the chassis Richie Ginther crashed in Monaco in 1962.
 
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