2453kevinowen
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I Like the wheels 8) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ROVER-2000TC-WIRE ... 90ce5#ht_7
ROVER 2000TC with wire wheels on ebay
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Clains to be '68 and has an S1 bonnet and grille. The rest is S2 though, and while people sometimes fit the S2 round dial instruments to an S1, it's extremely rare to find someone who has bothered to change the dash rail for the type with the later switches....
My guess is that that is the result of merging a ''68 S1 onto a later S2 and then keeping the S1 log book. It is extremely rare indeed - like I've never heard of it - for an S2 to be fitted with wires from new.
Chris
My guess is that that is the result of merging a ''68 S1 onto a later S2 and then keeping the S1 log book. It is extremely rare indeed - like I've never heard of it - for an S2 to be fitted with wires from new.
Chris
It's got a series one V8 bonnet which will fit a series 2, but won't fit a series one without a lot of jiggery-pokery to the slam panel. Along with all the other things, that's a series 2 with series one paperwork IMHO. There's not many people that would do the amount of work necessary to make that into what it's purporting to be.
josephp6man
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hi frazzle,
at least the doors are series 1 !, there's no difference between 1 or 2. it's only the first year where the doors are different, they had round door locks.
ian
at least the doors are series 1 !, there's no difference between 1 or 2. it's only the first year where the doors are different, they had round door locks.
ian
Hmm. When I first saw this on ebay the other day (and fewer photos??) my initial thoughts were that it was a series 2, but looking more closely I now suspect it is a series1, but a real 'bitsa'.
Happy to be corrected by the more knowledgeable, but it looks to me like:
Series 1 base unit (battery in bonnet)
Series 1 doors (older style door locks, and what looks like series 1 quarter-light catch at the base, but that might be a reflection from the mirror)
Series 1 door internal armrests etc.
Series 2 dash
Series 2 front seats (headrest fitting only came with series 2?)
Series 2 (early) bootlid, with 1970 model ROVER lettering
Wire wheels only available on Series1? (not sure about this)
I actually think the specification looks quite appealing, but, assuming it was okay bodywise, I would want a very close look at the chassis/engine nos. etc and associated paperwork before parting with any money.
Just my two pennyworth.
Happy to be corrected by the more knowledgeable, but it looks to me like:
Series 1 base unit (battery in bonnet)
Series 1 doors (older style door locks, and what looks like series 1 quarter-light catch at the base, but that might be a reflection from the mirror)
Series 1 door internal armrests etc.
Series 2 dash
Series 2 front seats (headrest fitting only came with series 2?)
Series 2 (early) bootlid, with 1970 model ROVER lettering
Wire wheels only available on Series1? (not sure about this)
I actually think the specification looks quite appealing, but, assuming it was okay bodywise, I would want a very close look at the chassis/engine nos. etc and associated paperwork before parting with any money.
Just my two pennyworth.
chrisw
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Actually Tony, you're a little wrong on that list.
The front seats are series 1, as is the bootlid. It's a late series 1 bootlid.
The rear wings are from a series 2, as are the rear quarter panels, and chrome side strips. The bonnet has a series 1 v8 chrome strip fitted.
The front seats are series 1, as is the bootlid. It's a late series 1 bootlid.
The rear wings are from a series 2, as are the rear quarter panels, and chrome side strips. The bonnet has a series 1 v8 chrome strip fitted.
Pilkie
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Early S2 have the same bootlid as late S1!
That flat pleat style of seat was used well into S2 production,and I also thought S1's didnt have headrest fittings,but very late S1's may have had them!
I reckon he had a S1 with duff panels and seats, and an S2 with a duff baseunit and built a good looking car out of the 2 using the S1 base unit.
Now if I wasnt full up with cars I would be tempted as it does look quite nice!
That flat pleat style of seat was used well into S2 production,and I also thought S1's didnt have headrest fittings,but very late S1's may have had them!
I reckon he had a S1 with duff panels and seats, and an S2 with a duff baseunit and built a good looking car out of the 2 using the S1 base unit.
Now if I wasnt full up with cars I would be tempted as it does look quite nice!
Almost from the outset you could order S1's with headrests, in which case they got the heaadrest socket :roll: . But this was really quite rare and cars not so ordered didn't get the headrest socket. Nest change to the seats come when the depression to accept inertia belts is introduced. This was from very early in V8 production if not the start. But I'm not sure whether 2000's got this until the inception of S2. All seats with the inertia reel depression got headrest sockets. Then the final change is to the seat with the fibreglass shell back, which occours around late '73 depending on the seat colour - unpopular colour seats continued to be fabric back much later than popular colours, perhaps into early '75! All shell back seats get the inertia reel depression and headrest sockets.
Chris
Chris
