Rover 213S - is it a classic

Absolutely it is! When did you last see one?

I recently had a customer contact me ( I source difficult to find parts for most makes, but British car specialist) needing a brake servo for a 213. Took me the best part of two weeks to find a second hand one. His garage wanted him to scrap it-a fate that many 213/216 mk1 have suffered. The SD3 deserves to be preserved!! 8)
 
The rondas and hovers are mostly great cars. 200 400,600,800 are all classic in my eyes. The 213 and acclaim are the obvious blue print for all these models really.
 
Yes, I think so. Rarity alone makes them worth preserving and that one on eBay looks amazing. Though I am normally of the school that says cars should be driven, I think this is an exception and it would be a shame to drive it?

The info below is from a post I put on a similar thread last month:

Going by the HowManyLeft website, there are only 178 licensed Rover 213's of all types and a further 149 SORN'd.
It also tells you there were about 110,000 registred in the UK in 1995. So that means you are looking at a current roadworthy survival rate of something like 0.17% Link to the website:
http://howmanyleft.co.uk/combined/rover_213
 
You dont find many s/h cars in that condition anymore!
Stick a Honda badge on and you would never know! :wink:
Or was it meant to be the other way round! :LOL:
 
I always felt that the Rover versions of the SD3, R8, R17 etc managed to get the detailing sorted out in a much more classy way than the Hondas.. The Hondas suffer from fussy lights, naff interiors and under-developed suspension. For example (if my memory holds good), on the SD3 Honda managed to mess up the design of the rear anti-roll bar so that it gave uneven spring rates left-right. Rover tweaked it and the motoring press raved about the improvement.

All of the RHonda cars required Rover's input on the suspension to make them work - Honda were masters of producing an apparently sophisticated system that actually didn't work very well (much like Triumph in the 1960s).
 
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