Helloa,
I've a 2000tc back at home which has Nada air con, electric windows and the side impact bars. It's my orginal Rover, that I'd worked on prior to coming to Australia. I'm aiming to import it over sometime this year, mainly for the air con etc.
This is it here
I've done a lot of welding to it and although it was solid when I left, I fully suspect it will be pretty rotten when I finally get it over here. It hasn't been garaged and the climate back home is very damp.
If this is the case, I'll most likely strip it down, fit the Air Con and Windows to the V8 and if this is the case, I'll aim to build something akin to a NADA replica with the v8 (although I am not a fan of the wrap round bumpers). The 2000, if rotten, will most likely need re-shelled as I don't intent to cut back more welding to weld over rot again or trim away more of the original car. If that is the root I go down, I'll find a p6 over here with sun damaged interior and paintwork, of which there are a few, and build a car using my 2000 panels and interior onto a sold base unit.
In short, three cars units... one likely rotten with good panels and interior, one solid with wrecked panels and interior.... and the V8.
To be.... one car with good panels, interior and base unit.... One V8 with the NADA stuff.
Besides, I imagine the 4-pots going to hate powering the NADA air-con in 40degress heat. With or without the York anchor compressor.
Should keep me out of trouble, hopefully.
Those "fuel hoses" whatever they were, disintegrated in my hands as I removed them. The car had the original three fuel lines fitted, although not all were plumbed in.
This has now all been trimmed back and replaced and looks a little neater and I suspect, a tad safer.
Now, you'd all be mistaken if you thought the car was Almond, or some kind of yellow. Granted it is yellow in colour, however, thats because its coated in high-fill primer, which has not been sprayed on too well and as a result can, in fact, be flaked off with your nails.
As a result of this the long process of rubbing back started to find that the car was actually blue, no wait, brown, or maybe red!
I suspect it was originally blue and now has a selection of odd coloured panels replacing the original panels that were probably removed after whatever it appears to have hit at some point.
Here are some photos of stripping it down.
I then went about filling in the side trim holes. I imagine I've lost the intrest and support of all purists by now. Sorry!
And so begins the long and highly repetitive process of rubbing badly applied high fill, filling, spraying, rubbing back,filling, rubbing back and filling, spraying etc.
Until you end up with something a little straighter and better looking than before.
Thoughts and views welcome.
Fraser
