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Adam2003 1st August 2020 22:55

Have you ever rescued a Rover?
 
I come from a family where my dad has always had Rovers, and I’ve just turned 17 and I’ve bought the 75 connoisseur, 2004 in racing green (as a car for the future, to sorn and keep safe). This takes the current Rover tally on my drive to 3 haha. So i was wondering if anyone has bought a Rover, just because it was either going to be scrapped, or sold to the wrong owner and restored it back to its former glory.

I bought mine about a month ago, and I’ve already began restoration work on it. It passed its MOT last week, and has been serviced. It’s currently got a leak and is being repaired at a garage. But the owner who previously had it literally just put petrol in it and went, he wasn’t a car guy. It needs a lot of work doing to get it perfect, but it’s not a rust bucket or anything like that! It’s in, I’d say average/slightly above average condition.

This is my car, don’t let the rain fool you! It has scratches, dings and some very poorly done paint work repairs on it and will need a full respray. I recently started repairing the interior and as I said earlier it’s in the garage at the minute. I’ll probably end up making a thread in all the things I do to it! But I couldn’t let it fall into the wrong hands. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...07340c29ce.jpg


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macafee2 2nd August 2020 07:11

To a point yes. I bought a Tourer a couple of years ago, I knew the clutch was duff but lots more was found to be wrong with it when I started work. Alas the Body shows signs of dings. These will be left but everything else except for water getting into the boot area has been fixed. Still trying to solve this. The car has cost too much money and I don't even like the damn colour.

What is the lead that it has?

macafee2

Adam2003 2nd August 2020 09:53

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Originally Posted by macafee2 (Post 2828557)
To a point yes. I bought a Tourer a couple of years ago, I knew the clutch was duff but lots more was found to be wrong with it when I started work. Alas the Body shows signs of dings. These will be left but everything else except for water getting into the boot area has been fixed. Still trying to solve this. The car has cost too much money and I don't even like the damn colour.

What is the lead that it has?

macafee2


A water leak.

When I bought it the cap didn’t come off to see how much was in and it was very dirty, I bought a new unit, pulled the other one off to see it was completely dry! Fortunately the owner before had only done about 300 miles in it this year, because he owns a motor home and uses that, but if he did use the rover then the engine would’ve fried!

The garage who serviced and MOTd it suspect it’s something to do with the water gasket, so it’s going to be sorted and back home in the coming days.


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Fred Byrne 2nd August 2020 12:07

What a relief. I thought you'd rescued a dog.:eek:
Fred

mh007 2nd August 2020 13:05

Yes I have........the very reason I've ended up with so many, ooops! :D

Adam2003 2nd August 2020 17:33

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Originally Posted by mh007 (Post 2828629)
Yes I have........the very reason I've ended up with so many, ooops! :D


How many do you have? 👀


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Adam2003 2nd August 2020 17:34

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Originally Posted by Fred Byrne (Post 2828616)
What a relief. I thought you'd rescued a dog.:eek:
Fred


Is that a coronation street joke? Hahaha 👀😂


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suzublu 2nd August 2020 17:42

A while ago, got wind of a 75 that was going to scrap. Belonged to an elderly gent who'd passed away, and his family couldn't get rid of it, so were offering it to the scrapper. As it was local, I went to have a look and offered double what the scrap man offered. Secured the car and brought it home:cool:
https://i.imgur.com/ZBsYXMal.jpg
BRG with 16,000 miles only:drool4:
https://i.imgur.com/5A0XSbwl.jpg

Adam2003 2nd August 2020 18:29

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Originally Posted by suzublu (Post 2828696)
A while ago, got wind of a 75 that was going to scrap. Belonged to an elderly gent who'd passed away, and his family couldn't get rid of it, so were offering it to the scrapper. As it was local, I went to have a look and offered double what the scrap man offered. Secured the car and brought it home:cool:
https://i.imgur.com/ZBsYXMal.jpg
BRG with 16,000 miles only:drool4:
https://i.imgur.com/5A0XSbwl.jpg


How couldn’t they sell a 75 with 16,000 miles!

Great find and well done.


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trikey 2nd August 2020 19:04

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Originally Posted by mh007 (Post 2828629)
Yes I have........the very reason I've ended up with so many, ooops! :D


Amen to that!!


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