It's only worth 50p - SCRAP IT!

[coolguy]

Originally Posted by Neonaise

Whoa, list please.

This is embarrassing! I had to go out to the garages and yard to check up!

1971 Triumph 2000TC - Sienna Brown - 67,000
1977 Triumph 2500TC - Tahiti Blue - 32,000
1980 Rover SD1 V8S - Black - 29,000
1986 Jaguar Series 3 4.2 litre - Claret metallic - 66,000
1994 Jaguar XJ40 - Rose Bronze - 71,000
1996 Rover 416 SLi - Flame Red - 72,000
1999 Daimler Super V8 - Amaranth - 134,000
2000 Jaguar XJ8 Pacific Blue- 83,000
2001 Jaguar X Type 2.5- BRG - 61,000
2001 Jaguar X Type 3.0 - Adriatic Blue - 112,000
2002 Rover 45 Spirit - Starlight Silver - 30,000
2003 Rover 75 Club SE- White Gold - 45,000
2003 MG ZT 2.5 - Trophy Blue - 65,000
2003 MG ZT CDTi+ (Monogram) - Chatsworth - 106,000
2004 Rover 75 2.5 Contemporary SE - Royal Blue - 62,000
2004 Rover 75 CDT Tourer Classic- Damson Red - 109,000
2004 Jaguar X Type Spirit 2.5 - Platinum Sliver - 83,000
2005 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE CDTi - Odyssey Blue - 82,000
2008 Jaguar X Type SE Diesel - Grey Pearl - 85,000
2008 Jaguar X Type Sports Premium Diesel Estate - Ultimate Black - 101,000

ALL are automatic (I am a lazy so-and-so), and 14 are on private plates. Yes, I know I am mad (aka a Petrol Head), but they enable me to attend 30 weekend shows a year in normal times. Rarely go on holiday therefore - some sacrifices have to be made!

[Neonaise]

Expletive insert here!

They're all running and m.o.It'd !?

Add another expletive here...

I bet your local garage loves you, just m.o.t. bills alone.

And I thought the guy i met in Llandrindod Wells looking for a boot rubber seal had a lot of Rovers - 5 or 6 I think.

[Neonaise]

Can somebody enlighten me please - my 75 appears to be a poverty model judging by the fact it only has electric Windows up front (my daughters first time in the car in the back - Dad, wheres the window button? There isn't one, you turn that handle...)

Cassette player even though there's a button with CD on it but no CD player.

Does it mean that even though there's a AC button there's no aircon ?

[Azur]

Even without all the extra's it is STILL a 75! With airco btw. Something to be proud of. And, you can add extra original luxury easy. And I love the fact that I have a cassette player in my 75, back to the 80's. Sure there is no CD changed in the back of dashboard closet? Be proud!

[Azur]

Originally Posted by coolguy

This is embarrassing! I had to go out to the garages and yard to check up!

1971 Triumph 2000TC - Sienna Brown - 67,000
1977 Triumph 2500TC - Tahiti Blue - 32,000
1980 Rover SD1 V8S - Black - 29,000
1986 Jaguar Series 3 4.2 litre - Claret metallic - 66,000
1994 Jaguar XJ40 - Rose Bronze - 71,000
1996 Rover 416 SLi - Flame Red - 72,000
1999 Daimler Super V8 - Amaranth - 134,000
2000 Jaguar XJ8 Pacific Blue- 83,000
2001 Jaguar X Type 2.5- BRG - 61,000
2001 Jaguar X Type 3.0 - Adriatic Blue - 112,000
2002 Rover 45 Spirit - Starlight Silver - 30,000
2003 Rover 75 Club SE- White Gold - 45,000
2003 MG ZT 2.5 - Trophy Blue - 65,000
2003 MG ZT CDTi+ (Monogram) - Chatsworth - 106,000
2004 Rover 75 2.5 Contemporary SE - Royal Blue - 62,000
2004 Rover 75 CDT Tourer Classic- Damson Red - 109,000
2004 Jaguar X Type Spirit 2.5 - Platinum Sliver - 83,000
2005 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE CDTi - Odyssey Blue - 82,000
2008 Jaguar X Type SE Diesel - Grey Pearl - 85,000
2008 Jaguar X Type Sports Premium Diesel Estate - Ultimate Black - 101,000

ALL are automatic (I am a lazy so-and-so), and 14 are on private plates. Yes, I know I am mad (aka a Petrol Head), but they enable me to attend 30 weekend shows a year in normal times. Rarely go on holiday therefore - some sacrifices have to be made!

Now, such a great list asks for images...

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by coolguy

This is embarrassing! I had to go out to the garages and yard to check up!

1977 Triumph 2500TC - Tahiti Blue - 32,000

Wow! That's a low mileage one. Was it a "one lady owner who only drove it Sunday afternoons" ;-) My '77 'S' had done 109,004 when I purchased it in 1987 and is about to reach 151k.

Kev

[Neonaise]

Originally Posted by Azur

Even without all the extra's it is STILL a 75! With airco btw. Something to be proud of. And, you can add extra original luxury easy. And I love the fact that I have a cassette player in my 75, back to the 80's. Sure there is no CD changed in the back of dashboard closet? Be proud!

Luckily I've still got all my cassettes from the 80's & 90'e although I've out grown a lot of them!

My 75 is Moonstone greens also - I love it, it's a classy colour.

[Neonaise]

I'm not bothered at all that my 75 is a base model with cloth interior etc.

I love the way she drives, the comfort and my daughter loves the way she glides.

Oh my daughter, most kids would hide their faces rather than be seen "in Dads old car" but my daughter loves it and prefers to go anywhere in it than my wife's newer daily.

[coolguy]

Originally Posted by torque2me

Wow! That's a low mileage one. Was it a "one lady owner who only drove it Sunday afternoons" ;-) My '77 'S' had done 109,004 when I purchased it in 1987 and is about to reach 151k.

Kev

No - I bought it in 1987 (10 years old) with 9,000 on the clock - it was advertised in the Club's magazine, and when I rang up it had been sold by the garage. However, a couple of weeks later a car matching the description turned up in my office car park (amongst 600 others!). I got the commissionaire to trace the owner for me, who said that he had bought it on a whim when out shopping, and that if his son wanted to learn to drive (fat chance) he would be selling it in a few months. I didn't know or ask the price - just said I would buy it, and 4 months later I did. It had been ziebarted from new, and is still totally original (rare for the later Spanish steel versions!).

The proverbial one lady owner one is actually the 2002 Rover 45 Spirit, bought last year. She decide to give up driving aged 100 when she clipped the gatepost. I am unsure as to whether to have it repaired or leave it as a badge of honour. Its very full history even has bills for each time the local Rover dealer had to come out to start it (flat battery through lack of use). Even they must have got fed up as a hard-wired battery conditioner was eventually fitted in the glovebox!

There is a rarity or story to several of the others, but that is for another time. Always happy to welcome interested parties to view and chat.

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by coolguy

No - I bought it in 1987 (10 years old) with 9,000 on the clock - it was advertised in the Club's magazine, and when I rang up it had been sold by the garage.

Same year I bought mine

I was always led to believe that it was poor rotation of stock and supplies from Russia (ex-Fiat deal) via Italy....via others....who knows!

Kev