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Old 6th February 2017, 22:48   #91
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its 'T' reg not 'A' Wes, still coming up as a blue 75 on my check against that reg??
Lol, sorry I meant T.
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Old 6th February 2017, 23:01   #92
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Started off as a blue R75 club but was fitted with a 190 drive train......
Look at the linky and look for the reg it was painted red at a later date........
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...907abd&f=false
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Old 6th February 2017, 23:24   #93
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Started off as a blue R75 club but was fitted with a 190 drive train......
Look at the linky and look for the reg it was painted red at a later date........
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...907abd&f=false
Well spotted mate, I wonder if it would be saveable due to its history?
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Old 6th February 2017, 23:42   #94
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Started off as a blue R75 club but was fitted with a 190 drive train......
Look at the linky and look for the reg it was painted red at a later date........
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...907abd&f=false
Thanks for that Sean, that is very interesting.

How close can these two registrations be...

T907 ABD registered on 18th March 1999 as a blue/red 75.

T901 ABD registered on 17 March 1999 as a blue Rover 75.

From this... T907 ABD below in all its glory.


To this...


Does anyone have a picture when it was blue?

Is there any history on the blue T901 ABD?

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Old 6th February 2017, 23:53   #95
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Adding my own car to this thread.
As of two weeks ago, I became the owner of a very particular ZT-T V8, #190. This car was built as an MG on January 2004 and was registered as BU53RXR with MGR in Longbridge. It features the same auto transmission as the 75 V8, which was only announced at the Geneva show in March 2004.
The car features many other odd bits including walnut dash and trim and Rover-branded sill plates. It had a Rover steering wheel which the 1st owner after MGR changed to a MG one. It also had a Rover badge and boot plinth which was changed for a MG one just before that 2nd owner took delivery of the car in 2006. It also has partial chrome finishers around the rear windows, as Rover tourers do, yet these do not extend to the door windows.

It also sits on 17" Mirage wheels which were fitted at the factory, while being only available on ZT 120s, several other V8 development cars used the same wheels.

As well as being the 1st full production LHD ZTT V8, it is also one of the 75 V8 Tourer development cars, the only one still around, and the only known ZTT V8 with auto transmission.
Interesting Nicolas, your car according to EPC and build data was originally a manual variant.

Mind you this isn't the first time I've seen a manual to automatic conversion on a V8, Tony Bubble's 007 springs to mind

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vin SARRXGTGN4D000190
vin sequence 190
off assembly date Tuesday, 20th January 2004 @ 12:44:23
model ZT-T
variant 260 SE
num doors 5
paint code MBB
brochure model desc M3 Tourer 4.6 V8 260PS
sales model derivative RXGTG
sales model derivative desc MG ZT-T 260 SE
spec code M18A
home export HOME
cicode K1514
country GREAT BRITAIN
exterior paint Starlight Silver
interior trim Ash / Dark Smokestone
engine 4.6 V8 260ps
trimlevel TL 8.9 (M3)
bodytype ZTT
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model year INTRO
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P.S. did your friend get his diesel running ok?
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Old 7th February 2017, 00:01   #96
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I often wondered how you would insure a Honda Civic Aerodeck fitted with either a ZS, 400, or 45 front end fitted.

I do like the look of these, and often wondered why Honda wouldn't share this part of the HHR platform with Rover.......then again if they had, I probably wouldn't have had four R8 tourers



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Old 18th February 2017, 13:43   #97
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I was in Birmingham on Sunday, and after chatting to a lovely chap on the gate at Longbridge about the factory, the past and the future, I mentioned the ZT prototype Fire Car... so he showed it to me. Sadly it's not in the state it was last time I saw it. The Rexton was next to it.
Wow. Whereabouts on the site is this?

Are there other rarities still knocking around? Surely their days are numbered now much of the factory is being cleared.
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Old 18th February 2017, 14:46   #98
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I've got a pre production car, new to the forum and struggling with posting pictures. Is it possible to do so on the bog standard forum registration?
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Old 18th February 2017, 17:10   #99
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I've got a pre production car, new to the forum and struggling with posting pictures. Is it possible to do so on the bog standard forum registration?
Hi Matt, I don't suppose it's a blue one is it ??? (I bet it is, you can't hide anything these days... )
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Old 19th February 2017, 20:18   #100
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It's astonishing that nearly 12 years after MG Rover went down, that these cars are still hanging around the factory, rotting.

Then you see the recent round of photographs from CAB 2 as its being demolished, and other parts of the factory where time has stood still, and you wonder what on earth the new owners have been doing. Did they ever really have a plan?

Even now, new product arrives at a glacial rate, and when it does it neither looks nor appears to drive as well as it should. This certainly seems to be the case with the GS which is surely a massively missed opportunity, given the current market for SUV's.

It is simply a design and engineering base for China, but why with the might of SAIC, is everything so slow to happen and mediocre when it does?

They would have been as well extending the small museum at Longbridge by containing all these interesting cars (to us enthusiasts, anyway!) rather than leaving them to rot for the past decade and a bit.
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