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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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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? Last edited by Dallas; 7th February 2017 at 08:03.. |
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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 Brian Vehicle Information 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 manual auto M model year INTRO sold date Unknown P.S. did your friend get his diesel running ok? |
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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 Brian |
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Are there other rarities still knocking around? Surely their days are numbered now much of the factory is being cleared. |
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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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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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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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