Your Rover SD3 stories (mine has ended)

[The Moog]

You are a legend Scott. This is what I love about this place

[Cavcraft]

Nice one, Scott.

[Felly Magic]

Mrs Bucket will live on. Yay

[oldcars]

Well done that man, love these.

[DodgyBastard]

If anyone wants to lend a hand, I'll be working on it most Friday's between now until the end of time.

[Bobthebeard]

If anyone wants to lend a hand, I'll be working on it most Friday's between now until the end of time.

Have probably missed it, but where are you located?

Happy to help if fairly local.

[The Moog]

I am up your way end of July so if it is still going, I will definitely take you up on that. Might even be able to learn to weld

 

I will bring cakes/pies

[DodgyBastard]

Have probably missed it, but where are you located?

Happy to help if fairly local.

 

Fife, Scotland

[Bobthebeard]

Fife, Scotland

Ah... So not local then.

[beko1987]

Ah... So not local then.

Depends if you live in Scotland I suppose

[DodgyBastard]

1989 Rover 213SE by Alan Gold, on Flickr

 

1989 Rover 213SE by Alan Gold, on Flickr

 

Finished!

[The Moog]

That was swift or should I say Vitesse

[stillOrange]

Done already? Seriously?

[DodgyBastard]

Done already? Seriously?

 

No, someone sent me some pics from 5 years ago when it wasn't rusty.

[Rod/b]

No, someone sent me some pics from 5 years ago when it wasn't rusty*.

Fixed

[beko1987]

Vinyl wrap it in white. Sorted!

[The Moog]

Print it out to 1:1 scale then sellotape to original car, job jobbed

[eddyramrod]

I bet the radio and sunroof still worked then!

 

Thank you, Scott, for volunteering to take this on.  My faith in those miserable creatures calling themselves Humans was at an all-time low and you have single-handedly managed to restore some of it for me.  I think it's in the right hands now.

 

StillOrange: I routinely work a six-day week from silly-o'clock in the morning, so I might very well take you up on your kind offer too!

[trigger]

That went down hill quick in 5 years!

[Angrydicky]

Well, the underseal tidemark on the sills suggest all was not completely rosy even then.

[trigger]

I thought they all had black sills?

[Mally]

How about a Roffle on the number of man hours, £10? a go.

Half the proceeds to the winner, Half towards the cost.

[Rod/b]

Zoom in on the pics, you can see the rear arches and sill ends look slightly wobbly

[JJ0063]

Awesome.

 

Story for you.. My grandad was high up at Rover back in the day, when they finished producing these he bought the last one that ever rolled off the production line. A bright blue 216 SE, 'G241 FPW' I believe.

 

Because it was the last ever one, he asked them to make it unique... When he went to collect it, it was badged up from the factory as a ROVER 216 SEX. The X being spaced slightly away from the SE.

 

When he passed, my mum took the rover on until it became too unreliable. It sat for a few months until my dad stuck a sign in it saying 'For Sale - £10' where some local youth bought it, drove it round a field until it ran out of fuel then smashed it up. This was back in probably 2004.

 

Wish I'd had that car.

[eddyramrod]

That would be Henley Blue, I would think.  Did it have the Prussian Blue velour interior too?  Ideal combination, I think, and totally sexy on an SD3.

[JJ0063]

That would be Henley Blue, I would think.  Did it have the Prussian Blue velour interior too?  Ideal combination, I think, and totally sexy on an SD3.

Yes and yes, I vividly remember the blue velour. Came with factory rubber mats over the blue carpet. Mother gas an incident with a tub of white emulsion in one of the rear footwells in its latter years..

[eddyramrod]

One of the reasons I bought this car was my memory of a rental car I had in 1989, which was a brand new 216S in, yes, Henley/Prussian.  None of the other colour options matched up.

[MarvinsMom]

henle blue and prussian blue velour, sounds .just like the 216 SEi that my cousin had.

 

the car was on a g-plate too, and as this was 1990 or 1991 it will have been practically brand new,

 

it was very blue, very, very blue indeed both inside and out.

 

but been fuel injected, it went like something possessed. well to a 16 year old it did!

 

not long after he  had to sell the car on as he was getting married. it was replaced by a mark 3 escrot, which was horrid.

[phil_lihp]

My parents bought a secondhand 216SE in about 1993, a darkish metallic blue and I think matching blue interior, one elderly owner and all that.  C93 FTA was probably the nicest car they'd ever been able to afford back then and fondly remembered even now but by times it was traded in at the local Rover dealer for a brand spanking new 111i in 1995 it was pretty rotten, the boot and A-pillars being particularly random places where large holes appeared and as a result of the holes around the bootlid it absolutely stank inside, a lovely combination of mouldy carpet and cheap air fresheners.  It did survive a couple of years afterwards, the dealer must have patched it up as we often saw it around town for a while but it's remarkable any are left at all given it was in that condition at 9 years old!

[Ben_O]

My parents bought a secondhand 216SE in about 1993, a darkish metallic blue and I think matching blue interior, one elderly owner and all that.  C93 FTA was probably the nicest car they'd ever been able to afford back then 

Same here.

My Mum had a 1988 216SE EFI which we all thought was really posh. I think her interior was grey though.

Family and friends used to call her the bucket woman.

 

Mind you, even at 11 years old, it had rust in the rear door shuts in front of the arches!