Heidel_Kakao Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Hi hopefully someone will find this interesting. My late father worked at Land Rover for most of his life and in the 90's was in the powertrain department tasked with selling Rover engines to other companies, he was involved in selling Rover engines to Gaz for example to be used in Volga cars and went to Russia on business trips quite a few times. I found a load of paperwork relating to his work today and this K-SERIES promotional brochure was within it. Apologies for the camera phone pictures as I don't own a scanner but I think it's still readable. Richard, robinmasters, oldcars and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidel_Kakao Posted October 22, 2017 Author Share Posted October 22, 2017 Found some more stuff! These Volga's look cool! cobblers, Dick Longbridge, Richard and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Fantastic, I am gonna memorise all these K series facts loserone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
They_all_do_that_sir Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 I had no idea Volga used Rover engines, cheers for that! Sent from my SM-A510F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigmund Fraud Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Rover did manage to convince various former eastern bloc manufacturers to buy their engines... I still remember being very surprised to find a K16 under the bonnet of a Polonez in a motor show sometime in the early 1990s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Would love to know if any of those K equipped Montego hacks survive today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 "Racing car technology"-inspired head gasket. Aha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Sward Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Great thread, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinmasters Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Brilliant, interesting red. I want one now. Shame about the misplaced apostrophes in the paragraph about the Montegos. No wonder Rover didn't survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 My glass eye. That era of Rover's branding was so good, especially after the cheap and tacky Austin Rover era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidel_Kakao Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 Glad it was found interesting, my sister has a scanner so I will try and redo them for posterity and if I find anything else of interest will post it up. I have fond memories as a kid of going to Lode Lane on a Saturday with my dad and I also did my school work experience at Lode Lane so finding this stuff bought back some good feels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommytwo Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Thank you for the promotional brochure and if you can post some scanned copies, I would love to see them. Interesting because I run a 1992 T16 820 Si with 145k on the clock (owned 15 years) and still running perfectly. I had no idea that Rover sold engines to Russia and they are found in Volga's. As an ex engineer, I always found that Rover engines were well designed so for that reason, I was most interested in the brochure. Thanks for posting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadworkUK Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 The idea of a Rover powered Volga has me struggling to know what to do. If I found it was a KV6 I'd have real trouble performing basic household tasks until I've recuperated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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