New RoverShite for me.

[CortinaDave]

Well, after doing well and flogging the Manta to raise some much needed cash to pay bills etc, I instead went straight out and bought more shite.

 

One '85 Rover SD1 3500 Vanden Plas in moonraker blue. Won on ebay for the princely sum of £550

 

It has no ticket so I went down with a couple of mates and hauled it back up from Manchester with a beat up transit van and an A - Frame.

 

Looks to be a good one. Needs 2 tiny bits of welding, a fuel leak sorted and a couple of tyres to see it through the MOT, which should be by next week.

 

Its only done 47k and is very solid, V8 is spot on and I love its generally un - PC ness.

 

A couple of quick pics while we were hitching it up to the A frame

 

 

[pogweasel]

Oooh oooh. Burbleburbleburblebwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarp. (etc)

[ashmicro]

Good show Dave!

[CortinaDave]

Naturally, the first thing I've bought for it is a set of SERCK font plates, on their way to me as we speak...

[Pete-M]

WANT

[brammy777]

Thats a really nice one actually, such lovely cars.Good buy!

[Milford Cubicle]

Oh no! Aren't those the original dealer plates?

[CortinaDave]

They are, but they're tatty and one of them is cracked, so need replacing. i will keep them thougH!

[shite_meister]

Moonraker Blue? Vitesse spoiler too-GR8 4 EATIN UR LUNCH OFF!Nice, had loads of these and would love another VDP EFi to smoke around in. I bet this sounds soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nice!By the way, I have a stainless steel exhaust system complete with tubular fanimolds if you're interested, only bummer is I'm in Jersey.

[andrew e]

SUPERB! Its a far better colour than mine too P.S. "V's" are for girls, real men drive Straight 6's

[Milford Cubicle]

Real men drive straight-4 turbo diesels.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1982-ROVER-SD1-24 ... 0373566293

[Pete-M]

Real men drive straight-4 turbo diesels.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1982-ROVER-SD1-24 ... 0373566293

Ooooh eck, that's the infamous VM four-headed monster!!

 

[trigger]

WINNER

 

I really love the SD1's ever since i was a kid and my dad's boss had one we used a few times, It was alway covered in pidgeon shit as it live in a barn but i still loved it.

 

Your one in that nice blue with the V8 is the best looking one to me.

[andrew e]

Trigger if you wanna play SD1, pop in when your local - everyone has had a grab of the keys it seems!

[Mike D]

j'adore le SD1V8 is especially good

[trigger]

Trigger if you wanna play SD1, pop in when your local - everyone has had a grab of the keys it seems!

I might take you up on that one day!, I can't remember if i asked before but did i see you driving pass Lawford Service Station towards Clacton back in the summer in it?, I passed one in green as i was leaving the Esso station.

[andrew e]

*Might* have been... I do get about if there is a beach and ice creams Got some looks on a wet friday night a few weeks back in southend, mainly from my passenger (wife!) who told me I was 34 not 19 and nobody likes going sideways

[trigger]

lol!, An SD1 going sideways on Sa'fend seafront has got be cooler than a local chav in his Saxo losing control.!

[shite_meister]

Nobody likes going sideways? who? apart from your wife that is.

[andrew e]

I wouldn't mind, but she can drive well - in manner similar to throttle jammed open/trousers on fire/land speed record attemp

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That looks class in a big fat glass man. Is the gearbox ok? I have heard that these have an oil-pump driven off the input shaft of the gearbox, and a-framing them means the 'box is spinning without the oil being pumped. I have never been sure if this is owt to worry about or not, as I have often fancied a 2-litre SD1.

[CortinaDave]

Yeah it's ok... its an auto and we disconnected the prop shaft before towing it since it was a long way.I noticed in the haynes manual that it says you shouldnt tow manual SD1's either.. was wondering why!

[Pete-M]

It's fine to tow the manuals if the engine is running. Keeps the pump going, y'see.

[Captain Slow]

That Rover is one big lump of WANT for me.

 

My very first memories (certainly the first 5 or 6) are of my parents' old Moonraker Blue 3500VP auto, PKY36X. I remember reading the Vanden Plas script on the bootlid when I was about 4, I vividly remember it on holiday in Mablethorpe when I was 5 (Although the rest of the holiday has gone from my memory...), and I can remember where the bloke we sold it to lived to this day. One day, I'll have a Moonraker Blue SD1 V8 VP auto, purely for misty-eyed nostalgic reasons (Heck, I'm getting misty-eyed just typing this) - sadly that day isn't likely to be soon with petrol and insurance costs at 18 in Sheffield...

 

Yours even has the Vitesse rear spoiler on it - ours didn't but I love them so much I'd fit one anyway.

 

 

 

Gratuitous pic of my father's old one. Which incidentally he bought to replace the Turmeric Yellow 2300 behind it in the pic.

 

[CortinaDave]

It appears that your folks old VDP lasted til 1997, by which point someone had seen fit to paint it yellow. Hmmm...The enquiry is complete The vehicle details for PKY 36X are: Date of Liability 01 01 1997 Date of First Registration 05 05 1982 Year of Manufacture 1982 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 3528CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Unlicensed Vehicle Colour YELLOW Vehicle Type Approval null The information contained on this page is correct at the time of enquiry. Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle 6 Months Rate £104.50 12 Months Rate £190.00

[Captain Slow]

It appears that your folks old VDP lasted til 1997, by which point someone had seen fit to paint it yellow. Hmmm...The enquiry is complete The vehicle details for PKY 36X are: Date of Liability 01 01 1997 Date of First Registration 05 05 1982 Year of Manufacture 1982 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 3528CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Unlicensed Vehicle Colour YELLOW Vehicle Type Approval null The information contained on this page is correct at the time of enquiry. Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle 6 Months Rate £104.50 12 Months Rate £190.00

That was the owner after us then - we sold it in 96/7 when I was but 5 or 6 years old. I did know about the colour change - and that the owner had left the blue tinted glass and Bounty Blue interior in place.Keep an eye out in Cars Reunited in December's PC mag - I know cars that have supposedly been dead longer that are sitting in barns etc, so I thought I'd have a stab at trying to see if it's still out there.

[CortinaDave]

Finally got round to getting a ticket on the Rover today, the leaking fuel tank turned out just to be a burst pipe at the sender, saving me £££

 

Apart from that 1 spring ,couple of tyres, a bit of welding and turn the mixture down temporarily to get the emissions within limits and it went through

 

Needs a couple of bumpers as they are scabby and cracked, could do with a paint but not desperate and maybe some new shock absorbers as its a bit wallowy, but I'll get those as and when over the next few months. The good thing about these is you can get literally everything ( even interior bits) from rimmers.

 

 

Pressed straight into frontline service as its all I've got that works at the moment!

[andrew e]

GET IN THERE! RE: the shocks, don't try the Rimmers uprated set up unless you want dissapointment, my mate was not massively impressed on his Vitesse

[AnthonyG]

Nice one Dave!Got to hear it didn't need much for the MOT.

[CortinaDave]

Yeah I'm pleased with it. It does have a few of the usual Rover electrical gremlins though which are annoying.. the rear electric windows dont work, the speedo stops intermittently and the temperature warning light goes on and off for no reason when the temperature is fine.

 

Any ideas on how to solve these gratefully recieved!

 

Cruising about in it I get the feeling I should be at least 5 stone heavier, wearing a pinstriped suit, and be on my way to close down another steelworks/ coal mine

 

Some more pics:

 

 

Not sure about these silver mats... they came with it.

 

 

The new SERCK plate, not got round to fitting the back one yet

 

 

And sat in it's new home with the Cortina..