Car Sectionals

[MarinaJosh]

I heard the Marina ended up as a display piece in a pub, but have no idea where or if it's still there.

It's conceivable they may have been bought for spares/panel cuts as where they haven't been cut through they are usually like new, but that would be a shame if so.

[PhilA]

  On 08/01/2022 at 11:28, Bfg said:

The Chevrolet Opala seems like an incredibly long car.  Looks to be an under-slung live axle at the rear, but with 4-link pressed-steel trailing arms (..for anti-squat), coil springs, Panhard Rod and telescopic dampers, rather than leaf springs.

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It is, because it follows the outward styling being pushed by GM (and a lot of other manufacturers) at the time, which involved a massive overhang past the rear axle. 

Brazil, however has always been the place where the designers get to try something different- partly because at the time people in Brazil would buy anything with wheels, partly because they'd been pushed heavily with Spanish vehicles and their rather less dowdy engineering. 

Therefore you find some real oddities in Brazil - stock looking, bland Americana with intriguing underpinnings, far advanced from anything sold in the States; VW continued this trend well into the late 80's.

 

Phil

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[Datsuncog]

  On 13/01/2024 at 19:21, quicksilver said:

And where did these disappear to? It's been 20 years and like most of the lots in that sale nothing seems to have been heard of them since. I would have expected them to turn up in museums as they're not exactly useful except as display pieces.

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Not sure if it's the same car, but the Gaydon sales list has a red Rover SD1, and the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum has this on display...

It also has a sectioned K- Series in a plastic pod.

[quicksilver]

  On 23/04/2025 at 18:36, Datsuncog said:

Not sure if it's the same car, but the Gaydon sales list has a red Rover SD1, and the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum has this on display...

It also has a sectioned K- Series in a plastic pod.

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There must have been more than one. The Gaydon car was an older one that was almost complete except for the nearside doors and B-pillar.

[ETCHY]

  On 23/04/2025 at 21:24, quicksilver said:

There must have been more than one. The Gaydon car was an older one that was almost complete except for the nearside doors and B-pillar.

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It's an SD1. At the time it's quite likely that a bloke at BL forgot/ couldn't be arsed to put the doors on..

[MorrisItalSLX]

It probably didn’t get picked up until the pre delivery inspection.

[grogee]

  On 23/04/2025 at 18:36, Datsuncog said:

sectioned K- Series

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It's the best thing for it, really. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

  On 23/04/2025 at 18:36, Datsuncog said:

Not sure if it's the same car, but the Gaydon sales list has a red Rover SD1, and the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum has this on display...

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https://www.aronline.co.uk/opinion/i-was-there/launching-the-rover-sd1-2/

That one is in this article - no idea if it went to NI via Gaydon but ARO is where I tend to wind up some nights - your picture rang a bell

[Datsuncog]

You're right! Looks like the same car, at the NEC Dealer Launch in January 1982:

And now in 2025:

Though the Rover badge on the bonnet has gone missing somewhere along the way!

Wonder where it was in between - I don't remember seeing this one in the museum's collection prior to about 2006, so it must have been somewhere...

[Datsuncog]

  19 hours ago, grogee said:

It's the best thing for it, really. 

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Indeed - just realised, the K-Series is hiding behind the Rover in the photo, and it's not in a case:

Thought I'd a better pic of it, but apparently not.

There's a sectioned Maxi 1500 E-series engine that is in a case, though:

I presume that pressing the big white button is meant to make it go round and round, but tragically it doesn't go anymore.

[lesapandre]

  17 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

You're right! Looks like the same car, at the NEC Dealer Launch in January 1982:

And now in 2025:

Though the Rover badge on the bonnet has gone missing somewhere along the way!

Wonder where it was in between - I don't remember seeing this one in the museum's collection prior to about 2006, so it must have been somewhere...

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Probably in their 'secondary collection' somewhere. Museums often have huge stocks of stuff in store.

Science Museum - part of their Wroughton store: