Warren T Claims Wheels. New Ride (12/09/10)

[Minimad5]

So today the old man took me to a secret location to meet the autoshite famous Warren T Claim and his Rover 800 2.0 Auto'.

 

Upon arrival we were greated with a very quietly ticking over two tone 800.

Then the ever so generous Warren asked if i wanted to drive it, Don't have to ask me twice !

 

Anyway my Automatic virginity was taken, and away we rolled in Parliment Style.

 

Warrens trusty bardge & old mans A4

PIMP

"Aye love, getta load of my wood"

Green hose- YUM

Bit of air sir ?

Only small tales of crud, otherwise this car really is minty fresh

Ladies love chrome

 

Thanks for the chance to drive my first Rover and Automatic Warren, appreciate it mate.

Glad that i have the pleasure of working on this when you have the parts.

(I WILL be taking alot of pictures, of any work i do)

Can't wait to see it back on the road.

 

Comments please Autoshiters

[warren t claim]

Thanks for the nice comments!Myself and your dad will be entering the Synchronised Smoking event at the 2012 Olympics.

[Minimad5]

Myself and your dad will be entering the Synchronised Smoking event at the 2012 Olympics.

! That raised much "LOL-age"

[barrett]

Comments please Autoshiters

I like the photo of Warren and your old man both with a tab on. Classy.SRSLY FOLKS It looks well nice, those 800s are a proper 'cant remember the last time....' sort of motor now, did they even actually sell that well anyway? Not many round my way, thats fer sure.I'm still not really sure how you even drive an auto, but then I am practically a retard. Is it considerably easier than a manual?

[Cavcraft]

Hell yeah. Just bosch it into 'drive' and Bob's your uncle. Foot on the brakes or apply handbrake at traffic lights etc and that's about as difficult as it gets.

[Minimad5]

I'm still not really sure how you even drive an auto, but then I am practically a retard. Is it considerably easier than a manual?

Driving an Auto could not be any easierFoot on break, bosh into drive or reverse, foot off break and accelerate away.It just feels VERY odd, as i am used to controlling the low speed with the clutch, instead you use the break.Thanks for comments Barrett

[barrett]

cool, i'm sure i'll get to try on one day has it really been....6 years sonce I drove a car? what a fuggin idiot.....

[Tayne]

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[Minimad5]

But what's with the black over blue paintwork?

It's blue over blue I will get better pictures of it, once work and wash have both been carried out

[Richard]

Automatics were bastards to drive in the days when cars didn't idle properly or pick up cleanly from idle. I imagine fuel injected autos are much more agreeable though.

[Tayne]

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[trigger]

My wife walk into the room as i was looking at those photos just as the ciggy smoking dudes came up, She started to piss herself and walked out waffling about what crap i look at on the internet!

[warren t claim]

MUCH LOLZ!!!!!

[warren t claim]

So is it actually two-tone?All the pictures showing the bumpers make it look as two-tone as Warren's shirt but the side panels sometimes appear the same colour.

For all you paint perves out there the code is JDX.

[pandamonium]

Automatics were bastards to drive in the days when cars didn't idle properly or pick up cleanly from idle. I imagine fuel injected autos are much more agreeable though.

My Bluebird is a carbed auto and is just fine, but we had a mk2 golf auto that was a pig to drive when it decided not to idle properly.

[Minimad5]

clean picture coming ! (uploading as i speak)To clear up confusion

[warren t claim]

Power steering made early autos stall easier.3000 rpm and holding the footbrake down with your left foot while the car was on full lock was the approved New Ferry motor auctions way of dealing with autobox and pas equipped Rover 2600's. It was a big faux pas to ask for the jump start batteries in front of the podium.

[Minimad5]

As sent by Warren ..

 

[barrett]

Is it longer than your house Warren? That's always the sign of a top quality motor!

[Tayne]

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[warren t claim]

Is it longer than your house Warren? That's always the sign of a top quality motor!

I always thought that as well!

[warren t claim]

I think it's time to tell a sad tale of R177NOJ......Once upon a time in a land close to home we had a buoyant economy, we had a building boom and it seemed like it would last forever.... I had recently qualified as a HGV driver and thought I would buy a cheap car to get me to one of the many HGV jobs advertised in jobcentreplus offices nationwide. I bought R177NOJ of a friend at work (if you are reading this Barry I'll drop the last payment off to you asap) and it seemed like the following week the entire free market economy collapsed overnight! I could barely afford to put fuel in the poor thing so when the tax expired I left it outside my house hoping it would escape the attention of the DVLA. Alas a warning sticker was applied so I was forced to make a quick decision, nowhere to store it and no hope of taxing it on £62 a week! What could I do? Short of options and time and a great reluctance to weigh in a perfectly good car I decided to find somewhere discreet to park it. Tucked away in the corner of a car park behind some flats that house mainly transient Polish workers seemed like a good idea, so off it went to its new home to probably be vandalised or stolen. Sad but true!I made a point of never going past there because I knew it would upset me to see it trashed or towed away and I do understand that I was shirking away from my responsibilities but I never said I was perfect! I did check on Google Streetview to see if it was there but it wasn't so I assumed some pissed off slumlord had become pissed off with it and had it towed away.About six weeks ago I had no choice to drive past the car park and just happened to glance in and see the boot of a familiar Rover parked where I left it! I parked up my truck and sneaked over to see what damage had been done to it in the year it had been abandoned. At first glance it appeared it hadn't been touched, only the front number plate had been stolen by petrol station drive off fans. I couldn't believe it was still there parked up just as I left it!My Micra HAD to be sold because of other reasons so I thought I would risk £25 having it recovered to a place of safety to see if there was anything worth salvaging off her. A quick tap of the brakes had her rolling nicely onto the back of a specs lift and into a garage to strip what I could off the old girl. My mechanic said that it doesn't look like a bad old thing under the grime so we thought we would connect a power pack to the well shagged battery and see what happens.... She fired up first turn of the key! The untouched radio blasting out Carl Orf theme to the Omen/Old Spice music!An MOT test was needed to see the extent of the damage a year in suspended animation had done and to my surprised the fail sheet was only brake discs/pads all round and a couple of CV boots.This coupled with the recently sold Micra meant that the old girl is now going to hopefully have a second chance at life! Get well soon R177NOJ. Sorry about the long post!

[Lord Sterling]

Whata story Warren, forgot you had a Micra aswell, I too own a S-reg bubble shape Micra currently collecting dust in a friends garage.

 

2-Tone 800's are pretty rare aswell, not many of them about (Amongst the already low number of 800s about)

 

Hope you get the 800 sorted, let me know if you need any help.

 

These are mine:

 

 

I've a got G-reg mk1 aswell in need of a box (Already sourced)

[Milford Cubicle]

800s are SHEER CLASS. i require another one I think.

[Minimad5]

The earlier Rover Sterlings really float my boat !There is a really nice and clean example, near birkenhead sixth form college.I will get pictures ! .... when ever i pass

[warren t claim]

That early Sterling is surperb! I can't remember the last time I saw one still in daily use. Does it have the big trip computer?

[brammy777]

That 800 looks great Warren, I cant remember the two tone ones at all. Its a damn shame the early 800s have got so rare lately, Ive seen a couple recently but I reckon that its still no more than 5 in about half a year.

[Lord Sterling]

That early Sterling is surperb! I can't remember the last time I saw one still in daily use. Does it have the big trip computer?

The pictures flatter it really, there are a few patches of rust/corrosion plus a bootlid full of holes due to spoiler removal. It does have the big trip computer, along with electrically reclining rear seats (something that shocks/confuses alot of people). It also the earlier 2.5 just before Honda refurbed the engine up to 2.7

[warren t claim]

That early Sterling is surperb! I can't remember the last time I saw one still in daily use. Does it have the big trip computer?

The pictures flatter it really, there are a few patches of rust/corrosion plus a bootlid full of holes due to spoiler removal. It does have the big trip computer, along with electrically reclining rear seats (something that shocks/confuses alot of people). It also the earlier 2.5 just before Honda refurbed the engine up to 2.7

Any chance of some interior pics?

[Tayne]

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