F1 drivers Rover 620i / racing at 24h of lemons

[motorpunk]

Oops. We accidentally cut the indicator stalk off when buggering about with the dash. New one on order should be delivered the day before I fly out. Can’t imagine there’s many Rover 600s in Yankee scrappies!

[St.Jude]

22 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Oops. We accidentally cut the indicator stalk off when buggering about with the dash.

Sure we’ve all been there.

Especially BMW/Audi drivers.

[Madman Of The People]

6 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Oops. We accidentally cut the indicator stalk off when buggering about with the dash. New one on order should be delivered the day before I fly out. Can’t imagine there’s many Rover 600s in Yankee scrappies!

 

If memory serves, the Rover 600 borrowed quite a lot from the European Honda Accord.  Assuming that stalk is a Honda part and it cross-references over to a US-spec Honda, you may have an easier time finding one in Yankeeland than you think.  From a bit of brief online research, it appears the 1998-2002 US-spec Honda Accord uses the same M10239 indicator/turn signal switch.  Other US-spec Hondas may very well have used it, too.

 

[New POD]

2 hours ago, Madman Of The People said:

 

If memory serves, the Rover 600 borrowed quite a lot from the European Honda Accord.  Assuming that stalk is a Honda part and it cross-references over to a US-spec Honda, you may have an easier time finding one in Yankeeland than you think.  From a bit of brief online research, it appears the 1998-2002 US-spec Honda Accord uses the same M10239 indicator/turn signal switch.  Other US-spec Hondas may very well have used it, too.

 

A guy I worked with took great umbridge when i said "I like your Rover 600" 

It was a Honda. 

Refused to believe that it was the same car.

Mind you I had a colleague who had worked at Rover in the 80s and 90s and insisted that Rover had taught Honda everything they needed to know about building cars correctly. Without a hint of irony. 

[motorpunk]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

I had a colleague who had worked at Rover in the 80s and 90s and insisted that Rover had taught Honda everything they needed to know about building cars correctly. Without a hint of irony. 

A chapter on that, here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confessions-quality-control-balls-ups-factories/dp/1532719795/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?adgrpid=52748020683&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.H1D5CqYVyRDJggbJowHBbhBtM7G4mf82OsMEwvK2kew.hP9YizleINyVGPWSECJNKeTeHyk3KTadm8cp2I1Zers&dib_tag=se&hvadid=259113089424&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9046180&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=14623875664415988480&hvtargid=kwd-298804729422&hydadcr=16849_1798447&keywords=confessions+from+quality+control&qid=1728203340&sr=8-1

I spent many happy years working in QA at both Cowley (awful quality, but great fun), and Swindon (great quality, but boring place). I also owned the 600 equivalent Accord new at the time.

My team mates ask “Rich, what’s the part number for this XYZ” like I’d remember from c.30 years ago one minor part from one of hundreds of different cars I worked on 😂

[motorpunk]

Fire thing in. Serious stuff.

 

[motorpunk]

Happy memories from 2 years ago. To practice we raced mobility scooters around the local Walmart. We got into trouble.

 

[High Jetter]

Are you saying 'aisles be back'?

[motorpunk]

[mercedade]

#bantz, but high stakes

[St.Jude]

Well you’re on a list now

[motorpunk]

Complete set of spares and accessories ordered and on my desk. 
 

Contents; one indicator stalk.

[Madman Of The People]

16 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Complete set of spares and accessories ordered and on my desk. 
 

Contents; one indicator stalk.

 

From an American Honda or did you have it shipped all the way from Blighty?

 

[Mally]

20 hours ago, motorpunk said:

Complete set of spares and accessories ordered and on my desk. 
 

Contents; one indicator stalk.

You indicate before passing.    What sort of racing driver are you?

[Dave_Q]

37 minutes ago, Mally said:

You indicate before passing.    What sort of racing driver are you?

I sort of assumed they would be indicating to let people past them, like a tour coach on the nurburgring

[St.Jude]

47 minutes ago, Mally said:

You indicate before passing.    What sort of racing driver are you?

One with a taste for terrorism?

[motorpunk]

4 hours ago, Mally said:

You indicate before passing.    What sort of racing driver are you?

I rarely pass anyone 😂

[motorpunk]

8 hours ago, Madman Of The People said:

 

From an American Honda or did you have it shipped all the way from Blighty?

 

Rover part. Bought in uk. Cost a tenner. Will pop inside condom and swallow it to smuggle it into America without paying import duty. 

[LightBulbFun]

11 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Rover part. Bought in uk. Cost a tenner. Will pop inside condom and swallow it to smuggle it into America without paying import duty. 

"Excuse me Sir but why is your left arse cheek flashing orange?"

[Madman Of The People]

39 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Rover part. Bought in uk. Cost a tenner. Will pop inside condom and swallow it to smuggle it into America without paying import duty. 

 

Excellent!  I've brought over all sorts of things in my luggage.  US Customs won't give a toss about a 30-year-old indicator stalk.

I know you're going to be racing that Rover 600 but I really wish it had been kept in clean, original condition.  A Rover 600 (with the Honda engine) would make for an easy-to-live-with modern classic over here in the States, thanks to the ready availability of Honda parts.  Had I known one was bound for the US, I would have been waiting for you at the docks, cash in hand!  I don't suppose there's any chance of it being returned back to original condition once you've finished with it?

 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, Mally said:

You indicate before passing.    What sort of racing driver are you?

Distraction. {Mutley sniggers}

[motorpunk]

8 hours ago, Madman Of The People said:

 

I don't suppose there's any chance of it being returned back to original condition once you've finished with it?

You really are a madman, aren’t you?! 😂👍🏼

[Westbay]

55 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

You really are a madman, aren’t you?! 😂👍🏼

 

[Madman Of The People]

9 hours ago, motorpunk said:

You really are a madman, aren’t you?! 😂👍🏼

Yes, but that’s besides the point!

Trust me, I’ve driven far worse on public roads.  Like the 1952 Chevrolet Styleline which, for a period of time, had a folding lawn chair for a driver’s seat.

A clapped-out ex-Lemons racer doesn’t scare me one bit!

 

[motorpunk]

[motorpunk]

Ok. Gunther wishes us good luck and says I’m the reincarnation of Senna. Well, he certainly would have done if the Q&A computer had been working.

Two more days to go. No rear suspension fitted as we fucked about with it and now nothing fits and its arse end is all rotten. We now hold coolant which is good and also none of the electricity falls out after a champion bodge with the alternator. Did I mention there are zero parts for this in the US? I have a UK flag to sew onto my stupidly expensive race overalls and I’m still trying to cram my L body into a M suit. Oh, and I forgot to tell work I need 8 days off.

[motorpunk]

[St.Jude]

7 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Oh, and I forgot to tell work I need 8 days off.

“Hello, work? Yeah I’m sick. Cough cough. Won’t be in for 8 days. No don’t come round the house it’s very contagious, it’s like 28 Days Later if you make eye contact with me you’ll shit your pantaloons. Yeah I know old world words are a symptom. TTFN!”

[High Jetter]

Does Ladybird work ok in the us, or leave you a tad worried?

[motorpunk]

Packing. Have ironed a Union Jack on my overalls so they know where to return the body parts afterwards. The boots are off EBay, someone “only wore them for SIM racing” (sad bastard)! The Rover workwear is smelly and brilliant. I love the JPS patch but it feels daft to wear it, and the Lemons patch from last year is cool. The food in the US is so often utterly inedible processed shite that I might chuck some snacks in too. Nervous/excited now.