So I found this And it is calling to me. I am thinking I need this. Ok I don't but I always thaught these were cool and I can not get it out of my head.
So I found this And it is calling to me. I am thinking I need this. Ok I don't but I always thaught these were cool and I can not get it out of my head.
I've had three of them. Fun cars. Ugly brown and black velour interiors disintegrate rapidly. Suspension had self leveling rear Bilstein shocks. Makes a great long distance cruiser. Add a cam and four barrel and they are pretty quick. Back in 1980 they had a stellar record racing against other big Euro cars. All that being said, I wouldn't buy another one unless it was a 5 speed and it was almost free.
Dean, it's a good thing I live just far enough away from you to not meet you to look at this stuff.
I am the worst (best) enabler you'll ever meet.
I know very little about the SD1 other than it's hard to get one, and/or get parts for it. I also can't think of anything good about it. But I want one.
It is a california car with no rust, an alloy V8 engine and a deent interior.
Wonder when the bulb will come on in the owner's head and he realizes that he should be parting out the Rover and stuffing the engine into the hoodless MGB right besides the Rover?
ebonyandivory wrote: Dean, it's a good thing I live just far enough away from you to not meet you to look at this stuff. I am the worst (best) enabler you'll ever meet.
Anything south of the pike is probibly overlapig territory for us. Ad to this that there are a bunch of GRM people in south eastern mass. If we all ever got together it could be interesting.
Actually parts aren't that hard to get if you don't mind international shipping. Rimmer Brothers in the UK has a ton of parts for them.
I've owned a 2600 a looooong time ago (with a bored out Triumph 6 instead of the V8), but remembering the size of the engine bay I don't think you can squeeze a much bigger motor in there without some surgery. It's got the length to take a straight six, but I think the width of the bay is pretty much designed to hold the Rover V8.
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