Barn Find "Rover SD1"

[Lee]

So not quite a barn find more a bush find. Been helping a family member clear out a relatives property. Didn't realise the scale of retrieving this Rover and in all honesty I only want to pull the engine from it. Once I got close to it most of the bits are salvageable but I doubt the car would ever drive again. Typical me though, turns up in shorts to go climbing through brambles Be a shame to scrap it. Anyone who might want to save this poor rover give me a PM or call me.

 

[smiffy]

lift engine out where it is, then throw more brambles over it and walk away!

 

[Sean d]

I had a 3500 v8 5 speed manual, it was my first car

 

[bessieblue]

thats a project for car sos

 

[Grumps]

Looks a bit beyond to me mate. Saw one today as it happens.

 

[Grumps]

God I loved that dash! I had a 2300SE. It was shockingly slow!!

 

[Nifty Fifty]

I had the 2600 straight 6cylinder auto, I was only 20 and thought they were great, the interior was something else at the time. However only had it for around a year and it became the deposit for our 1st house. Looking back it was a pig of a car leaked like sieve and was a bus to drive, self levelling shocks gave out and cost a fortune to replace, typical British leyland build quality - rubbish! You do not see many on the roads these days though!

 

[FRANKIE]

So not quite a barn find more a bush find. Been helping a family member clear out a relatives property. Didn't realise the scale of retrieving this Rover and in all honesty I only want to pull the engine from it. Once I got close to it most of the bits are salvageable but I doubt the car would ever drive again. Typical me though, turns up in shorts to go climbing through brambles Be a shame to scrap it. Anyone who might want to save this poor rover give me a PM or call me.

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You know you've spent too much time parking with your girlfriend when you look out the window and:..............

 

[t-tony]

We passed one in Springthorpe on last Septembers cruise if you remember @Grumpy

Tony.

 

[Redline]

A bit of spit and polish and it'll soon be looking like new again

I bet the local rodent population will have done for much of the wiring and other soft bits. You never know though - some avid collector or somebody doing a renovation might snap it up.

 

[Grumps]

We passed one in Springthorpe on last Septembers cruise if you remember @Grumpy

Tony.

I do Tony I do.

 

[Brian H]

They are a lump of a car. Great find though.