What a weekend to cheer you up after endless winter weather. The sun is out, the bulbs are flowering, the temperature is up...time to give the 820 a full hit with the polishes, lotions and potions.
All those milky dull patches from years of car washes have gone to be replaced with a shine so deep you could almost dive in to it. What a fabulous colour Caribbean Blue is! Plus, the postman came today with the fruits of my DVLA history request. A nice thick wedge of papers detailing the history of the car from the very beginning, also with copies of some registration transfer paperwork - the car used to wear the number plate '8 NP'.
I just need to have that front bumper sprayed now...
Rover 820i by Austin-Rover, on Flickr
Rover 820i by Austin-Rover, on Flickr
Rover 820i by Austin-Rover, on Flickr
1991 820i
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Re: 1991 820i
That looks super.
You need some chrome tailpipe finishers to smarten up the back end.
Kate
You need some chrome tailpipe finishers to smarten up the back end.
Kate
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G reg Rover 820SE Fastback (my every day runabout) that ran off.
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Re: 1991 820i
wow that is stunning! good job! another one saved for future generations to enjoy
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Re: 1991 820i
Oooh, nice! I'm quite jealous.
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Re: 1991 820i
Just a quick revisit to this thread...and I notice that a past tidy up of my Flickr account has decimated the photographs in this thread. Oh well!
Over winter the fleet branched out to now include a caravan (not sure how I became one of those people at only 30? ) and the 820 was the only suitable vehicle (currently) to serve as tow car. I invested in a shiny new tow bar and raided the Rimmer Brothers website for the towing electrics (including a lovely Rover branded electrics socket!). There's also new springs and shock absorbers all round to cope with the assault of towing the caravan.
The result? So far both the 800 and I have taken to towing like ducks to water. I reckon they look the business together, too. The car is 1991, the caravan 1995 - so we are well and truly trapped in the past on our little weekends away!
15th May 2016 by Richard Gelder, on Flickr
Over winter the fleet branched out to now include a caravan (not sure how I became one of those people at only 30? ) and the 820 was the only suitable vehicle (currently) to serve as tow car. I invested in a shiny new tow bar and raided the Rimmer Brothers website for the towing electrics (including a lovely Rover branded electrics socket!). There's also new springs and shock absorbers all round to cope with the assault of towing the caravan.
The result? So far both the 800 and I have taken to towing like ducks to water. I reckon they look the business together, too. The car is 1991, the caravan 1995 - so we are well and truly trapped in the past on our little weekends away!
15th May 2016 by Richard Gelder, on Flickr
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Re: 1991 820i
Lovely looking combo there - only just found this thread so that's the only pic i've seen of your car too.
Although both my 827s are Sterling spec, i do have fond memories of my first 820Si - D859 SGO in Moonraker Blue. It had electric front widows and central locking but otherwise was a "povo spec" car. A previous owner had the camshafts changed for something a bit special from the "Special Tuning" (as it was still called then, now X-Power) parts bin and it went like stink, despite only being a 2.0. A friend borrowed it one weekend and allegedly was chased for a while by a Volvo T-5 with disco lights and go-faster stripes and apparently completely lost the T-5.
I later fitted the engine into a Montego VDP EFi that had cooked its OE lump due to a FUBAR rad and turned it into a Porsche-Eater so what spec those cams were i'll never know now but all in all, if i'd kept the 820 it would now be sought after as one of the first 800s and also because it wasn't one of the "usual big 3" of a Sterling, Vitesse or coupé.
In years to come, the poverty spec cars will definitely be rarer and i expect more sought after for their simplicity by people only then discovering the 800. Personally i've always gone for the higher spec cars whether it's an 800 or any other marque i've owned. A few exceptions have been when i've needed rather than wanted to buy a car and i've ended up with something like a base spec Escrot or similar. They've usually only been owned a short while though!
Keep up the obvious good work with your fleet and enjoy that caravan!
Although both my 827s are Sterling spec, i do have fond memories of my first 820Si - D859 SGO in Moonraker Blue. It had electric front widows and central locking but otherwise was a "povo spec" car. A previous owner had the camshafts changed for something a bit special from the "Special Tuning" (as it was still called then, now X-Power) parts bin and it went like stink, despite only being a 2.0. A friend borrowed it one weekend and allegedly was chased for a while by a Volvo T-5 with disco lights and go-faster stripes and apparently completely lost the T-5.
I later fitted the engine into a Montego VDP EFi that had cooked its OE lump due to a FUBAR rad and turned it into a Porsche-Eater so what spec those cams were i'll never know now but all in all, if i'd kept the 820 it would now be sought after as one of the first 800s and also because it wasn't one of the "usual big 3" of a Sterling, Vitesse or coupé.
In years to come, the poverty spec cars will definitely be rarer and i expect more sought after for their simplicity by people only then discovering the 800. Personally i've always gone for the higher spec cars whether it's an 800 or any other marque i've owned. A few exceptions have been when i've needed rather than wanted to buy a car and i've ended up with something like a base spec Escrot or similar. They've usually only been owned a short while though!
Keep up the obvious good work with your fleet and enjoy that caravan!
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