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Pre-production coupe

Post by rovercoup » Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:55 pm

So, did anyone on here buy the Storm Grey J plated Pre-production coupe that was on ebay and sold for £700?

I did go and have a look at this car as I was very interested for historical purposes and for a light restoration (mainly paint) to bring back to original but on inspection it would require a bit more than I was prepared to undertake with the current fleet.

Whoever got I hope they either go for a restoration rather than a rag around car due to the body matched parts and horrid spoiler.
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by SJG » Mon Sep 14, 2015 8:10 pm

I hadn't seen it Steve, was there a link to it?
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by rovercoup » Mon Sep 14, 2015 9:17 pm

This is the one Simon, I was hoping to have got it but then someone let the cat out of the bag regarding pre-production. Probably done me a favour as I reckon you would need to spend a £1000 min to get anywhere near right as both sills will need replacing, cambelt not done for 13 years, all four arches corroded plus cost of putting paintwork right and removal of the rear spoiler.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-ROVER-82 ... true&rt=nc
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by SJG » Mon Sep 14, 2015 9:27 pm

Oh I had seen it, sorry. I would have liked a pre production coupe, I went to look at one about 18 months ago but it did not work out. There is a bit of a story to it but I will save it for another time.
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by scoobyh123 » Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:35 pm

rovercoup wrote:This is the one Simon, I was hoping to have got it but then someone let the cat out of the bag regarding pre-production. Probably done me a favour as I reckon you would need to spend a £1000 min to get anywhere near right as both sills will need replacing, cambelt not done for 13 years, all four arches corroded plus cost of putting paintwork right and removal of the rear spoiler.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-ROVER-82 ... true&rt=nc

Funny thing is Steve the price dropped by £100 shortly after the bit about it being a pre-production coupe appeared on the listing. I'd be interested in finding out if it left the fatory with the fastback boot spoiler, the MkIIb alarm LED and door cards, SRS steering wheel etc - if so then by rights to do an "as original" resto, all the bits we view as modifications would have to stay if it left the factory like it.
Who can say if the person destined to have it originally didn't specify all those things?
Looking closely at the door glass, there is the SRS logo and i can't be sure but i don't think airbags were even an option in 1992? Think you'd need to see the original build sheet to know if it had all those bits before it left the factory.
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by SJG » Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:56 am

Pretty sure all the coupés had a drivers air bag from the start Dave. The pre production model I looked at did
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:31 am

That's interesting Simon, thanks. Makes sense in a lot of ways as the coupe was designed primarily for the USA market and i think airbags are mandatory, or at least were back in 1992. That said i'm surprised they weren't deleted for here until they became part of the rest of the range purely on cost.
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:33 am

Simon Hubbard wrote: coupés
How do you do that? By that i mean "é" - don't know how to access it on the PC. :cry: :?
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by SJG » Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:21 pm

scoobyh123 wrote:
Simon Hubbard wrote: coupés
How do you do that? By that i mean "é" - don't know how to access it on the PC. :cry: :?
I just use my phone when I type things out on the forum, one of the few good things about predictive text :D
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by scoubix16 » Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:32 pm

the airbag was initially an option, and remained so until MY94 when it became standard, on the French market at least.
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by BlueRover » Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:39 pm

é = press and hold the ALT key on the left side of the keyboard and type the number 130 on the number keypad, release the ALT key and the letter magically appears.
In the early days of computers there were only 255 characters available, the first 31 being reserved for page coding in text documents. ALT 032 creates a space, an ALT 100 = d, ALT 200 = ╚.
Nowadays there are hundreds more characters available many of which are 4 digit numbers, ALT 0410 = š
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:10 pm

Thanks Simon and Gordon - i don't have a separate number keypad on my laptop but i know i can get the "posh" e on the end of coupe on my phone too - i just type "coupe" and it predicts "coupé" but typing <ALT130> as described doesn't work on my laptop so i'll try it on the full size PC tomorrow.
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by scoobyh123 » Wed Sep 23, 2015 4:06 pm

Tomorrow came and went and i totally forgot about trying ALT<130> to get the é and as i remembered today, i'm happy to say it works on my PC as it has the separate number pad so thanks again!
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by deano » Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:30 pm

Are we French all of a sudden, why do you want the é

Rover never put é on the Coupe

and that's good enough for me :)
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Re: Pre-production coupe

Post by scoobyh123 » Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:42 pm

Technically they should have done as it means "has been cut off" but being a French word that has been adopted the it is "coupé".
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