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[cam2502]

Saw one of these today,1st time in ages. Was a 3.5 in really good condition. Deep red colour. I know its a rover but i really liked these cars.

[VXL V6]

Yep me too.

Great Buick engine, great bodyshell shape (for the time), dire brakes and terminal rust though.

Still think they are a great looking car.

[Del Boy]

I had 2, both were good a 2.5 and a 3.5 god did that fly loved the pair of em'.
Crap handling though.

[waspy]

I had many many SD1's. Very under rated cars. Yes i know, prone to rust, but what from the 70's & eighties wasn't :-/ :-?

I'd love another, but it would have to be a V8s 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

[waspy]

I had 2, both were good a 2.5 and a 3.5 god did that fly loved the pair of em'.
Crap handling though.

2.3/2.6

[VXL V6]

Always wanted a twin plenum Vitesse. closest I got was a 3500SE

[Del Boy]

I had 2, both were good a 2.5 and a 3.5 god did that fly loved the pair of em'.
Crap handling though.

2.3/2.6

2.6 thats the one.

[waspy]

Always wanted a twin plenum Vitesse. closest I got was a 3500SE

I had an SE Auto. Moonraker Blue with grey leather.

[cam2502]

just checked ebay to see how many were for sale. theres only 2, one is from a garage,selling at ......£1995!!!!!!  and the other is a private sale,10 bids at the moment and its at £809!!!

[VXL V6]

Always wanted a twin plenum Vitesse. closest I got was a 3500SE

I had an SE Auto. Moonraker Blue with grey leather.

The best colour! 

[Andy B]

Saw one of these today,1st time in ages. Was a 3.5 in really good condition. Deep red colour. I know its a rover but i really liked these cars.

There were a few at Tatton today. There was even a drop head 2 door  It had some kind of tubular T bar roof and looked to have had the wheel base shortened somewhere behind the doors.  :-? :-?

[crazyjoetavola]

I had many many SD1's. Very under rated cars. Yes i know, prone to rust, but what from the 70's & eighties wasn't :-/ :-?

I'd love another, but it would have to be a V8s 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

They were indeed Pete, they were much loved in the Met.  I always fancied the Vanden Plas in that lovely dark red colour - and that engine - MMmmmmmm

[Elite Pete]

Yep me too.

Great Buick engine, great bodyshell shape (for the time), dire brakes and terminal rust though.

Still think they are a great looking car.

Loosely based on the Ferrari Daytona

[Andy B]

.....
Loosely based on the Ferrari Daytona

The front indicators were .... can't say for the rest!     

[crazyjoetavola]

Yep me too.

Great Buick engine, great bodyshell shape (for the time), dire brakes and terminal rust though.

Still think they are a great looking car.

Loosely based on the Ferrari Daytona ;)

Yep you're right enough there Pete and with the hatchback, a practical design. 

Come to think of it, a lot of British engineered cars of that general era were well conceived, generally.  Had the build quality been better and the manufacturing ethic more realistically applied, then perhaps some of those great names would have survived.