Rover 75 convertible (or coupe) anyone? One has to admire the skill, attention to detail and commitment that has gone into a project like this. While also asking the question - why? Even though it’s not a bad looking thing in convertible form, if one wanted a cut-price Bentley or even Rolls Royce Dawn…from a distance, in the twilight… Would it have out sold the A4 or 3series though?
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That's so cool. I admire people that can do that sort of thing - I struggle with a screwdriver!
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Yes, hats off to the guy. A serious amount of work has gone into those two cars and they look fantastic. Although I have to wonder how stiff the convertible is though?
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The convertible, in particular, looks so right. So much better than anything new on sale today.
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Just read the Practical Classics article. Peter S, if memory serves me correct, should recognise where the roof came from.
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Mightily impressive
I still wouldn’t swap it for my 2004 BMW 330 convertible with the non aspirated turbine smooth straight six . That was a glorious engine.
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Legacylad, are you the Doc? If so many thanks for all the help on the other forum. Many years of real value. Incidentally, you were totally right on the e46 330...
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>> Legacylad, are you the Doc?
Incidentally, you were totally right on the e46
>> 330...
No I’m not the Doc
But I’m often on holiday :-)
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From a Mercedes at a guess!! That was one of my favourite cars - for the way it drove, covered distance and the colour combination. Much nicer in many ways than my current grey BMW with a black interior :( Modern Merc interiors get a lot of flack for being a bit ‘gaudy’, but I have to say to actually live with they are fantastic, IME.
In fact, I missed having a Mercedes and having a convertible so much that last summer I bought, for a very small amount of money in the great scheme of things, what was then a 17 year old 95,000 mile SLK. Of course, it’s a folding hard top so not a real convertible, and it’s a 200 Kompressor, so not that powerful, and it has an old school 5 speed auto so not even that responsive. But, it’s a nice thing to nip around the South Downs in, roof down, and, perhaps optimistically, in a few weeks I am taking it on a ‘Monte Carlo or Bust’ run to, unsurprisingly, Monte Carlo and back as part of road trip / fund raising exercise. It remains to be seen how it handles a couple of thousand miles in a little over a week, given that it’s only averaged around five and a half thousand miles a year over its life. Still, it’s MOT’ed, serviced and is having four new continentals fitted tomorrow. I’m sure it’ll be fine ;)
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An A207 with a seized engine. Some other parts made it across too.
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I love it! Why couldn't Rover have done it? Even at 25yrs old it looks good, although I think the Audi-style rad could with more rounded corners. With a decent 6cyl engine I'think it would have sold well...but sadly, good 6 pots are not our forte.....apart from the heavy post war Jag ones......although I've no complaints about the slant 4 in my TR7. Could they have used a Honda one?
PS has it had a front end shunt? I see it failed the MoT once with mis-aligned headlights...a bit of a giveaway!
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