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White Saloon and two white tourers!
The two tourers start at post
https://the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/s...4&postcount=20 ------------------------------------------------ After the death of my diesel auto daily (sad times) I needed something new https://i.postimg.cc/SR7WC1W6/201810...ps5vmkgbvc.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/qMxL3qLP/201810...psmczq9qld.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/htMpHvQL/201810...psjynqczku.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/nhn3RBrV/201810...ps5qz7wwg3.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/tT6dC4Jm/201810...psvl3vlfya.jpg She's a 2001 Rover 75 classic se, diesel manual in oh so beautiful white. I had wanted a auto but this came along, two owners, fsh, 69k on it and after one look in person I was smitten before I'd drove it. Plans, loads. Gonna rip the rear electric windows and air con out of old crashed car and upgrade it to club se spec, but will do that after winter. Mean time will be a few bits but priority is a maf less remap and service for my own piece of mind. |
Nice one more pics of that little beauty you got there you lucky NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-! 😉 yeah mate I look forward to seeing your progress with this little gem 👍it's a shame it came from such a terrible situation as your mk2 looked beautiful.
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Absolutely over the moon with my new car, easily best 75 I've ever owned and by far best condition, and yes that's proper old English White.
Diesel, manual, loads of history, basic classic spec but that will change and with 75k on it, drives like brand new. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...ps5qz7wwg3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...psop1u6jfe.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...ps0ybo1tgc.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...psvl3vlfya.jpg |
Love the night shots mate 😉 beautiful!! You got sorted with your meteors yet?
Kind regards Ste |
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Hi Colin, can you do me a favour and check the driver’s and passenger’s sun visors in your Classic SE, are they vinyl plastic covered or fabric covered?
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Just checked. Both cloth.
Vin 220135 if that helps. |
You did well in the fight (even if you did bottle out of the chest wax :p:), you've done better with this. They could have sold that twenty times over if facebook is right. Jealous
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Good luck colin I look forward to seeing the progress with this beauty 🙂
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Been making a wave already.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...pstx1elmcy.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...pswmpo8vfa.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...pshvupdmbm.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...ps4qtaumjp.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...psfxavxycf.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...pstftp3t0m.jpg Offered to help my neighbours out on their daughters wedding day. Figured was least I could do after over 8 years of them having to look at project cars and listen to me banging and grinding on other side of the fence. Never had so many complements about a car in my life before this one. And I had to make a temporary upgrade until I do the air con install of drivers Cup holder and a little mechless head unit with Bluetooth that has served me well for years now. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...pspvmpmisw.jpg |
Nice colin, looks well suited as a wedding car 🙂👍.
Ste |
I've been so busy. Since I crashed my old car and bought this I started a new job full time on top of my part time job so havnt had a minute spare.
Finally I've got around today to sorting some things out. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...ps59rtunmh.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...pssuayoywl.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...psha70cccl.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...psjesqmhpc.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...psrxltbjwf.jpg Yep that's fog lights and meteors fitted now. Thank god, and with my alpine spec hankooks for my next trip to Austria also! Few other tweeks you can't see, did O rings when bumper was off for fog lights, debadged rear and deflaged rear and fitted a black CDTI badge also. The reversing lights had given up so swapped the gearbox switch over after finding my extra deep 19mm socket and wolla sorted and finally tidied up the running gear with satin black paint. She's not looking bad at all if I do say. Only things I'd change to outside now will be a set of springs at some stage and mg7 tail lights, projector head lights and black grill / full chrome grill depending which I find first. |
Union flag being removed I get living where you do, but removal of the 75 badge? How come :icon_question:
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As for the "fleg" I had a silver 75 thst was badly keyed around the Union flag and also came back to find my freelander van union flags pulls off and scored badly. Its not worth the hassle here. |
Seing as photo bucket killed all my old posts I thought I'd upload current photos of her.
https://i.postimg.cc/qvpJMbbs/20200217-152235.jpg Firstly Meteors are of pending summertime refurbishment, likely sparkle silver but tempted by ceramic polishing with a laquor over the top. https://i.postimg.cc/yYm6K4P6/20200210-151943.jpg Mean time I've taken my spare set of crowns that havnt seen a cleaning since brand new, however they have excellent tyres, so I'd experimented with a few products until I used clover oven cleaner of all things and got it all off in about 10 minutes an alloy without a jet wash. https://i.postimg.cc/jqJd8Jn7/20200217-151846.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/rm7yVq3s/20200217-151856.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/0Qz21zth/20200217-151907.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/QC58VRZb/20200217-151920.jpg Previously at Christmas pre MOT it had new springs, top mounts, drop links, lower arms, lower arm bushes, control arms and a few other bits fitted by local MG Rover expert Mark at MGR-NI because I've been too busy working to have time off to sort my own stuff!! Today I was sorting out a few minor issues, handbrake adjustment, new under tray and clips by Discount MG ROVER spares. Finally I took to sorting the paint out, removing all the fallout, chimney soot and slime the car had built up since September. To finish it off I've fitted my Crown alloys that I degunked back to almost brand new. The meteors will be going for refurb before the summer season starts however I adore how it looks now. Car looks excellent now, and bar one more job (back door handle occasionally jams) it's ready for MOT. Sadly with the MOT situation disaster in Northern Ireland it looks like May before the none urgent cars will be tested. |
Photos reuploaded for previous posts also now so not the most up to date.
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Twitchy bum time.....
https://i.postimg.cc/CKQjndts/20200228-154332.jpg But she passed without even a minor fault. https://i.postimg.cc/mDPym7Mn/20200228-155124.jpg Now to start the 1.8 auto project. |
Two white tourers.......
Here's a situation. Some people know about my purchasing of a white tourer in 2019. Its an 2001 diesel, was originally a club spec and had been bought by a breaker to strip and crush.
https://i.postimg.cc/fbfsm1tD/20190805-173014.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/mgMB2PTc/20190805-173026.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Xvb3Znvs/20190805-173038.jpg Now I got her home after shipping it from England and at one stage the car was in reasonable condition. Everything is missing, the brakes don't even work, the engine suffers from turbo run away, and i've literally bought this car for the vin number, colour code and its in the £200 a year road tax diesel category like my saloon! https://i.postimg.cc/Gmrdtctq/Screen...-Messenger.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/c1psq7Sq/Screen...-Messenger.jpg Now im saving up to do a complete rebuild on the car, I aim to do as close to a 100% strip and restore where possible, with the goal to make it not just a great tourer, but superior to anything that would have left MG Rover. This is something that will be a very long term project, but I want it to be my family car if and when we are lucky to have children. So I also plan to do things like fit isofix brackets, sound deaden the entire vehicle and potentially convert it to diesel automatic with another car. This will be a massive undertaking and my goal is to have it finished and submit it to be part of the club display at the NEC for 2024. A high standard I know. So as you can imagine, im always on the look out for panels, parts and such when I was on ebay last weekend and found this........ https://i.postimg.cc/R045SGP8/Screen...53-Gallery.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/fbC4JXpb/Screen...07-Gallery.jpg [IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/5HDKWx0X/Screen...28-Gallery.jpg[/IMG] https://i.postimg.cc/zDcrCCBb/Screen...59-Gallery.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/jdnrZDw8/Screen...16-Gallery.jpg Which is now on route to Northern Ireland also! LOL! Its a 2.0 v6 connie se, thats over heated. As you can see it looks excellent, so its on route to me now. having spoken to the owner at great length he's filled me with confidence about the car. Now everyones thinking, ah thats a parts car. Well ideally no, i've been looking for a long time at a back up car for ourselves. So hopefully a few simple repairs will save it, a quick MOT and i've gotten a back up car we can use as needed. Additionally I promised that unless its going to cost me silly money I will save this car. I'm hoping a thermostat and fan change is all it needs, otherwise I will swap another 2.0 into it, as it looks excellent and keep it as is. Unfortunately this has led me to some pretty big choices about my fleet. Im moving on my track day 1.8t, my 1.8 auto and in the summer my streetwise as with two jobs, studying full time at university as a Psychotherapist and planning a family i've zero time to build and enjoy the cars in the same way, so streamlining the fleet is in order. The 1.8 auto especially is too nice to waste as I saved it from the crusher with the plan to mot and sell to a local enthusiast. The only two projects I want to have that are "unfinished" by May is my white tourer diesel and my ztt rebuild. That will leave me 4 Rover 75s and 1 ztt. My lhd auto 75 for our foreign holidays, my white 75 saloon which is purely for going to meets and shows in, my yellow zt-t 190 which will return only when its restored to my standard and not before, and then these two tourers. So yes, I now own 2 of the 39 old english white tourers. And if all comes to pass in a few years, a matching pair as both will be restored to be identical bar the engine. |
Update. The tourer landed locally and nipped off to collect it.
https://i.postimg.cc/tCc50XCv/20200313-135805.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/7YhVQCDT/20200313-135816.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/FFDpZbt4/20200313-135825.jpg That awkward moment when you buy a white estate car thinking it's Old English creamy white to match your saloon and then realise two days later its Aaron white / ambulance white. It was just DIRTY and might have been my colour blindness lol. |
And an update on my saloon
https://i.postimg.cc/gkGjH59M/20200314-142923.jpg Taxed now, on the road and fitted with dual colour fog lights. With one switch on off they are 6k white and with another on off they are yellow 2300k which makes a nice difference in the fog. Video link of them in action. https://www.instagram.com/p/B89eKJ8l...=19j96bbmjqw56 |
Got some time between studying, food hunting for my family members and also the gym to give it a wash
End result of the quick cleaning to see what we have underneath. Majority of the car is straight, I'd say it will need two sills pretty soon, maybe even for this mot. We shall see. After that there's a wierd split in the arch wing paint and a few stone chips. Inside has some basic wear to steering wheel but the rest of interior is in remarkable condition. However overall the car is straight and true. Definitely worth reserection....... https://i.postimg.cc/441j1D5F/20200316-161959.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/rFNyxZ08/20200316-162006.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/mkTJsjbw/20200316-162016.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/RZCSR1Kw/20200316-162106.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/VL6ZWd5d/20200316-161922.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/sxTtVLDc/20200316-161931.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/9X13tDt7/20200316-161940.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/nrFyfxZr/20200316-161948.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/bJhXLbBQ/20200316-162024.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/qRXPFRPW/20200316-162108.jpg |
Decided to play around with plastidip and had some good and then a bad result, meaning I had to redo it!
https://i.postimg.cc/DfryPY87/20200411-170141.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/dtJQHmyr/20200411-170641.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/9QMmVm1f/20200411-174828.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/qMQJ9hsY/20200411-191812.jpg And then frustratingly it began to react on the 5th coat. So I ended up sitting after it all dried, having to peal it all off and start again. https://i.postimg.cc/br9yYdKZ/20200413-142039.jpg The end result. I will be doing another one, this time without using any masking tape as that worked against me on the fine details of the grill, and I'd also remove the grill badge next time. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/25SbyVRL/20200418-163523.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/vmY8hj3J/20200418-184253.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/8zBPhDBd/20200418-184257.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/26Jzz5rY/20200418-184309.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/PxNXsDGK/20200418-201410.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XqCnX0YC/20200418-201416.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/qgH43ZNZ/20200418-201432.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/66kvcWRF/20200418-201454.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/447cp7Kz/20200418-201519.jpg Took the time today to give the car a proper clean today. It took a long time due to a combination of illness currently and actually once I started it became a lot more work. Never clean a white car, it makes the rest look dirty lol [img] [/img] |
Stunning. Really love the white saloon. If you ever decide to part with it, I’d be interested.
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Great work, Colin :bowdown:
That saloon looks to be in remarkably good condition. Cheers, Karl. |
It has a few faults. Scuff on front bumper but not enough to bother me to repaint it just yet. Fee stone chips also, keep hoping to find a good stone chip match.
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Hmm. I don't know if an Irish NCT is the same as the UKs MOT, but here I'd say you'd probably just get an advisory and nothing else. To my untrained eye it dosen't look too serious. :) |
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No doubt when the mot is back up and running again they will be targeting cars for obvious failures. |
Got busy when I had an hour spare between studying today.
https://i.postimg.cc/Wbqk9HGw/20200523_155510.jpg And then my 3m head light kit arrived from amazon, so I got bust with a set of projectors I have (which arnt great but will do for now). https://i.postimg.cc/c1b3BSnJ/20200523_185205.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/fbDSRW68/20200523_185201.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/3RrGnr1k/20200523_191251.jpg And then I raced against the rain to fit them. https://i.postimg.cc/FRKf0WFc/20200523_204350.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/fRx0sSg3/20200523_203850.jpg Very happy with end result along with black grill. Swan neck towbar next and she's sorted. |
Lovely looking cars you have there.
The colour really suits the shape/lines of the car. I'm lucky enough to own two saloons in Arran White (NNX). a 1999 (T) 2.5 Conn SE & a 1999 (V) 1.8 Club (now SE spec). Oh yes & the 3M headlight kits are brilliant, I use them all the time. |
Well it's nearly there.
https://i.postimg.cc/25HY5n60/20200525-174029.jpg Swan neck towbar. Don't plan to really tow with it, but handy to have as an "Irish parking sensor" none the less. |
Following these projects with interest. Well done Colin,the cars are a credit to you. If I had somewhere to keep'it and the time to restore it,I would have kept my ppd diesel tourer auto.
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For what is my basic daily driver, I do get a lot of messages about, especially on this forum with people asking me to sell it to them when the time comes. And whilst I update my social media it rarely gets a picture unless it's getting a big clean or a service etc.
And the one I get most is why drive an absolute base spec Rover 75 as a daily driver? Why not buy a much higher spec car instead. Well in this video I go over it, why it suits my life for now, and we even go for a drive in it! Video goes live at 0800 Monday 4th of October, 4k quality is available 24 to 72 hours after upload due to YouTube's strange processing! Click the link below or search "Robson Rover Repair" on you tube. https://youtu.be/Iau5H4EUnHY |
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