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Simon Austin · February 16, 2008, 08:01:12 PM

Just bought this today. You have to love the '80's for the styling! Rebuilt 10K km ago, Vitesse pistons, performance cam, Pertronix ignition, runs sweet. My better half thinks I should just fix/clean it up and sell it. Inner voice is already seeing another B conversion (which is the real reason for purchase). PO has had it for 14 years. Anyone have an idea what SD1's are worth fixed/cleaned up?
Rover SD1 008.jpg

castlesid · February 16, 2008, 08:59:33 PM

Simon,

You should have taken the badges off and told her it was a four door Ferrari Daytona!
Is it solid and running, it does look like the fan belt is indide out.

Regards,

Kevin Jackson.

Simon Austin · February 16, 2008, 10:01:09 PM

Hi Kevin,

Yep, it's all there. PO has looked after it pretty well. No serious holes, surface rust, nothing structural. Interior is faded and torn, panels are time-expired. Might look into an interior kit just out of curiousity. Quite a different car from my V8 MGB, understandably. Don't know much about the SD1 as to build-quality but apparently it's a beautiful-riding car and great on long distances. I think I'll certainly hang onto it for a while and get my GT finished and then see what to do with it.

How's things going with your latest project?

Cheers
Simon

Kerbut · February 17, 2008, 04:43:13 AM

When I first looked at the first photo ,I thought it was a Reliant Scimiter , the headlights look just like one ,the UK cars had 2 square ones. You dont see many on the roads over here ,they have all rusted away.

castlesid · February 17, 2008, 06:57:22 AM

Simon,

The new engine build is moving along and we should be doing a test build in the next week or so.

The SD1 looks a nice project, I have a few links which may be of help.

http://mgbv8.org/new_page_1.htm

http://www.roversd1.com/engine_capacity.htm

http://www.roversd1.nl/sd1web/

Regards,

Kevin.

Simon Austin · February 17, 2008, 11:37:35 AM

Good sites, Kevin. I'll have a look around.

As for the lights, I seem to recall back in the early 80's, the "Euro-style" lights were illegal over on this side of the pond so that might explain the four round ones. Of course, 20-odd years later, they're all the rage!

Simon Austin · February 18, 2008, 10:04:05 PM

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Moderator · February 18, 2008, 10:20:42 PM

I hope y'all will forgive me for moving this thread into the "Other British Cars" section.

I'm hoping this section takes off and gets real busy!

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Kevin wrote: "When I first looked at the first photo ,I thought it was a Reliant Scimiter"
I wonder how many Scimitars ever made it to North America. Couldn't have been but a few, but I see them mentioned a lot in old British car magazines. (Apparently they were pretty competitive with the Ford Capri, no?) Do people ever hot-rod them?

Simon Austin · February 19, 2008, 12:05:10 AM

No problem, Curtis. I was thinking I may have put it in the wrong section after I posted it. Force-of-habit to go to the MGB section.

Cheers
Simon