[ROVERNET - UK] Facebook Rover group

BT ACC t.cs at btconnect.com
Fri Dec 21 23:38:28 GMT 2007


Thanks for the information RVS, I have updated the data on the
website and uploaded it so hopefully everything is to your approval.

Cheers

John Turner


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Netspace" <vmitps at netspace.net.au>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Facebook Rover group


> Actually...
> Dad is Royce's half brother.
> Dad was/is the Rover fan.  He has a 67 2000 automatic.
> He had a 55 90, and after many years convinced Royce they were superior to 
> Holdens.
> Thus it was that Royce bought a 55 90, which he converted to overdrive and 
> a pendant brake pedal from a 105R that he wrecked (was green, I remember 
> it). Meanwhile Peter had bought the 57 90, which he put an overdrive on 
> (from a 110 that had hit a pole at 80mph)(only time I have seen a bent 
> radius rod on a P4), and later a 105 head.
> He painted the 90 white, but it did end up crazing.
> Once he did the 90 there was no stopping him.  He bought the 16, and a TC.
> He converted the TC to a 2200, and either moved the engine in to an auto 
> or converted an auto too - I wasn't as in touch in the 80s.
> I didn't know he bought a P6B and a SD1 until I last saw him in Jan 2001, 
> as part of a mainland trip.  I moved to Tasmania in 1989.
> My first car was a 100.  I know P4s well.
> I bought the TC in 1981.
>
> Gwen is alive, but has some dementia.  She is in a nursing home in Toukley 
> region.  They built the house in Toukley not Terrigal.
> Jim Moule is a good bloke.
> Royce was 84 when he died.  Gwen must be over 90.  My sister keeps in 
> touch with her.
> They never had children.
>
> PVS
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "BT ACC" <t.cs at btconnect.com>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Facebook Rover group
>
>
>> Thanks for the information PVS, it is a small world.
>> I will change the date on the site to 2001. I have to
>> assume you were influenced by you Uncle Royce.
>> in getting Rover cars?
>> Jim was unsure if your Aunt Gwen was still around,
>> can you confirm and I shall let him know.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> John Turner
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Netspace" <vmitps at netspace.net.au>
>> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:32 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Facebook Rover group
>>
>>
>>> He drove the P4 that brought the P2 to Royce's.
>>> His 57 90 with a 105 head.
>>> We lived next door to Royce in French's Forest.
>>>
>>> I bought the P6B off Gwen in late 2001.  Jimmy (who was in Toukley too) 
>>> got the SD1.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "BT ACC" <t.cs at btconnect.com>
>>> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:29 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Facebook Rover group
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the info PVS.
>>>> I thought it was 2002? I will ammend.
>>>> Peter Smith! Where does he fit in?
>>>>
>>>> John Turner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Netspace" <vmitps at netspace.net.au>
>>>> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 6:38 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Facebook Rover group
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Peter Smith is my brother.
>>>>> Royce Cole was my uncle (died August 2001).
>>>>>
>>>>> Small world.
>>>>>
>>>>> PVS
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "BT ACC" <t.cs at btconnect.com>
>>>>> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:18 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Facebook Rover group
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Kent,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can give you a bit of a hand to get the runboard forum set up if
>>>>>> you wish to proceed. I am a moderator on another of the runboard
>>>>>> forums so I have an idea what is involved.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If anyone here would like to take a look at my own website which I
>>>>>> have built myself, (my first time) it traces some history and 
>>>>>> contains
>>>>>> some early Rover articles for the Rover P2.
>>>>>> The website is www.1947rover.co.uk.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Feedback appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John Turner
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>>> From: "Kent Kinard" <kentkinard at verizon.net>
>>>>>> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:17 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Facebook Rover group
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks John, I think I will try what Dave has done first...not that 
>>>>>>> I have anything to post yet.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kent K.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BT ACC wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> First time posting here but have been a member for a while.
>>>>>>>> I thought I would let you know of a way to have a forum going
>>>>>>>> which is, as far as I know absolutely free.
>>>>>>>> You will of course have to set up a user name and become a member
>>>>>>>> but that is a formality.
>>>>>>>> The board is run by www.runboard.com .
>>>>>>>> Give it a look and see what you think
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> John Turner
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bass" 
>>>>>>>> <david.bass4 at ntlworld.com>
>>>>>>>> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
>>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 6:15 PM
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Facebook Rover group
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I would suggest that it might be complementary to the mailing 
>>>>>>>>> list - it's certainly easy to post pictures, but not really easier 
>>>>>>>>> than photobucket. or any of the other image repositories.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You might have some concerns about the levels of incidental trivia 
>>>>>>>>> that your friends might end up subjecting you too - when you make 
>>>>>>>>> friends with someone, you gain a lot of access to their activities 
>>>>>>>>> on facebook, and some of it ca be a bit odd.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> A better alternative might be a forum - but that would require a 
>>>>>>>>> share of a server, and would cost someone some money.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> David
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Kent Kinard wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Netters,
>>>>>>>>>> Has anyone in the group had much experience with Facebook?  My 
>>>>>>>>>> older son, the software engineer, suggested forming a Rover group 
>>>>>>>>>> on Facebook to facilitate posting pictures, etc.  Would there be 
>>>>>>>>>> any advantage over what we already have?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In case I don't post again before then, Merry Christmas to all.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Roverly,
>>>>>>>>>> Kent K.
>>>>>>>>>>
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