[ROVERNET - UK] Rover Restorations
Glen Wilson
rovercar at comcast.net
Thu Apr 3 03:04:56 BST 2008
Reverend Weasel wrote:
> Glen, that Blue Train Rover was actually a Bentley, you know.
>
Whoops! I was just going by the advertisement from 1930 reproduced on
page 22 in the Daniel Young book on Rover Advertising. It's a Castrol
ad. Did the Bentley do it first or something?
I guess the car I would like to buy would be a 1935 Rover Speed 14
Streamline Coupe, and I bet I'd still get lots of change back from my
$100k. That was the sort of car that was pictured in my brain. Did the
Bentley look like one of these? I can picture another old ad about the
Blue Train, but maybe that was a Bentley ad.
Glen
> On 01/04/2008, Glen Wilson <rovercar at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> I guess that goes beyond "cost is no object" to "please help me launder
>> this money."
>>
>> Eh? Think the Feds would be interested in this story? ;-)
>>
>> I guess I'm out of the mainstream, but I've had $3,000-5,000 cars that I
>> thought were really nice and lots of fun, to say nothing of having actually
>> been painted, upholstered and assembled by Rover Company employees. They
>> also had the patina and character that come from being used.
>>
>> If I paid someone a huge amount of money to RESTORE a P6 for me, I'd have
>> them paint the engine compartment black like Rover did and I'd like nice
>> leather seating surfaces like the cars that came out of the factory (and I
>> could probably do without those screws holding the seat backs on).
>>
>> Otherwise, I'd go the RESTOMOD route, slap some flares on it, throw away
>> the bumpers and add beastly side pipes. That would actually be a lot more
>> fun.
>>
>> But if I was going to spend $100K on Rover stuff, I'd start shopping at the
>> home of Ian Glass and then maybe see if I could track down the car that
>> raced the Blue Train. They I'd take the change and set up about twenty
>> hospitals in someplace like Darfur.
>>
>> Glen
>>
>>
>>
>> Robertson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> While Glen seems surprised by the money spent on the beautiful burgundy
>>>
>> one (approx $32,000) i'll up the ante with the ante by a far margin with
>> this 1967 Rover 2000TC................Completed 2 years ago
>>
>>> http://www.guildclassiccars.com/1967_rover_979/index.html
>>> I talked to the Guild owner who let me thoroughly examine the car
>>>
>> throughout the process ...........He wouldn't give me a final figure on the
>> restoration obviously but the shop steward let me know it was over
>> ............GET READY FOR
>> IT>>>>>>>>>>.......$100,000............A beauty but still a
>> whole lot of money..............The car has returned to San Diego to its
>> loving owner
>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Bill Robertson
>>>
>>>
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