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"Carl (@stuffcarlsays)" (carllevine) 02/02/2015 at 11:34 • Filed to: Rover, Obscure Cars, Top Gear

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Dead ringer for the car they had on Top Gear during the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , except it's a Federalized LHD version. Can be yours for less than the price of a used E39 530i.

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Coty > Carl (@stuffcarlsays) 02/02/2015 at 11:36

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"Can be yours for less than the price of a used E39 530i."

Well Jesus, I'd like to think so.

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > Carl (@stuffcarlsays) 02/02/2015 at 11:37

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What is Jeremy smoking?

505Turbeaux > Carl (@stuffcarlsays) 02/02/2015 at 11:38

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I love it, but that has to be the worst color combo going on one of those

TheHondaBro > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. 02/02/2015 at 11:40

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I see it.

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > TheHondaBro 02/02/2015 at 11:41

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Can I have some too then?

TheHondaBro > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. 02/02/2015 at 11:42

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IT RAN OUT GTFO!!!

Textured Soy Protein > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. 02/02/2015 at 11:55

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There's more of a resemblance with the original euro headlamps.

(And it's petty much just the lamps that have the resemblance.)

Slave2anMG > Carl (@stuffcarlsays) 02/02/2015 at 13:09

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As rare as....

ranwhenparked > Carl (@stuffcarlsays) 02/02/2015 at 16:48

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The headlights can be changed out easily enough. Parts are still readily available in the UK due to the following these cars are getting.

Carl (@stuffcarlsays) > ranwhenparked 02/02/2015 at 16:59

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The US units look just like the ones on my old '73 Saab 99, just flipped upside down.

ranwhenparked > Carl (@stuffcarlsays) 02/02/2015 at 17:06

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They may well have been. IIRC, Saab and Volvo both used to source a very large percentage of their components from UK suppliers too (Volvo even used to brag about it in British-market ads).

That, and US-legal sealed beams basically came in two flavors, round and rectangle.

twochevrons > ranwhenparked 02/03/2015 at 09:04

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Heh, I used to own an SD1, and the parts availability is amazing – definitely better than any other '70s-'80s British car. After they wound up production in Britain, they sold the tooling and a bunch of parts to an Indian company, who built it as the Standard 2000. That venture didn't work out (swapping out the V8 for an 83hp four probably didn't help), and the parts ended up sitting around in a warehouse for years.

A few years ago, a parts supplier in the UK bought everything up, so you can get everything from interior trim to whole bodyshells, all new-old-stock. Between that and the fact that the Rover V8 is the Chevy small-block of the British car world, you can get pretty much anything you need. Parts specific to LHD cars and pre-facelift models like that one are a bit harder to come by, but still amazingly plentiful.

twochevrons > Carl (@stuffcarlsays) 02/03/2015 at 09:08

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At least in the rest-of-the-world market, the combination of the V8 and manual transmission is rare on the SD1. Most of them got a GM-built three-speed automatic that was more commonly fitted to the Grumman LLV postal vehicle.