A wild Rover appears!

"Jagvar" (Jagvar)
09/22/2014 at 13:32 • Filed to: None

I did a double-take when I saw this golden beauty at a gas station in northern Virginia yesterday. It's a Rover 3500 V8! I don't think I've EVER seen one.

DISCUSSION (16)

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > Jagvar
09/22/2014 at 13:33

Kinja'd!!!

dat jacked up suspension

For Sweden > Jagvar
09/22/2014 at 13:34

Buy it

twochevrons > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut
09/22/2014 at 13:35

Heh, mine was the same way. From the factory, they had a clever self-leveling strut arrangement, but they all broke, and with parts NLA, everybody just put in regular coil overs.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > Jagvar
09/22/2014 at 13:35

A real unicorn on this side of the pond.

twochevrons > Jagvar
09/22/2014 at 13:37

Nice! I saw one for sale on eBay a while ago, and was tempted (I had one back in New Zealand). The US-market bumpers and headlights really didn't do them any favours though, and although there is an excellent supply of spares from the UK, I bet some of the US-specific stuff is hard to find.

They're great to drive, if you can iron out all the electrical gremlins, and put up with their tendency to rust.

Your boy, BJR > Jagvar
09/22/2014 at 13:56

That's how you find the forefathers to Jalopnik. Rover SD1s appear abandoned at gas stations in Virginia.

Twism > Jagvar
09/22/2014 at 14:19

Wild Rover?

Eddie Brannan > Jagvar
09/22/2014 at 14:27

Grew up around those, including the "jam sandwich" police variant, which I got to take a free ride in once or twice. The motor was the British small-block Chevy, basis of every hotrod build in the 1970s and 1980s along with a Jag IRS and Wolfrace five-slots and General Grabbers!

Kinja'd!!!