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Hi Mate, my ambassador is very fumey when running and if I turn it off it doesn’t start again until it cools down. Any idea what this could be? It has an automatic choke so not sure if that is not turning off?

Does he actually own this one outright or do seven other people have their fingers in it too? 😂

It's definitely worth saving. Looking forward to seeing how it all goes.

Good car for a project, I had one with pretty much all the same faults plus a couple more plus mine was involved in a “prang”. The EML was on on mine as well for the same fault, it must be an age thing. I don’t really know if they are worth it, I’m “on the fence” really, it all depends if you bought the car to sell on or to keep, if it’s the latter then it’ll be a nice car to drive around in and you get the satisfaction from it, but if it’s the former, we’ll they’r still not worth a lot of money and even a really nice one with nothing at all wrong with it probably wouldn’t fetch more than £2000 private and maybe £3k at a car sales garage, I could be wrong but I’ve not seen any being sold for those prices. Looking forwards to seeing your progress on it. Thanks for the vid Pete and Rick.👍

Great find & definitely worth saving, your expertise & care will get the 45 back on the road

Nice project over the winter months.

bring it on

Good to hear from you again Rick. I wonder if that Rover that Pete’s mate wants to share on the channel was owned by another You tuber who has his own channel? He’s called Andrew and he’s a Mk1 Ford Focus fanatic! His channel name is called “Usually fixing and tinkering” I think, he has or had a Rover 45 1.8 automatic. I’ve lost the initial enthusiasm I had for all things classic cars and cars in general but I haven’t completely lost interest, I think your subs will understand about not having the content always especially as you have another YT channel that’s closer to your heart. I still sub to a channel that hasn’t posted anything in over 12 months but subscribing doesn’t cost anything so I stick with it hoping new content comes along.

hello nice to see ya nice

Thanks for the update boss..! Yep, it's that time of year mate, dark nights, dark mornings, and too damn knackered to do anything at the weekend.... Although the Jaaaag is due its mot and I need to get the sills welded up soon.... So I might have to bite the bullet, get wrapped up and get underneath and see how bad it is.... So I'll document it for the "Guys" on the channel 😂

It is what it is, I've a project car sitting under my lean-to for years now and can't be arsed to fix it, which is unlike me. Some cars you just don't gell with for some reason. Part of the problem is doing it on my own means i get distracted and end up doing something else 🙄 i do have 2 other cars working well, one is a kia pro ceed diesel (great car).

All them diesels should be scrapped and the money raised used to repair steam locos

I had terrible problems with those steel head gaskets from Rover back in the day. In the end I went to the local motor factors and bought a non steel one for a fiver and never had any trouble again.

Those two Landcrabs are also interesting. I used to own both Maestro and Landcrab, simultaneously. Unfortunately, my '68 Austin Landcrab, bought as a barn find in Sweden, wasn't the lovely Wolseley variant

Trains and anoraks 😂

Really enjoy your videos Lee

It's a car that I reveir.

I've a 95 820 turbo.. massive difference in performance on e5. It won't idle properly and miss fire under slight acceleration on e10 yet on e5 silky smooth. Mpg wise not much difference I get 400 miles to a tank.. around 35mpg. And that's driving like a pillock everywhere

Lee maybe wire wheel any rust areas .any areas that are dented like the front valance try and pull ot any dents if not fill it with weld and tidy it up after

Do love the ambassador. Its of my childhood. This one's a lovely vanden Plas example too.

Great job Lee, looks much better now. Thanks for the update Gents.👍

That won't rust for a while. BL would have bodged it back in the day

Very rare Ambassador it looks well in white. Amazing how many of the survivors are v/p's. Well done on keeping this rare motor on the road.👍

Great job as always...the black ambassador looks great. Hopefully you can save it.👍

Looking good, nice video.

Nice nose job. Glad to hear the ol' girl is still doing well.

Great job Lee! Whether or not you like BL/BMC vehicles, they bring back memories. I think it is a wonderful classic. You saved it, it works, what more can you ask for?

Lovely ambassador. Is it a Y reg?

First use a cleaner to remove the Grease and dirt and probably use first undercoat

good job i cut exhaust like you welded it but weld broke so just put it back on and all ok it is awful job just done this at the weekend no leaks too so happy days 👍

Great job Lee. Big improvement.

2 tone FTW

That looks pretty good Lee, I like the 2 tone effect tbh, it’s worked well in breaking up the Beige fest interior, if it were my car I’d probably leave it like that 2 tone, not 100% sure about doing the door tops as well, but maybe…it would follow on from the top of the dash.

Looks good. I'd go all black and do the doorcards. Maybe add some walnut veneer trim to lift the interior. 90s Rovers are a good source for wood pieces. I used them on my series 3 XJ6 door cards, and they really transformed it.

As whats on top of the dial binnacle colour coming off . I wonder if you rub the beige .with some sort of spirit .that beige may come off . And you may not need to even paint the dash .

Over shiny or not anything may be better than whats on there at moment.ģood luck with it

You love ambassadors and princess's i see

Looks great! Would you chaps fancy doing a UA-cam collab with the Allegros and Ambassador?

vast improvement on BL Lee

looks lot better and transformed the dash really good great appearance better than BL could of done mate well done you !!!

Hello ad an idea try doing the tops of the door cards black they would go level with dash be quite in keeping with the black dash and match up nicely

That looks awesome....the rest will look good in black!

That doesn't look too bad lee! breaks up the amount of beige!

Great job, Lee. Back in their day, I remember the Allegros going black which made a great improvement to them. I would probably leave the rest of the dash and just do the tops of the doors, but for a VP they are really crying out to be dressed up a little. They are so far from the days of beautiful leather and wood. Tightening up those seat covers would make a huge difference to your car. I keep on hearing that good results can be obtained with steaming them.

I prefer the Princess dashboard myself, the original looks more like butterscotch

i do like that 2 tone look, and it is very nicely done, a smooth finish

There's way too much Beige in your Ambassador Y reg Y reg Y reg. You can get plastic putty for dashes.

Leave dash two Tone and do tops of doors black thats how a lot of cars were finished back then will look natural The interior needs to be addressed and that's easy by I believe either steaming it or washing and it will shrink back look up on the net otherwise a good job

Painting the top making it two tone has added a bit of class Lee keep it two tone and do the tops of the door cards, grand job mate well done 👍

You paint what you want Lee. I brush painted a fiat uno dash over 30 years ago, not much choice in paint then, came out orange and made me feel ill for a while. You live and learn they say 😅👍🇮🇪 I'd paint more of your interior as dog shit beige is shocking 😮