I went out to get car parts and a start up video but came home with a Rover 420GSi Tourer (it broke)
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2022
- I went out to collect a headlining for my Rover 220 Coupe and maybe do a start up video...but came back with a Rover 420GSi...its not perfect and of course it broke on the way home, but I fixed it and now what do we do?
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Well, to be honest, you did what you set out to do with aplomb. You went out to buy a headlining, and you came home with a headlining. It's not your fault there was still a car attached to it.
Is impossible not to buy a cheap, red, well optioned estate! You just can't let such opportunities to slip away, especially now that estates are a endangered species.
There's a reason Mrs Furious is called Mrs Furious, and it's because you keep bringing things like this home…
Love that your channel focuses on affordable practical classics 😊
Who ever took delivery of the 420gsi touring from new,must have been very proud driving it home and watching the neighbors window nets start twitching.
I used to have a 416 with Honda engine.always wanted bit more power but bloody good car, did 100,000 miles in it totally reliable.
The Tourer was such a good looking car, especially in red. Provided there is no serious rot underneath it has to be fully restored, professional repaint etc.
Fantastic, please give her as much tlc as you can, i love seeing rovers being saved. Pure magic !
What a beaut. I fully support the saving of old Rovers. Had two 25's myself (1st and 2nd cars), while my friends had German hatches.
I'd have a hard time buying only one rover in that place, in my eyes you exercised incredible restraint. Definitely don't go rat look though, the car deserves better.
I enjoyed this episode, it was exciting, 'will he, won't he make it home?' but I'm glad that you did in the end. I liked the under bonnet footage too, it made us feel like we were going through it right there with you. A sweet engine makes everything else worth while. Far more practical than the coupe and will look a treat once you've fixed the paint...great opportunity to experiment with the spray gun and compressor! Wrap? Wash your mouth out!
gsis are getting rare. i remember when they first came out, the escort mk6 was launched at around 1995. around the time of the last year of the rs2000, all the boy racers opted for the rs2000 didn't bother insuring them ragged them into the ground and a lot of them found there way to the scrap yard or torched in fields. the sensible ones picked the rover gsi/gti as a lot of the younger generation snubbed them back in the day you usually heared the phrases "its a old mans car" or "something my grandad would drive" so the rovers were a lot better looked after as they were driven by a lot of the middle aged/older generation. just rust issues on them you had to keep on top of. vinyl wrap it, half the cost of paint and less prep needed and you can pick any colour pattern or design you want probably be in and done in one day. any damage you can just get the damage panel rewrapped for peanuts.
Toy Story reimagined as Rover Story.
I had a fire-engine red 218 SLD Turbo as a company car, probably my favourite car ever. Picked it up from company HQ with 73 miles on the clock, spent the next 3,000 miles religiously running it in ('cos I'm old fashioned like that).
I always coveted a 420 wagon way back when I was a teen driving my 414sli. I love the style and practicality of smaller estates.
Glad to see I am not the only one who does things like this......and then has to go home and act like a kid in a confessional! Some things are just too good to say no to though.....and if it is a car you have always admired or wanted and it was a good price, then why not? The worst that can happen is that the foot comes down and something has to go in order to keep it. Some would choose the wife as the thing to go, but if yours is anything like mine (and I am sure she is because of your fleet), then she's a keeper....but that estate is a beauty and could be a stunner with not a lot of major work. Engine sounds good, box looks smooth despite the low clutch take, no diff whine and that interior is something that belies its milage to a large degree - and the sunroof still works! Maybe pads and rotors, but likely just very old unbalanced / out of round tyres and a slightly sticky calliper that has sorted itself. You'll be right about the battery not taking a charge that caused the engine to cut out. Have had that a couple of times when the engine revs got too low on a car with electronics that had sat for a long time. ECUs and EFI units like to have constant power for some weird reason....
Oh dude, this is a really cool car, never made to Finland these things, so having learned about the coupe previously, seeing this wagon is so cool. Oh yeah the color it has is lovely, i wouldnt go for a matte on the car.
I can remember back to when my Dad, said he would give up owning a car if the cost of petrol got to 50p per gallon!
When you mentioned putting the wheels from the coupe on it, and adding the roof rack, I got way more excited about this being added to the fleet.
Very excited to see where this one goes! Good purchase and thank you for making purchases so our wife don’t get mad at us!