Saw one of these today,1st time in ages. Was a 3.5 in really good condition. Deep red colour. I know its a rover but i really liked these cars.

Yep me too.

Great Buick engine, great bodyshell shape (for the time), dire brakes and terminal rust though.

Still think they are a great looking car.

I had 2, both were good a 2.5 and a 3.5 god did that fly loved the pair of em'.
Crap handling though.

I had many many SD1's. Very under rated cars. Yes i know, prone to rust, but what from the 70's & eighties wasn't :-/ :-?

I'd love another, but it would have to be a V8s 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) :)

Del Boy wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:01:

I had 2, both were good a 2.5 and a 3.5 god did that fly loved the pair of em'. Crap handling though.

2.3/2.6 ;)

Always wanted a twin plenum Vitesse. closest I got was a 3500SE

Pete. wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:02:

Del Boy wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:01: I had 2, both were good a 2.5 and a 3.5 god did that fly loved the pair of em'. Crap handling though. 2.3/2.6 ;)

2.6 thats the one.

VXL V6 wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:03:

Always wanted a twin plenum Vitesse. closest I got was a 3500SE

I had an SE Auto. Moonraker Blue with grey leather.

just checked ebay to see how many were for sale. theres only 2, one is from a garage,selling at ......£1995!!!!!!  and the other is a private sale,10 bids at the moment and its at £809!!!

Pete. wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:07:

VXL V6 wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:03: Always wanted a twin plenum Vitesse. closest I got was a 3500SE I had an SE Auto. Moonraker Blue with grey leather.

The best colour!  :y

cam2502 wrote on 31. May 2009 at 21:57:

Saw one of these today,1st time in ages. Was a 3.5 in really good condition. Deep red colour. I know its a rover but i really liked these cars.

There were a few at Tatton today. There was even a drop head 2 door  :o It had some kind of tubular T bar roof and looked to have had the wheel base shortened somewhere behind the doors.  :-? :-?

Pete. wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:01:

I had many many SD1's. Very under rated cars. Yes i know, prone to rust, but what from the 70's & eighties wasn't :-/ :-? I'd love another, but it would have to be a V8s 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) :)

They were indeed Pete, they were much loved in the Met.  I always fancied the Vanden Plas in that lovely dark red colour - and that engine - MMmmmmmm :y :y

VXL V6 wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:00:

Yep me too. Great Buick engine, great bodyshell shape (for the time), dire brakes and terminal rust though. Still think they are a great looking car.

Loosely based on the Ferrari Daytona ;)

Elite Pete wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:47:

..... Loosely based on the Ferrari Daytona ;)

The front indicators were .... can't say for the rest!  ;)  ;)  ;D

Elite Pete wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:47:

VXL V6 wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:00: Yep me too. Great Buick engine, great bodyshell shape (for the time), dire brakes and terminal rust though. Still think they are a great looking car. Loosely based on the Ferrari Daytona ;)

Yep you're right enough there Pete and with the hatchback, a practical design. 

Come to think of it, a lot of British engineered cars of that general era were well conceived, generally.  Had the build quality been better and the manufacturing ethic more realistically applied, then perhaps some of those great names would have survived. :y 

2.4 was the best

VXL V6 wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:00:

Yep me too. Great Buick engine, great bodyshell shape (for the time), dire brakes and terminal rust though. Still think they are a great looking car.

:o Well I did not know that !

The V8 was better suited to the P6B though, and a couple of those.................. :y :y :y

Turk wrote on 01. Jun 2009 at 00:26:

VXL V6 wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:00: Yep me too. Great Buick engine, great bodyshell shape (for the time), dire brakes and terminal rust though. Still think they are a great looking car. :o Well I did not know that !

I thought everyone knew why there was a B in a P5B (coupe)  ;)  ;)  :y  :y  :y

I had an S reg 3500 manual in gold. It was ok but nowhere near as fast as a P6 3500S that I had before it. With hindsight I should have kept them both-especilly the P6.

Steve

Steve Brookman wrote on 01. Jun 2009 at 07:51:

.... With hindsight I should have kept  .....

my Senator!  ::)  ::)  :y  :y

VXL V6 wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:00:

Yep me too. Great Buick engine, great bodyshell shape (for the time), dire brakes and terminal rust though. Still think they are a great looking car.

A buick engine which Rover screwed the head design up on (poorer flow and never fixed), weakened the block (addressed on the SD1 variants), and designed in a fundamental weakness to ensure the headgaskets fails (extra row of bolts, fixed in 1990!)

Shame....its a very over rated lump which could have been so much better.