When it's a nice example and only a few miles down the road its always worth a look. I decided to make a fair offer on first visit based on the car driving as well as it looks. The pictures show the R-Reg tidy 100,000 mile car with a nice near silent normal idle once warmed up.
My Rover 820 turbo neighbour alerted me to this half decent 620ti for sale between Cheltenham and Gloucester. He got chatting to its stall holder owner at Cheltenham Racecourse auto-jumble and the subject car came up. Owned for the past six years by a former employee of the main MG-Rover dealership in Cheltenham. He has a small collection of cars mostly Nipponese including 4 Datsun 240/260Zeds, one very tidy indeed he is restoring. Strange that ~ only one Rover. Obviously a car enthusiast and his 620ti appeared well cared for. He had had several silly low offers for the car when he advertised it and I paid a good sensible price for it and did not haggle. A price I'd expect to get for it at least after a year or two of ownership as these nice old cars have almost bottomed out on value now. Nice ones like this are still about but obviously with the passing years, numbers will decline. The trade are not interested in them.
The only negative being the SRS light does not illuminate at all so it's either a dud bulb or it has been removed. The owner assured me the bulb has not been removed. There's still three months before the MoT is due. There are at least ten MoT certs with the car's history folder and VOSA data indicates the lowish mileage of 100,000 is genuine. One Invoice indicates a new engine fitted @ 49,000 miles... Will check the numbers in due course. In my experience, these engines are at their best when reaching six figure mileages provided they have been well looked after. This car has all the indications that it has been well cared for. The engine was impressively smooth, near silent on start up and when warmed up.
I shall tax it for the 1st October and see how it shapes up.
Note to self. I must stop buying these nice old cars ... until the next opportunity comes along. ...
Such opportunities are rare indeed now.
My Rover 820 turbo neighbour alerted me to this half decent 620ti for sale between Cheltenham and Gloucester. He got chatting to its stall holder owner at Cheltenham Racecourse auto-jumble and the subject car came up. Owned for the past six years by a former employee of the main MG-Rover dealership in Cheltenham. He has a small collection of cars mostly Nipponese including 4 Datsun 240/260Zeds, one very tidy indeed he is restoring. Strange that ~ only one Rover. Obviously a car enthusiast and his 620ti appeared well cared for. He had had several silly low offers for the car when he advertised it and I paid a good sensible price for it and did not haggle. A price I'd expect to get for it at least after a year or two of ownership as these nice old cars have almost bottomed out on value now. Nice ones like this are still about but obviously with the passing years, numbers will decline. The trade are not interested in them.
The only negative being the SRS light does not illuminate at all so it's either a dud bulb or it has been removed. The owner assured me the bulb has not been removed. There's still three months before the MoT is due. There are at least ten MoT certs with the car's history folder and VOSA data indicates the lowish mileage of 100,000 is genuine. One Invoice indicates a new engine fitted @ 49,000 miles... Will check the numbers in due course. In my experience, these engines are at their best when reaching six figure mileages provided they have been well looked after. This car has all the indications that it has been well cared for. The engine was impressively smooth, near silent on start up and when warmed up.
I shall tax it for the 1st October and see how it shapes up.
Note to self. I must stop buying these nice old cars ... until the next opportunity comes along. ...
Such opportunities are rare indeed now.
