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Just as the title suggests, I'm interested to know the origins of your interest in Rover cars!?
Here is mine.....
Once when I was a small boy I was visiting relatives with the family. At the time my Dad drove a red Austin Allegro, my brother and I were sat in the back on our booster seats. My Dad pulled up at a set of traffic lights next to a black SD1 (I assume it was a 3500). Well, the driver looked around and spotted my brother and I and obviously decided to put on a bit of a show. He F*cking gunned it off the lights.............straight into the back of a Capri which was stopped in the road just ahead.
Later I learned that the Capri driver asked my Dad to provide a witness statement to support his insurance claim. The upshot of which was that sometime later my Dad got to view the statement made by the SD1 driver.
One sentence in particular sticks in my head. "It was only due to the superior braking system of my car that a more serious accident was prevented".
I've been obsessed with the SD1 ever since.
Here is mine.....
Once when I was a small boy I was visiting relatives with the family. At the time my Dad drove a red Austin Allegro, my brother and I were sat in the back on our booster seats. My Dad pulled up at a set of traffic lights next to a black SD1 (I assume it was a 3500). Well, the driver looked around and spotted my brother and I and obviously decided to put on a bit of a show. He F*cking gunned it off the lights.............straight into the back of a Capri which was stopped in the road just ahead.
Later I learned that the Capri driver asked my Dad to provide a witness statement to support his insurance claim. The upshot of which was that sometime later my Dad got to view the statement made by the SD1 driver.
One sentence in particular sticks in my head. "It was only due to the superior braking system of my car that a more serious accident was prevented".
I've been obsessed with the SD1 ever since.