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  1. 22nd July 2011, 08:32 PM #1
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    Found my Old Series 3 Today

    You may have seen this pic of my old series 3 - was taken in about 1991 just before I sold it



    Well on the way to get my gas certificate for my 101, guess what passed me - my old series 3 and I just had to go for a lookie see.





    The only reason that the bonnet is up was to have a look at the engine, which I had rebuild myself in 1989 and to see if the extractors were still on it - as they are.

    The car is basically the same as I sold it only 20 years older. The interior is still the same, the same old buckets that were shot in the late 80s, the same old Sterling Radio that cost me $30 in 1989 and the same old K mart Tacho on the dash.

    The current owner has had it for 15 years and it is his everyday driver as it was mine 20 years ago.

    It has brought back a few memories. It is great to see an old car you have owned still on the road and running well.

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  2. 22nd July 2011, 08:55 PM #2
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    nice
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  3. 22nd July 2011, 09:19 PM #3
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    How cool is that! It must have been quite something to discover everything still as you sold it.

    I got waved down on the Freeway a couple of months after I bought my S2a by a previous owner. He'd owned it a few years before, but nothing like 20 years ago. He was so wrapt that someone had bought it that appreciated it for what it is. He was also very proud of all the mod's he'd had done to it ... I didn't have the heart to tell him I was slowly getting around to "un-doing" much of it. (Removed the hydraulic ram power steering system, changed the 15" sunrayser rims for LR 16" wheels - still to remove the rear speaker boxes and 200W amplifier and re-do the overhead console. I'll leave the gas conversion and the 202 motor, at least for now).
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  4. 22nd July 2011, 09:45 PM #4
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    Just before I sold it, I bogged the panels and painted it with a vacuum cleaner spray gun - now other than some fading the paint has not cracked or lifted all these years later. Actually it looks better now than when I bought it back in 1988.

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    carry on Rover

    Hi Garry

    How about that, would give you a real lift for the day.

    I would love to catch up with my first 86".

    I know of one 2A that has outlived two of its owners and still going strong!

    Cheers Arthur
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  6. 24th July 2011, 04:11 PM #6
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    G'day Garry,

    Great story, and great to see the old girl still loved.

    Looks like the same colour as my shorty, Bella. Don't suppose you remember how you matched the paint when you did it?

    Cheers, Marty.
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  7. 24th July 2011, 09:16 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by '76swb View Post
    Looks like the same colour as my shorty, Bella. Don't suppose you remember how you matched the paint when you did it?

    Cheers, Marty.
    Yep - see the little panels to the left and right of the winch - I took one of them to Dulux and they matched it. Was almost spot on but as I was painting the whole thing the little difference did not matter.

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    Thanks mate, that seems to be the best way. From the pic it looks like a great match. Vacuum cleaner spray gun you say... smooth operator
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  9. 26th July 2011, 09:21 PM #9
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    thats great Gary is he interested in catching up with a few other series cars every now and then

    Defenderly

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