Thursday, January 28, 2010

Hey, theres a Rover under there








We went out to look at it and ... uhh... Yea it looked pretty complete from what I rememberd from reading up on them. The dash was replaced with a piece of aluminum, someone left off the drivers side upper door so the drivers side was dirty. (It had carpenter ants coming out of the seat.. really ) The steering wheel had been replaced with a weld on model. No rear seats, a LOT of parts, including the snapped rear axle shaft that problably caused the rear diff to grenade, in the bed.
The front tires were still inflated, the rears flat. And there was no rear differential. No problem. Buuuuut the rust in the under seat storage area was the worst on the entire vehicle, and it was just surface rust. The bulkhead is rust free, the frame isn't swiss cheese like a lot I saw on the internet, and the body panels are pretty straight. Coolness.

History:
The vehicle was sold new in Fort Worth, It was re-sold couple times in Fort Worth and then it had been a hunting vehicle out towards Weatherford, TX before the current owner. The neat part was that the owner had amassed several Rover-brand-new-in-the-box parts for the vehicle... but had never tried to put them on.

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