More motoring capers with Mike and the Rover…  Well, the weather here in West Sussex has been glorious, perfect for smoking around in a V8 hatchback catching admiring glances and receiving brilliant comments from other people. Thanks to a leaking radiator (pending), the cooling system is having to work hard for a living and, as [...]

Mike Humble cracks on with the Rover’s ever growing list of jobs Don’t you just love these warm, light evenings? While others nearby are busy poisoning themselves with half-cooked sausages on the barbecue, other people are having much more fun, namely me, spending my spare time after work rootling under the bonnet of Keith Adams’ [...]

Mike Humble gives Rover a new home… As Keith Adams packs his toothbrush for his epic journey to New Zealand, his pet Rover is now safely in its temporary new kennel in leafy West Sussex. The drive to Horsham was a fun one. You can imagine the joy and laughter I had switching on the [...]

Keith Adams   IT’S GOOD to know that there’s some love for my Polski-Rover out there. Whenever I take it out onto the mean streets of Eastern England, it’s met with smiles and comments from quite a few other drivers out there – something that has never happened to me before.  However, as mentioned in previous [...]

Keith Adams    Following a nice day out at Longbridge yesterday, I decided it was time to stop ignoring all those little cosmetic issues that my Polski-Rover has and get them sorted once and for all.  Don’t worry – by that I don’t mean that it’s rusting or has picked up some nasty stonechips – but [...]

Sam Skelton Polski-Rover at Pride of Longbridge My very first memory, earlier even than family events such as holidays and birthdays, is of my father’s old SD1 Vanden Plas. A V8 automatic Series 2 in Moonraker metallic, it imprinted itself firmly upon first my young retinas and later my developing mind. I am sure that [...]

Keith Adams  Well, I’d say that I’m now reasonably happy with my SD1′s progress. When it came back from MOTEST, I had a few fuelling issues, which dumped me on the hard shoulder. Then I changed a few servicing items, which also coincided with some other running problems… but, after a little perseverance, it’s all [...]

Keith Adams  Well, finally, the time for remote updates and telling everyone how much I am looking forward to driving my SD1 in the future is over. As I write this, the car is sitting on my drive, the tinkling sound of gently cooling metal a reassurance that I’ve finally begun to live the dream [...]

Keith Adams There has certainly been plenty of progress on the Rover SD1 project since the last update. You might remember that I’d trailered the car down to MOTEST in Farnham to get a few little jobs for the test done before putting it in for its first MoT since 2004. Well, the boys have [...]

Keith Adams I’ve been getting a lot of people asking me about my Polski-Rover SD1. Is it MoT’d yet? When will it be on the road again? Will we be seeing it on the show circuit? Well, with a little help from my friends, I went a long way to getting the first question answered [...]

Keith Adams Well, finally, I’ve had a chance to give my SD1 its first run since getting it back from Poland, and it’s a mixture of good and bad news, but mainly good. For one, I don’t think the SD1′s actually been refuelled since 2006 and, well, it must be about due now. Anyway, with the car [...]

Keith Adams      Well, Christmas and Boxing Day are out of the way and the snow’s cleared to such an extent that I can finally get the garage open and spend a little time getting my SD1 back on the road.    It’s a process that should have kicked off rather sooner following its trailering back [...]

Keith Adams It’s been a funny old week and one that will go down in my life as a landmark really. Why? Well, in the space of a couple of days, no less than three Rovers have been added to fleet… by anyone’s standards, that’s impressive/stupid/obsessive enough to have the boys in the white coats coming [...]

Keith Adams Okay, so today I deposited 1200 Euros into Jerzy’s bank account, leaving me with a total of 800 left to pay on my Polish SD1 restoration. The final two clutch parts that needed changing have been ordered from Rimmer Bros and should be on their way tomorrow and I’ve also sent the guys [...]

Keith Adams Back in the UK after an intense night drive from Dresden… what fun that was. But before I unpacked my suitcase and relaxed with a cup of cocoa, I thought it would be nice to upload some more images of the SD1. I’d obviously got a bit of the old rose-tinted-spectacles going on [...]

Keith Adams Rover SD1 looking all sparkly and ready for action I must admit that I’d been a little nervous. While driving over to Poland yesterday, I’d been screwing myself up a little wondering whether Jerzy’s garage would still be in business when I got to Częstochowa – I hadn’t, you see, heard from …

Keith Adams In case you’ve been wondering, I’m still around, and still very much alive. The lack of blogs from me has been inexcusable, especially considering I’ve pretty much kept them going regularly since I started doing them in 2004. It’s a great discipline to follow for any budding writer – creativity comes from necessity [...]