Keith Adams As you’ve read elsewhere, Richard Kilpatrick is currently enjoying the patronship of my Rover SD1. And by the looks of things, he is relishing the experience, even if he’s finding that he’s going to have one or two little jobs to do along the way (isn’t that always the way?) He seems to [...]

Richard Kilpatrick The handful of people I know from car-related activities will probably have twigged that new things generally put me off. Heavier, cost-reduced, simplified or over-complex, if I like something in the first place, I don’t want it to be messed with. So it’s probably unsurprising that my first SD1 was something of a [...]

Keith Adams The Rover SD1 that’s featured so prominently in these pages since 2006 is now going up for sale. For those who have not been following the story, here are some highlights. It’s a 3500, five-speed manual model, registered in August 1976, and currently has 50,000 miles on the odometer. It’s MoT’d until April [...]

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 [...]