Polish Rover SD1

Keith Adams I don’t know about you guys but, when it comes to the annual MoT test on my cars, I always feel a great sense of dread on their […]

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 […]

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 […]

Back in 2005, we bought a £200 Rover SD1 as a project, in order to save it from a fate involving kit-car owners and the scrapyard… in the subsequent months, nothing happened, and the home restoration never happened. However an unusual plan to ship it out to Poland germinated in our minds […]

IT started out as an idle thought, and soon became a mad-cap plan… Back in 2005, we bought a £200 Rover SD1 as a project, in order to save it […]

Keith Adams Enjoyed a nice catch-up with SD1-owning, AROnline reading, Nissan engineering man Chris Wood last night. We caught up at the Earls Barton Classic Car and Bike Meet, after […]

Keith Adams When I brought my Rover SD1 back from Poland back in October 2009, I promised myself that I’d leave it a few months before I set about making […]

Keith Adams Well, it’s been a few weeks since I managed to prise the keys for my Rover SD1 from the hands of my mate Scott Brownlee, and all I […]

The Polish Rover SD1 attracted many admiring looks and comments at last weekend’s Pride of Longbridge 2011 event. At last, reliability and driver satisfaction are thankfully possible after a few long distance […]

More admiring glances and comments for the Polski-SD1 reinforces my thoughts about arguably British Leyland’s finest creation.  Words and Photographs: Mike Humble  Well, the Pride of Longbridge gathering is now […]

The Polski-Rover is now being given the final touches. Work has re-commenced after four weeks of self-confessed neglect.  Words and Photographs: Mike Humble  Why do it today, when you can put it off […]

Keith Adams  The ‘phone call from Mike Humble sounded grim. ‘Do you want the bad news or the good news?”  Being a glass-half-empty kinda guy, I decided to plump for […]

Mike Humble is never tyred of working on a classic motoring icon, only a few more details and the mission is complete.  Well, the Poliski-Rover has come a long way […]

Mike Humble  Slowly, but surely, I’m getting through the list of jobs one by one. I’ve almost cracked the gearlever problems, there’s fresh oil in the sump, eight new NGK […]

The Polski – Rover SD1 is once again dispatched down south  and it’s all quiet again on the Western (Sussex) front… Mike Humble Well, it’s been a hectic past few […]

Keith Adams  Well, despite the gruesome damp, dank, disgusting Northamptonshire weather today, I decided I needed to give the Polski-Rover some much needed love and attention. It’s been a while […]

Kev Mills  As some of you will know, I was the lucky fellow who took Keith’s Rover SD1 down to Sussex a few weeks ago for the Vintage at Goodwood […]

It’s been a long battle with the Rover but the war is now won.  Mike Humble  Just moments before I sat down to write my final ramble on the progress […]

Mike Gets To Grips With Some Truly Shocking Electrics…  I’ll never forget watching the film The Omen for the first time – I don’t know which was scarier, little Damien or […]

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 […]

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 […]