1983 Rover 2600 SE (SD1)

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Totez jelz.

We did find the rave eventually, but were dissapoints that there was no stash of Mandy in the spare wheel well of the Granada. Still the boot is big enough to haul dealer quantities of skag, or to store several murdered hookers; so, win.

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Guilty as charged, although my friend parked the SD1 with SKILLZ (the photo may suggest otherwise).

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Here is the SD1 just before setting off on the Granny grabbing caper:-

[anonymous-user]

Good to see you back and have an update on this marvellous car. I find the politics of this place a little "challenging" at times, but the owners cars threads are usually great as the audience is self selecting and most right wingers are not the sort to enjoy the charm of 1970s Leyland tat.

See if you can get some pics when your man takes the head off, I haven't seen a six cylinder SD1 for 20 years and have never seen one in bits.

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Yes, the shouty-righty-hateys who populate much of PH tend to think that huge and ugly white Audis are cars, FFS. We may safely leave them to their delusions, political and automotive.

I will indeed get some photos when the head comes off. Time to check that the dreaded engine-killing oil widget is not there, and, if it is, take it out.

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BigMon said:

I've always enjoyed reading your missives on various subjects and thought it was a sad day when you departed (though I understood your reasons for doing so).

Thanks for your kind words. As for reasons, I don't think that I ever mentioned them here (and I'm not going to now). It wasn't anything to do with PH, although I can't say that I've missed all the bickering and ranting that goes on in parts of PH.

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Ugh! Now I really want to sell the car.

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Up that London:-

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In jail in Oxford -

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That, plus 200 offences of parking like a knob taken into consideration.

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My dad had a company Princess, which he liked, and which turned out to be reliable, and was surprisingly quick, although when the company (which happened to be BL) gave my dad an Ambassador that gave him more trouble. He sometimes got to borrow his boss's SD1.

[anonymous-user]

BV, good to see you back. I hope you're well.

I require one of these for work immediately.

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Cheers, officer! I'd stop resisting arrest if you threw me in the back of yer SD1. The Met preferred the 2600 to the 3500 for some reason. I mentioned some pages ago meeting a couple of Met coppers at a fuel stop in west London, one of whom was old and grizzled enough to remember police SD1s. He then tried to do me for no MoT, but I had the freshly issued certificate in the glovebox; so take that, ya cozzer!

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 28th March 06:42

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S,P & L I shall leave to the Walts. I am only here to talk bks about cars.

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My Stepdad drove them when in the traffic department. Bet those were some fun days.

Breadvan72 said:

He then tried to do me for no MoT, but I had the freshly issued certificate in the glovebox; so take that, ya cozzer!

Why did you do that? I read in SP&L it was best to 'no comment' at the roadside

Sound judgement to stay away from there. I hope you have barge-tastic summer fun.

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Here is my (early series) Professionals car. IIRC, Ray Doyle had a white Dolomite Sprint (no Webasto) before Ford replaced BL as the show's car provider and the lads got their Capris.

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"What happens when the TV Tough Guy gets into his car?"

"Er, he puts his seat belt on?"

"No. The disco music starts!"

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George Cowley's SD1 was, I think, a boggo 3500, before he got into a Granny. John Steed also had a 3500 in the New Avengers, while Mike Gambit had an XJS, and Purdey had a TR7 and a rubber bumpered MGB GT, IIRC.

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MarshPhantom said:

Used to have a copy of the rather good "Shut It. The guide to 70s TV cops", a guide to actors used, cars driven, booze drunk and anything else they could think of, for every episode of Sweeney and The Professionals.

Still on Amazon.

I still have my copy, and use it to refer to the episodes when Ray Doyle cooks a bit of pasta, the one where he knobs Patricia Hodge, and to the Bill the Driver moments in the Sweeney.

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For Triumph's alternative reality destiny to become more BMW than BMW, see:-

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/triumph-dolomite...

In our reality, Triumph is a brand fated to kept in a locked drawer forever .... by BMW.

Many (not all) BL cars featured great design and good engineering (plus bodges and corner cutting), but thanks to a cocktail of management incompetence, under investment, government mishandling, union stubbornness, and so on, the cars sometimes fell to bits, and eventually so did the whole project.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 29th March 13:08