RE: Shed Of The Week: Rover Metro Chairman

RE: Shed Of The Week: Rover Metro Chairman

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hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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mighTy Tee said:
Quote "When the Metro came out in 1990"

Erm - maybe try 1980
Richard-390a0 said:
So bad it's good rofl !.

BTW the Metro came out in 1980 not 1990. ;-)
Rover Metro did launch in 1990. Prior to that it was the Austin Metro.

83AndyJ

116 posts

152 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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2 minutes with a hammer and you have a 2 seat open top.

5 minutes, a hammer, sticky tape and cardboard and you have a pickup with a ramp.

What's not to like!

matchmaker

8,463 posts

199 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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If Shed tried driving this over the Forth Bridge he'd have plenty to worry about.

Like being hit by a train...

BTW 2 valve head?

J4CKO

41,286 posts

199 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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If shed were a bag of Revels, we just got the coffee one, and before anyone says "I Like the coffee ones best", let me say just you are deviants, and not to be trusted.

Still, clue is in the name, it is/was for the disabled and sometimes necessity dictates that a low slung sportscar is out of the question, thankfully there are many more stylish options around nowadays.


yme402

374 posts

101 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Ugly, dirty, (probably smelly) and generally foul, and to add insult to injury a complete lack of dignity for a disabled person. Seen this knocking about the classifieds for weeks now. Please lets get back to proper sheds.

J4CKO

41,286 posts

199 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Would be good to arrive somewhere in fancy dress as Lou and Andy from Little Britain driving it.

"Now you are sure you want to go in the Chairman..."

"Yep"

Lazadude

1,732 posts

160 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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fivetenben said:
If ever there was a car that someone should buy to do the Mongol Rally in, this is it! Soneone please, please make it happen... smile
Problem with the MR now is that you have to bring the car back with you. Was a lot easier when you'd auction off your tiny engined hatchback with buggered suspension and an engine that had a mix of sand, dust and water through the air filter.

Now imagine buying this, doing another 20k miles in it across the desert, and then trying to get rid of it. (Thats if it makes it back to blighty...)

ETA.. What about when it breaks down in Iran? Doubt they have Rover parts!

r11co

6,244 posts

229 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Haters gonna hate. rolleyes

Automatic whoosh parrot for the downvoters. We need a laugh like this once in a while. Oddities like this are all part of the rich tapestry of motoring.

PS. Had an MG Metro once as s stop-gap when a former GF wrote off my XR2. Endearing, but cack. It was green, and I nicknamed it Freddo. It had mounting points for shock absorbers which, for some bizarre reason, AR had deleted in later production, and the thing hopped like a demented frog (another reason for the nickname). This will have the front-rear connected Hydragas so should be a bit more stable, but I can still imagine the ride for the poor wheelchair-bound person loaded on to this would be hair-raising.

Regiment

2,799 posts

158 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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The instrument panel reminds me so much of my mums old Montego.

mrpenks

368 posts

154 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Erm, instead of something like this????
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322304683959

Anthony-mwayc

1 posts

91 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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It looks like Postman Pats van crashed into a Metro

alorotom

11,908 posts

186 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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namtab said:
"Shed offered her an upright organ in the rear vestibule instead" :-) :-) :-)

What a sentence, bloody brilliant.
Agreed!!

Personally I don't think it's as bad as many are making out ... ok so it's not a daily but as has been stated, tear the roof off and it's a certainly quirky open top or leave as is and would be great for tip runs! Granted the price is optimistic though

Lotusgone

1,160 posts

126 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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First reaction - rubbish, like that Sherpa we had a while back. Then I became won over by the whimsy of the article.

shalmaneser

5,930 posts

194 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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The best SOTW for ages.

I'm almost tempted to buy it just for the lulz. I dare say you could have it for half the asking price.

Toyoda

1,557 posts

99 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Shirley shed can do better than this. It's a curiosity but that's about it.


Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

178 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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I want to paint it white, hire Jim Bowen to sit in the back and run a scam selling blessings to gullible Catholics

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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If you ever wondered what was on the other side of the bottom of the barrel after endless scraping, this is it. A joke and not a funny one.

sjabrown

1,910 posts

159 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Excellent SOTW article. Just shows how much things have moved on these days. You'd easily not spot a wheelchair converted vehicle now, but back then poor sods had little option but to be ferried about in big plastic boxes.

Drive Blind

5,076 posts

176 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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best thing to do with it would be paint it team colours and use it as transport for your motorbike. A really bad team support vehicle if you wish. And then put wheels on the ramp and load and unload the bike whilst on the move. Go to IOM TT in it.

Or, black out the rear windows and use it for crime. Rob jewelers, escape on motorbike, rendezvous with the chairman, drive in the back like the minis in The Italian Job. The perfect crime. Nothing to see here officer. Just my wheelchair bound nan in the back, sleeping.

lets face it, nobody is gonna be buying this for genuine transport needs are they?

V8 FOU

2,970 posts

146 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Jimmy Recard said:
I want to paint it white, hire Jim Bowen to sit in the back and run a scam selling blessings to gullible Catholics
Now THAT is an idea!!

I reckon a Big Block chevy in the back and RWD would be better.

Whatever, brilliant shed. Hey, how about a wooden slat paint job so actually looks like a shed?

Well done for winding up all the keyboard warriors this week. (It being half term and all)