Bought from this here parish a week or so ago, this one came in just in case the Alfa 166 sold, leaving me with just the ZTT as a daily. I like to have two cars I'm happy with as a daily, as I just get bored driving the same car five or six days a week, however nice that car is. The 166 is such a special car, but with developments on the coffee shop front, notably taking on a second one, I could do with the money from the 'luxury I don't really need' car in the bank. Hence the 166 finding another good home, and me taking in a Rover 45 V6 in part-ex, but that's a story for another day...
I'm digressing....this one...........
1999 Rover 416 SLi Auto, so Honda engine and box.
This particular car stood out to me in the FS section here simply because it's the saloon. And the Honda mechanics I guess. But mostly because it's the 4 door with a proper boot. I've always liked saloons better than hatchbacks, hence my thread on 90's saloons
forum.retro-rides.org/thread/196394/90s-loons?page=1&scrollTo=2301748
I always liked the shape of these little 400 saloons. The general proportions, and the rear lights always looked right to me. I like the colour, it's low owners and low mileage, at only 51k miles. I viewed it, and met it's nice gentleman owner milk and his wife, near Leeds one day when I was down near Bradford picking up part or two for the 166. Although it was in need of a general clean up (I'm sure milk won't be annoyed at me saying this), I could see that his advert had been honest, and it looked straight and true underneath the dust and dried coffee! I went away thinking on it, and a deal was done a couple of days later.
A further few days later, and it was on a transporter bed on it's way up to sunny Saltburn....
and arrived safely...
Decent spec...Electric windows all round which all work, working remote central locking, working electric mirrors, and working audio controls on the steering wheel. Lots of working stuff!
It does have some roof lining, and door card, issues, but I'll get them sorted...
Japanese reliability (hopefully)..
You know me by now....love this bit
Instantly better..and the ugly duckling became a swan....sort of...
And after a clay bar, another wash, a coat of SRP and a first coat of wax, then tyres dressed and black plastics treated.....
Loads of history and the original book pack. Even has all the original sales documentation, showing the first owner traded in a 5 year old R8 414 for it...
Has to be done...
After another coat of wax...
I couldn't bear looking at the tired original dealer plates any more, so I ordered some shiny new ones which I knew would be with me within 18 hours. I will look at getting some repro original ones made up at some point.
And that's where I am with it at the minute. It drives absolutely spot on. The list of things to do includes the timing belt and sort the roof lining and door card fabric. Then see if I need two 400/45's when the px comes in in a couple of weeks. Then I've got a second coffee shop to get up and running in six weeks......
I'm digressing....this one...........
1999 Rover 416 SLi Auto, so Honda engine and box.
This particular car stood out to me in the FS section here simply because it's the saloon. And the Honda mechanics I guess. But mostly because it's the 4 door with a proper boot. I've always liked saloons better than hatchbacks, hence my thread on 90's saloons
forum.retro-rides.org/thread/196394/90s-loons?page=1&scrollTo=2301748
I always liked the shape of these little 400 saloons. The general proportions, and the rear lights always looked right to me. I like the colour, it's low owners and low mileage, at only 51k miles. I viewed it, and met it's nice gentleman owner milk and his wife, near Leeds one day when I was down near Bradford picking up part or two for the 166. Although it was in need of a general clean up (I'm sure milk won't be annoyed at me saying this), I could see that his advert had been honest, and it looked straight and true underneath the dust and dried coffee! I went away thinking on it, and a deal was done a couple of days later.
A further few days later, and it was on a transporter bed on it's way up to sunny Saltburn....
and arrived safely...
Decent spec...Electric windows all round which all work, working remote central locking, working electric mirrors, and working audio controls on the steering wheel. Lots of working stuff!
It does have some roof lining, and door card, issues, but I'll get them sorted...
Japanese reliability (hopefully)..
You know me by now....love this bit
Instantly better..and the ugly duckling became a swan....sort of...
And after a clay bar, another wash, a coat of SRP and a first coat of wax, then tyres dressed and black plastics treated.....
Loads of history and the original book pack. Even has all the original sales documentation, showing the first owner traded in a 5 year old R8 414 for it...
Has to be done...
After another coat of wax...
I couldn't bear looking at the tired original dealer plates any more, so I ordered some shiny new ones which I knew would be with me within 18 hours. I will look at getting some repro original ones made up at some point.
And that's where I am with it at the minute. It drives absolutely spot on. The list of things to do includes the timing belt and sort the roof lining and door card fabric. Then see if I need two 400/45's when the px comes in in a couple of weeks. Then I've got a second coffee shop to get up and running in six weeks......
