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1977 Rover 3500 SD1 For Sale £3,600 ono
(currency conversion)

Looking for a good home for a Rover 1977 SD1 V8 3500 Automatic maintained by a Rover trained mechanic mileage 55,000, showroom condition full service history.

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Make Rover
Model 3500 SD1
Price £3,600 ono
Year 1977
Category Saloons / Estates
Mileage 55000
Colour Yellow
Transmission Automatic
LHD / RHD RHD
Convertible No
Location Enfield,
London, UK
Private / Trade Private
Car ID 16891
No of Views 449
Confirmed For Sale 6 days ago
Rover 3500 SD1
£3,600 ono
(currency conversion)

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Lifelong SD1 fan - 1983 Rover 3500 Vanden Plas

JayDeeVDP · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject: and...

there's a 1984 Vanden Plas going for £1,500

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Lashings of P6s too.... yummy

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tim leech · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject:

Bit of a odd bod that one, as it has VDP alloys and a Mk2 autoshifter.

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1979 Rover SD1 V8-S
1987 Rover 2600VDP Auto.
1985 Citroen BX 19GT
1990 Citroen BX 16v
1994 Citroen Xantia 1.8i SX

Chris P

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1977 Rover 3500 SD1 For Sale £3,600 ono
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That's been in the SD1 Club mag at least once - at a grand more.

Looks too 'messed with' to me - the bits changed as Tim mentions,
it's also got the later bonnet badge and larger type-face rear
badging - both wrong for a 1977 car.

JayDeeVDP · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: Mk1

Wow, now having been swayed to the "Series 2 side of the force" had I been in the market to purchase a Series 1 (they are slowly growing on me...) I would have been totally unaware of the points you've raised.

Could there be such a thing as a series 1 1/2? (A-la Mk1 1/2 Triumph Stag, the earlier car with Mk2 bits slowly creaping in)

Jay

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jrevillug · SD1 User Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 87

There is a S1 1/2, but is was from 1980 IIRC- later door mirrors etc.

Chris P · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 12:23 am Post subject:

jrevillug wrote:

There is a S1 1/2, but is was from 1980 IIRC- later door mirrors etc.

The shiny door mirrors replaced the early rubber ones as you say in 1980.
A variant of the later door mirrors were on later series 2 cars - these have
more profiled mountings (and are the ones Rimmers have **** loads of
from India). Later series 1 cars also had illuminated dash switches, also
carried over to series 2 (but with different buttons). I think some seats
were also carried over from late series 1 to series 2.

Series 1 cars are Cool

- if anyone has a 1976 "P" reg manual car in caribbean
blue sat in their shed, let me know Wink

stephenwhyte · SD1 User Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 80

Chris your not going to get a p reg in Caribean Blue as I am sure it was only a colour for S & T plates

silverleaf · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:52 am Post subject:

What was the launch colour blue featured in the ads and brochures then?, I thought that was Carribean, though it's maybe a bit darker come to think of it.

Chris P · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:31 am Post subject:

stephenwhyte wrote:

Chris your not going to get a p reg in Caribean Blue as I am sure it was only a colour for S & T plates

Caribbean blue was a launch colour for the SD1 in 1976. There were seven colours
available at launch in July 1976 - four solid (richelieu red, brazilia brown, pedelican white,
turmeric yellow) and three metallics (platinum silver, midas gold, caribbean blue).
Caribbean blue was a very short-lived colour, replaced by atlantis blue (I think) in
1978 - I've seen an 'S' plate 2300 (scrapped) and 3500 (actually for sale!) in
Caribbean, also at least one of the press-fleet was Caribbean, LOK109P from memory.

It's well known the state-of-the-art SD1 paint shop at Solihull had horrendous problems
due to the technology used without the manufacturing experience. I know one of James
Taylor's books mentions metallics were not available until 1978, though this date is
more likely sometime in 1977 as my father had a platinum 2600 from new in November
1977.

It's going to be hard enough finding a 'P' plate 3500 in reasonable condition with a manual
gearbox, let alone a caribbean blue one. There may have been only a few months of
customer production caribbean blue cars, so were rare to begin with. I'd hazard a
guess there is just ONE or at most two caribbean blue cars left Shocked

silverleaf · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:40 am Post subject:

Country Classics have advertised a 1978 3500 Auto in Caribbean blue for a while. Up for £3650.

tim leech · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:44 am Post subject:

stephenwhyte wrote:

Chris your not going to get a p reg in Caribean Blue as I am sure it was only a colour for S & T plates

I thnk the garage that now has the N plate car (country classics) has a carribean blue example as well,.

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1987 Rover 2600VDP Auto.
1985 Citroen BX 19GT
1990 Citroen BX 16v
1994 Citroen Xantia 1.8i SX

Chris P · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject:

silverleaf wrote:

Country Classics have advertised a 1978 3500 Auto in Caribbean blue for a while. Up for £3650.

That's been there for a while (the website is not updated that often), and a look at
the DVLA database suggests this car is 'EXPORT' so I fear it's gone abroad! It's
not been taxed since the end of 2005. I believe this particular car may be the
same one John Giacobi is perched on in this article:

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Anyone know of any other caribbean blue SD1s? Makes triton green examples look
common!

silverleaf · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 1:24 pm Post subject:

That's a shame if it's gone overseas...

There's a couple of nice shots of caribbean blue 3500's in the 'People and the Motor Car (1976)' segment of the 'Rover SD1' video (now on dvd as 'The Best of Rover SD1'). Cool

tim leech · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject:

Who cares if its a import, mine is, mines a ex Isle of man car and according to the logbook was registered in the UK in 1997! Its the car itself that makes it special. I would love a NADA car.

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1979 Rover SD1 V8-S
1987 Rover 2600VDP Auto.
1985 Citroen BX 19GT
1990 Citroen BX 16v
1994 Citroen Xantia 1.8i SX