When I was a student old Rovers were dirt cheap - think £50, reliable and very comfortable and chassis mean rust was unimportant.
I had:
a 1953 Rover 75 £40
a 1947 Rover 16 (immaculate) £80 for 4 years.
A Rover 100 £100..
But then Rover started with the 3500 SD1 and the 26000 ruined the reputation for reliability and the 2000 was rusting as a model and BL was pants.
SO I gave up.
And of course Austin became Austin Rover and killed the name. So that was it.
I loved my 16 although the steering was very heavy and the axle tramp on bad potholes was alarming... We went on honeymoon in it...
Nostalgia..
BL ruined the brand ; moronic. Idiots.
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