The Dream Car You've Never Heard Of: Rover 3500 SDI Full History — Revelations with Jason Cammisa
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Jason includes a brief history of Rover, most of which was new to me. I have probably seen this car before but I never paid much attention to it, probably because it never made much of an impact in America. The part I like is the aluminum V8 engine. I had a 1963 Buick Special for year or so when I was in high school. Bought it from my dad for like $100, which was the trade in value he would have gotten from the dealer on the new 1967 Buick LeSabre he was buying.
Anyway, it had the tiny, 215 cubic inch aluminum V8 engine which I thought was very cool. I still think so. Buick dropped it, but Rover picked it up and used in their sedan and in their Land Rovers and maybe even in the Range Rover.
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I dropped a engine from on into a 1969 MGB_GT back in the mid 1980's
made it a really fast little car, lots of fun to drive.
lost it in the divorce in 90.
For nearly twenty years we had a Land Rover with the, by then, 3.9 litre Aluminium engine. Wheeee!
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