Rover 213S?

[Relentless Rob]

Two owners from new, 42,000 miles, washed, polished and serviced religiously. £350!

Could be £649 to go or a possible classic project. I wonder how it would look in purple and yellow?

Tomcat, KV6 or Prelude 2.2 conversion?

I'll be driving the old girl home from Cambridge tomorrow so I'll decide once I get to know the car's character.

[Relentless Rob]

Collecting the car in a while, photo's and first drive report to follow.

[Relentless Rob]

What's the difference between the 213 and 213S?

As far as I can tell it has a rev' counter and a slightly longer fifth gear (60mph@2800rpm).

The car in my opinion is too good to chop about, three owners, 41,633 miles, new exhaust and really well looked after.

Having said that it could be another Alfa 33 rare because hardly anyone likes them. The classic Rover purists don't like its reliable Honda engine. This one has hardly suffered BL-itus (rust). I'll have to look into any Rover 200 race pedigree that would justify any upgrades performance wise. It would look good in purple with yellow bumpers like my old MG Metro though.

Was there a 220 or performance version?

Do you agree with the keep the car how it is or would you modify, modernize or £999 the car?

Too dark for photo's now I'll take some at work tomorrow.

[Relentless Rob]

Typical 216 "S series" oil surge Acme smoke shield on heavy cornering.

[Relentless Rob]

Very handy read....


http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?sd3indexf.htm

[tooSavvy]

..."17% difference in Spring rate, across the rear"...

999ers were at work even then..

Tasteful mods will always be worthwhile...leather is always good (as you get to enjoy it) rather than flash alloys.
Power costs Petrol... leave well alone, eh?

Enjoy it for what it is....

I love 'gems' popping up, mint lowmilers... just that bit different.

mind you..... brake pipe rubbers/old tyres should be dumped!!

tooSavvy

[Relentless Rob]

Answered one of my questions myself. The car is a classic by virtue of there being hardly any left and at least half a dozen people saying I haven't seen one of those in years.

Here in all its glory....

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Leather? It's not a VP.

I was thinking MG Maestro or Geof wheels.

Found a Haynes manual in the boot. Normal Bibles are about 250-280 pages long, the Rover 213-216 all models manual? 342 pages long!

Did Tolstoy move to Longbridge?

[Relentless Rob]

Just messing about....

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...or am I?

How do you lower these things?

The rear is a normal coil set up and the fromt is a strange radus arm Morris Minor-esque set up.

[Relentless Rob]

Someone walked into a dealership and paid £6,000+ for my car! That's incredible.

[Relentless Rob]

Must resist making my daily drive a project......

[bulletproofbob]

i got knicked and locked up in chester once by 2 cops in an unmarked beige mk1 200 series rover...

[Relentless Rob]

i got knicked and locked up in chester once by 2 cops in an unmarked beige mk1 200 series rover...

....last week due to budget cuts.

[majic79]

I had one of them, in lovely blue, and then some idiot taxi drive crashed into me and I ended up with a metallic blue wing and a red door. Happy days with that rev happy 12v honda unit, 115mph flat out on my private test track

[Relentless Rob]

115mph flat out on my private test track

Don't think I'll bother with the tomcat now.

[b20concerto]

Lowering the front is easy lokk under the floor where you feet go and you will see tubes running along the outside of the chassis rail. At the back of them there is a nut on a bolt holding a small arm simply unwind the nuts and the the car lowers. The back is a case of shorter springs I have cut some down before or Motobuild used to do lowering springs.
There is a chap on Rovertech that is putting a D16 twin cam motor from an 88/89 Integra in one, I used to live and work in South Africa and we had a Ballade (Hondas version) that had that motor as standerd there.