Where were all the Rovers?

WarrenL

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Today was the day of the Christchurch Twin Rivers Rally. Hundreds of classic (and not a few not-so-classic) cars turned up... but ONLY ONE ROVER P6!

It was the first time Brown Rover had made it to the event for quite a few years and there was nobody for company... I had to park it next to a Studebaker.
 

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Thank you! Graeme (ghce) was riding shotgun today and he's not keen on the colour. But that's always going to be a personal thing.
 
GRTV8 said:
Whats a MK1V cortina doing in a classic car show - hold me down

There were a lot less "classic cars" than I expected but then again time is a moving set of goal posts and who am I to say that a late 1990's early 2000's car is not a classic......and there were a bunch of them. What did disappoint me a lot was the lack of vintage and veteran cars and an excess of USA tin (right up to present day manufacture).



WarrenL said:
Thank you! Graeme (ghce) was riding shotgun today and he's not keen on the colour. But that's always going to be a personal thing.

Riding shotgun was not as good as it should have been with me as a navigator getting it somewhat ballsed up at the beginning and getting us off in the wrong direction for the driving section of the day.

Graeme
 
GRTV8 said:
Whats a MK1V cortina doing in a classic car show - hold me down

Mk V, actually. We're going to have to send you for further education! Anyway, what's not classic about the Go-Tina? OK, don't answer that. But can you be a NZer of a certain age and NOT have spent a large chunk of your life in one? Seven years at the top of the national sales charts - 1977 to 1983 inclusive!

ghce said:
What did disappoint me a lot was the lack of vintage and veteran cars and an excess of USA tin (right up to present day manufacture).

Are you telling me that Americans have never made a classic car? Try telling that to Gerard... and what do you call those two Pintos?
 
WarrenL said:
ghce said:
What did disappoint me a lot was the lack of vintage and veteran cars and an excess of USA tin (right up to present day manufacture).

and what do you call those two Pintos?

Even the classic scene needs some comedy relief :mrgreen:


Graeme
 
Hi, is that an FX4 I can see in the pic? That's a long way from home, personal
import I presume.

Colin
 
colnerov said:
Hi, is that an FX4 I can see in the pic? That's a long way from home, personal
import I presume.

Colin
A few of them made their way down here - Put it this way , Ive seen a few about over the years . Then again could be the same FX4 - repainted many time .
 
GRTV8 said:
Whats a MK1V cortina doing in a classic car show - hold me down

Now if it came out with a twin-cam and a pedigree , I would "classic car " it , Viz a Lotus Cortina or Escort TwinCam - pure genius and a classic by right .
Not a four door velour upholstered mass production .
I'd let it in the car show but on the provisor they didnt park next to my P6 .
Its an old car in good nic .
God Im a snob
Gerald
ps - I know whats coming - "my dad had one of those " yardie yardie yah . Talk to the hand . I had one too . Still not a classic .
At least wait until Im dead
 
WarrenL said:
GRTV8 said:
At least wait until Im dead

That might happen sooner than you think if I repost this on the Cortina forum.


Not likely, to own a Cortina mk IV or V you would need to be into self flagulation :LOL:

Graeme
 
There were some tasty classics such as this Packard and the Horseless Carriage
 

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