Weirdly Ive found cheap old Rovers to be wildly popular...it cant all be reminiscence or they'd be as valuable as old Fords, and people would have bought them new... Mk3 Cav was the last, best Vauxhall, Id love one too
I took a mk3 Cavalier to the wrong side of 300,000 miles and it was pretty much still solid. Admittedly mine was the gorgeous old Isuzu diesel but it still fired every morning, worn out but still ran. Shocked how much Cav's can be worth now. I'd say it's not something I'd own again but I have a Saab 9-3 parked on the drive and that shares a good deal of heritage. The Saab spin on it is much better built though, although has equally mediocre driving dynamics.
This car must of have been stored in a moisture ridden environment. These cars were known for rusting but I've never seen them rot under the door seals. It's a shame it couldn't be fix. Hope the next owner will take care of that issue. The Rover has and will be my favorite car on this channel. TWC and Elly are amazing but the Rover 800/Sterling 825/827 have a personality and style that is paramount to other cars.
Pretty much rust free compared to my Lancia a year ago. You have to weigh it up and cut your losses. Needs a good home, it's so nice nice to see a rare series one 800.
Father was a panel beater for nearly 40 years and he's always had a disliking for Rover's thanks to how they rot. It's always funny the cars he hates often originates from how much of pain they were to work on (and how much bonus he lost out on!)
Sad to see the Rover go, but I think it was a very wise decision as it needs serious work. Congratulations on the new storage unit, it looks great and can hold the current and new fleet of Hub Nutters 😀 👍
Sorry to see the 820 in such a way. But I can certainly see why you spend so much on your cars, they are very much a labour of love and much like many things in life, you may never get out of it what you put in but they are still so damn worth it in the end! :D
MIg welder and plasma cutter is the next stage, sounds grim but not as difficult as you may think. We the back yard garage enthusiast will on a very few occasion make any money doing well if we brake even on the parts let alone labour. But the places i have been the people met the knowledge gained priceless, Transylvanian in the Summer ( Commer camper) big ends willing., as with all things classic it may well be next year thought it was going to be last, OH and it is much cheaper then drinking and smoking. Thanks for the videos from paradise.
That video is tinged with sadness😭 My heart broke a bit when you peeled the seal back. On a positive note, the new unit is something I would love to have and I am also intrigued by what your future adventures will involve! I certainly wish you all the best with your journeys around the planet! In the mean time, can we have a ‘because......Hubnut’ (with the hippy head) tee shirt in the hub nut emporium?
Now you'll have to tidy the garage. At least there's Scotty Kilmer for untidy garage action. Good luck with your travels Ian, you are a real one-off and highly watchable.
OOOOPs.....such a beauty of the era, yet perhaps it may rust in peace. Would truly love to see this fixed. Alas, poor Rover, away you must go.. Good effort, it looks like it deserves to be sorted though.
My heart sunk for you when you peeled that door seal off, and as it got further, more and worse appeared. I totally shared your disappointment because I've been there. A life time (35 of my 53 years) of owning Italian stuff wasn't the cause of it however. My Fiat's, Alfas and Lancias have shown their rot like a badge of honour. It's been British stuff that's kept it so well hidden, and that my friend is even worse. Plastic and rubber trims coming off with lumps of rotten metal attached is an awful feeling. Glad you managed to ship it on, hope you didn't lose too much on it and hopefully it'll go on to be repaired and survive. Dealer plates, bought from SGL (a garage I knew), poverty spec and a bonny car to the eye. Surely that's enough reason to save her?
Its MOT only expired in October 2020 and no rust was mentioned on the advisory but in all honesty the only way to repair it the easy way would be to literally cut off the whole roof and weld a new one on lol it looked that bad
Hi Ian, the Rovers roof didn't look too good,it was really crusty from the video,it was a nice car but it has gone to another 820 owner,the storage unit for the fleet is spacious and it's ideal for carrying out repairs.
Putting work into a 2CV can be justified, because their appeal translates into pretty decent value. Discovering terminal rot in that Rover is like knocking over and breaking your favourite beer glass, full some great beer....... but a bit less annoying....... or spilling black oil or your favourite Tee-Shirt.
Here in Texas due to the dry warm climate our government does not spread metal eating sodium chloride on our roads. that rover is only around 30 years old and it's rotten. I think British cars are awesome quirky cars it's ashame to see so many of them end up as sweetcorn cans :(
@@garethonthetube you say underneath I can see why it does. I would say one of the reasons why it has rust on the top door seals is maybe the car had being wash with soap dish liquid because that stuff is loaded with salt. The sun here does distroy and cracks interiors of cars and on older cars it fades the paint.
Oh dear... I'd strip it for parts and send the shell for scrap if that were mine. Not worth fixing that. I think the best this car can hope for is that someone bodge repairs it with rust converter and filler, which would arguably be a bit unsafe, but to do it all properly would cost far too much. Unless you sold it to a fabricator. Thank God you managed to get rid of it.
Damn shame. Wasn't till the 90's that Rover started galvanising shells? My '95 214 SEI bought in '97 and sold in '02 was in perfect nick even 10 years later as I saw it being driven around.
Well, in America British cars have disappeared almost completely. Jaguars and Land Rovers are considered to be among the very worst. I have just parted with my 20 year old Saab 9-5 . The body was in excellent condition but at 145,000 miles the engine and components were just one problem after another and little reliability. We don't import any French cars either. Mercedes and BMW are now made domestically in the South but are very expensive to own and maintain.
My Lancia delta had rot like that failed its mot as the rot was within 300mm of the seat belt anchour. I was repairing the rot the weekend before but the roughness of my repair was the give away for the mot instpector
Time to learn to weld !! That is exactly why I go landrover not Range Rover classic because of all the electrical problems. But I still get the nice big v8
Beyond ecconomical repair! Cut the roof off and replace it with another but that's a specialist job and very expensive! Had a 1989 Mk3 Cavalier 1.6. Heavy brute of a car with no power steering. Much preferred my 1996 Vectra 1.8 LS designed by SAAB!
It would take a full restoration, sand blast and welding new panels to get this back together. With a full respray she would be amazing. You win some you lose some. My first maestro went the first way, she rotted away badly despite the regular waxing and undersealed. Yet it was the previous ownerships that sealed her fate.
Alan Partridge once mentioned traveling the world in a bullnose Morris, driving in countries that only drive on the left. That actually would of made nice viewing. It was laughable when he said it in the 1990’s. He was a visionary
Try buying a decent looking Alfasud that on the drive home had the odd trait of moving the bonnet under acceleration, seems I missed the fact that the engine was the only thing attaching the bodywork forward of the strut towers . . How I laughed . Or my poor uncle whose mk2 cortina failed the MOT on front struts, how proud he was once the garage fitted nice new ones and an MOT was obtained, see him slightly miffed when the new struts now punched their way through the inner wings and tried to escape by pushing the bonnet up . . . Rust, you just have to learn to love it.
Back in the '80's my grandfather parted out a 41 Cadillac Coupe because someone had set fertilizer on the roof and the metal was thin. The rest of the car was eminently restorable.
Great video, lots of new updates! *You did the right thing with the Rover!* I welded/restored some old cars myself (sills, floorpanels, booths, fenders so on). Restored the undercarriage of my mini not long ago and it took me a month! No way that Rover is worth the time, patience and effort to get it solid again. Hopefully, the bloke that bought it is a die hard 800 enthusiast! Otherwise is it a great parts car! The new place that you are renting has loads of potential! Now it's storage, but it could be a great workshop to! And a road trip sounds great! Are you staying in Welsh after the trip? Very curious!
I feel your pain as the car did appear to drive very nice. I disagree about the MK3 Cavalier though - I was young enough to drive both variants when new and the MK3 was never as refined as the Sierra as the competition had moved on. Albeit a bit better than the MK2 I still prefer the MK2 in perspective
Oh, how I identified with this video, especially the rot :( On my drive is my 1994 525i, which rust has a hold of (it'll need new rear sill sections - at least). It runs badly. The gearbox only selects reverse. It's been off the road for ten years, my family and many friends say I should just scrap it. And yet for sentimental/personal reasons, I can't let it go. Promise us that if you ever go to France on your world travels, you'll drive a VSP!
One of those hideous microcars that the invacar could out-accelerate.. the ultimate horrible thing for him to find and drive would be a Wildfire WF650 3 wheeler.. like a matiz only with 3 wheels, even worse build quality and a higher centre of gravity than an invacar..
That Rover is at a cross roads - not sure how much of a future it has Ian. If it were me I'd gake to that rust with a cutter or gas axe, remove the roof and call Everest Double glazing - make it the only Rover 800 in the world with a full length panoramic roof as is the modern vogue lol
Indeed. I bought a very cheap P80 Volvo V70 a couple months ago, partly because I needed the cargo space and partly because this happened to be on sale nearby, and it has definitely grown on me. I pulled out the drooping door weatherstrips (an excercise far less dramatic than the one in this video) and reattached them with some two-sided tape, and also swapped the tired motor mounts, but that's it. It's a rust-free and trouble-free 22-year old car, and I still see a LOT of them on the roads now that I've started paying attention.
rot is my nightmare it has killed many of my old motors from the 90`s . I can only weld them so many times. And i hate road salt in the winter with a passion!
That is some very nasty corrosion indeed and it's a shame that this rare Rover was clearly beyond saving. For it to have rotted like that, my guess is that it was kept for quite some time in a garage with a leaking roof with the water dripping onto the sunroof and running along the door seals.
Chin up Ian! By its very nature, your car buying strategy is going to mean that a few frogs get snogged. The miracle is that some turn out to be princesses in disguise :-).
Horrible rot. This reminds me of cars that lived on the coast. To fix it you can cut out small pieces and butt weld in patches one at a time. In some ways a rotten sill is worse because of all the layers.
Lick of paint and some nice curtains - for the unit not the Rover - although had a Lancia Flavia once that had rear curtains! You'll be getting a post lift next and going all sophisticated.
Ooooh crusty....good time to say goodbye to the money pit. I've decided I'm too tight to pay an auto electrician to rewire the Mitsubishi Camper rear lights so have ordered all I need and decided to do it myself, it is after all mounted on a truck body.... I should probably still keep the number of one handy though!! Hope all goes well with the move into storage and the impending Hub Nut world domination tour 👍 Charlie 🇬🇧
Shall we open a book on how long it is before the new storage unit resembles the cluttered "Can't find anything" chaos of the domestic Hub Nut garage??
@@HubNut Hope so. The world is your lobster as Del Boy would say. Good luck dude, I wish you all the best with your travels and look forward to future videos.
yeah, the tin worm will get you if you let it, you have also lit a 🔥 fire under my arse, my little fiesta does not get much use (46k I got it new 2005) but it sits under a trees and its full of leaves, so cheers I need to get in there a go back to my valet /PDI (pre delivery inspection) days and clean out the leaves and moss.
Doesnt look to bad, at tleast the welding. Its just all the prep, taking all the seals, windscreen and headlining all out. making all the filler pieces. Its defo a job for someone with lots of time and a garage. Cant do that outside. What else as well??
I got burnt by a 1990 mercedes w124. Absolutely immaculate inside but rotten in places. And the more I looked into the more I found. So I decided to cut my losses as I'm not a welder.
It's not that bad , just needs a roof skin and new door seal channels , easily rectified with a bit of welding. I would buy it if I had space but say good bye to the 2.0 lire though , probably I would convert to V6 Honda engine once welding new panels in and body work is done.
I guess the previous owner shouldn't have parked the Rover underneath a waterfall... Seeing you uncover all that crap underneath the door-seal made me cringe... such a shame about a car that looked pretty promising, considering its age. EDIT: How about a Mk II Golf or Jetta? Unless you want a GTI/16V, those should be pretty cheap still and you should be able to pick them up for peanuts. The Golf (and I guess the Jetta too) were notorious for overdone sealant-treatment from the factory. VW squirted so much of the stuff into the body that it would regularly seep out of certain spots. Over here in Germany, there are still plenty of Mk IIs on the road as everyday cars. And most of them look amazingly preserved, even the ones that weren't pampered/kept in a garage.
The new owner's house is probably called "Dun'Rovin". Weld on a whole new roof? If there is a rust free one out there that is. NZ is a bit of old car heaven, especially for old Brits so I hope that goes well. Hopefully, you will also get to explore Japan too. If you're going to do a lot of flying, have a look here. It has been started by YT team of Kara and Nate, check them out, who try and get the best deals for their World travels. faredrop.com/
And no garage does not help, especially since you live in a damp part of the UK 🇬🇧, albeit beautiful part. Somehow moisture got under the rubber gaskets, and since it could not dry out, the rot started. The rest of the body looks good. And for me, an 80's or 90's vehicle really isn't that old!
Weirdly Ive found cheap old Rovers to be wildly popular...it cant all be reminiscence or they'd be as valuable as old Fords, and people would have bought them new...
Mk3 Cav was the last, best Vauxhall, Id love one too
I took a mk3 Cavalier to the wrong side of 300,000 miles and it was pretty much still solid. Admittedly mine was the gorgeous old Isuzu diesel but it still fired every morning, worn out but still ran.
Shocked how much Cav's can be worth now.
I'd say it's not something I'd own again but I have a Saab 9-3 parked on the drive and that shares a good deal of heritage.
The Saab spin on it is much better built though, although has equally mediocre driving dynamics.
I wonder if that has actually gone through from the inside as a result of the leaking sunroof? No corrosion protection in the box sections or pillars.
This car must of have been stored in a moisture ridden environment. These cars were known for rusting but I've never seen them rot under the door seals. It's a shame it couldn't be fix. Hope the next owner will take care of that issue. The Rover has and will be my favorite car on this channel. TWC and Elly are amazing but the Rover 800/Sterling 825/827 have a personality and style that is paramount to other cars.
"Moisture ridden environment"? Like the bottom of a river? :-O
@yossarian yeah a very good possibility.
Pretty much rust free compared to my Lancia a year ago. You have to weigh it up and cut your losses. Needs a good home, it's so nice nice to see a rare series one 800.
The landscape shown when the C130 flew overhead was truly stunning. You live in a beautiful place Mr. Hubnut.
Scott McGregor TH-cam the Mach loop,that's just up the road from hubnut
Father was a panel beater for nearly 40 years and he's always had a disliking for Rover's thanks to how they rot. It's always funny the cars he hates often originates from how much of pain they were to work on (and how much bonus he lost out on!)
This video has encouraged me to order some rust converter to treat the small patch of rust on the boot of my Jetta, before it develops!
Might be able to put you in touch with a 92 Cavalier Diplomat. Auto 2litre 8 valve. With towbar!
Oooh...
A small electric oil radiator on a temperature switch will be your friend in that storage, just enough to keep the moisture levels down :)
Great watching and I hope you enjoy your Trip in NZ..Right now its a bit cold due to its Winter..Enjoy.
Sad to see the Rover go, but I think it was a very wise decision as it needs serious work. Congratulations on the new storage unit, it looks great and can hold the current and new fleet of Hub Nutters 😀 👍
Never seen rust like that before. Overall not a great experience as you said Ian, we live and learn. Good luck finding your new pile👍
Sorry to see the 820 in such a way. But I can certainly see why you spend so much on your cars, they are very much a labour of love and much like many things in life, you may never get out of it what you put in but they are still so damn worth it in the end! :D
Seeing that empty parking space made me think of all the cars that sat there. Kind of brought a tear to my eye.
It's a long list...
MIg welder and plasma cutter is the next stage, sounds grim but not as difficult as you may think. We the back yard garage enthusiast will on a very few occasion make any money doing well if we brake even on the parts let alone labour. But the places i have been the people met the knowledge gained priceless, Transylvanian in the Summer ( Commer camper) big ends willing., as with all things classic it may well be next year thought it was going to be last, OH and it is much cheaper then drinking and smoking. Thanks for the videos from paradise.
That video is tinged with sadness😭
My heart broke a bit when you peeled the seal back.
On a positive note, the new unit is something I would love to have and I am also intrigued by what your future adventures will involve! I certainly wish you all the best with your journeys around the planet!
In the mean time, can we have a ‘because......Hubnut’ (with the hippy head) tee shirt in the hub nut emporium?
Now you'll have to tidy the garage. At least there's Scotty Kilmer for untidy garage action.
Good luck with your travels Ian, you are a real one-off and highly watchable.
Good luck with new garage and venture mate.
OOOOPs.....such a beauty of the era, yet perhaps it may rust in peace. Would truly love to see this fixed. Alas, poor Rover, away you must go.. Good effort, it looks like it deserves to be sorted though.
My heart sunk for you when you peeled that door seal off, and as it got further, more and worse appeared. I totally shared your disappointment because I've been there.
A life time (35 of my 53 years) of owning Italian stuff wasn't the cause of it however. My Fiat's, Alfas and Lancias have shown their rot like a badge of honour. It's been British stuff that's kept it so well hidden, and that my friend is even worse. Plastic and rubber trims coming off with lumps of rotten metal attached is an awful feeling.
Glad you managed to ship it on, hope you didn't lose too much on it and hopefully it'll go on to be repaired and survive.
Dealer plates, bought from SGL (a garage I knew), poverty spec and a bonny car to the eye. Surely that's enough reason to save her?
Coal chamber was one of my favourite bands back in the day, I even owned a unlicensed coal chamber hoodie. Never saw them live tho 😔
I did, but with a stand-in bassist. Who was gorgeous...
Its MOT only expired in October 2020 and no rust was mentioned on the advisory but in all honesty the only way to repair it the easy way would be to literally cut off the whole roof and weld a new one on lol it looked that bad
Pete C would see that as a minor issue. Sadly, for the rest of us, it's the end of the road.
I was about to say the same thing, and if these cars are as easy to find as he says, he should be able to find replacement panels.
@stephine paul Its called a scrap yard where you pile the cars 3 high!!!
I had a Rover 800 Vitesse turbo....it went like a bloody rocket !
Hi Ian, the Rovers roof didn't look too good,it was really crusty from the video,it was a nice car but it has gone to another 820 owner,the storage unit for the fleet is spacious and it's ideal for carrying out repairs.
Putting work into a 2CV can be justified, because their appeal translates into pretty decent value. Discovering terminal rot in that Rover is like knocking over and breaking your favourite beer glass, full some great beer....... but a bit less annoying....... or spilling black oil or your favourite Tee-Shirt.
Here in Texas due to the dry warm climate our government does not spread metal eating sodium chloride on our roads. that rover is only around 30 years old and it's rotten. I think British cars are awesome quirky cars it's ashame to see so many of them end up as sweetcorn cans :(
Most cars don't make it to 30 years in the UK for that very reason, But to rust there is a bit unusual, They normally go from underneath.
@@garethonthetube you say underneath I can see why it does. I would say one of the reasons why it has rust on the top door seals is maybe the car had being wash with soap dish liquid because that stuff is loaded with salt. The sun here does distroy and cracks interiors of cars and on older cars it fades the paint.
@@garethonthetube Here in Western Australia cars often rot from the top down because the salt comes in on the sea breeze. No road salt used.
Oh dear... I'd strip it for parts and send the shell for scrap if that were mine. Not worth fixing that. I think the best this car can hope for is that someone bodge repairs it with rust converter and filler, which would arguably be a bit unsafe, but to do it all properly would cost far too much. Unless you sold it to a fabricator.
Thank God you managed to get rid of it.
Damn shame. Wasn't till the 90's that Rover started galvanising shells? My '95 214 SEI bought in '97 and sold in '02 was in perfect nick even 10 years later as I saw it being driven around.
Well, in America British cars have disappeared almost completely. Jaguars and Land Rovers are considered to be among the very worst. I have just parted with my 20 year old Saab 9-5 . The body was in excellent condition but at 145,000 miles the engine and components were just one problem after another and little reliability. We don't import any French cars either.
Mercedes and BMW are now made domestically in the South but are very expensive to own and maintain.
Nice storage! Well done :D.
My Lancia delta had rot like that failed its mot as the rot was within 300mm of the seat belt anchour. I was repairing the rot the weekend before but the roughness of my repair was the give away for the mot instpector
Time to learn to weld !! That is exactly why I go landrover not Range Rover classic because of all the electrical problems. But I still get the nice big v8
Beyond ecconomical repair! Cut the roof off and replace it with another but that's a specialist job and very expensive! Had a 1989 Mk3 Cavalier 1.6. Heavy brute of a car with no power steering. Much preferred my 1996 Vectra 1.8 LS designed by SAAB!
It would take a full restoration, sand blast and welding new panels to get this back together. With a full respray she would be amazing. You win some you lose some. My first maestro went the first way, she rotted away badly despite the regular waxing and undersealed. Yet it was the previous ownerships that sealed her fate.
Alan Partridge once mentioned traveling the world in a bullnose Morris, driving in countries that only drive on the left.
That actually would of made nice viewing.
It was laughable when he said it in the 1990’s. He was a visionary
I like my Rovers extra crispy.
That storage unit definitely needs some cardboard on the floor! :-)
As well as boxes full of random car parts sent by HubNut fans.
A learning curve I guess! I had a 1979 SD1 which I bought for £500 and spent £1300 before admitting defeat!
That dear sir is a right off. To try and weld near that roof would probably distort the roof. Might be able to repair it with a new roof skin!!
Your best car is one which spent a large part of its life in a field. Well done the old Invacar.
Try buying a decent looking Alfasud that on the drive home had the odd trait of moving the bonnet under acceleration, seems I missed the fact that the engine was the only thing attaching the bodywork forward of the strut towers . . How I laughed . Or my poor uncle whose mk2 cortina failed the MOT on front struts, how proud he was once the garage fitted nice new ones and an MOT was obtained, see him slightly miffed when the new struts now punched their way through the inner wings and tried to escape by pushing the bonnet up . . . Rust, you just have to learn to love it.
Having seen Rovers in scrap yards that have burst at the seams in crashes, this doesn't surprise me!
That is sad. I do feel sorry for you. Lifes not fair sometimes.. Time to skin up and listen to Meddle, or Obscured By Clouds...
Oh for the relative delights of an all fibreglass monocoque, Rochdale, Minijem, Midas etc.
Back in the '80's my grandfather parted out a 41 Cadillac Coupe because someone had set fertilizer on the roof and the metal was thin. The rest of the car was eminently restorable.
Great video, lots of new updates! *You did the right thing with the Rover!* I welded/restored some old cars myself (sills, floorpanels, booths, fenders so on). Restored the undercarriage of my mini not long ago and it took me a month! No way that Rover is worth the time, patience and effort to get it solid again. Hopefully, the bloke that bought it is a die hard 800 enthusiast! Otherwise is it a great parts car! The new place that you are renting has loads of potential! Now it's storage, but it could be a great workshop to! And a road trip sounds great! Are you staying in Welsh after the trip? Very curious!
I have no idea where I'll be after the big trip! Exciting times...
I feel your pain as the car did appear to drive very nice. I disagree about the MK3 Cavalier though - I was young enough to drive both variants when new and the MK3 was never as refined as the Sierra as the competition had moved on. Albeit a bit better than the MK2 I still prefer the MK2 in perspective
Poor sad Rover who might not Rove again, sad times all round Ian.
Oh, how I identified with this video, especially the rot :( On my drive is my 1994 525i, which rust has a hold of (it'll need new rear sill sections - at least). It runs badly. The gearbox only selects reverse. It's been off the road for ten years, my family and many friends say I should just scrap it. And yet for sentimental/personal reasons, I can't let it go.
Promise us that if you ever go to France on your world travels, you'll drive a VSP!
One of those hideous microcars that the invacar could out-accelerate.. the ultimate horrible thing for him to find and drive would be a Wildfire WF650 3 wheeler.. like a matiz only with 3 wheels, even worse build quality and a higher centre of gravity than an invacar..
Use it as a parts car. Even if you fix it, something like the head gasket will go
@@leenevin8451 Before it came off the road, it had had the cylinder head replaced only a month prior...
What a pup.
That Rover is at a cross roads - not sure how much of a future it has Ian. If it were me I'd gake to that rust with a cutter or gas axe, remove the roof and call Everest Double glazing - make it the only Rover 800 in the world with a full length panoramic roof as is the modern vogue lol
Still plenty of rot free Volvo 850s on the road :)
hear hear. Not really HubNut's style I guess...
Indeed. I bought a very cheap P80 Volvo V70 a couple months ago, partly because I needed the cargo space and partly because this happened to be on sale nearby, and it has definitely grown on me. I pulled out the drooping door weatherstrips (an excercise far less dramatic than the one in this video) and reattached them with some two-sided tape, and also swapped the tired motor mounts, but that's it. It's a rust-free and trouble-free 22-year old car, and I still see a LOT of them on the roads now that I've started paying attention.
rot is my nightmare it has killed many of my old motors from the 90`s . I can only weld them so many times. And i hate road salt in the winter with a passion!
That is some very nasty corrosion indeed and it's a shame that this rare Rover was clearly beyond saving. For it to have rotted like that, my guess is that it was kept for quite some time in a garage with a leaking roof with the water dripping onto the sunroof and running along the door seals.
Chin up Ian! By its very nature, your car buying strategy is going to mean that a few frogs get snogged. The miracle is that some turn out to be princesses in disguise :-).
Horrible rot. This reminds me of cars that lived on the coast. To fix it you can cut out small pieces and butt weld in patches one at a time. In some ways a rotten sill is worse because of all the layers.
Maybe, following the departure of the rover and what with all the fibreglass in the fox & TWC, the new unit should be called "Dun Rustin'"
I wish I was more handy with a welder, although that looks bad. That unit looks good though.👍👍
It needs alot of work.
It should be done by the club, you've spent plenty on it already.
Infact I'd say you deserve reimbursement.
No bitterness here. It didn't really work out as any of us hoped.
Yeah fair enough. Hopefully one day it'll come back to its former glory 😀
Lick of paint and some nice curtains - for the unit not the Rover - although had a Lancia Flavia once that had rear curtains! You'll be getting a post lift next and going all sophisticated.
Next car you get no sunroof but could be 3rd time lucky ... also love the new lock up but you need a page 3 calendar up
Ooooh crusty....good time to say goodbye to the money pit.
I've decided I'm too tight to pay an auto electrician to rewire the Mitsubishi Camper rear lights so have ordered all I need and decided to do it myself, it is after all mounted on a truck body....
I should probably still keep the number of one handy though!!
Hope all goes well with the move into storage and the impending Hub Nut world domination tour 👍
Charlie 🇬🇧
Some things just aren't worth saving. just enjoy it whilst its MOT'd....
Strewth! What a shame. I thought my Mini was rusty, but it had nothing on that!
Shall we open a book on how long it is before the new storage unit resembles the cluttered "Can't find anything" chaos of the domestic Hub Nut garage??
It's all over for the Rover. Rust in peace. Hope Mr Hubnut isn't leaving lovely Welsh cottage forever?
I will be leaving this one forever. Maybe I'll find another one.
@@HubNut Hope so. The world is your lobster as Del Boy would say. Good luck dude, I wish you all the best with your travels and look forward to future videos.
What a shame to see it go. Good looking car, but hopefully the new owner can save it?
Practical? Get the Fox on the road and you are covered!
yeah, the tin worm will get you if you let it,
you have also lit a 🔥 fire under my arse, my little fiesta does not get much use (46k I got it new 2005) but it sits under a trees and its full of leaves,
so cheers I need to get in there a go back to my valet /PDI (pre delivery inspection) days and clean out the leaves and moss.
NOOOOOOOOOO !!!
Doesnt look to bad, at tleast the welding. Its just all the prep, taking all the seals, windscreen and headlining all out. making all the filler pieces. Its defo a job for someone with lots of time and a garage. Cant do that outside. What else as well??
Possibly time to turn it into the first Rover 820 fastback convertible?
I had a Rover 827, it also rusted away. Shame, lovely car.
WoW not good! Getting rid of it is a good idea. Don't know where else the rust is.
Just weld a strip across and then tack a seam on for the door seal, rough and ready but will last another 5 years or so.
Put on some rust treatment and then spray it white, would have held off further rusting.
That doesn't deal with the holes...
Looking forward to the world tour
I'm a Hypocrite but it would be nice to see Complete a Project! Smiles Xxx
Harumph! I own two completed projects. Just depends on your definition of complete...
HubNut. No Offence Meant okay was taking the Pith out of Myself asWell! Ahh Nuts Xxx
On the upside...that looks like a cracking storage unit👍🏼
I got burnt by a 1990 mercedes w124. Absolutely immaculate inside but rotten in places. And the more I looked into the more I found. So I decided to cut my losses as I'm not a welder.
Thats a top quality feather duster
Please buy a nice mk3 cavalier for the channel, there fantastic cars
'The plan is to keep the fleet static' or 'something practical'. Yep, that old plan.
It's not that bad , just needs a roof skin and new door seal channels , easily rectified with a bit of welding. I would buy it if I had space but say good bye to the 2.0 lire though , probably I would convert to V6 Honda engine once welding new panels in and body work is done.
If you want something to fill that space Ive a 1998 R Diesel 306 estate with MOT going cheap. Proper hub nut car too lol.
Thanks, but I've already ticked the 306 box. Had a D Turbo for over two years! An amazing length of time for me.
@@HubNut Fair enough, mine is the absolute poverty speck non turbo Diesel. real shame it'll probably end up getting scrapped.
I'm convinced now that buying a used rover is a bad idea..
Oh dear a crunchy car
I guess the previous owner shouldn't have parked the Rover underneath a waterfall...
Seeing you uncover all that crap underneath the door-seal made me cringe... such a shame about a car that looked pretty promising, considering its age.
EDIT: How about a Mk II Golf or Jetta? Unless you want a GTI/16V, those should be pretty cheap still and you should be able to pick them up for peanuts. The Golf (and I guess the Jetta too) were notorious for overdone sealant-treatment from the factory. VW squirted so much of the stuff into the body that it would regularly seep out of certain spots. Over here in Germany, there are still plenty of Mk IIs on the road as everyday cars. And most of them look amazingly preserved, even the ones that weren't pampered/kept in a garage.
Someone is jammed in the Rover roof lining, he keeps waving a hand between the Sun visors.
The new owner's house is probably called "Dun'Rovin". Weld on a whole new roof? If there is a rust free one out there that is.
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It would make a good spares car - as its mostly the chassis thats had it.
Poked things and wished you hadn’t? I know your pain 😩
Toy sharing has a very poor record when it comes to satisfying all parties!
Indeed I learned that early on, everything I Shared as a kid came back missing something or damaged 🙄
If you ever want to treat rust etc have a look at bilt Hamber rust products they are incredible.
They can't repair holes...
A convertible 800 would be a rarity?
Sadly there comes a point where you just have to let go and I think the rover has got to that point.
Take it banger racing Ian
Cool. I will enjoy your video's 😀
Must be because of that sunroof is the reason why the roof is rotted. A shame.
Door seal design doesn't help...
And no garage does not help, especially since you live in a damp part of the UK 🇬🇧, albeit beautiful part. Somehow moisture got under the rubber gaskets, and since it could not dry out, the rot started. The rest of the body looks good. And for me, an 80's or 90's vehicle really isn't that old!