Rover Sports Register Forum

Dear David, I have been thinking on and off about your ignition related queries. The question I ask myself a lot about the older car and newer technology is : Why did the old technology work for so many miles in the past yet fails today? Reading through old Freewheels there were stories of people wi...

It's hard to be precise without seeing but the two things to reconcile with quartz movements are :1) fitting the movement to make the battery and adjuster accessible and 2) retaining the original clock case to maintain the fixings points for the original clamp. 2) seems to usually win out over 1) so...

All will be revealed once you get into it! (Personal biased views following !!) Quartz movements are a quick fix for a non working clock but the standard quartz movement has a sort of nasty 'crunch-crunch' sound compared with the nice 'click click - click click' of the original. There are quieter ne...

The cushion should just pull straight out. This is usually the most worn piece of upholstery in the car. I've had quite a few recovered but if the leather is intact, it should be a straightforward job to repack it with firmer stuffing. If it is tight to pull out from the seat, lift it up at the fron...

If this is FPD, someone has been at it already and fitted a quartz movement. These are usually powered by an AA battery but a cleverer arrangement can be made with a transformer down from 12v to 1.5v, to save guddling about behind the dashboard. It should be a wind up Jaeger,look for the right one t...

Which ones ? On the car or Meccano ? The Meccano ones are steel. By the way, the tapping size drill for 5/32" W is 3.2mm.

Absolutely positively , Positive !

One of the problems of today are metric sized screwdriver blades in imperial size screw slots. However, for it it's worth, here's how I've found these. You get one good go at the screw heads but they may be past that point. A good tool to try is the biggest screwdriver blade in cheap 1/4" socket set...

Thank you, yes, I know those pages from the post war brochures and it is good of you to have looked them out but was there a post war price list for options, maybe kept by the dealers? I think I remember seeing one in the paperwork with a previous car but it would be 30+ years ago. I always remember...

A chance conversation last year brought up the subject of a 1947 14 six light saloon I used to own. The car had the twin horns and central pass light of a sports saloon and my recollection was of details with the car that it had been supplied with these from new. This, I was told, was fanciful but i...