Timewarp 10hp car due to be auctioned.
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 8:48 pm
Jim Paling reports that the auction house Richard Edmonds are presently advertising their next sale(in about 3 weeks time), in which they will have what they describe as a '1932' Rover Ten saloon. He googled the sale catalogue, which then revealed a series of photo's of the car, one of which clearly shows the chassis number to be 502443, which makes it a 1935 model, and well into the production run.
He then spoke to Richard himself who had not yet seen the vehicle log book so had just had a pop at a likely date. There then emerged the fascinating story that this car had spent the last 50+ years at the back of a showroom in Cirencester. Further to Jim's conversation with him, he has now said the it looks like that might be more like 70 years !!!
Jim have explained to him that this is a matter of great interest to us Rover types, and he has promised to do some digging into the car's history and will let Jim know what he finds out.
Jim does not yet have a registraton number for the car, or recorded mileage, but hope it will be forthcoming. The photo's show the car to be quite complete, with some rust apparent.
One might reason that if it has indeed been out of use for so many years then it might have a low mileage, and was presumably in good or better condition when last on the road.
Mike Maher
He then spoke to Richard himself who had not yet seen the vehicle log book so had just had a pop at a likely date. There then emerged the fascinating story that this car had spent the last 50+ years at the back of a showroom in Cirencester. Further to Jim's conversation with him, he has now said the it looks like that might be more like 70 years !!!
Jim have explained to him that this is a matter of great interest to us Rover types, and he has promised to do some digging into the car's history and will let Jim know what he finds out.
Jim does not yet have a registraton number for the car, or recorded mileage, but hope it will be forthcoming. The photo's show the car to be quite complete, with some rust apparent.
One might reason that if it has indeed been out of use for so many years then it might have a low mileage, and was presumably in good or better condition when last on the road.
Mike Maher
