Rovertech long term members

Post by **Marty** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:53 pm

Last time I organised trax must of been 7 years ago there was a good turnout.

Not just this site that has suffered another site im on bigpower use to hold weekly meets at sneterton and track and sprint days but them days are gone

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:36 pm

Hi chaps

I've been a member since a pretty long time, through my 214Si ownership and onto the unforgettable (and still very much missed) 420 GSi Turbo. Loads of names on here I recognise and plenty I don't - it's great to see the forum still going, people still running, modifying, meeting, bantering...

Things for me changed a lot when I left the UK, as you get older your priorities change and now I just don't have the spare cash to spend on cars like I used to back in those days when I was living with my folks. But I know that culture is still going on here which makes me happy. Keep it up and enjoy these now old cars!

To give a bit of context, I bought my '93 214Si in mid-2001. It was red with the grey bumpers and door bottoms. When I sold it in early 2004 it had done something like 169,000 miles and had coupe bumpers, a Powerflow exhaust and a few other bits. It had gone to make way for the 420 GSi turbo, bought from a fellow RT member for 650. the HG had gone, I fixed it up and got it on the road. What a beast.

Of course the mods came quickly and it ended up exactly how I wanted it. It was a LOT of work and loads of the things I had never done or attempted before. ALL of the help, knowledge, tips, expertise, motiviation... ALL of it (well, 95% maybe; a few of my mates are car dudes too) came from Rovertech. Without that, I wouldn't have even known about the car to have been able to buy it.

Many of those folks aren't around the forums any more, and at least one is not around at all anymore. But they all influenced me and one or two of my mates in their Rover ownership, all of which have made some wicked memories

The 10th birthday must be nearly upon us so I have raised a jar to celebrate!

Greets from a 31 year old English bloke who was only 18 when he got his first Rover, left the UK, lived in Germany until 3 weeks ago and is picking up a Citroen BX on Thursday... (a sucker for a unloved, it seems)

Leo

MGJohn · Post by **MGJohn** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:58 pm

Leo, what a nice response. Full of true Rover Class.

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:13 pm

Likewise John. I always enjoy reading your posts; I'm more active (only as a member rather than a poster) on PistonHeads and can always spot your posts before looking at the username

MGJohn · Post by **MGJohn** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:22 pm

Leo wrote:Likewise John. I always enjoy reading your posts; I'm more active (only as a member rather than a poster) on PistonHeads and can always spot your posts before looking at the username

Yes, I like Piston Heads despite some of the worst forms of so called car enthusiasts in the known Universe who lurk there.

My much wiser sons give that site a very wide berth for that very reason and castigate me for ever bothering with it ... far too many shall we put it politely and label them ... plonkers.

There are some good types there though which helps to redress that imbalance.

paul888 · Post by **paul888** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:24 pm

I remember having a 416 gti for a short while and browsing the forum in 04 before joining in 05,after i bought my Ti with the help of the forum i'd stripped and rebuilt most of the engine and added a bigger turbo in the first year of ownership, all in the name of making more power lol.

Some great days had (all be it bloody freezing) at RR days in basingstoke, seeing Si & Johnny 5 with TUF (loved that car) and Neill with his Gti T being hi lights for me as those cars stood out for me,martin blowing up his mitsubishi/proton using Nitrous was funny, also Wilky turning up with a white Ti (same as mine ) with a mahoosive Turbo making big power on the day,and my car making 208.bhp which i was relatively pleased with.

So many memories of nights on ere, i've forgotten more than i remember, here's to another 10 years.

Saw this car a few weeks back and was compelled to take a photo, as the plate reminded me of another famous RT forum member.

Post by **Marty** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:25 pm

Dave would love that plate

T16COUPE · Post by **T16COUPE** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 12:28 am

Jason36 wrote:Who knows what happened to Iain Pennykid, he was building the fastest 420 turbo, spent a fir tune on it them disappeared.

his 420 may still be about as its showing sorned on a tax check

Neill · Post by **Neill** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:13 pm

SubCat001 wrote:
southside wrote: Roversportsclub slotted in between them dates somewhere. It was run by a guy with a bronze R200 bubble with T16 conversion and a motobuild bodykit username GoldRover. It was quite a popular well designed forum.

I know quite a few members from that site came here when it closed down. I was a member of Roversportsclub around 2002-2003 and i believe it closed down around 2004.
That timeline relates more to Rovertech's lineage. I remember Roversportsclub and although I was a member I wasn't particularly active there. It Wayne GoldRover and IIRC he was postman from Shrewsbury. There was also Rover Power which popped up around 2003-04 iirc.

Jason36 wrote:Who knows what happened to Iain Pennykid, he was building the fastest 420 turbo, spent a fir tune on it them disappeared.
He's not posted since 2007 but he last visited in January 2012. I suspect that the 420 is no more.

Neill wrote:Si, his bro, is still working for BP but not sure where he is located at the moment. Im pretty sure TUF is around though???
I am pretty sure Si is living reading way. IIRC he's still got his S2000. Not sure about TUF I seem to remember something about a garage crashing it. Not sure what happened after that.

Neill wrote:The early days of the forum were the best. We used to have regular events and track days. We would do the castle combe spring action day every year with me an Si ragging round taking no prisoners

Was also regular rolling road days and general meet ups. Not so much now but I know it is more difficult and there are less Rovers around now.
You might recognise these cars from a mids meet.

I do remember that, in fact I have a few photos around. Do you have the reg of miles old car. That one was super mint but he sold it in a moment of madness. I wonder if it is still around??

Si · Post by Si » Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:54 am

Old times are the good times.

Me and Phil created rover200.com after becoming mates when he delivered some speakers to me that I bought off him on the rover yahoo group. Don't really hear off him anymore, met Steve M through him too who was only up the road then good memories of the community, s2ki has never really matched it.

talk to my work mates, i still tell them stories of TUF. Looking back modding was less mainstream and more challenging, certainly on the T16. hence the interest I guess. Now 250hp is normal

Still got my S2000, had it 7 years and the engines pretty much standard. Spent the most money on suspension, but I just see it as a reliable fast car now with no hassle. (Eg trying to drive a T16 on the first ever S60 pro install without it mapped). Done a few track days in it too and it's pretty good out of the box.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=N1uiifYqDOI

I'm Reading way now as I work for BP Castrol developing engine oils, all Castrol EDGE oils are my work. I guess playing with engines at work is now my fix for modding

. Although I've alway wondered what a supercharger would be like on the old Honda

Miss those pod days and drives to car events with my partner in crime, Neill

. Especially at our home at Coombe

had TUF for nearly 6 years. Tht was 6 years of instant tweaking, modding and going to lots of meets. Still remember the excitement of driving it home the day i collected it from kingston, 200hp at 19 after picking it up for £800 due to a dented wing.

rovermadman4825 · Post by **rovermadman4825** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:01 am

Turbo your s2000... ive always wanted too.....

Jason36 · Post by **Jason36** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:27 am

I'm Reading way now as I work for BP Castrol developing engine oils, all Castrol EDGE oils are my work.

I have a customer which is very high up the ladder here, Rod Barrett.

Si · Post by Si » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:10 am

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i also have a video of jonnys crashed coupe the rip one some one did[/quote]

Steve blakemore did that i think. You got a link please ?

stevie147hcr · Post by **stevie147hcr** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:01 am

I started life on roverload moved to rovertech i started of with 3 827s moving on to 820 vitesse sport then on to a coupe turbo with a 220gsi inbetween broke my coupe to raise money to buy jason36 brothers cup carin 2006 which i raced crashed reshelled and now reshelling again,Si made me up a loom conversion for my dta still in use once i switched to dta i won my first race at brands hatch.

complete with chav bumper and rear wing untill there were both banned never won a race again after that

noonan mckane · Post by **noonan mckane** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:25 pm

MGJohn wrote:
noonan mckane wrote:The Montego was a fantastic car. Streets ahead of the Sierra and Cavalier. Quieter, more comfortable, better built, just generally better. Woefully underrated. I drove a lot of them in my days 'on the spanners', and was always impressed by how refined and reliable they were, and easy to service. I never got to drive the turbo, but I'd imagine it was a belter.

The Maestro, possibly not quite as great. You'd think performance, ride, build quality would be the same as the Montego, but somehow it generally wasn't. Again, I only had experience of the 'cooking' Maestros, and never drove the MG turbo.

The Metro turbo I did get a drive of, and that was a ferocious wee motor! Hell, I remember the first time I drove a 1.3 HLS Metro, and how amazed I was at how quick it was!

When I think back, Rover (and Austin Rover) cars were never bad cars. They were more often than not 'unfashionable cars'. It's not fair that history will remember the Citroen Saxo as a 'great car' and the Subaru Impreza as an 'iconic car', but the likes of the Montego or the MG Metro as 'Rovers'......
Sadly you are in a minority when viewing these cars that way. I am also in that same minority. The average clueless Brit over many years had and to a certain extent still has the brainwashed condition that where cars are concerned, Foreign is good, British is crap brainwashing ... always. They are very wrong of course but, that media negativity brainwashing of anything UK Industry related, even pre-Clarkson, was incessantly harmful. That media negativity be it the young clueless Clarkson kneeling down alongside an Allegro with a grimace ~ oh how cool is that ~ to the usual numerous media reporters outside the gates at Longbridge reporting in hushed tones that almost certainly the bruvvers will vote to down tools. Only to give a 'moving swiftly on' update when the ballot showed the vote to work. The negativity pre-dates even Clarkson's best efforts to big up Fords and Mercedes.

Time and again this reporting always with a negative slant found its mark in the land of the widespread self-inflicted as a quick glance around will soon confirm. It is not pure bad luck or mere coincidence the UK PLC is now in very deep financial doodah.

Sadly, the Nation as a whole has got far too many things quite simply wrong. Even more sad, it appears to be one of the ever decreasing number of things we as a nation are good at. getting it wrong. Not everything, but far too many really important things. Allowing UK Industry to be largely based on alien ownership and control or, worse, allowed to die as part of a Political agenda, not just the asset stripped remnants of the former huge Rover Group knocked out cheaply to BMW, but many many other examples of bad judgement.

We are now and for possibly all of the future paying for that.

Meantime, I can assure you that I am "Alight Jack" thank you very much. So bollards to all you impoverished Rover driving plebs... now, where's those BMW and Mercedes-Benz brochures. I fancy a nice new grey one. Good for the economy, not so for those always on strike "lazy" now deservedly unemployed car workers in the Midlands who do not deserve good employment anyway. Seen it on the news and everything. Well known fact. Never done a days work in all their working lives unlike those fine workers in Munich und Stuttgart. That's where my hard to come by is going.

....

Many a true .....

..... you know the rest or, shame on you if you do not.

Have to go for pretty much all of this, MGJ. First class as ever.

I have one wee snag, though. It's your insistence on dragging "the bruvvers" back into the dock again. I'm guessing that's trade union members, right? As I remember, Rover was formerly owned by; British taxpayers, BAe, BMW and some bunch of guys (who I doubt were TGWU members) called The Phoenix Consortium. It was at no point managed by any British trade union. Fact fans, however, might point to the so-called 'bad old days' of industrial unrest at Britain's best and last mass manufacturer of cars, the 1970s, and point out the all time productivity and sales numbers......

Just a thought...

Si · Post by Si » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:01 am

stevie147hcr wrote:Si made me up a loom conversion for my dta still in use once i switched to dta i won my first race at brands hatch.

Glad it's still working

Jonny 5 · Post by **Jonny 5** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:14 pm

Just checking in

1234dist · Post by **1234dist** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:59 pm

Post by **Din** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:37 pm

Jonny 5 wrote:Just checking in

1234dist wrote:

^^^ lol.

Ross9 · Post by **Ross9** » Wed May 06, 2015 1:37 pm

Hi.

Been a while since I had a look on here, cool to gave a read through this thread though. I'd have to check but pretty sure I was in here from the start after the demise of earlier forums. Good to see some of the old names still about. Spent a lot of time on here when I had my coupe, so many cool memories from then. Glad the forums still going.

Ross.

vinny19791 · Post by **vinny19791** » Wed May 06, 2015 3:02 pm

Jonny 5 wrote:Just checking in

Jesus

Where have you been

big_g · Post by **big_g** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:18 am

I have a few miles on this forum. Rover days are long gone but figured I would pop my head in to see how things were going!

roveboy · Post by **roveboy** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:45 am

Been on here since 2006 so yeah been a while now. I still have my first car from when I was 17, I'm now 33 and have 3 old but solid Rovers.

BlueRover · Post by **BlueRover** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:23 pm

I'll post to see when I joined, ooh that long ago ? Time flies.

David-Ti · Post by **David-Ti** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:33 pm

Not really long term but joined in 07 bought my first rover in 07.

Still on the forum, still got the same rover. Although I've got two now well, since 2010.

Post by **Marty** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:48 pm

Some old names flicking through the thread 2002 for me I belive where has the time gone !!

Jason36 · Post by **Jason36** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:01 am

Roverload hahaha

ZSx · Post by **ZSx** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 8:46 am

SubCat001 wrote:There was also Rover Power which popped up around 2003-04 iirc.

I still have the backups for Rover Power on my server (assuming its the same forum) lol - I really didn't think it was that well known or used (although I didn't put any stats on it) - Certainly nowhere near as well used or known as themgzs that I run on my server now

Ha that was a few years back now though, the domain was kept on for a few years and then let lapse...

Post by **Din** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:03 am

I need another ZS, but other prioritys keep getting in the way... Hardly gets used, im cycling to work and the skoda gets used for practically everything else.

The turbo Zs gets used when the weather is really minging, or if i have a hospital appointment (or similar) during the day.

Gave it a run out to drop my brother off the other week, it did 30miles, took 10 just to clean up the brakes lol.

Anyway i need to get up, towing the van to brean then on to Cornwall, two weeks off work whoop

Jonny 5 · Post by **Jonny 5** » Sat Nov 18, 2017 9:01 pm

Wow. Coming up to 15years in Feb!

_vitesse_ · Post by **_vitesse_** » Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:34 pm

Something needs organising in 2018

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:34 pm

What a nice post...

Shame photobuckets screwing up the pictures...

Post by **Marty** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 1:18 am

_vitesse_ wrote:Something needs organising in 2018

Have enough trouble getting people to post let alone a meet of any sort [emoji38]

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_vitesse_ · Post by **_vitesse_** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:34 am

Marty wrote:
_vitesse_ wrote:Something needs organising in 2018
Have enough trouble getting people to post let alone a meet of any sort [emoji38]

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I guess it is only natural as there are fewer Rovers and no new models. Rovertech has been mainly performance based but maybe encourage more original and restored cars and projects is the way to keep it going.
What about a track day at Brands Hatch? Once mine is back on the road I will find a date late summer, we can get some on track and any not on track can spectate.

MGJohn · Post by **MGJohn** » Fri Nov 24, 2017 2:38 pm

_vitesse_ wrote:
Marty wrote:
_vitesse_ wrote:Something needs organising in 2018
Have enough trouble getting people to post let alone a meet of any sort [emoji38]

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I guess it is only natural as there are fewer Rovers and no new models. Rovertech has been mainly performance based but maybe encourage more original and restored cars and projects is the way to keep it going.

What about a track day at Brands Hatch? Once mine is back on the road I will find a date late summer, we can get some on track and any not on track can spectate.

Yes, performance based. Time to adjust in an ever changing world the way you suggest towards "original and restored" as you say.

Your guess is an accurate one. Now with far fewer Rovers ( and MGs ) on UK roads, discounting the Chinese newer ones for the moment, which I for one like to see, those fewer cars that do exist are usually the unmodified, well maintained ones in caring enthusiasts ownership and most certainly will continue to increase in value with the passing of more time. Not by massive amounts, but, worthwhile all the same. Try buying a decent unmodified Rover 620ti for under a grand nowadays. Ten years ago that was possible, not now.

Maybe a move towards original and restored will ensure the longer term well being of an increasingly active Rovertech.net.

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