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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2012 => Topic started by: Carnut on July 17, 2012, 07:03:24 AM

Title: Solved - NEH 1937: Rover 3500 SD-1 home-built Estate Car
Post by: Carnut on July 17, 2012, 07:03:24 AM
What's this, from when - for 1 point?:

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Title: Re: NEH 1937
Post by: spider on July 17, 2012, 01:23:23 PM
Volvo Polar ?
Title: Re: NEH 1937
Post by: Carnut on July 17, 2012, 02:46:12 PM
Quote from: spider on July 17, 2012, 01:23:23 PM
Volvo Polar ?

Not a Volvo.
Title: Re: NEH 1937
Post by: Trommel on July 17, 2012, 02:58:21 PM
Home-built Rover SD1 estate using the tailgate and lights from a Volvo 245.
Title: Re: NEH 1937
Post by: Carnut on July 17, 2012, 06:01:25 PM
Quote from: Trommel on July 17, 2012, 02:58:21 PM
Home-built Rover SD1 estate using the tailgate and lights from a Volvo 245.

Welcome to AutoPuzzles Trommel.
That is the right answer.
But I must ask you - how did you identify that?
Title: Re: NEH 1937
Post by: Trommel on July 18, 2012, 05:40:39 AM
It's pretty obviously the tailgate and lights of a pre-facelift 240-series estate glued onto a modified SD1. I've seen pictures of it before and it was also magazine-featured (with the Edwardes SD1 estate prototype) not all that long ago from memory.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 1937: Rover 3500 SD-1 home-built Estate Car
Post by: Delorean on July 18, 2012, 06:05:23 AM
Rover themselves made an attempt at building an Estate-version of the SD1. Actually, they made 2 of them ... I've seen one a couple of years ago in the Haynes Motor Museum in the UK. The other is in the Heritage Museum in Gaydon (also UK).

To be honest, Rovers attempt looks much better than the red one from the puzzle ...
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 1937: Rover 3500 SD-1 home-built Estate Car
Post by: Carnut on July 18, 2012, 06:16:50 AM
Quite so.
Here's the original un-modified puzzle picture:

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