Solved: PN #807 -- Rover 12 (or 14 or 16) Special, 2011 by Jansen

[pnegyesi]

Another step closer to the solution

It is based on a Rover 12 (P2) made before 1944.

[nicanary]

This one is hard work. No wonder you put it into the Pros.

It's based on a 1939 Rover 14hp P2, and is called The Wild Rover. There are photos of it online, and even a Youtube video of it at a show, but nowhere can I find who built it!

[pnegyesi]

1939 or 1940 is usually date attached to the car

You need to find where it was built and then it'll be easier

[nicanary]

I think it could be German - it is pictured next to the Rover Wreath Special at a classic car show.

My lock expires at 8.22pm tonight and I will be leaving home soon. UNLOCK please.

[oko94]

Built by Jansen from Wesepe in the Netherlands ?

[nicanary]

Built by Jansen from Wesepe in the Netherlands ?

. Googling Holland or Dutch Rover gives no results. Using the maker's name gives lots of images. Sadly, I didn't have the maker's name!

[oko94]

On Jansen's website it is described as a Rover 16 Special 6 Cilinder, but the URL of the page says Rover 14 Special 6 Cilinder. It's all fairly confusing, as often with these specials.

[pnegyesi]

And in a for sale advert it was being reffered to as a 1939 Rover 12 special. But you found the builder indeed. Congrats

[Allan L]

On Jansen's website there are three Rover specials:
Rover 14 Special (but it's got a 4-cylinder engine)
http://www.austinseven.eu/rover-14-special/
Rover 16 special 6 cilinder
http://www.austinseven.eu/rover-14-special-6-cilinder/
and Rover 16 Special 2 (both 16s, as OKO says are 14 in the URL)
http://www.austinseven.eu/rover-14-special-2/
The opportunity for confusion is that Rover 14 and 16 engines were 6-cylinder - apart from some early (pre-1933) 14s which were 4-cylinder like the 12.