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Wilts289
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Rover V8 Birthday

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I may be the last one to know, but I hadn't realised that this is the 50th Anniversary of the Rover V8 engine's arrival in the UK.

Happy birthday, I don't know what I would have done without you,



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Is it as late as 1967?, Wikipedia says Rover bought the tooling in 1965. I guess you mean it first appeared in a production Rover in 1967.

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As you say - year it was first used in a British built car - Rover P5B.

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Post by Richard P6 »

Didn't you get the invite ?

http://www.roverfest.uk/

:)

There were a few hundred cars there, a grand day out you might say.

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Post by sidecar »

Funny that this has come up as a thread, my mate is doing some work on a P5, the first registered owner was William Martin-Hurst. I am helping him restore the engine which will going back into the car, The engine number is EXP19 (as in EXPerimental).

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Post by DaveEFI »

You'd have thought very early development cars would have been first registered to the factory? Unless they ran on trade plates only.

William Martin-Hurst used to sell good low mileage older cars at one time - presumably after leaving Rover. Dunno if they are still on the go.
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