I ordered a certificate for No.1 and then received a message to say that they don't have build data for the R8 which is disappointing but I am now in correspondence with the "certificate officer" trying to find out what information they do have. He admitted that the website is misleading ...

There definitely was a 1.1 8V R3, I learnt to drive in one. My mistake, indeed there was. It's just not been properly documented as an engine option in the VIN decoding documentation released by Rover, incorrectly labelled as 1100 16V MPi instead of 8V MPi. The letter D in the VIN stands for 1100 8...

Your VIN decoding is correct.
From what I know there's never been a 1.1 8V engine option in the R3.
Are you sure that's the engine in the car?

Sadly no build totals, but I might be able to determine that from the later EPCs because apparently they do have the VINs listed. My early 2002 EPC copy doesn't have that information sadly. An interesting if slightly useless stat, 267 of these cars are still with their original purchaser and one is...

Unfortunately, if most people now behave as if the pandemic was a thing of the past, and with no more social distancing/masks, I fear you're right...

Well, I should have known you'd share that news over here :laughing2 If anyone orders one for an early R8 (how about the owner of R8 n°1 John, you should convince him of ordering one :)), I'd be interested in that owner sharing a scanned copy with us (redacting all the details out of it of course), ...

Seems overly cautious thinking by committee Given the pent up demand for shows I think a book ahead scheme would have worked Won’t go in 2022 on principle now. Totally disagree on this, sorry. It's a decision made by all clubs of the Joint Rover Clubs committee, and all the reasons they gave made p...

montegoman wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 9:34 am There is a great article by Jonathan Living on how to change the headlining on an R8 in the current edition of The Viking.

I concur, I just changed it on mine last week (isn't lockdown great for that sort of things...)...

Hmmm it’s 4 weeks away yet. A lot could have changed by then. The situation may be better in 3 weeks. Or is that wishful thinking? 1. it's very unlikely the situation would have been better off in 4 weeks time, in fact, it's highly likely to worsen by then in the UK, considering the general lack of...