Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club

good idea to put the Leather armrest, was it new??

I put an armrest in my 220GSi. And my 216GTi

They're not new - you have to source them from scrapped coupe's or tourer models.

I've got four kicking about in the garage, but three are cloth topped and the other is leather but it's from a beige interior car.

alber wrote:good idea to put the Leather armrest, was it new??

The armrest is not new but the leather is. I've bought it on ebay, i think it came from a deceased Rover

Craig MGR wrote: I'm considering a 75 as my next car, would love a 800 but at this age I guess it would be a lot of work.

Not as much as you think, 800's are good solid motors and mostly tend to get driven around more sedatly.
Put it though a couple of mots and never need anything major.

I had a 97 vitesse with around 95k on the clock when i bought it and it rattles less than my 60k 214!

Sorry back on topic your motors coming together nicely, you cant beat a tidy & clean r8

must be well cool living there.not much rust problems ;)

New leather steering wheel:



New passenger side wing mirror - LHD
Driver side - RHD





Chrome rings





Next week: TAX and MOT

I'm on vacations so there is plenty of time to make my SEi look as new and make some modifications too.

Starting with the 52mm throttle body and KN air filter:





Then I had to glue new fabric to the roof.







The result:





And brand new floor mats:



Finally, detailling:







Tomorrow, side spats and new license plates

looking good,keep us posted!

New license plates





And side spats almost done:

Looking tidy