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black olive
Info from rincewind .
Welcome by the way from #214
with car 216 being a red MkI with MkII "clothes" on for some emissions work I was doing down at Millbrook for three solid days during the summer of 2004. So the car that belongs to Nick was a pre production MkII car that if I'm not mistaken, was the 2nd MG ZT-T 260 owned by Rob Oldaker! So Chris, Roger and Nick, you have a bit more in common than just the V8 under the bonnet, I believe that you have all got cars that were previously owned by Rob and what makes me think that this is true is the green dash finisher! Rob liked his cars to be a little bit different to standard. I'm pretty sure Rob didn't keep his car after he left so there we have it, we've learnt something else!
Out in Lithuania lives Tom Matthews and he is the proud owner of car 215, the Rover 75 V8 Auto that was the Geneva and Birmingham show car that wowed many and caused a bit of controversy with the front grille styling being somewhat similar to the new face of Audi. If Ashley's car was looked after well, this car was looked after even better, but thankfully the large 19" wheels were taken off the car and 18" Starspoke alloys were fitted as the 19" where very fragile and only for show use. 215 is also the only Rover 75 V8 auto to have a roll bar and diff dampers on as these were deleted for the production cars as the ride was too "MG" like for a Rover.
Ref Rob Oldaker
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