Never used 820 engine

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Re: Never used 820 engine

Post by rovercoup » Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:05 pm

Wow the Fuzz in a drop top must have been cool 8) :lol: not that you drove this on duty.

It is a car i have always fancied but was never any good at woodwork.
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Re: Never used 820 engine

Post by midnite » Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:17 pm

TDHFastback wrote:Morgan definitely used the 820 Rover engine in their +4

I know because I used to have one 8) 8) (it was a selling point for me)

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you mean you sold it because it had the 2 litre in it.
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Re: Never used 820 engine

Post by TDHFastback » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:08 pm

No. :lol: :lol:
One of the reasons I bought it was the fine piece of British engineering under the folding bonnet.
I'll see if I can dig out some pictures.

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Re: Never used 820 engine

Post by Richard Moss » Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:43 am

rovercoup wrote:Wow the Fuzz in a drop top must have been cool 8) :lol: not that you drove this on duty.

It is a car i have always fancied but was never any good at woodwork.
Plenty of police forces used to use MGAs, MGBs, XK150s, Sunbeam Alpines etc
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Re: Never used 820 engine

Post by david vincent » Thu May 28, 2015 3:58 pm

And I know cause there was one in the Morgan that Wheeler dealers restored lol
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Re: Never used 820 engine

Post by Bigsimon » Sun May 31, 2015 2:00 pm

Looking at it sitting there, I realized it could be useful.....as a boat anchor :lol:

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Re: Never used 820 engine

Post by midnite » Sun May 31, 2015 5:27 pm

Bigsimon wrote:Looking at it sitting there, I realized it could be useful.....as a boat anchor :lol:

ha haaaa, i said that over on the dsg, that the vauxhall slant 4 was good as a boat anchor, got told to fcuk off n all.
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91 820 i special edition flaming hell red
99 820 vitesse turbo sport manual nightfire rust sold to a better owner than i

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