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Post by TDHFastback » Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:46 am

As well as driving 800s I also enjoy reading about them. Over the years I have collected many magazine articles about the marque from either auto jumbles or e-bay.
The annoying think about e-bay I have found is that sellers describe a magazine having an 800 article and when you get it its only 10 lines at the bottom of page 72 :roll:

I've listed below a list of all the magazines I have with their content and comments. If anyone out there has any which are missing if you PM me the details I will add them to the list so we all have a comprehensive list at our disposal of which magazines over the years contained 800 articles.

I've also listed the Reg numbers of the cars in the articles. You never know you may have an ex press vehicle..............

Car July 1984 Front cover 8 page scoop article inc interview with Roy Axe. Some nice drawings inc a fastback

Motor 5th January 1985 Front cover 3 page article with line drawings and early prototype picture

Motor 1st March 1986 2 page article photographs of 800 being tested Saloons C624GOE C186RUY

Autocar 10th July 1986 Front cover 16 pages a really good article with excellent pictures Saloon C825ROV C350AAC

Motor 12th July 1986 Front cover 12 pages including a shoot out. A good article C302AAC C333AAC C304AA C338AAC

What Car August 1986 Front cover 12 pages including shoot out A good article with interesting pictures Sterling C316AAC C800ROV C825ROV

Car August 1986 22 page article which is not kind to the 800 and includes interviews with those involved in design process C324AAC

Fast lane August 1986 2 page article poor pictures C334AAC

Motor 26th July 1986 8 page Rover Sterling article C806ARW

# Motor 1st November 1986 8 page article 820Si plus shoot out with SAAB 9000i. Rover comes out on top D318BRW

Autocar 17th June 1987 4 page article 820Se with USA Sterling feature D893DKV

Motor Supp 24th October 1987 a super 24 page article with good pictures D347BRW E208HDU D884RGF D436NOB D982NNP?

Motor Supp 12th December 1987 a super 10 page glossy shootout 820Si beats Granada and Senator E820ROV

Motor 5th March 1988 3 page article on the 820Si Janspeed Turbo

Autocar 25th May 1988 Front cover 11 page article launch of new fastback and Vitesse road test E729MDU E444TON?

Motor 28th May 1988 Front cover 16 page article Shoot out plus Vitesse road test interview with Kevin Morley E725MDU E715MDU

Motor 2nd July 1988 7 page article on Rover Vitesse E722MDU

Autocar+Motor 30th november 1988 4 page long term test on 820Se does not give a good impression D151BLD

What Car March 1989 5 page long term test not complementory to 820Si D958YLY

What Car June 1989 5 page article buying second hand D151BLD

Autocar+Motor 28th June 1989 4 page article Rover Sterling Catalyst F386SWK

Autocar+Motor 16 August 1989 8 page shoot out BMW 5 series and Citreon XM F112OWK

What Car April 1990 7 page Granada article with 820Si as competitor

Autocar+Motor 28th February 1990 6 page head to head with Granada GHIA (800 kicks its bum) G767WBW

What Car March 1991 1 page article on Mk1 825D

Car March 1991 Front cover 4 page article about new face lift and 825D article

Auto Express March 1991 2 page article on Mk1 825D H365GAC

What Car August 1991 1 page article on Tickford Turbo

Auto express 3rd September 1991 2 page article on Tickford Turbo J281CUW

Rover Newslink winter 91/92 Front cover 4 page article including page on M16 J506PHP

Autocar+Motor 13th November 1991 Front cover 12 page article including shoot out J441PHP J408PHP J422PHP

What Car December 1991 2 page article J433PHP J840YCY

What Car January 1992 12 page shoot out Toyota Camry,BMW520i,SAAB CDi,820Si plus reader reports J422PHP H815MOE J433PHP

AutoCar+Motor 11 March 1992 6 page article good information and pictures about Rover Sterling J439PHP

Thoroughbred and Classic cars January 1992 Quarter of a page don't bother J890YCY

Autocar+motor 4th march 1992 Front cover 3 page article on launch of new Coupe

Autocar+Motor 20th May 1992 6 page article good info and pictures on Rover 2.0 Vitesse J683SAC

Autocar+Motor 29th July 1992 Front cover 6 page article on rover Coupe. Not complimentary J710SAC

Car choice September 1992 8 page article. Love this one as it has period shots of 800s in a dealership J693SAC J608UAC

Auto Express November 1994 2 page article on Police 800s J726CYK L887GUL

Autocar+Motor 27th July 1994 4 page article on Vitesse Sport. A good write up L284TDU

Top Gear August 1995 2 page article by quentin Wilson about buying second hand J816PNX

Autocar 21st February 1996 6 page article about new KV6 Sterling. Nice pictures (the first 800 mag I bought new) N834SVC

Car Magazine March 1997 2 page article title "A Dog is for Life" Not pleasant. N842SVC

Practical Classics january 2002 2 page article by our friend in the press Peter Simpson buying secondhand Mk1 G598RRG

Classic car weekly 13 July 2006 1 page article Buyers data file


Whatever happend to all those early C plate cars?
Hope this helps and look forward to updating the list

Richard could you put this as a sticky (or whatever it is so it stays at the top of the archive section so it doesnt get lost and then someone elso does it in a years time)

Kate :D

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Re: magazine archives

Post by TheVDM » Mon Aug 05, 2013 12:11 pm

That's quite a list there, I also have a couple of sales brochures, a 1998 Rover 800 Specific and a 1998 Rover product range detailing all cars along with some other odds and sods including a couple of magazine posters, although no press reports.

If anybody has time to photocopy what they have I would be interested as I am toying around with creating an archive of information (manuals, press reviews etc...) tagged onto the end of a website about the work I do on my car (which will one day be up and running at my800.co.uk
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Re: magazine archives

Post by Lord Sterling » Mon Aug 05, 2013 1:20 pm

Like you Kate, I've got loads of Car mags with 800s in them, in fact, I've got too many.

Regarding the C-plate cars, there was someone here who claimed to own one which had an engine problem, but no proof of this has ever been seen. I, personally, highly doubt there any C-platers left at all. I sincerely hope that I am proved wrong.

Many of the C-platers were registered as 'Austins' rather than Rovers and some of them were registered with slightly different engine sizes, such as C186 RUY, registered as an 'Austin' on the 14-02-1986, date of liability: 17-12-1986 with engine size cc 2493cc. Subsequent 825s were registered as 2494cc. Sometimes pre-production cars were (probably lazily) registered simply as 2500cc or 2000cc.

G598RRG, a Black 827 Sterling, a former Mayoral car was owned by Brad at some point.

I've got a mag somewhere featuring a H-reg mk2 800 as taken by a passer by.

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Re: magazine archives

Post by deano » Mon Aug 05, 2013 5:28 pm

When i owned my H reg 1990 Mk1 sterling, which i bought in 1995....
There was a company over in slough that used to do `body kits` for the 800.
They also changed the bonnet over for the later Chrome Grille design...

Hence a Rover 800 1990 with a chrome grille.... maybes

They were called.. Moto Build

http://www.moto-build.com/motobuild.html
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Re: magazine archives

Post by Charles827si » Mon Aug 05, 2013 5:33 pm

This company have been making fibre glass body kits for Mk1's a few years now
http://www.m-99.co.uk/Car_Bodykits/Rove ... r_800.html
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Re: magazine archives

Post by Lord Sterling » Mon Aug 05, 2013 7:24 pm

deano wrote:Hence a Rover 800 1990 with a chrome grille.... maybes
No Deano.

It was a mk2 being tested by Rover. A passer by caught some snaps and sent them to a car magazine who printed them.

I don't like Moto-Bodge tat, 200 grilles on mk1 bonnets or mk2 bonnets on mk1s either, as I had on my mk1 827Si.

Its easy to tell the difference between a mk1 and mk2.

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Re: magazine archives

Post by deano » Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:08 pm

Just a suggestion....
1993 Rover 827 SLI Fastback Mk2
1999 Rover 825 Sterling Saloon Mk2 (HGF)
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1993 Rover 827 Sterling Saloon Mk2
1990 Rover 827 Sterling Saloon Mk1
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Re: magazine archives

Post by Richard Moss » Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:28 pm

Thanks for your efforts, Kate - I've made this a "sticky" so that we can appreciate your work. :)
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Re: magazine archives

Post by TDHFastback » Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:02 pm

Four new articles added to the above list. I've marked them with a # so you can see whats new.

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Re: magazine archives

Post by TDHFastback » Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:48 am

New article on Janspeed 820 Turbo March 1988

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Post by vito » Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:16 pm

Good work Kate, a valuable resource, enjoyed flicking through them yesterday at Hull.
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Post by Very Tall Brad » Mon Aug 12, 2013 2:46 pm

Kate. This is a Sterling effort. Well done on having such resources and patience.

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Post by whitelion58 » Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:31 pm

Kate - if you have the stamina to scan them I can easily add them to the archive of manuals and vids. I could probably scan them too if you are prepared to send them over, probably in batches!
Just a thought.

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Re: magazine archives

Post by TDHFastback » Sun Sep 07, 2014 7:04 pm

New article added marked with #

Kate :D
D reg Rover 820Si Saloon. No space for a a saloon in this rootin tootin town
G reg Rover 820SE Fastback (my every day runabout) that ran off.
G reg Rover 827Si police Fastback (last Mk1 jam sandwich)
V reg Rover 825 Sterling Fastback (end of an era)

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