Keywords: Rover SD1 in Austria.jpg One of the first Rover SD1s Own 1976 Charles01 When I photographed it in Innsbruck I spoke briefly with the apparently English owner who had purchased this car new some two weeks before and then driven it to Austria for a family holiday He was much enraged by the car's absence of reliability during its first two weeks on the road and urged my parents then the moderately proud owners of an aging Peugeot 504 to resist any temptation ever to buy a Rover 3500 Ever My parents never did buy a Rover though some time later I myself acquired a Morris Minor Traveller manufactured several years earlier by another branch of the same company which proved relatively though not totally dependable Rover SD1 Photographs by Charles01 |