[Rovernet] Minilite or Panasport Wheels and Big V8's

[Kent Kinard]

Hi Gross,
I have a set of wheels of unknown make 5 lug by 5" that LOOK like 
Minilites or Panasports. They are for sale. Contact me off list.

My 4.6 was my last Rover rebuild. All future V8's will be based on Buick 
300 blocks. I got into Rovers just to have something to put my aluminum 
V8's into that would haul my kids (not enough room in the TR8). Over the 
years I gained an appreciation for the Rover way of doing 
things...quirky but refined in an old world sort of way, so I got more 
Rovers...P4, P5, P6. I drove SD1's because I understood all their 
failings and could fix them. I shied away from the P6/P6B because of 
their strangeness, yet in the end I fell in love with that very 
strangeness. I still prefer the V8 to the four because that's what I'm 
familiar with after doing them for forty years (yes, I built my first 
aluminum V8 exactly forty years ago this month), but my Rover neighbor 
up in Austin prefers the fours for the same reason you do, Gross. I 
saved a twin-cam 2.4 litre Nissan engine from a 240SX thinking that 
would make a nice swap into a TC, but never got anywhere with it. The 
BW35 is the pits, but I have gotten old and lazy and like my slushboxes. 
The P6B will get a 700R4 sometime next year. My five speed conversion 
stuff is going to Lance.

Old Dr. Birdsong up in Fort Worth epitomizes the TC lover in my mind. He 
had three. Shortly before his death (of natural causes) he took me for a 
ride in his '69, throwing it around narrow country roads with a big grin 
plastered all over his face and cussing the missed shifts from a too 
loose gear lever. He scared the ____ out of me but he loved every minute 
behind the wheel. So may we all come to rest.

Rovereminiscently,
Kent K.

Scruggs Family wrote:

Regarding the eBay 3500S... anyone know where I can score a set of 
Minilite or Panasport wheels?

Regards, Gross Scruggs Annapolis MD, USA