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

[GeffMcCarthy]

I have 5 SD-1 wheels for "sale". In reality, anyone who wants them can pay
postage.  Otherwise....to breakers yard soon....!

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Geoffrey W. McCarthy MD MBA DipAvMed
677 NW Melinda Ave Portland OR USA 97210
503-241-8468(h) 503-799-3809 (mobile)

-----Original Message-----
From: Rovernet [mailto:rovernet-bounces at rovernet.org] On Behalf Of Kent
Kinard
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 7:46 PM
To: Rovernet
Subject: [Rovernet] Minilite or Panasport Wheels and Big V8's

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

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