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

British Rover britishrover at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 18:03:06 EST 2014


Geff, would be interested in those 5 SD1 Wheels..


On 1/23/14, Jess Rainey <jess_rainey at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Geoff,
> Can you contact me directly at jess_rainey at yahoo.ca
>
> Thanks,
> Jess Rainey.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2014-01-23, at 9:42 AM, "GeffMcCarthy" <geffandjulie at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I have 5 SD-1 wheels for "sale". In reality, anyone who wants them can
>> pay
>> postage.  Otherwise....to breakers yard soon....!
>>
>> AvMedSafe
>> 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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