[Rovernet] Help my find my Dad's old Rover 2000TC

[Gordon Reddy]

I hope you find the Rover, that would be so cool!
Gord

On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 at 19:24, Gabriel Gomez via Rovernet <
rovernet at rovernet.org> wrote:

> Hi guys, long time lurker on here so here goes my first posting,
>
> Wondering if anyone on here knows/owns my dad's old 1968 Rover 2000tc. The
> car was red with black C pillars and black sill panels (non original) with
> a umass lowell sticker in the middle of the rear window. and has chassis
> number 85901035b. The interior has two gauges in the center speaker grill
> and a wood/leather flip down 'TC' panel that hides hidden radar scanner
> controls. My father's family owned it from 1971 to around 1992 when he
> (regretfully) donated it to a kidney charity thing. I asked rudiger wicke
> about the car and miraculously he had photos of it from 2007? I have
> included photos of it from when my dad had it and when it was for sale on
> ebay in 2007. After some digging around I found that the car was located at
> 86 Newburyport turnpike Newbury ma (the place in the photos above). The car
> looked to be in decent condition considering it had been driven in new
> England since new and had a rather high 239000 miles that it had racked up
> from 1968 to 1987 and had also been sitting outside for presumably eons.
> The only rot on the car appears to be on the jack points. Rudiger says the
> car was for sale for 200 dollars.
>
> PHOTOS: https://photos.app.goo.gl/54Jq176b8xbPEXNx8
>
> I just wanted to throw this out here in case anyone had seen it around. I
> was blown away it had lasted as long as it did instead of being scrapped
> right after getting donated.
>
> Young Rover nut,
> Gabe Gomez
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