Thanks Peio, all of those sites have nice examples of Rovers. Although I took French in high school, which is to say back in the dark ages, my French is pratically non existent.
I actually have found a couple that look interesting but nothing solid yet. Simon at Motordome has one with low mileage and looks like it drives well, but it has had the chassis replaced and shows a lot of corrosion on the lower body. Then I found a couple in England. Still waiting for a reply from the dealers.
Overall impression is that a lot of dealers don't want to deal with foreign buyers. But then some like Walton's seem to be only interested in foreigh buyers. One of my UK friends took me by Walton's in 2023. Got the impression that they spiff them up but don't do a lot of mechanical work on their cars. Now, before anyone gets upset by that statement, I didn't crawl under any of the cars and do a full inspection, but none of the ones they had then really grabbed my attention.
Also in an earlier post I mentioned Defenders for 150 GBP (???) Don't we all wish that were the case. I was really meaning 150 thousand pounds. Another observation from my searches, is that it appears that folks in the UK can buy a Defender in the 2000's for less than the older ones. Must be the ability to export them.
Also have as yet identified anybody to do a pre-purhase inspection. There's always AA and RAC, but have read a lot of bad reviews about them. Also have been reading about, I think it's, Click Mechanic. Anybody that has had good results with any of those, please chime in.
So thanks again to all that have offered help, and hopefully I will find one.
I actually have found a couple that look interesting but nothing solid yet. Simon at Motordome has one with low mileage and looks like it drives well, but it has had the chassis replaced and shows a lot of corrosion on the lower body. Then I found a couple in England. Still waiting for a reply from the dealers.
Overall impression is that a lot of dealers don't want to deal with foreign buyers. But then some like Walton's seem to be only interested in foreigh buyers. One of my UK friends took me by Walton's in 2023. Got the impression that they spiff them up but don't do a lot of mechanical work on their cars. Now, before anyone gets upset by that statement, I didn't crawl under any of the cars and do a full inspection, but none of the ones they had then really grabbed my attention.
Also in an earlier post I mentioned Defenders for 150 GBP (???) Don't we all wish that were the case. I was really meaning 150 thousand pounds. Another observation from my searches, is that it appears that folks in the UK can buy a Defender in the 2000's for less than the older ones. Must be the ability to export them.
Also have as yet identified anybody to do a pre-purhase inspection. There's always AA and RAC, but have read a lot of bad reviews about them. Also have been reading about, I think it's, Click Mechanic. Anybody that has had good results with any of those, please chime in.
So thanks again to all that have offered help, and hopefully I will find one.
