Rover SD1 Club Events organiser, Dave Puzey called to offer me the opportunity to take my car to a photo-shoot planned by “Classic Cars” Magazine to mark the demise of Rover as the last British mass production car maker. I had one weeks' notice. “Classic Cars” wanted to feature four of the landmark Rovers from the post war era. Their shopping list was the Matron Aunt 1950’s P4 75 Cyclops, a Legendary 1960’s P5B Coupe, a Sporty 1970’s 2000 P6 and (of course) the Iconic 1980’s SD1 Vitesse, preferably a Twin Plenum in Targa Red for which, my car fitted the bill perfectly.

This is the story of the what happened on the 16th June 2005 in and around three villages near the county borders of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.

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