1981 Rover 2000 Pre-production [SD1]

1981 Rover 2000 [SD1] in The Boys In Blue, Movie, 1982

Class: Cars, Hatchback — Model origin:

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Author	Message
Danzie ◊ 2018-06-25 01:45
Danzie ◊ 2018-06-25 01:46
Exiv96 ◊ 2018-06-25 02:14	SD1's were hatchbacks, not sedans. Vehicle make: ROVER Date of first registration: November 1981 Year of manufacture: 1981 Cylinder capacity (cc): 2000 cc
Danzie ◊ 2018-06-25 02:39
electra225 ◊ 2018-06-25 08:24	not the series II 1982+ ? I can sport both the larger headlights and the larger rear window...!!!
Danzie ◊ 2018-06-25 12:13	Does anybody know if this is likely to have been a genuine Police car? the colour seems very unusual, in the film it was a chauffeur driven car of the Chief Superintendent.
dsl ◊ 2018-06-25 13:04	LOV 701X was a pre-production registered 2 months before 2000 launch in Jan 82 as part of the second series facelift - there were no first version 2000s. Birmingham plates so a factory car, and seems to have died by July 1988. I guess a launch fleet car then used for publicity/PR so loaned out for the film while the facelift was fairly new. We have a few SD1 2000s as police cars, but if I were a Chief Superintendent (or his chauffeur) I'd be taking the allocation of such a miserably slow and basic version as a strong message about my future promotion prospects.