Actually the "Rover Guys" at the British Invasion are a welcome sight in a
weird sort of way. After the quiet civility of the rest of the British car
world these guys lend a little pleasant diversion to the proceedings. Kind
of like your outrageous brother in law who only comes to family functions at
Christmas. The roofs of the Rovers are packed with supplies, hammocks strung
between them, and pulsating rock balances out the chamber music piped over
the field's sound system. The dirtier the better as far as they're
concerned. Did you see the one fitted out to work the farm fields with over
360,000 miles on it? The best part is seeing one of those beasts from out of
the bush and their hung over occupants parked next to the new $70,000 model
complete with debutants who look like they overran the Banana Republic store
on the way to the show. The only down side was that the whole line of them
was backed up to us TR6'ers so our view was slightly impared.
Speaking of bushes... It's time to change the trailing arm bushes and
differential mounts on "Trevor" before the end of the season. What's the
groups opinion on the different types of bushes available. Standard or
uprated rubber? Perhaps one of the poly/nylons exotics? It seems that the
originals did a pretty good job for 22 years so why go to anything more than
perhaps the uprated rubber? Comments are welcome please.
Joe Merone
'74 TR6
CF 18928
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