{"id":20,"date":"2009-11-24T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-11-24T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T16:51:10","slug":"separated-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Separated at birth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rover SD1 and Rover 800 “fastback”. Granted, mine are ten years apart.. but production of them was only separated by a couple of years. Everything I’ve read suggests it’s a “complete coincidence” that the 800 looks just like an SD1 from the side.. but the SD1 was an amazingly popular car for how unreliable it was, so it’s not a surprise that a little influence crept in, I suppose.<\/p>\n

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The silver 800 is a 1991 827SLi.. one of the last 50 or so imported into the US. It’s got the end-of-shape body kit (most of which is still attached) and some other very bizarre options – like rear window blinds and one more window demister than you actually need. It’s also got 250k miles on it and the tappets rattle like anything when it’s cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rover SD1 and Rover 800 “fastback”. Granted, mine are ten years apart.. but production of them was only separated by a couple of years. Everything I’ve read suggests it’s a “complete coincidence” that the 800 looks just like an SD1 from the side.. but the SD1 was an amazingly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}