Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: rover

Yowch. And this is after I'd "reset" the bonnet with a sledgehammer. Caused by the bonnet being forced open by a freak gust of wind while high, high up on a bridge over the River Clyde. It's also possible that the safety catch (the second-level of bonnet securing) had failed, though it was hard to tell after the poor thing had been yanked open. It took me quite a few slow-motion microseconds to appreciate that I had just hit... my own car. Initially, the HUGE thump (I was doing 70 mph or so) made me think I'd hit maybe a deer (not an unlikely event out there) or even that another car had flipped across from the other carriageway.

Poor old "Boat" had been a really excellent car. The Rover 825SD has a turbo-diesel engine as used in the Range Rover Turbo D, but here in a lighter, more aerodynamic two-wheel drive body — so this car really flew yet was economical with it. I have to admit, it did take a while to get used to the super-damped power steering, but I did, and enjoyed it while being held in place in excellent leather Recaros. Then a wheel fell off. Yeah, of course. We never did work out why — none of the components showed any obvious signs of failure, and it was just that the drive-shaft had popped out, at both ends!

Sadly I no longer have the leather Recaros nor the corpse of Matt the badger, stuffed and mounted.