Number 231 reporting
Hello all!
I have owned a NADA 6 cyl 109 station wagon since about 2000 or so when I picked it up from a man in Pocahontas Arkansas who didn't know what he had and at the time I didn't know it was that special. The previous owner from him had chopped the body up to make it into a pickup body so they had sawzalled the back of the roof and roof sides and sheet metal screwed them to the back of the pillar behind the driver door.
Once I got it home I was calling Rovers North for parts and they told me it was not your average Rover. Since then I have slowly searched out all the body parts I needed to get the body back to the Station Wagon it should have been.
It is currently not running and still resides at my Mom's house in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I live in Fremont, CA and have not brought it out because I always kept thinking I was going to move again but 8 years later and I have yet to move so soon it will be brought out and I'll continue restoration.
Long story short, currently awaiting restoration in Pine Bluff, AR
It has a vin # of 231A
Is there any significance of the A?
Back home I also have extensive records on it from first sale to a Forest Service worker up in Washington state up until the 80s when it made it to Okalahoma and then no records till the man in north Arkansas got it.
I've yet to see what the Rover factory has to say about it.
When I get the records out here I can post its history outline if anyone might be interested.
Amusing thing was that the frame bits that stick out to the sides were packed with dirt. I dug it all out and as I did my Mom who is a geologist said the dirt was volcanic and there wasn't any soil like that anywhere in the midwest. Later that night I dug through the records and found out it was in the pacific north west. I always find it interesting the traces left within the vehicle that tell of it's own past.
Sorry for the long winded first post!
-Marshall Gardner
Fremont, CA
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1967 109" NADA 6 cyl
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