My Rover commerce back from the dead
 

well bought this Rover Commerce a few months ago from the salvage yard for £356.00 lol, quite hard front end damage, dont look it in the pics but its worse than what it looks,

here are some pics of it when it was for sale at the slavage yard:

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upon stripping the front end off i noticed that the van had been in a crash before having new front panel,drivers wing and bonnet, taking off the sealant sround the front panel inoticed that the front panel had been screwed on rather than being welded :wall: whichmade me wet myself laughing, so sourced a front end off a Rover 25 and stated to fit the new parts after a lot of jigging and pulling, straightened out the original front panel to save on costs,



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got hold of some lights for free, 1 a ZR one and the other a 25 one so they are different, got a ZR grill for free as it was broke so just plastic welded this back together and blastedsome primer over it for the mean time,


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and then i buffed the rest of the van up:

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then got some 17" straights cheap and a ZR rear spoiler so put them on it


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well finished the van off today, painted the front end, got a good colour match too,just need to do the ZR spoiler again as when i spraying i caught a load of water that gets trapped in them and blew it all over the fresh paint

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Thats magic mate could do with one of them myself and start doing some homers

you need to check your inbox typhoon i pm'ed u a week ago lol

Oh so you did lol

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Good work Steve, looked shoite before. Made a real transformation when MG'd. Needs slamming though. :D

be soon on its arse once it has all my stuffin lol

Are you swapping vans, or is it an occasional one?

Needs Avo's lol...but looking good, great job there...

Nice one looks like you have done a top job there

You've done a great job Steve