Description
This lot will be auctioned via Classic Car Auctions, The Summer Sale 2023 on Saturday the 17th of June, Warwickshire Event Centre, CV31 1XN.
This rare example was the Factory press car and Austin Rover brochure car with the Factory-issued registration number A24 WOE
Understandably, as a Factory demonstrator, it was finished in the very stylish colour combination of Opaline with Bitter Chocolate leather
Originally designated for Australia and factory-fitted with an Australian home-market fuel-injection system but, in the event, never went there
A24 WOE was used by Corgi Models as the basis for a run of 1, 000 Special Edition collectable model cars, one of which is included in the sale
Subject to a full restoration around ten years ago with three photo albums documenting the process
Recently serviced with a fresh MOT (no advisories). The air conditioning still works well
Vanden Plas examples of the SD1 rarely come to market and, with its factory and Corgi connections, A24 WOE would fit nicely into any collection of important Rovers
