Edinburgh Car Swap! What is it? 360-mile mission 

My son Lee's old motor. Enjoyed the wee film.

Great choice Ian. I've had my Rover 75 for nearly 10 years now and have covered 80, 000 miles in it. Its been ultra reliable, and put it down to keeping it well serviced.. The pollen filters are a pain to change and also find replacing the air filter can be very awkward sometimes. Check those drain holes in the plenum chamber. If they block, your ecu could well end up taking a swim! The key fobs are cheap and easy to get hold of. With a new blade and swap of the old fob gubbins it only takes a few minutes to do. As the cars are getting on a bit now, the sills can start to rot out around the rear jacking pads. I think many 75/Zt will be suffering from this now. The rear upper suspension arms can suffer too. If you ever need some expert advice or help, Jules up in Conway (North Wales) is your man. What he doesn't know about these cars is quite frankly not worth knowing about. There's an excellent spy hole mod you can do to check the plenum chamber for blocked drainage holes. It saves the faffing around of taking the scuttle panels off to check. I'll be watching your next blogs on the 75 with great interest 👍👍

I literally cheered when I saw it was a Rover.

I was thinking thats not very hubnut, then we get to the ignition switch, ah now that’s hubnut. #Ditch the aero blades.

Always loved the retro styling, like nothing else around at the time. They have aged well too but it's a shame it wasn't enough to save Rover.

Walking stick, hat, box tissues and some cushions and your good to go. Went to Edinburgh middle aged came back as a pensioner.

Always loved the 75 styling. Sort of a modern day p5 in my mind,but with a choice of engines. Yours certainly looks nice in her red coat.

Rover 75! My type of car! Lovely interior,classy colour. I'm really looking forward to seeing you drive this for a while 😊

"It's not a brilliant example" - I have to admit I did do a sensible chuckle at that. Also big thumbs up for the Unkle album, every song on that CD was great

Scotland is always delighted to have you! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

They are lovely cars. My dad had a connoisseur in blue from new. He wasn't happy when I swiped the barriers with it on a German autobahn!

It's South queens ferry, Ian. yes, it's a lovely place.

Love the rover 75 think it's a stunning looking car so the hubnut family will be travelling around in style 😎

If you want to call in Wexham on the way back,I can repair the key. Keys Direct Autolocksmith Wrexham.

I liked that Vectra too but have to say this is much more intetesting and these are just so classy cars. Very nice colour 😎

I had one of these for a couple of years. Infinitely upgradeable with scrappie bits. A very active and helpful forum for it too.

Had my Old English White Rover 75 club for 16 years wouldn't change it for anything beautiful car hope you enjoy this luxury motor Ian Rob

Finally. A Hubnut car if ever I saw one. (Club had illuminated vanity mirrors before Project Drive I believe. And the CDT can be mapped I think also.)

The key is fixable. There is a pin either broke or missing. It's pretty standard, any key cutting shop should be able to sort it

That "Old Edinburgh" is actually South Queensferry. This looks interesting.

Nothing like a decent road trip whilst listening to the verve. Love the look of the 75.

Starting your own car like a thief in the night trying to get it going. Love it!

Like the ignition system 😂 Like the Rover, lovely colour. Hope Miss Hubnut likes it as well.

I live just a stones throw aeay from South Queensferry in Linlithgow. Never expected to see a HubNut video filmed up here, Lovely part of the Country.

I was expecting to be disappointed but I am not - I'm amazed to find I feel nostalgic for such a recent car.

Love it!!! Beautiful car, fabulous colour, and difficult to explain but the epitome of a modern Hubnut vehicle

Welcome to Scotland Mr HubNut, you're up near my neck of the woods. I live down the road a bit in the Scottish Borders. Enjoy your time up here, and if you do end up going back down the M74, may I *very strongly* recommend stopping in Moffat on your way past and visiting the Moffat Toffee Shop. I promise you'll be like a kid in a.... Well, yeah, a kid in a sweet shop 😂 Speaking of Moffat, Elly would love a hoon along the A708 from Moffat across to Selkirk, past St. Mary's Loch and the Grey Mare's Tail. Perfect 2CV hoon road, that one. Useless fact of the day that you didn't need to know: I have abseiled off the Forth Bridge down into South Queensferry, close to where you were parked. I did it for charity, Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, raised almost £1,500. I am terrified of heights, and I was absolutely petrified doing that abseil, but I can at least say I've done it 😁 I can't think of a more HubNut car than a near-20 year old Rover. I hope you enjoy your time with this 75. I wonder what the kids will nickname this one? 🤔

Unkle for the win! And a very Hubnut car! All of the good times!

Good swap, and Probably well worth the long trip.

Soo happy!! Can't wait for videos on this.

I thought the same as you when I bought my tourer connie for £180 as a stop gap, That was 6 years ago & apart from a clutch slave cylinder failure it has been superb, on 207,000 miles now & still purrs like a kitten & still getting over 40 mpg. & my keys were like yours but got a couple of kits on ebay & now fine.

I had a Rover 75 in this exact colour and interior trim for a little while. It was powered by the 1.8 K Series and it wasn't exactly rapid either. It also had motor mounts so badly perished that it was absolutely impossible to shift gears smoothly. I liked the ride and general comfort of the car, but for some reason ended up selling it. I wouldn't mind owning a 2.5 V6 estate some day.

That’s a testament to the Vauxhall Vectra’s & Rover 75’s high mileage, motorway design specification. Cars that are two decades old and drove effortlessly. Too & from Edinburgh👍

the only things i like on this car are the speedometer and the revcounter

Excellent swap I’ve been looking at these for ages as a classic so this has come along at the right time

The starting protocol is the best anti theft device ever Ps I like the swapping idea

Oh I love the 75! What a great improvement and far more interesting than the humble yet dull Vectra! I know Matt loved the 75 V6 Tourer but that was definitely more befitting of the Rover!

Love the starting procedure. I can imagine it now: Copper: "Good evening, sir. Is this your car?" HubNut: "Indeed, Officer. I purchased this vehicle, not twenty minutes ago" Copper: "Did the pliers come with the vehicle, Sir?" etc....

That's why I like Hubnut! God knows what you will drive next! Awesome

Really liked this , great fun, hair raising MOT history , with the car obviously being driven with a fail on it , like 3 MOTs in 2018. But for all that with a bit of welding, sort that cooling it will be fine.

Yesssss, now we're talkin'....a 75! For some strange reason i really like these.

Love your adventures. Thanks for keeping me entertained this horrendous year. Take care Ian and thanks again

The key is perfectly hubnutish. In fact the whole car is! Well Done.

Love the car. I always wanted one. Incidentally, the Rover 213 I had back in '87 had Wedgewood blue colour :)

I've got a big soft spot for a 75 /mgzt/ztt it was what I was looking at before I for my fully loaded 407sw

Ahhh yes!!! Very Hub Nut. Cannot wait to see the 75 journey

Love it, the 75s look great and they're not as bad as people make out. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with it 👍

Twenty or so years ago I followed the fortunes of MG Rover pretty keenly from here in the US. As an MG enthusiast and owner, the promise of seeing the old marque reinvigorated was rather exciting... The MGF was out, and Rover had recently brought out the 75. I was able to take a long-anticipated trip to the UK in 2000, and spent a week with a very nice family in Blackpool. He was also an MG fan, so one afternoon we drove to a dealership in Preston so I could acquaint myself with the new MGFs on display. All of this to say that there was a new 75 in the showroom, and I must have left nose-prints on the glass admiring the interior, as it was locked up and not to be explored. I thought it was lovely then, and I still do. Such a shame that it proved to be Rover’s swan song. Anyway, I’m really looking forward to your adventures with this one. Warts aside, it’s still a very nice-looking car. And if it all goes wrong, at least you got a new pair of pliers out of the deal, which must count for something. ;-)

I bought one of these 'sight unseen' off of ebay last year. Everything is available form Rimmer Brothers or second-hand. I retro-fitted cruise control and various other bits. Coolant fan could well be failed resistor that is relatively easy to replace. I would suggest joining the rover 75 forum as their technical advice is spot on (although a little hysterical at times).

Love the interior of these cars

I always wanted one of these...great choice!

a distance queen: nice from afar, but far from nice

There’s a lot to like about this video! Great car and even better music! Well played sir!

Great colour, hope it gives you some fun.

Superb, enlightened, humane taste in music. I knew I liked you and now I know why.

I see much tinkering ahead. Nice car - I was in Munich at the end of 1999 and these cars were everywhere!

I’ve had my Rover 75 for about a month, awesome car 👌

A 30 minute HubNut video! Always good news!

Hubnut 2020 Fleet since returning from NZ/AUS In: Citroen GSA Mitsubishi Delica Yugo Sana Vauxhall Vectra Rover 75 Out: Rover City Toyota Tercel Mitsubishi Delica Vauxhall Vectra None Movers: Citroen 2CV AC Invacar Daewoo Matiz Reliant Fox By all means correct me if I got anything wrong :)

Nice to see you up our neck of the woods!

Lovely car, will fix up fine, good colour too.

I thoroughly approve of this new HubNut fleet member! Lovely colour and with a few jobs to lead to interesting tinkering videos! I parked where you did some years ago but it was so foggy you couldn't actually see the bridges!

What a grand choice, a glorious Rover 75.👍

Ah the typical rover door shut thunk. Iove it!

Well yes Ian, it's nicer than your last Rover but you have lost a rear wiper and a key but you have gained a pair of pliers what's not to like 😉👍 Your a man with good taste 👌

Liking the selection of music👍🏽😊

Wheatus - a SERIOUSLY underrated band! Teenage Dirtbag has to feature in the top ten singles of all time - ever..! And Respect - a wonderful cover! Well done HN! - showing some great musical taste....!

Keith Aspen you are a gentleman , and kudos to your humility Sir. That is a true Hub Nut mode of transportation. It looks great but is falling to pieces what more could you want ?👍 Tam.

Brilliant view of the A pillar on the journey to Scotland 😊

My dad had a MGZT 190+ he loved that car, kept it for 10 years spending far more on it than it was worth, finally chopped it in (for a Focus ST( he’s 78!!)) when it developed hot starting issues and cambelts were due again deciding it as much as he liked it, it was not worth to keep throwing money at it. But someone is looking after it as it’s still insured

Welcome to the 75 club. I never really liked them either but got mine for a 100 pounds in february as an mot fail. Fixed it and cant stop driving it now. Fixed the bodges from previous and now started adding the ppd bits.

Ah now that it definitely more you Ian! I agree with your choice of motor. Funnily enough I never liked the 75 when it was launched, and it's only now that it's design has won me over. Best of luck, many happy miles.

The UNKLE CD is fantastic! Congrats on the 75!

Well hell of a drive. Wish I had your confidence ian! Best of luck with the rover! My favourite colour too. This is exciting!!

It's beautiful. Love it. No doubt if it's a good reliable car that needs little tinkering, it will bore you Ian. However, the intention to improve it and move it is very noble. South Queensferry is gorgeous and the railway bridge is just incredible. The other bridge, not so much. Hope the trip back was amazing and frugal.

I had the same problem with my key. Found it very easy to get a replacement plastic bit off eBay and refit the blade and transponder into the new plastic end.

Ahh great choice! I have a soft spot for the 75 🙂

Very nice Ian, always liked the 75, reminded of its beauty just the other week when FuriousD had the wedgewood blue tourer on his channel. Nice too to have the added HubNut touches with the key and the ding in the side :)

Oh Ian that is magnificently HubNut. Much more loveable.

Look at the shine on that steering wheel!

Always liked the 75, & its a diesel too, few jobs very soon needed but overhaul Great Video once again....

Another new car to the fleet,marvelous..as a vauxhall fan i was a bit disappointed that the vectra didn't last long..but as you say it had issues and you wasn't that keen,,which is far enough..anyway good luck with the 75.

Good choice of car, and a nice colour to boot.

It was looking a bit sensible and rational, then I saw the ign key procedure - nice work 👍

A lovely car in the best colour. I have a wedgewood tourer CDTi which was originally 131bhp and having that upgraded to 160 via the rover T4 system from a local 75 owner was the best thing Ive done so far. Mine is an autobox and overtaking is incredible in sport mode !! enjoy your new toy. :)

I love the 75 can’t wait to see you sorting out the little problems

loved the music accompanied time lapse driving montage at the beginning :)

I love the way the camera slowly panned left at 19.15 as you were talking about the seat softness! 😂 It really felt like we were drifting off and gazing out of the window at the South Queensferry scenery. Probably exactly what my better half does when I’m talking about cars. 🙄

Excellent, I guessed correctly, makes a change for me. It was the dials comment that put me onto it after the Australian mailbag vlog a few days back.

A great reveal in a nice part of Britain. Nice colour paint too. Stylish indeed

Great new car, Rover 75 is still an excellent car, it was so well built

love the new car ian! I have always liked the 75 for the design and the lovely interior. well done

HubNut roadtrip, excellent, interesting swap, magnificent views along the way, thank you 👍

Car looks beautiful in that colour

Well that's a surprise Mr Hubnut. I knew you were contemplating on what to do with the Vectra.. but so soon! I had a Rover Sterling in gold once upon a time..! Good luck with this one.

Very nice piece of retro British automotive history - when these first came out I used to admire them a great deal, I thought the shape was really beautiful. I even said one day I would own one. Years on, there was a lovely light blue 2001 reg. diesel Rover 75 I used to see a fair bit on local roads. It was finally dumped five years back in a field a mile up the road from where I live, looking very sorry for itself, with a bust window and broken door card. The body looked fine though. I sat in it one day and it reeked of damp, and looked very sad with that lovely retro dash covered in mould. It was towed out of the field last Winter, but I noticed on DVLA it's still on sorn, so maybe someone is trying to save it.

South Queensferry is lovely. Spent a few happy days in the Hawes Inn practically underneath the Forth (no need to say rail) Bridge. My old boss used to insist on rooms facing the bridge. Never had a 75, always thought them slightly old manish...said the old man.

Lovely part of the world. I was stood in that exact spot a couple of years ago before taking the ferry to Inchcolm. And I always thought the 75 was a good looking car

Absolutely love the 75 great looking car and with the BMW lump a very useable beast, very passionate following too, enjoy.

Yeah, had one of these brand new in 2001. Really great looking car. And I really wanted to love it. From new it was obviously too low powered, so I had the 130 bhp upgrade done by Rover. That made it better but it was never really satisfactory. Then within a year it developed one of those tappety rattles in the driver's door, right by my ear. Enthusiasm was falling... then suddenly it had the oddest engine fault, no power above 3000 rpm or so. Not the place for a long story but after many trips back to the dealer they found that the fuel pump was cracked. It took forever to find because Rover weren't allowing dealer to test for faults by parts substitution if the diagnostic kit said no fault. Good policy (not), certainly lost any faith I had in Rover, dealers and the 75. Got rid of soon after. Bet you do too Ian!