#Sterling
QOTD: Can You Build an Ideal Crapwagon Garage? (Part I: The Hatchbacks)
Today is the start of a series of related Question of the Day posts. Each Wednesday QOTD for the next few weeks will be dedicated to selecting vehicles for a different section of an ideal Special Crapwagon Garage you’ll be compiling.
Up for Part I in the series are hatchback and liftback vehicles. Start your brains.
Rare Rides: A 1987 Sterling 825, the Luxury Legend From Merry England
Though we wrote about the Sterling brand in a previous QOTD post from earlier this year, we’ve never covered one as a Rare Ride. It’s not often one finds a Sterling for sale these days, as most examples fell into disrepair and disuse by the late 1990s. But B&B commenter FreedMike managed to find a very tidy Sterling for sale at a dealer in Wisconsin, which is near Canada.
Come have a look at the not-quite Honda from Blighty.
Junkyard Find: 1989 Sterling 827 SLi Fastback
When you find a Jensen Interceptor in one row and a Maserati Biturbo Spyder in the next row at a Los Angeles self-service wrecking yard, you can count on finding another weird import not far away. Sure enough, here’s a Sterling, a rare reminder of the short-lived Austin-Rover-Honda experiment of the late 1980s.
Junkyard Find: 1990 Sterling 827 SL
The first thing we need to make clear when talking about the Sterling 827 is that it is not a Honda. It’s a Rover. Rover!
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