11/10 for using the words
fabulous
and
green flocked interior
in the same sentence!
It is fucking horrid, and I usually like wacky Aflas.
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The interior is the best bit ! That is shockingly awful.
that’s hideous, it looks like two cars stuck together
Good grief that is an atrocity. An Alfa cut & shut with added green.
Jesus, even with the weight of a V8 lump, there’s a load of travel on the suspension and just a bit on the twitchy side. Wonder if it’s transverse, or you’re actually sitting astride the thing, crotch-rocket style?
Rover P8 prototype, fairly obvious why it never got made…
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To be fair, that’s the development prototype from 1971 in a design drawn up in the lat 60s, as ever with Rovers of that time, pretty forward thinking. Sort of see the vibe that headed towards the Leyland P76 although I don’t think there was any link whatsoever between them (other than being under the wider Leyland umbrella).
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A little more info here… 
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It’s the V at the front. Looks like it’s about to cough up a fur ball
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As a yoot in Solihull in the 70’s you’d regularly see Rover and other BL prototypes in camouflage paint being driven around the town. SD1 and before that the various wedge shaped Austin Princesses and the TR7.
That said the biggest thrill for me was being taken to see one of the gas turbine powered cars that they had run at Le Man’s in the early 60’s. Sounded like a plane landing next to you.
I did end up doing holiday work at the Rover factory in my late teens, some stories from then.
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Fucking orrid. They literally dumped a couple of windows and a tailgate onto the saloon. Minimum effort, maximum vom.
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That’s not a shooting brake, that’s an estate.
corrected
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Shooting brake / shitty mistake. 
You are all Rong !
