Last Updated
01/04/2008

ABOUT US

This is an introduction to Scott's Old Auto Rubber. It began in 1984 when I moved from New South Wales to Melbourne and started selling and buying parts for our own cars, (Rovers) and then friends began asking for us to search for hard to get parts for their cars. We then began obtaining cars to wreck and selling off all our unneeded surplus from our backyard. It turned into a business from there. Parts were being requested that were never in good condition on the Rovers we wrecked, such as windscreen seals, door seals and most other rubber parts. It was a gamble to invest the large amounts of money required to have dies made and to develop products, but it paid off slowly. Year by year we continued to grow, adding to the half page of products we stocked, till it got to the point where we needed to move into business premises, which we did at the close of the eighties and changed our name to Roverco.

Our reputation began to spread, and our first sale to an overseas customer opened up a new adventure as an exporter. We now have customers in almost every country and are keen to expand further and develop more products. After partnership problems were resolved by me going it alone, I asked my brother to join me and we never looked back for 12 years. At the same time we decided that the name did not reflect the true nature of our business, as we now have products for almost every kind of vehicle. So my then partner came up with a name I could not reject, and we became Scott's Old Auto Rubber. He has now gone onto other things including Whitewall Tyres.

I now have a new business partner who also happens to be my wife, and we are looking forward to developing new ranges of products for our customers growing needs. We have now disposed of all the second hand Rover parts so we can fit into our new shop (3 doors up the road!) with all the new reproduction parts we are getting into, such as door seals, windscreen seals and quarter vent seals etc. 

I have owned too many cars to list, I know it is hard to believe but they number in the hundreds. My very first car was a 1956 Rover 90 owned by a local rally driver which my father wrote off the day I bought, followed by a 1954 Hillman Minx, a Valiant Safari AP5, many Humbers and then to cars as diverse as Morris Minors and several Buicks, including a 1965 Wildcat, to Alpha Romeo Guilia Supers and Chevrolet trucks as well as a hand built FJ Holden sports car called the Don Special, then after moving to Melbourne many more Morris Minors and Rovers including a Rover 1925 '9' horse power Tourer, a 1967 MK3 Rover fitted with a Chevrolet V8, a 1955 Rover 90 fitted with a 200 HP 3500 V8, a 1956 Rover 60, a 1970 P6B with full Triplex glass roof, a Jaguar XJ6 fitted with a Chev 350 V8, Hillman Husky and even Skodas!! At this moment in time we seem to be more interested in English cars, namely Rovers, owning a 1947 16 Sportsman and a 1970 P6B Estate, as well as our Commodore family transport. My first motor bike was a 1955 G9 Matchless followed by several Triumphs, a Honda 450 ex-police bike, Yamaha triples, several 1985 Suzuki GL1000G's, another Triumph Daytona and a Ducati GT 750 I called the plank, and a lot more. Now my only bikes are a 1950's Mobilette and a 1922 Levis Popular as well as several bicycles including some fitted with accessory engines, this is a friend of mine, Bruce on his Ducati Cucciolo he bought from me and restored.   

Cars are not our whole life as my wife and I have 2 children which take up most of our spare time. Other interests include collecting valve radios, Electric Kettles (seriously), collecting model cars (mainly Rovers),  antiques, old motor cycles, bicycles, Meccano and almost anything old.

If you have any queries about us or anything on this site, please E-Mail us direct. We hope to develop more products in the future for newer and newer cars. We also stock Penrite Oil - The Good Oil and can supply Wiring Looms for Many Makes and Models! Reproduction stickers, chassis plates, badges, key fobs & license holders mainly for popular British classic cars from the 1950's, 60's, 70's and 80's.

Thankyou,
Scott and Enza Richmond. 

Page Manager: S. Richmond
Page Last updated - 01/04/2008

Web: www.scottsoldautorubber.com.au Email: scottsoldautorubber@bigpond.com.au
Postal Address: P.O. Box 107 Oakleigh 3166, Australia.
Shop Address: 12 Haughton Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne, Victoria.
Phone & Fax National: (03) 95633023
International: 61 3 95633023