Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Rick]

Good car? bad car? I've heard of one but know very little regarding the spares situation for them. I assume engine bits are easy to find? Has anyone here ever owned one, or have experience of them??

RJ
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[Nic Jarman]

The B is for Buick so it has the Rover (Buick) V8. My friend had the Coupe but the brakes left a lot to be desired, he ripped the floor out of it when he failed to stop for a round about.
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[47p2]

Plenty spares for them, nothing you can't get.

I had one as a daily driver many years ago when they were regarded as old cars and apart from the 16mpg fuel consumption it was a great car.

Rust is the biggest problem with them
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[Phil - Nottingham]

Excellent cars and spares dead easy - see here

http://roverp5.proboards.com/index.cgi?

I am biased of course - the Rolls Royce is the rich mans's Rover.

Brakes should be excellent if set up right - huge power assisted front disks and rear drums

The V8's are the fastest and noisiest and use a Rover British made modified GM light alloy V8 that dates from last 1950s-early 1960's.

IOE straight sixes are quieter smotether and better built as pre BL

All rust same as any other cars from that era
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Rover P5 & P5B
Land Rover S2 & S3
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[Rick]

Any photos of yours to hand Phil??

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[baconsdozen]

I'd forgotten how good the six cylinder version (which seems to be treated as the Cinderella) is.
A mate brought one round the other day fresh from a bit of restoration and whilst undoubtedly slower than the V8 they are a pretty impressive car.
The engine was inaudible at tick over and the lack of any vibration pretty amazing especially considering the age of the design.
I've heard the build quality was better and the door closing reminded me of the old railway carriages,a satisfying clunk that just begged you to open the door again just to hear it a second time.
Whilst I enjoy my P5B I freely admit to feeling a bit envious.
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[barryG]

I ran a P5 3 litre as a daily driver in the early 90s. Lovely car but very expensive spares back then and the rust was horrendous! They can be easily bodged to hide it too, not uncommon for cars to start breaking in two at the bulkhead due to floor and chassis rot. Look for the gap between door and front wing, it should be even, a lot arent with the gap being bigger at the base of the wing/door... thats not good.

[Phil - Nottingham]

Our P5B was invited to a promotional shoot to support a Breast Cancer charity event in West Cork during our recent tour of Eire



Some of our fleet




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Rover P2
Rover P4
Rover P5 & P5B
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Morris Mini Traveller Mk2

[barryG]

Very nice, but I would have asked the girl to get her shoe off your bumper

[bob2]

I'd have told them to get off the just polished and waxed bonnet.............



............................. and get in the car instead