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[buzzy bee]

Hi

Any one ever had one, any oppinions, advice on them, spares availability etc nightmares etc.

Cheers

Dave

[clan chieftain]

Are you thinking of investing.I have never had one but I have heard the V8 is the best. I would imagine you can get bits ok as there are plenty of them around. Nice looking cars.
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[Rick]

By all accounts they're a great drive, main headache from what I've heard is the inner structure rotting away while hidden behind smart (bolt-on) exterior panels. Prices aren't mega so finding a good solid one for reasonable ££ shouldn't be a big job.

I don't know how thirsty the V8s are, but I'd have thought a 2000 or 2200 would be ample enough.

RJ
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[Ellis]

I have fond memories of the P6 when my father bought a new one - A Rover 2000 (single carb) in December 1967 - FJC 27F.

This is another car for reasons which I cannot understand are undervalued even today. They are handsome cars in a "British" way and very comfortable and can be used every daily.

I'm not quite so keen on the facelifted versions with the egg carton like grille but owners I know consider them the better buy. I am told that the earlier ones with the Dunlop caliper brakes can be troublesome.

Which one? 2000, 2000TC, V8, V8s, 2200 or 2200TC?
My choice would be the V8s with the manual gearbox and even better one of the later ones with power steering as standard.
If you're not overconcerned with originality, many a manual P6 gained an ex SD1 five speed gearbox when the first SD1s started failing their MOTs with terminal rust when four or five years old.

I was surprised to learn some time ago that P6 and SD1 production overlapped for nearly an year.

Good luck, you have an interesting and rewarding decision to make.

Ellis
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[BigJohn]

Dave, have a sniff around here:
http://www.classicroverforum.com/index.php?sid=39d6c745274ba07cadbc27b15a0cb9b3
I have a P6b, it progresses. I find the bw35 very relaxing lazy drive. For spirited driving get a manual. The interior is quite small for a long car and they tend to ride soft. Parts availability is probably the best i have ever had, (but I have had four Standards previously). Excellent club back up, there are two P6 clubs. They are a bit thirsty. 24 mpg at 60 on the motorway, 18 general, and 15 when out on a club run. Apparently a well set up TC is almost as good as a V8, but has less spares availability.

[Ellis]

I have just remembered about a P6 V8 which was for sale locally a year or two back.

It was a 1968 F registered automatic green V8, so it must have been one of the first ones. It remained for years in dry storage, twenty years, I think, before it's second owner decided not to restore it as was his original intention when the car was laid up.

It was exhumed from it's storage shed in 2010 looking very sound, a little untidy around the edges perhaps and it had only covered 60k miles from new.
The original black leather seats looked excellent and all concerned, owner son and family were expecting some interest on Ebay where it was listed after failing to sell when advertised locally.

It failed to sell three times on three separate occasions. Either successful bidders failed to make contact or when contact was made, attempts were made to lower the modest auction price. It eventually found a new home months later for £450, a paltry sum considering all it's documentation, history and bills were with the car.

It wasn't MOT'd which in a small way explains the derisory sum it sold for.
But not really.
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[roverdriver]

I have a few of them. A 2000 automatic was my daily driver for a while. It performed very well, was very comfortable to drive and reasonably economical at about 26 mpg. Although acceleration might not appeal to boy racers, it was quite adequate for city driving, and out on country roads it purred along very smartly.

A 3500 Auto took over from the 2000 Auto. Much quicker acceleration, if it was needed and a fuel economy very similar.

If one wanted to drive either of them like a rally car, they were well up to it being great road-holders both on tarseal and gravel.

A car with independent suspension all round, disc brakes all round and old-time Rover engineering. is IMHO as good as anything modern that one could select.

I collected a few as I thought that they would be the ideal car for me and my son also fancied them. I graduated to a pair of P4's later on and prefer the older cars because, well, they are older.

We don't have the rust problems that are inherent in the U.K., but one does need to watch for rust at the bulkhead where the horizontal front springs attach. Because the body panels are so easy to replace (5 bolts to a front wing) I would expect that a lot of apparently tidy UK cars have rust hidden in the main structure so look carefully at it and don't be taken in by neat and shining body panels.
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[peter scott]

As with many car designs the earliest models are the best looking before they started puting silly (meanless) bulges in the bonnet.

Peter
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