Model: Rover P6 3500 automatic
Year: 1972
Mileage: TBA
Tax: No (exempt)
MOT: No
Location: Norfolk
Price: £450
Right then. This is my Rover P6, which I bought nearly a year ago now. I'd always fancied a V8, having owned a variety of 2000s and 2200s over the years, and this one was advertised as being solid and needing minimal if any work for its next MoT. I made the mistake of picking it up in the dark and not checking it over properly; after getting it home, however, it quickly became apparent that all was not well when I took a screwdriver and poked holes along more or less the entire length of both sills and the rear inner arches. Sure enough, it failed its MoT dismally on welding - the rest wasn't too bad though, the other fails were handbrake efficiency and brake pipes.
One epic weldathon later and it was ready for its test (handbrake and brake pipes were sorted too). Then the bloody thing went and lost reverse gear. It'd never had any gearbox problems before, so I assumed that something in the gearbox had just got stuck through lack of use. A mate dropped the sump off the gearbox to have a look and he diagnosed a broken spring on the reverse gear valve (pretty easy diagnosis as the broken spring was laying in the sump). It's not a particularly difficult job to do but at the moment I've not really got the motivation to do it.
The rest of the car is reasonably good - body panels have a few scratches and odd bits of bubbling but nothing major, engine is good, gearbox works fine in the forward gears and brakes are brilliant. All the electrics work, although it has the usual P6 problem of the intermittent wipers not wiping intermittently, and the oil pressure gauge doesn't always wake up. Seats are a bit tatty (they have seat covers on them at the moment but could really do with the tops of the backrests recovering) but otherwise the interior is in fairly good condition. The chrome on the rear bumper isn't great, but the rest of the chrome is presentable.
I've spent a substantial amount of time and money on this car, and unfortunately the reverse gear issue, although relatively minor, is the straw that's broken the camel's back. I'm confident that with reverse gear working it'd go straight through an MoT, so my loss could well be somebody's gain.
Here's a couple of pics:
Car is currently in my unit near North Walsham in Norfolk.
Year: 1972
Mileage: TBA
Tax: No (exempt)
MOT: No
Location: Norfolk
Price: £450
Right then. This is my Rover P6, which I bought nearly a year ago now. I'd always fancied a V8, having owned a variety of 2000s and 2200s over the years, and this one was advertised as being solid and needing minimal if any work for its next MoT. I made the mistake of picking it up in the dark and not checking it over properly; after getting it home, however, it quickly became apparent that all was not well when I took a screwdriver and poked holes along more or less the entire length of both sills and the rear inner arches. Sure enough, it failed its MoT dismally on welding - the rest wasn't too bad though, the other fails were handbrake efficiency and brake pipes.
One epic weldathon later and it was ready for its test (handbrake and brake pipes were sorted too). Then the bloody thing went and lost reverse gear. It'd never had any gearbox problems before, so I assumed that something in the gearbox had just got stuck through lack of use. A mate dropped the sump off the gearbox to have a look and he diagnosed a broken spring on the reverse gear valve (pretty easy diagnosis as the broken spring was laying in the sump). It's not a particularly difficult job to do but at the moment I've not really got the motivation to do it.
The rest of the car is reasonably good - body panels have a few scratches and odd bits of bubbling but nothing major, engine is good, gearbox works fine in the forward gears and brakes are brilliant. All the electrics work, although it has the usual P6 problem of the intermittent wipers not wiping intermittently, and the oil pressure gauge doesn't always wake up. Seats are a bit tatty (they have seat covers on them at the moment but could really do with the tops of the backrests recovering) but otherwise the interior is in fairly good condition. The chrome on the rear bumper isn't great, but the rest of the chrome is presentable.
I've spent a substantial amount of time and money on this car, and unfortunately the reverse gear issue, although relatively minor, is the straw that's broken the camel's back. I'm confident that with reverse gear working it'd go straight through an MoT, so my loss could well be somebody's gain.
Here's a couple of pics:
Car is currently in my unit near North Walsham in Norfolk.
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