A very nice P6 you have bought! Great color! I had years ago exactly te same P6! Also with a manual and the same color. Mine had a black interior. But I must say…your interior looks great like it is! 👌 Good luck with it, and keep us posted!
This could have been my Great Uncles car - except his was in Brown. This car was stuck in a garage for 30+ years. Strangely many barns have dirt floors which help to keep cars better than a concrete floor. Concrete sweats in the cold and helps corrosion underneath while in a dry and ventilated barn with a good roof, soil is like a desiccant !
Looks like a very late 'High Compression' S before the October 73 revisions. Lower Compression ratio, and fitment of Hif6 type carbs as per the 2200 models, introduced at the same time along with trim changes as per 2.2 Couple of things as per originality. Non PAS car, so steering wheel IS correct. Some rubbish in the comments here. Also, Ambla Box pleat trim, is completely correct, in Bronze here, Ebony and Buckskin were also offered with Monza Red bodywork, Leather remaining an option. So, all seems authentic, I'd ignore some of the expert advice on here regards trim, steering wheel etc, entirely correct. Lovely Car, had a few, all the best.
I bought one of these from a colleague (a 1974 if I recall) in 1986. It needed a full exhaust system ...I found a virtually new system from a local breakers yard. I did various service work including a carb strip down and clean. It proved a little too thirsty and decided to sell. I cleaned it up ....I mean cleaned up ....door shuts ...total engine bay....wheel arches....boot stripped out and rubber linings tyre wall blacked. The full interior and carpets shampooed after stripping out the seats. Advertised for sale and not a single response ! Eventually, a motor trader I knew with a showroom offered to sell for me. I took it to him , placed in the showroom where he threw a sheepskin on the seat along with the Haynes manual and left the doors and bonnet open. It sold within 48 hours when a bus driver traded his Mini for it !!!
Ooh, I do love a P6, or a P5 come to that. Either way, the sound of that glorious V8 still does something to me. At a time when my dad was running a very nice Super Minx, I had two mates who's dads had P6s. Now, my dad's car was lovely but my young, envious eyes lusted after those Rovers. What are your plans for these two?
I had a 3500S years ago, it had the same steering wheel and no PAS. I think, on the V8's at least, big wheel = no PAS, small(er) leather covered wheel = PAS.
@@htimsid P6b was a pre production moniker. You could buy a P5b but the P6 was 3500 in the sale rooms. Look it up. The P5b was sold alongside the P6 3500
Great car.
The manual gearbox transforms these cars.
Wow
Love the 3500S
I’m always amazed some of these cars survive. A colleague had in in the 1970 era and the body just rotted away .
A very nice P6 you have bought!
Great color!
I had years ago exactly te same P6!
Also with a manual and the same color.
Mine had a black interior.
But I must say…your interior looks great like it is! 👌
Good luck with it, and keep us posted!
This could have been my Great Uncles car - except his was in Brown. This car was stuck in a garage for 30+ years. Strangely many barns have dirt floors which help to keep cars better than a concrete floor. Concrete sweats in the cold and helps corrosion underneath while in a dry and ventilated barn with a good roof, soil is like a desiccant !
Very nice find , my uncle had a mustard colored one .
I had an Almond(mustard) one some years ago. Bloody fun machine until I had a altercation with a farm gate.
@@martonmechanicalmachines9842 oh no
Had one back in the day loved it 18/25 mpg loads of power and v8 sound track
This is going to be a lovely motor when it's done the manual is the one to have 😊❤
Best sounding doors ever
Nice car, even better with the 5 speed...
Looks like a very late 'High Compression' S before the October 73 revisions. Lower Compression ratio, and fitment of Hif6 type carbs as per the 2200 models, introduced at the same time along with trim changes as per 2.2
Couple of things as per originality.
Non PAS car, so steering wheel IS correct. Some rubbish in the comments here. Also, Ambla Box pleat trim, is completely correct, in Bronze here, Ebony and Buckskin were also offered with Monza Red bodywork, Leather remaining an option. So, all seems authentic, I'd ignore some of the expert advice on here regards trim, steering wheel etc, entirely correct. Lovely Car, had a few, all the best.
It was derived from an engine Buick couldn't sell as Americans didn't trust aluminium engines at that time.
I bought one of these from a colleague (a 1974 if I recall) in 1986. It needed a full exhaust system ...I found a virtually new system from a local breakers yard. I did various service work including a carb strip down and clean. It proved a little too thirsty and decided to sell. I cleaned it up ....I mean cleaned up ....door shuts ...total engine bay....wheel arches....boot stripped out and rubber linings tyre wall blacked. The full interior and carpets shampooed after stripping out the seats. Advertised for sale and not a single response ! Eventually, a motor trader I knew with a showroom offered to sell for me. I took it to him , placed in the showroom where he threw a sheepskin on the seat along with the Haynes manual and left the doors and bonnet open. It sold within 48 hours when a bus driver traded his Mini for it !!!
I spoke to the guy you bought them off they look alright
Ooh, I do love a P6, or a P5 come to that. Either way, the sound of that glorious V8 still does something to me.
At a time when my dad was running a very nice Super Minx, I had two mates who's dads had P6s. Now, my dad's car was lovely but my young, envious eyes lusted after those Rovers.
What are your plans for these two?
They are both for sale
What work are you planning to do? I'm looking for one in the New year . Good couple of videos , love to see the progress you make with them.
There not my cars and my good friend who owns them has just sold them both to be restored I believe.
Always want rover p6 ......had .. 3... S D1.....2O L 2.6 .......3.5 v8
Whats pretty cool about a tow bar?
Lots
Looks like the steering wheel got swapped from the auto car too.
I had a 3500S years ago, it had the same steering wheel and no PAS. I think, on the V8's at least, big wheel = no PAS, small(er) leather covered wheel = PAS.
This is correct. Smaller leather wheel, PAS models only. Standard P6 wheel otherwise.
It's not. It's correct. Non pas car, also ambla box pleat, in Bronze here, correct for a pre 74 season S.
It’s not a P6 - it’s a P6B ;)
P6 is the 2000/2200 :)
The "b" suffix was only applied to the P5 b. The P6 was simply the 3500 & 3500s in v8 form.
@@stevemoorman9481No, the V8 is called a P6B.
To settle the 'argument', provide a source for the claim.
@@htimsid P6b was a pre production moniker. You could buy a P5b but the P6 was 3500 in the sale rooms. Look it up. The P5b was sold alongside the P6 3500
It’s definitely the wrong interior and steering wheel for the 3500s model.