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It's a great film. The first half isn't lost though, as I have the full film on DVD which I purchased from the Gaydon museum.

Agreed. I have a bog standard 2000 too, although a Series 1 version. And this one looks cracking!

Truly stunning work there. I can't begin to imagine the cost of this level of workmanship, but it'll produce one of the best out there. I look forward to more progess

Rover SD3 made it though: the first Rover 200 from 1984......

This has appeared on ebay: Rover P6 2200SC Great Project L@@K | eBay Interesting that it should now appear in Hampshire as I first happened upon it in Stourbridge, in store at a classic Mini workshop. When the workshop moved to Kidderminster, it too moved there as I could see it from the...

Welcome aboard! Look forward to photos!

A fascinating thread. I had my rubber gasket fail (right by the thermostat housing with the now familiar sounding spray of oil over the carb area) which had been fitted with a black sealant of some sort which had turned to loose little wafer thin strips. We used some very fine grinding paste...

Welcome aboard! Look forward to seeing you around the Birmingham area

Excellent! Another local P6 owner on the forum. On occasion, you may spot my blue Series 1 2000 driving about, but not until the diff has been off for its leaks to be fixed.

Great car in a great colour. Looking forward to seeing more of it!

Link worked a treat! Great bit of film of the car too. Shame about the mat though......

Agreed. Some beautiful work there. Wish I could weld like that

Have a look at this. He is apparently unsure if it the V8 model or not.... Rover 2000 P6 BARN FIND ONLY 43,000 For Sale (1971) on Car And Classic UK [C811067]

Did all the Australian ones get the front suspension reinforcement as standard?

Can't imagine there's much need for a heated rear window in Australia! Also wonder if the Nelson built ones differed in significant ways from the Lode Lane ones, other than colours.

Indeed. They do give more legroom too. Also the V8 badge on the console speaker grille was deleted for this model year.

Definitely end of 1973 for the official decrease in compression ratio. It's mentioned in the 1974 model year 3500 brochure of which I have two copies for some reason. This coincided with the final visual updates for the range with the vinyl roof and normal wheel trims becoming standard on both...

The car certainly looks the full '74 spec, with the cloth box pleat seats and the vinyl roof and very nice it looks too. Pedant hat on though: for the 1974 model year, the compression was lowered and as such the sticker on the back window by the fuel filler should say "four star" and this one...

As an owner of a Series 1 2000 in Zircon Blue, I can say that looks fabulous. Great work and a credit to you

Good news regarding the pass. You are indeed correct regarding the August 1975-onwards emissions test and is one reason why I looked for a car earlier than that. The only test is for visible smoke before this date

Welcome aboard! This is a fabulous resource so you should find all the answers to problems you may have. Be warned though, when you have one P6 you often end up with more.......

Great looking car! Demetris is correct, the 3500S models only had the bolt-through style hubcaps until the end of the 1973 model year at which point both manaul and auto models were made visually identical with the same hubcaps and vinyl roof. Police ones though I'm told, still used the early...

Auto Glym do a vinyl and rubber care spray product which simply wipes on. I use it on mine and it's commonly available from Halfords and the like and seems to produce good results. There are plenty of folk who use boot polish for a similar effect. I'm sure there are countless other...

Great progress. Looking forward to more

Fabulous stuff. Welcome aboard!