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Good Luck Montana, Looks like you have a very good basis for a really nice car, not much more than a bit of gentle recomissioning. You will nave to post your progress and make us all jealous of your loverly P6. As Islaboo said above hope all is well with you and family .

I have not seen this pattern of mirror before. It looks very similar to the standard Wingard ones that are generally factory / dealer options but does not have the screws exposed. Yours also has stange riveited backplate on the head. My guess is that if there is no makers name on the arm, then...

I tried to start smoking but never had the will power....

I have wondered what this was for too. I assumed it was soemthing to do with the jigging / assembly process?

Looks really good. Not very often you see a P6 retrimmed to this goos a standard. The carpet looks really good, nice close cut pile by the looks of it very close to original trim.

Nice work, That will be sweet when finished.

I guess nobody out there knows why we there is this clash, just that the hinge sqeezes the hole in the boot lid out of shape and mangles the rubber infill grommit. Would be useful to know how common this is and if there is a fix for it?

Hello Ricky43, Thanks for your reply. London is a little far, but will keep in mind if I can't find anything closer.

Hello Mike, Chris, Thanks for replying to me, appreciate your kind offers. I am not in any hurry so I do not mind waiting. Mike, where abouts are you in the country please as I would like to sort out getting these when you are ready if okay? Chris, thanks for your offer. Bedfordshire is a...

Hello and hope you all had a good Christmas, My P6 had the D posts cut off right across the flat where the wing bolts to, not by myself I may add but by a guy I had doing some work for me. This lopped the inner siffner panel in half, the rest of the panel had its spot welds drilled out with an...

I can't think I have ever seen a new rear valance as I don't ever remember seeing anyone who produces one. I would think best bet is to keep looking on ebay for a good s/h one. may be worth looking for someone who is listing parts from one they are breaking and asking if they have one for sale.

Hello Peter, I have attached a picture of each side of a spare I have. The Bootlid I did have on my P6 was bashed in, but one of the boot hinge holes was fine on it (I have seen lids where both are perfect). On others it seems to be one side or the other. I think it is variation on the pressing...

Hello All, On my old (dented) bootlid one of the rectangular hinge holes had the top edge sqaushed in by the radius part of the flat hinge plate where it bends round. On my replacment bootlid this seems to be on both hinge holes. I have seen boot lids that have been fitted where this is not an...

Hello all, found that mine was not really falling on my head, but seemed to be getting lazy. The whole lot is now off the car and I found that where the flat plate part of the hinge with the tapped holes runs against the round bar torsion arm was full of 40+ years of grit, dried-up grease etc. I...

Thanks Vern, makes sense on the silicone grease.

Thank you Harvey, It feels more like is has expanded rather then worn, maybe something to do with the age? I was unsure if the wrong type of grease could degrade the plasstic. Seems like you confirmed as I suspected that I will need a new one after all.

Hello out there........can anybody help?

Hello All, Cleaning up the gear lever seat before putting back on the car I noticed that there seems to be a little play between the ball within the socket of the seat / bush. The seat seems to be in good order apart from some discolouration, but I am not sure that there should be any play at...

Hello Suze, on the 4 cylinder engines no. the part that sits around the timing chain means it can only go one way. Not sure about V8s as I have never owned one.

This is really impressive stuff, one of the very best restorations I have seen so far on here (if anywhere)! Can't wait to see it done. Sadley I lost the space a few years back for the work I wanted to do myself on mine. The guy I was recommended by a mutual friend to do it made a really bad...

My thoughts too, but nowadays you would think the hot-rodders would have less desirable options for theit V8 engines than series one P6s. cant even remember the last time I saw a series 1 3.5 at a show. Could be total basket cases, but they dont look that bad, although as we all know on this...

Hello All, Saw these on ebay earlier today. Wish I had the space and resources to do either one of these. My thinking would be range rover 4 litre V8 with a 5 speed manual? Hope somebody on here can save them. Rover P6 3500 1970 Barn find in need of restoration no engine or gearbox | eBay...

I had a grill and headlight panels that where a little past a polish. I wet and dry sanded them with a fine grade, sprayed them with a little thinners to make the surface tacky and sprayed them with satin black auto paint. The hardest part is painting in the silver lines (left mine all black for...

Whooooa! I don't think I have seen so many cyclops together. Second favourite Rover.