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ampwhu

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i've found a 2000 estate in a barn in a village where i am doing some work. i have never seen one of these before. are they rare?
 
hard to see as it's covered at the moment. i'd say 99% that its a 2000/2200 as it has a smaller valance at the front. that's all i have at the moment. it's royal blue.
 
I've got one. Someone told me there were 8 four cylinder estates built. The only ones I have seen are mine and Mark Gray's 2200. (but I believe that is no longer a 4 cyl.) I also have a picture of a very dusty city grey example sitting in a lockup but I don't know how old that picture is or whether the car still exists.
Can you sneak some piccies?
 
ampwhu said:
i've found a 2000 estate in a barn in a village where i am doing some work. i have never seen one of these before. are they rare?
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I know of one in the Midlands.. should have bought it when I had the chance..
 
there is a 4cyl in Scotland I know of, never seen in the flesh but know the owner and it is rotten.

Colin
 
KiwiRover said:
I know of one in the Midlands.. should have bought it when I had the chance..
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No you shouldn't, it was rotten. Ask me how I know? :roll:
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Ahh! I bought some P6 spoilers from him, and he showed me the car at the time.. but I'd just picked up my rotten V8 estate. :roll:
 
I saw Burnt Grey 2000 estate in Tottenham about seven years ago, red interior, thoroughly derelict.

It was one of the first handful done, very similar, if not possibly the same car as the sales brochure from Panelcraft:

The long term owner had bought it at a car auction at Alexandra Palace in about 1971.

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Thanks
Nick
 
herts2000 said:
did they all have a vinyl roof?
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I think so... Certainly the roofline had to be highered above the gutter channels, so the vinyl disguises the extension. IIRC at some point later in 'production', the boot lid hinges were moved up onto the roof so that the edge of the roof hinged up as well, allowing the door to open much wider. Apparently, the boot door fully open only lifted to the height of a man's chest, so you practically had to crawl underneath to get in the boot!

It's a shame the later boot doors were just a slab (they didn't even bother putting the little swage line below the badges!) as it does look a bit cheap. I like the prototype ones where the the rear section of a standard saloon boot is quite obviously grafted on giving a nice little rump on the rear.

Michael
 
The roof is as much of a lash up as the rest of the conversion - no wonder they all had vinyl roofs! Later cars almost invariably have the vinyl taken down to the waist line on the rear door with a rear side door finisher to make the break to the paint. That looks much better in my opinion for much the same reason as redrover liked the one with a bit of boot structure. But that version had a quite hideous side elevation. Good job they never put that in production!

Chris
 
I agree the conversion is a lash up, the roof is fabricated with the top been rived to the up stand. The vinyl hides all that. I owned the car that Mark had, wouldn't have another.
 
Nick, that's the picture I have in my files. Can't remember where I got it from, I think someone posted it on Rovernet years ago...
Mine would have been an early conversion too, the car was registered as a Jan '66 so it would have been at least 3 years old when it was converted. Mine also has holes where the Estoura badge should have been. :cry:
The vinyl roof was actually listed as an extra cost option but I've only seen one without. I imagine it would have been a lot more work for panelcraft to tidy up the roof for painting than to put the padded vinyl over it.
 
NickDunning said:
I saw Burnt Grey 2000 estate in Tottenham about seven years ago, red interior, thoroughly derelict.

It was one of the first handful done, very similar, if not possibly the same car as the sales brochure from Panelcraft:

The long term owner had bought it at a car auction at Alexandra Palace in about 1971.

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Nick
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Used to by one of my old mans customers.
I really wanted to buy it and he wouldn't sell, back when I was 18, 1 or 2 years back :shock: It lived in Wood Green back then :wink:
 
GrimV8 said:
NickDunning said:
I saw Burnt Grey 2000 estate in Tottenham about seven years ago, red interior, thoroughly derelict.

It was one of the first handful done, very similar, if not possibly the same car as the sales brochure from Panelcraft:

The long term owner had bought it at a car auction at Alexandra Palace in about 1971.

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Thanks
Nick
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Used to by one of my old mans customers.
I really wanted to buy it and he wouldn't sell, back when I was 18, 1 or 2 years back :shock: It lived in Wood Green back then :wink:
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Interesting that you mention Wood Green, my brother lived there in the 90's and we used to pass a house with two P6 estates on the way from his house down to the tube station. This must be one of them :D
 
Yep, that's the right area :)
I used to have a lockup there where I kept my Hunter GLS 8) Them were the days :LOL:
 
No wonder yuo wanted the rover :LOL: Hunter GLS I had one probably the worst car in existance :roll: I think I got a 4.50 pm friday car or a Monday morning hangover car. :mrgreen:

Graeme
 
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