3500 injection production car - Do they exist?

[webmaster]

... And possibly some pictures of the plenum you have.

 

[NickDunning]

I've quite a few PC magazines, in fact my missus contantly falls over them but never seen this one. Would you be able to scan it in? Which month is the issue?

That car, although I've never seen the article, is I believe on Reg Mason's car - which although being a genuine UK spec aircon car, certainly wasn't a factory fuel injection.

Reg specialised in fuel injection installations on P6's at some point (he was the founder of the Rover P6 Drivers Club, as was).

Cheers
Nick

 

[JohnGlinn(Cardiff)]

The "Reg of The Rovers" article about Reg restoring / rebuilding his car and fitting fuel injection was in Practical Classics from August 1997 according to my scrapbook.
Regards, John.

 

[DaveHerns]

Didn't that article start some controversy over whether the car was a restoration or a replica ?
I think he'd swapped the parts over onto a better bodyshell, from memory

 

[JohnGlinn(Cardiff)]

Dave,
yes, you're right! Letters in the magazine saying that it was a "replica" etc.
Regards, John.

 

[Paprika]

I've just picked up this issue for 75 new pence

 

[NickDunning]

apparently only 3 cars were made it on to the roads,one of which exists somewhere and the other two shown to have been scrapped, believe it or not

There is one surviving P7. It's in good hands but needs complete restoration, which, we hope, will happen in the not too-distant future.

There is also one surviving P9 (The huge 1970-1971 Beemer busting saloon), which is hidden away at BMIHT's store area, inaccessible to the public. It has accident damage.

Cheers
Nick

 

[Paprika]

I'm confused. I thought the P8 was the big saloon

and the P9 the 2-door still-born coupe picture earlier. The P6BS was the little roadworthy white angular coupe, have you some pics?

 

[NickDunning]

I'm confused. I thought the P8 was the big saloon

and the P9 the 2-door still-born coupe picture earlier. The P6BS was the little roadworthy white angular coupe, have you some pics?

Sorry, it's me going off at half cock. The P8 IS the big saloon scrapped in 1971. P9 would have been the production P6BS (the great British sports car that never was as it would have made the Stag look daft...)

Cheers
Nick

 

[NickDunning]

I'm confused. I thought the P8 was the big saloon

and the P9 the 2-door still-born coupe picture earlier. The P6BS was the little roadworthy white angular coupe, have you some pics?

Sorry, it's me going off at half cock. The P8 IS the big saloon scrapped in 1971. P9 would have been the production P6BS (the great British sports car that never was as it would have made the Stag look daft...)

Cheers
Nick

Denis Chick, who owns the awesome 1966 2000TC which was modelled for the Gaydon show in 1999 has some cine footage of the P8 under test, apparently it out handles the P6's following it, at looney speed, round the circuit. We hope, one day, to get this stuff onto disc.

Cheers
Nick

 

[chrisyork]

My favourite car of all time! 4WD, de dion rear end and 4.4 V8, Vorsprung durch technic!! The circumstances of it's death were truly tragic. I remember at the time the financial pages of the papers getting quite excited reporting the progress of its tooling up. This was actually complete, ie a matter of a few months for the preproduction batch, away from full production. The allegation is that sir William Lyons persuaded the BL board that they couldn't afford to have it knock the bottom out of the XJ6. The same logic that stopped the P9 mid engine coupe. (the fear for that one was not the Stag but the E type) I remember the papers at the time being very specific about it being pitched directly against Benz (BMW were not yet the force they are now). Personally, I suspect the real problem could have been the lack of capacity at Solihul with P10 (the Range Rover) doing unexpectedly well and P6 still on back order. Or had it been intended by Rover to use the Alvis plant? That was certainly where P9 was meant to have gone.

Curiously there is some evidence that the awful Australian Leyland P76 is a de-engineered version of this car. The styling is certainly similar in some respects - you could visualise the doors having had only a light makeover and the floorpan is apparently very similar. It definitely won the engine.

Fertile ground there for a future historical research project in the BL and Rover archives!

Chris

P8/P76/SD1 Comparison

 

[Blueman]

Hi
Sorry for delayed answer, but here are at last the pictures of the P6 efi plenum. I do not have injectors that fit, or any management system of the EFI but I think it is possible to use newer stuff, like Megasquirt, or more expensive systems like DTA.

I would like to use this, and it would be cool to use it on my NADA car, that is a well equipped car from California, year 1970. That would make a "more real"replica than Reg Masons car (see next post). But as you see from the picture there are work to be done.

would like to use this, and it would be cool to use it on my NADA car, that is a well equipped car from California, year 1970. That would make a "more real"replica than Reg Masons car (see next post).

 

[Blueman]

Hi
Here is at last the article in PC from 1997.

The car is definately a replica, as the only real are the badges, and he is using replicas to avoid theft of the originals.

But he has really done some proper work on the car.

Reg Masons car 1
Reg Masons car 2
Reg Masons car 3