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darryl

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hi, i first joined the P6 ROC in 1985 ish, my 1st car was a 2000sc FMO 675K i lapsed my membership but remember Alec Wallis in ruislip, i am looking at rejoining and maybe buying a 3500S, i'm now 43 and reccon that a P6 is safer than a motorbike for my mid-life, :LOL:
 
Hi :)
Hehe, yep probably alot safer than a motorbike :LOL:

Hmm this scares me slightly, when you had your first P6 I was 3yrs old, and now I have a P6 that is 12years older than me....... is this a bad thing????
 
NiGhTowl said:
Hi :)
Hehe, yep probably alot safer than a motorbike :LOL:

Hmm this scares me slightly, when you had your first P6 I was 3yrs old, and now I have a P6 that is 12years older than me....... is this a bad thing????
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Welcome back Darryl

I bought my first P6 in 1977 :shock: and this scares you? :cry:
 
Errrr sorry. I have just relised I have probably insulted 75% of you guys :(
Didnt mean it like that.

It is just strange that I am interested in a car that most people are.... shall we say alot older than me... it is kind of cool, and slightly strange too. :D
 
Don't worry about having a car that's older than you are. Just point out to people that old Rovers were made to go forever! My flying instructor made a rude comment about having a car older than I am. I asked him what year his plane was, to which he answered is 1951. I asked what was the average age of the flying club planes, and the average age is over 30 years. That kind of put him in his place. He admitted that I had a point there.

James.
 
Hehe, I will never worry about it. It means I got plently of people to ask if ever I have a problem :p :D


j_radcliffe said:
Don't worry about having a car that's older than you are. Just point out to people that old Rovers were made to go forever! My flying instructor made a rude comment about having a car older than I am. I asked him what year his plane was, to which he answered is 1951. I asked what was the average age of the flying club planes, and the average age is over 30 years. That kind of put him in his place. He admitted that I had a point there.

James.
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ROFL I would have loved to see the expression on his face for that!!! :LOL:
 
NiGhTowl, my car is 6 years older than me which I think is kind of cool really. I'm not allowed to call it an old car in our house though as my girlfriend has just had a 'significant' birthday that the car won't have until next year!

It certainly attracts peoples attention when I turn up to non Rover events though as P5's and P6's aren't a common sight these days even at classic car events.
 
You can often find me with my hubby at Wonderland Car Show, Waddinton and Last Blast which are big shows and so far I have seen 2 P6's 3yrs ago...... I might have to resort to fixing the brakes and electrics on my car, and drive it round as is, multi coloured just so there is a P6 at a car show I go to. The only panel on the car that is the colour it is supposed to be the roof atm LOL
 
Hiya Darryl

Welcome back. My car is 5 and a half years younger than me but when I was out washing it one evening a group of young lads asked me how old the car was. When i replied that it was 37 they said "that must be older than you". "No" I said "but thanks" :D

Dave
 
Welcome back Darryl.

I bought my first P6 when I was 14, it was a bit of a shed though...
Had three more since then. Love 'em! :mrgreen:
 
Being in your 20s and being into old cars is far from strange .... I know a 19 year old with a Mk2 Cortina!! Strange, no bloody cool!! Young blokes driving around as if they are off the set of Get Carter, as opposed to having low batty, pretending they are black and buying noisy back boxes for their shi**y Novas and Saxos.
 
When I bought my first car in 1980 it was a 1959 MKII Zodiak export model and whilst it was only 21 years old at the time it was several generations of motor tech behind what most other young lads were buying, always regret selling that car it was mint and would have commanded a very high resale price today.

Graeme
 
Dave

You are lucky not have come across low batty. Its is where you wear your trousers way below your waistline to show off your underwear. It usually invoves swaggering as you walk, some gold (uually front tooth) a cap of some sort and talking like a wan**r.

Weld an exhaust on a 1.1 Eurobox and a low batty boy, pleased that he will annoy the hell out of his neighbours will say "dat is sick init, dat exhaust is so fat, rar!". It used to be an ethnic thing, but now anyone can join in, usually asians looking for some form of street credability that they feel young black youths have. Its all beyond me.

Check this link out Dave blood, soon to be busting out on da streets of Surrey, in it rude, blurt blurt!!
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/photo ... 781267.jpg
 
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