Tam
Active Member
Less than 3 weeks since my epic journey to bring Frazer's 3500 home
I had to make a considerably shorter journey (40 miles round trip) to bring home another P6
Some of you will recognise the car from the thread in the "Cars Spotted" section. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17534
Basically a 1964 registered 2000, still pretty much as it left the factory with the odd blemish added just for character Got her home today but after sitting for 26 years in a garage in Aberdeen she is unfortunately still on the trailer as the fuel pump has decided its not keen on drawing fuel through to the carb anymore and pushing her off the trailer on my own didn't seem like a good idea :roll:
The car went through the local auction last Saturday but the highest bidder decided for some unexplainable reason the high bidder said that he had bid on the wrong Rover the only other one in the sale was a very smart P5! Easy mistake :roll:
So because I had left a bid on the Friday when I went to view the car I got a phone call late Sat. afternoon asking me if I wanted the car for the hammer price which I wasn't keen on, so their next offer was to pay what I had left in my proxy bid, which seemed a better idea to me :wink: So in the space of a day I had gone from looking at an interesting car for everyone else to actually owning said car! Still not sure how it all happened but couldn't be happier even though I have found a bit of rot in the drivers side sill around where one of the screws holds on the outer sill. Managed to open it up enough to get a finger through so will have to see what awaits me under the outer sills but after giving the rest of the sill areas a good prodding with a weighty screwdriver nothing else gave way yet!!
Took lots of pics of bits and pieces on the Friday this was the most worrying one at the time a mouse nest under the drivers side rear seat and definitely been damp at some point
But further investigation today proved that it was crusty but still solid underneath
Still a bloody mess!! when compared to the passenger side under the rear seat
Need to get a repair/rebuild kit for the fuel pump and have seen this one on ebay is this what I need? - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-P6-2000 ... 3a851b2887
Need to sort a few other things like a leaking water pump have been promised the second hand one the seller ordered before he put the car into the auction but not sure second hand is the way to go??
Any way a long road ahead of me but looking forward to it whatever it may through up and at least I have dry secure storage so no real hurry but would be nice to be on the road for next summer cheers Tam
I had to make a considerably shorter journey (40 miles round trip) to bring home another P6
Some of you will recognise the car from the thread in the "Cars Spotted" section. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17534
Basically a 1964 registered 2000, still pretty much as it left the factory with the odd blemish added just for character Got her home today but after sitting for 26 years in a garage in Aberdeen she is unfortunately still on the trailer as the fuel pump has decided its not keen on drawing fuel through to the carb anymore and pushing her off the trailer on my own didn't seem like a good idea :roll:
The car went through the local auction last Saturday but the highest bidder decided for some unexplainable reason the high bidder said that he had bid on the wrong Rover the only other one in the sale was a very smart P5! Easy mistake :roll:
So because I had left a bid on the Friday when I went to view the car I got a phone call late Sat. afternoon asking me if I wanted the car for the hammer price which I wasn't keen on, so their next offer was to pay what I had left in my proxy bid, which seemed a better idea to me :wink: So in the space of a day I had gone from looking at an interesting car for everyone else to actually owning said car! Still not sure how it all happened but couldn't be happier even though I have found a bit of rot in the drivers side sill around where one of the screws holds on the outer sill. Managed to open it up enough to get a finger through so will have to see what awaits me under the outer sills but after giving the rest of the sill areas a good prodding with a weighty screwdriver nothing else gave way yet!!
Took lots of pics of bits and pieces on the Friday this was the most worrying one at the time a mouse nest under the drivers side rear seat and definitely been damp at some point
But further investigation today proved that it was crusty but still solid underneath
Still a bloody mess!! when compared to the passenger side under the rear seat
Need to get a repair/rebuild kit for the fuel pump and have seen this one on ebay is this what I need? - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-P6-2000 ... 3a851b2887
Need to sort a few other things like a leaking water pump have been promised the second hand one the seller ordered before he put the car into the auction but not sure second hand is the way to go??
Any way a long road ahead of me but looking forward to it whatever it may through up and at least I have dry secure storage so no real hurry but would be nice to be on the road for next summer cheers Tam