For more then a year i have a Rover P5B Coupe as my daily driver and covered approx 11.000 km. After buying it i did following things:
-Fitted electronic ignition and high voltage coil (Powerspark = cheap and reliable)
-Fitted relays to lights and horn
-Fitted a rear fog light
-Replaced all hoses from the cooling systems
-Cleaned the carbs and fitted new seals
-Overhauled the brake system (new pistons, new hoses, pads and main and slave cylinder) and use silicon brake fluid
-Opened starter motor and alternator and cleaned these and replaced alternator bearings
-Gave front wheel bearings new grease
-Replaced all fluids and filters
-Fitted an LPG system and electric fuel pump
-with a kind of Waxoil, i injected sills and other area's and did the inside of the bumper and overriders.
The car has been very reliable and no repairs were needed. The window wipers are not that good and the rear screen gets misted in cold wet wheater and its rather noisy above 100km/hr but i didn't regret my decision at all.
I am restoring another P5B Coupe so have a lot of spare parts which makes it a lot easier in case of emergency spares requirement and have an MGB V8 and 3 classic motorbikes as back up but not needed yet.
A picture of the car in daily winter use.
Peter