G'day from Ipswich

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P6steveIP4

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Ipswich is now a better place 'cos I bought me a P6 - a 3500 Auto - model year is 1973 - just - registration date 23/01/1973, but fortunately manufactured 1972 - just prior to the Xmas Hols. I suspect....... :LOL: will post some pics when available and know how to do it.............
keen to meet similar owners in the area to swap notes if poss.......... been admiring them for some time and (if I'm allowed to mention it... ) I am really seeking a P5b - as well! -
 
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Welcome, and I hope the p6 will give much pleasure. I am sure you are not the only one on this forum that admires the p5b coupes most especially, I have had my eyes peeled for one that will fill (overfill) my garage for some time now.

Graeme
 
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- just noticed I splet Ipswich wrong in the subject! - the person I bought the P6 from, by the way, was only selling it 'cos he bought a P5b ........
 
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Certainly a worthwhile upgrade :) though I doubt the P5b will provide a sporty ride however one must do as ones personality suits.

Graeme
 
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Hi there (Steve?),
Welcome to the forum, I'm in north Essex so not a million miles from you, I've got a S1 2000TC and a S2 2000SC, would've liked a 3500 but I get bored of seeing petrol stations so frequently, I should say though that my cars are daily drivers so that's no slur on the 3500, just practicalities y'know.
I'm sure you're in good company with the P5 want, I'd like a Rover for each day of the week starting from the P4, I better write my letter to santa now,
All the best,
Jon.
 
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Hello Steve,

Welcome to the joys (time will tell.... :LOL: ) of owning a P6B.

By the way, are you in Ipswich England or Ipswich in Queensand, Australia?

Ron.
 
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SydneyRoverP6B said:
Hello Steve,

Welcome to the joys (time will tell.... :LOL: ) of owning a P6B.

By the way, are you in Ipswich England or Ipswich in Queensand, Australia?

Ron.
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sorry - Ipswich (& not Ipditch!) England -
 
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restojon said:
Hi there (Steve?),
Welcome to the forum, I'm in north Essex so not a million miles from you, I've got a S1 2000TC and a S2 2000SC, would've liked a 3500 but I get bored of seeing petrol stations so frequently, I should say though that my cars are daily drivers so that's no slur on the 3500, just practicalities y'know.
I'm sure you're in good company with the P5 want, I'd like a Rover for each day of the week starting from the P4, I better write my letter to santa now,
All the best,
Jon.
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- yeah petrol consumption bit high - but ooh!, sweet sound! - especially sat at the lights! -

+ upgraded from a Singer Vogue estate and surprised that the P6 takes up more room in the garage!
- oh, well! - small sacrifice - worth it -
(bulge)
 
Make you right on that last one, you can't beat that V8 burble. Especially the take off from the lights if you're not careful it can bring out the inner hooligan in you, just watch out for the relationship between right foot and smile, if the ratio gets too high you're probably being illegal in some way.
I know what you're saying about the size, they tend to fill gaps up more than you'd think but at least you can find it in car parks easier, just look for the biggest one or the one overhanging each end of the parking bay and that'll be yours.
Anyway above all enjoy your new car and if you get a chance have a look at the facebook group called Bring back the Rover marque please TATA, a group for like minded Rover nuts. It was started by the webmaster of the P4 drivers guild there's 19 members at the moment do you wanna be number 20??
Cheers,
Jon.
 
yeah - must be careful - ha ha

have read some of the debate re: TATA and the Rover Marque - what about the Chinese with their Roewe (?) motor - do they have the Marque, I wonder............. ??? - not a Facebook person - how do I look at the group, then?

ps - had rover family cars when the kids were young - first a 216 (great model - where are they now?) then a 416 then a 400 series - then I got a VW!
 
Not entirely sure about the chinese car, will try to track that one down. As far as Facebook is concerned I'm quite new to the whole facebook thing, this is where kids come in useful with their superior techno knowledge. but I'll do my best to get you started, if anyone else out there knows better please advise as I'm no expert.
Firstly start a facebook account, it was quite simple if memory serves me correct, when you've done that you will be given the option to find friends, that can be anyone you know or have known, also there is ways to protect your details so unwanted eyes cannot pry where not wanted. When you are given the find friends option it also says you can find groups, if you type in "Bring back the Rover marque please TATA" that should bring up the group. you will then be given the option to join and once joined you can send invitations to the group to your friends. I'm sorry I can't be more specific but I'm a grease monkey and computers are relatively new to me, that said though if I can work facebook all being well you shouldn't have much trouble :D
Good luck and hopefully I'll see you on facebook.
 
I don't know about other p6's in Ipswich but I do think your postcard website is one of the best websites I have seen. The history of the East End is a terribly interesting topic and the way you have displayed it the form of postcards of the era is truly wonderful.

It brings back memories of when big ships came up and down the Thames. I was a little boy when my father took me on one. By the end of the 50's things were changing drastically but I still remember paying the boys the customary amount when I parked in Wapping for a night out at the pub in the mid 60's. Failure to pay was of course stupid unless you wanted a damaged car! But for a relatively small sum you could ensure your car was there and in good condition when you returned much later that evening. I did not have a P6 when I parked there on Saturday nights in 1965. The p5 was of course still the latest Rover. I still did not have a P6 when it was inroduced in 1966 (second-hand healey frogeye sprite was all I could afford) but if I had owned a spanking new P6 I guess it would have been about half a crown to the boys on a Saturday night for that sparkling new P6 still to be there and undamaged on my return fully protected despite various dubious activities nearby and the odd knife fight around the corner! That was what protection money was all about. The boys probably became City Traders when they grew up and are now multi-millionaires.

Now back to Ipswich. I saw a wreck of a P6 some years ago on a farm outside Ipswich. I think it has gone now but if it is still there I will let you know. There is an old chap in Ipswich itself who owns a garage where he does wonderful resprays on all sorts of cars. If you need him I will get his address. I will also ask the family in Ipswich if they know of any P6's but they will probably say only mine which was up there a couple of years ago.

Maybe I should have posted this in the Lounge!

Cheers

Tony Bunting
 
SydneyRoverP6B said:
Thanks Steve. I just wondered as you introduced yourself with G'day which is typically Australian.

Ron.
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sorry Ron - use the expression all the time - went to Oz a couple of years ago and loved every minute - did a 5-week tour - Melbourne, Ayres Rock (camping), Cairns and the Trib., Brisbane, Byron Bay, Sydney - want to do it again - loved the Holdens which I hired a couple of times -
 
ajcb said:
I don't know about other p6's in Ipswich but I do think your postcard website is one of the best websites I have seen. The history of the East End is a terribly interesting topic and the way you have displayed it the form of postcards of the era is truly wonderful.

It brings back memories of when big ships came up and down the Thames. I was a little boy when my father took me on one. By the end of the 50's things were changing drastically but I still remember paying the boys the customary amount when I parked in Wapping for a night out at the pub in the mid 60's. Failure to pay was of course stupid unless you wanted a damaged car! But for a relatively small sum you could ensure your car was there and in good condition when you returned much later that evening. I did not have a P6 when I parked there on Saturday nights in 1965. The p5 was of course still the latest Rover. I still did not have a P6 when it was inroduced in 1966 (second-hand healey frogeye sprite was all I could afford) but if I had owned a spanking new P6 I guess it would have been about half a crown to the boys on a Saturday night for that sparkling new P6 still to be there and undamaged on my return fully protected despite various dubious activities nearby and the odd knife fight around the corner! That was what protection money was all about. The boys probably became City Traders when they grew up and are now multi-millionaires.

Now back to Ipswich. I saw a wreck of a P6 some years ago on a farm outside Ipswich. I think it has gone now but if it is still there I will let you know. There is an old chap in Ipswich itself who owns a garage where he does wonderful resprays on all sorts of cars. If you need him I will get his address. I will also ask the family in Ipswich if they know of any P6's but they will probably say only mine which was up there a couple of years ago.

Maybe I should have posted this in the Lounge!

Cheers

Tony Bunting
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Thanks Tony - yeah, that's my other passion - old Picture Postcards especially the East End of London where I lived until a move up to Ipswich 4 years ago - ha ha! - yes, Wapping was better place in the '60s - not just cars, but the vitality as well - now it is a souless place despite being more populated - glad to be out of it! -
 
Unfortunately the East End is now dead .... my grandparents moved out of the East End in the early 1950s to Ilford. Ilford has long since fallen too!!

Im in Romford and that is going the same way, as former dockers and cab drivers move on, to be replaced by Blairs dream candidates .... let me know what Ipswich is like, I might just join you..... Ill tell you a funny story .. a pal of mine (compulsory purchased out of Wapping to build flats or such like and moved to Barking) put Jim Fizpatrick up the wall in the Spotted Dog in Barking, when he used to drink in their rubbing shoulders with the "working classes" espousing the virtues of the Labour party. When his head turned red, he was let down and told to leave.
 
I grew up in Ilford and then East Ham slightly later on, and even though I'm in my 30's the "spirit" was still present in the 80's and even the 90's to some smaller degree. But that was kept alive by a dying few and they've all long since gone. I've moved around a bit mostly following work and now I'm in Essex and I must say I'm not a fan, I'd much rather be further out, suffolk, norfolk, cambs etc any would do. People's values seem to be a million miles from my own (I suppose variety is the spice of life?) and not only that I've never had so much trouble whilst at work, or finding work since being made redundant twice in this year. I'm a restoration engineer and in every job I've had in the past everybody I've worked with did it for the same reason, the love of old vehicles, doing a good job and profit seem to be incompatible somehow now and I'm not sure why. Everyone seems to have fallen for this blairite lie hook line and sinker and are happy to perpetuate it at anyones cost, profit and growth, growth and profit. What happened to a good job for a good price? I despair.
I look at areas I used to know in London and I'm baffled, places that were inhabited by proper Londoners, the same Londoners that gave the city the soul it had, but they've all been shipped out to make way for trendy apartments(housing estates) and without them the place has lost it's identity, I've worked and lived in central London in the past and I miss it so much, but I know if I were ever to go back I would not find what I'm looking for. It's heartbreaking, not only that what the hell has happened to the skyline? I respect architecture but what's been built is not and never will be London. What a bloody shame. And the olympics? Don't get me started! (and step off soapbox)
 
- amazed I sparked off a few commentaries (keep 'em coming, however!) mentioning my move to Ipswich from the East End - but we said if we were to go (from London), it would be right out - Ipswich presented itself 'cos I could work up here. Job Done. Regrets - none!

I do go back - but I'm always pleased to leave at the earliest opportunity - course I miss the convenience of London, transport shops entertainment etc. - but, as I'm also getting on a bit (steady!)the slower pace of life suits me - and gues what! - people are polite too! - and it's a lot cleaner too.

My Mum lived in East Ham and it wasn't any better - an', yeah ol' Jim Fitzp .. man of the people - haha! - my pal in Shadwell is proud of the photo with him rubbing shoulders on his allotment - haha! -

Ipswich is growing community even today - and is commutable to London/East End (I did it for a couple of years) - so not the outback anymore - loads of Car Nuts too - can't be bad with a real ale!
 
Talking about the beer near Ipswich- I have got a lovely litre tankard from the Adnams Sole Bay Brewery in Southwold Suffolk.

Talking about the olympics - Those of us living in Greater London are paying for it out of our council tax over the next n years but I don't suppose we will be allocated 50% of the tickets for ballot among Londoners. More likely to get no tickets at all!

Happy New Year

Tony Bunting
 
What was it Ken Livingstone said about the Olympics - that it wouldn't cost each of us more than the price of a walnut whip .
Typical.......
 
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