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amcdonald

amcdonald

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Hello everyone from Southern California
I just refreshed my membership after 10 years! I used to have a 1974 (I think) 2200TC in England. It was daily transportation for 6 years. Now I live in the USA and I was amazed to recently discover the P6 is alive and well over here (just). I was even more amazed to discover a perfect 1969 NADA TC 31,000miles in Canada. So I bought it! Then, feeling the urge to exponge the 1966 Mustang from the garage, I just bought a NADA 3500S too. I have the set! But the latter is more of a project than the immaculate TC.
I hope to be sending in photos of P6's at very cool locations in Los Angeles shortly........
 
Hi Adrian,

Welcome aboard, cant wait to see your pic's! Don't forget to use the search facility, as almost every item has just about been covered P6 wise on this forum!

From a cold damp Lincolnshire!

Mike.
 
Good to see that they are still alive and kicking over the pound. Hope to use your English accent when filling her up at the petrol station. :D
 
Hi Adrian

'69 is very late for a Federal TC, the 3500SNADA was launched in '69 and there is acouple of months overlap only between the two models. It will be interesting to see the spec in your photo's. At least some federal spec series 1 TC's have white paint, a set of thin stainless steel bodyside waist mouldings as whell as a blue waist coachline and blue 1/4 panels and backgrounds to the badges; amongst lots of other little wrinkles. What about Rover-Delanaire air con - perhaps not from Canada?

The phrases "Federal" and "NADA" are both used for North American 4 cyl cars, although I have only come across "NADA" (North American Dollar Area) used in connection with the V8's. I have a feeling there are some minor differences in emissions equipment between the federal and NADA specs.

Chris
 
chrisyork said:
The phrases "Federal" and "NADA" are both used for North American 4 cyl cars, although I have only come across "NADA" (North American Dollar Area) used in connection with the V8's. I have a feeling there are some minor differences in emissions equipment between the federal and NADA specs.
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Chris and t'other Adrian

It seems that the model year on the title of some cars is not particularly reliable. Since Rover made few changes from year to year and some dealers had slow moving stock it is hard to be sure whether the car is '68 or '69 or possibly even '70

NADA usually refers to cars before the 1968 model year; TCs and I think SCs were given commision numbers in the LHD export series. To the best of my knowledge Rover treated NADA cars as simply a specific set of option for LHD export cars rather than as a separate model.

The North American 3500S and later 4 cylinder cars were given their own unique series of commision numbers as the specs had diverged quite significantly from the existing "LHD export" series; these were the "Federal" cars as they incorporated safety features and emissions controls required by US legislation.

I tend to use "NADA" to refer to the ealrier cars as this differentiates them from the Federal cars which looked just a little different; it may not be offcially sanctioned but it helps me sort out one from the other

A separate sequence was reserved for about 200 Federal Mk II 2000TCs delivered after the facelift models were introduced

Aidrian (with an extra 'i')
Ramona, CA
 
Hi Aidrian

I'm inclined to agree with your logic. Over here the North American 3500S is always referred to as NADA whilst people get in a muddle over whether to call the 4 cyl cars NADA or Federal. I shall henceforth cause uproar by referring to the NADA 3500S as a "Federal"!

Chris
 
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