Hello from the owner of a white 1965 P6

johnsimister

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Hi - I've been following the forum for a while so I thought it was high time I came out of the shadows. I bought a grey 1967 2000 SC a year and a half ago, improved it and loved it but ended up selling it because I wanted to concentrate on the restoration of a pre-war Singer Le Mans. I immediately regretted the sale and soon found a 1965 example, better in nearly every way than the grey one.

I've already done lots of detail jobs on it but there's plenty more to do. Crucially the body is excellent, it goes well and I've treated it to a new set of Pirelli Cinturatos, making a vast improvement over the three age-hardened Avons and one persished Vredestein it wore before. There is a problem with its clutch, though, which I am about to post in the right section.

Anyway, this is a great forum full of knowledge, and it makes fascinating reading.

I'm now going to attempt to upload a pic of my car, taken on the recent Dacorum Classic Car Run.P6 at rally.jpg

All the best

John
 
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Thank you. I like the fact that it's such an early one with the original features and quirks. It covered just over 200 miles between 1996 and last September, so it has been a case of bringing it back to life. It had just one owner from new until 1996. It has been restored at some point but by whom I don't know. All information gladly received. Reg no is ELT 44C.

John
 
Welcome aboard! Love the early 2000's too and would add one to the collection were it not for all of the usual financial/space/spouse related constraints.
 
Hi John

Welcome aboard. As you can see from my Avatar I'm an owner and fan of the early ones too.

I can give you some info on the car and almost became the owner myself. I am 99% certain it is the same one.

The car was advertised in Autotrader in Oct 2011 but advertised in error as a P5.

I saw the ad late on Saturday 29th Oct and spent all day Sunday trying to get hold of the advertiser but unknown to me he was away for the weekend. He called me back on Sunday night and we discussed the car but frustratingly I was going into hospital on the Tuesday for a minor op and despite my best efforts to get away from work early on the Mon to go and see it, I couldn't, and by the time I was back in the land of the living on Thursday he called to say it had gone. Gutted sums up my feeling at the time although as it turned out 18 months later I found a much a much earlier example, chassis number 000316 so looking back now it was probably for the best. I think the asking price was about £900 but it had no MOT. I think the owner was his mother in law and it had been well looked after and regularly serviced.

The car was down near Battle in East Sussex and was purchased by someone in Romney Marsh who I think may have been an AA or RAC man.

It then surfaced about 18 months later for around £2800 I think but nothing in the ad to suggest he did any work to it so guess it was just MOT'd and no doubt any minor faults rectified.

I think it then went up to North Kent, Margate, Ramsgate possibly and again reappeared about 12 months l;ater with a £4000 or thereabouts price tag so everyone seemed to earning well out of it. :eek::eek:

I think it then went to London and not sure if that was you or the man you bought it off.



While I have your ear, have a word with Larkin and tell him to get his '64 car back on the road. ;);)

All the best and look forward to hearing about your adventures with an early P6

Alan Francis (partviking)
 
Thank you all. Demetris, glad you liked the Autocar story. It needed to be done, and one of the UK Car of the Year judges really needed to own the first winner. So that was me. It was the reason I bought the grey one, but I've always liked P6s and I enjoyed driving the two my father had when they were new (a 2200SC and then a 2200TC). And now I like them more than ever, partly for the memories, partly f0r the intriguing design and engineering, partly for the fact they are so lovely to drive. A longer version of the Autocar story, with more about the hands-on fettling stuff, appeared in Practical Classics, by the way.

Alan, thank you for the background. It certainly fits with the car. I'm on holiday at the moment but when I get back I'll check the dates and places you have mentioned with the bits of paper that came with the car. And then we can perhaps discuss further!

John
 
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