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Willy Eckerslyke

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Hello everyone, I finally got around to registering after lurking for too long. Some of you may already know me from the Practical Classics forum and uk.rec.cars.classic.

My Rovers:
1972 2000TC in Mexico Brown. Owned for about 4 years. Driven daily, though taking a short rest after someone drove into the side last month. Insurance paid out and I've collected the parts to fix it (2 doors and a front wing). Just waiting for decent weather to spray them, then it'll be back on the road.
Since owning the car I've rebuilt both sills, replaced the engine and steering box, rebushed the suspension, replaced the rear springs and the shocks all round. Now very sound, but with tatty panels and noisy gearbox. Have been collecting panels, so have enough to tidy it up completely - not all in on go though.

1971 2000TC in red. Very rough base unit - not restorable. Bought off eBay last month for parts for the above. Now stripped completely. Cover sills had been welded in place hiding great gaping holes.
Engine running on 3 cylinders. Compression test ~ 12,9,9,9 (valve problem after running on unleaded?) Side plates leaking badly. Good gearbox which I need to replace the noisy one above.
Had a Tudor Riviera folding sunroof - very tatty and leaking, accounting for the rusty floorpan. I sold this on eBay for spares.
Oddly, the fuse box was under the bonnet, despite being a post face-lift car.
Tinted windows all round, which I thought were introduced later (?).

1972 2000TC Tobacco leaf. Needs sills welding, but nothing too daunting. Nice, unmolested example with Britax folding sunroof.
Intending to respray in Mexico Brown. General idea is to respray all my spare panels and fit them to this and my main P6 as I go along.

Bloke down the road has offered me a 1974 3500S - probably restorable. Pale yellow; tinted windows; cloth seats; rough front doors, but otherwise doesn't look too bad. I told him I'd call him back in a month or so when I've cleared some space...

Also have too many Land Rovers and a Triumph Vitesse tucked away in the garage waiting for a replacement chassis.

I'm on Anglesey. Anyone else in this area?
 
Your 1971 TC will have the fuse box under the bonnet - it's a trait of the "series 1½" like mine. Can you have a look at the engine and chassis numbers. If it's just like mine, you'll find that the chassis is a 446...... meaning a series 2 TC, and the engine a 415....... meaning a series 1 TC.
Normally all engine and chassis numbers start with the same 3 digits!
It's all to do with the contents of the parts bins when building the cars over the changeover period.

On the same car, you'll also have: script 2000 badges instead of plate badges, and an inertia starter motor........

Bri.
 
Brian-Northampton said:
Your 1971 TC will have the fuse box under the bonnet - it's a trait of the "series 1½" like mine. Can you have a look at the engine and chassis numbers. If it's just like mine, you'll find that the chassis is a 446...... meaning a series 2 TC, and the engine a 415....... meaning a series 1 TC.
Normally all engine and chassis numbers start with the same 3 digits!
It's all to do with the contents of the parts bins when building the cars over the changeover period.

On the same car, you'll also have: script 2000 badges instead of plate badges, and an inertia starter motor........
Bri.
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Now that's really interesting, thanks. Yes, it does have script badges - I'd assumed the boot had been swapped at some point.
Chassis No. 44604411A; Engine No. 41544560F so you're spot on.
The car also had the Series 1 type front number plate bracket with the chrome over-rider things either end.
I think the starter's a pre-engaged one, but will need to check - pretty sure it had the solenoid on it.

The trim strips along the sides of the car had been replaced by horrid stick-on ones. Initially, I wondered if it was a bodged series 1 that hadn't had trim strips at all, but have uncovered filled holes from the original clips on the doors.

And the dash and bonnet are properly series 2.

This is how it first caught my eye:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150354567280
(Ignore the rose tinted photos and description, there's no way it should have had an MOT that recently!)
 
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