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NTS 809R

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Hi!

Just thought I'd introduce myself, and explain why I'm here!

I'm Matt, living in West Yorkshire, and have very recently had my interest in P6s rekindled.
The Yorkshire Rover Club were having a get-together at the Saltaire Festival near Bradford a month or so ago. Living locally, I decided to pop down. Glad I did. Not a huge number of cars, but they were all turned-out well, and people were friendly and chatty. Amongst the older Rovers there were three P6s. Two in Almond – a 3500S, and a 4500S; and a 2200SC in Lunar Grey – the same colour as mine. Ah, the memories came flooding back!

“Faith” was my first car – a 1977 2200TC reg. no. NTS 809R (hence the moniker), with Sundym, ETs, boot-mounted spare, and ebony cloth box pleat seats. I owned her in the early to mid ‘90s, covered many miles, and had a great time with her. Sadly, she was passed on to a friend of the family, and I lost track of her. Fingers crossed she’s out there doing well. You never know!

All that nostalgia reminded me what a great car she was, and I’m now thinking of getting back into P6 ownership, so I thought this’d be a good first step – get back in the groove!

Anyhow, that’s enough from me,

Kind Regards,

Matt.
 
Hello Matt,

Welcome to the forum... :)

It's a great place with members from all over the World. I am sure that you will enjoy your time here, and hopefully encouraged you will hop behind the wheel of another P6 soon.

Ron.
 
Hi guys,

Thanks for the welcome.

I called her Faith as that's what I needed a good dose of on journeys - she was a tad unreliable when I first got hold of her. :)

Thought I'd share a couple of pictures I managed to find of her...

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Up in the sunny North East

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Down the beach

Cheers,

Matt.
 
NTS 809R said:
Hi!

“Faith” was my first car – a 1977 2200TC reg. no. NTS 809R (hence the moniker), with Sundym, ETs, boot-mounted spare, and ebony cloth box pleat seats. I owned her in the early to mid ‘90s, covered many miles, and had a great time with her.
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Interesting the car is Lunar Grey - the last Lunar Gray cars would have been built before November 1975 - 'R' registrations don't start until 1st August 1976, so she'd either hung around somewhere for a while, or was resprayed later in life.

2200TC's are very rare cars now, sadly.
 
NTS 809R said:
I'm Matt, living in West Yorkshire, and have very recently had my interest in P6s rekindled.
The Yorkshire Rover Club were having a get-together at the Saltaire Festival near Bradford a month or so ago. Living locally, I decided to pop down. Glad I did. Not a huge number of cars, but they were all turned-out well, and people were friendly and chatty. Amongst the older Rovers there were three P6s. Two in Almond – a 3500S, and a 4500S; and a 2200SC in Lunar Grey – the same colour as mine. Ah, the memories came flooding back!
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There would have been a lot more there but the weather was against the show and a fair few didn't turn up. :(

Sparky would have been there as well, but was on his side having some surgery :(

Welcome to the forum and go get yourself a car :)

Richard
 
Hi Matt, glad you made it to our Saltaire show. The weather put a few off, and we were limitted on space so had only accepted so many entries.
We do have regular meetings 1st Tuesday of every month near Wakefield if you've interested in popping along just let me know.
 
The Rovering Member said:
NickDunning said:
2200TC's are very rare cars now, sadly.
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Really? :?
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In real terms yes - precious few left on the road. The whole tax issue is beginning to really bite IMHO. A great shame as 2200TC is a fantastic drive.

Bearing in mind at the National Rally we had 80+ cars, of which just two were 2200's (my auto and Tony Pirie's 2200SC) shows which way the wind's blowing/has blown in the last few years.
 
With a sweeping generalisation I would say that most people want a V8, hence they survive in relatively greater numbers and attract higher values.

As Nick says, 2.2TC is a very good drive, not far off the V8 in outright performance, however not as smooth / relaxed.
 
Hi Nick,

Thanks for the welcome.

NickDunning said:
Interesting the car is Lunar Grey - the last Lunar Gray cars would have been built before November 1975 - 'R' registrations don't start until 1st August 1976, so she'd either hung around somewhere for a while, or was resprayed later in life.
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Funny you say that - jogged my memory - I think you could be right about the colour change. I seem to remember some Almond colour when I was pulling out bits at the time. Makes sense. So, yes, maybe she was in fact Almond originally. Or at least had been Almond before I had her.

NickDunning said:
2200TC's are very rare cars now, sadly.
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Dead right. I remember when I was looking for a P6 in the early '90s that late 2200TCs were the most uncommon (part of the reason I bought her!), and I guess I just lucked out finding a half-decent one.

Cheers,

Matt.
 
NTS 809R said:
Hi Nick,

Thanks for the welcome.

NickDunning said:
Interesting the car is Lunar Grey - the last Lunar Gray cars would have been built before November 1975 - 'R' registrations don't start until 1st August 1976, so she'd either hung around somewhere for a while, or was resprayed later in life.
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Funny you say that - jogged my memory - I think you could be right about the colour change. I seem to remember some Almond colour when I was pulling out bits at the time. Makes sense. So, yes, maybe she was in fact Almond originally. Or at least had been Almond before I had her.

NickDunning said:
2200TC's are very rare cars now, sadly.
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Dead right. I remember when I was looking for a P6 in the early '90s that late 2200TCs were the most uncommon (part of the reason I bought her!), and I guess I just lucked out finding a half-decent one.

Cheers,

Matt.
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Sounds like your car was originally sprayed Turmeric (the SD1 yellow colour that went on the last 18 months of P6 production) - the paint started falling off (as the paint on late cars is want to do as the SD1 paint process was flawed), so it was resprayed Lunar Gray.

Cheers
Nick
 
webmaster said:
With a sweeping generalisation I would say that most people want a V8, hence they survive in relatively greater numbers and attract higher values.

As Nick says, 2.2TC is a very good drive, not far off the V8 in outright performance, however not as smooth / relaxed.
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Wonderful in the mid-ranges though!

As we stand now in the 21st Century I suspect the most numerous P6 variant left on the road is the 3500 auto (Series II), followed by the 2000TC (Series II, there are lots of 1971-1972 cars still in circulation) and the 3500S. Closely behind that, now, I suspect is the Three Thousand Five, of which there were only 17000 or so built, but many survive. After that you get into the field of SII 2000 autos - these cars tended to live easier lives as often bought as retirement presents, hence the survival rate (and the amount of them we now see at shows).

The fact that we had seven Three Thousand Five's at Rugeley shows the following they have now (and yes, I'd love one).

Rarest P6 variant on the road in the UK IMHO: 2200TC followed by 2200SC (manual). There are quite a few surviving 2200 autos, which is comical as there were only 6000 of them in the first place, but as per the 2000 auto, they were retirement cars.

Cheers
Nick
 
The Rovering Member said:
I'll have to get Josephines engine done then & return her to the road. I'll find out what's wrong with this 2000SC lump too.
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I've been offered two apparently good (and they're coming from a very good home) 2200TC engines complete recently Mr R.M.
 
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