How Far Have You Driven Your P6

Look great but just a word of caution: if they are separate from the actual tyres, as they appear to be, there is the risk of heat building up.
Happened about 15 years ago to a Sunbeam club member who had whitewall flaps over his radials on a 1954 (Talbot) Alpine Mk 1 causing a blowout.

Only an about town fair weather drive nowadays Mike. A waste I know but my better half likes modern comfort and air bags etc.

Can relate to the young person driving the Rover bit. In Geneva in 71 a couple of Dutch businessmen wanted to have a look at the car and then asked me where I was staying, as in which hotel. I pointed vaguely behind me not having the heart to tell them that I was showering in the railway station and sleeping in the car wherever I could find a quiet spot. I was 25. For much of the trip the front passenger seat was turned around so it could be reclined toward the dashboard allowing me to stretch out in the back with somewhere to put my legs.

I slept in my P6 during our trip across Australia ,some of it in motor camps with a pup tent -I was a lot bendier in those days.
 
Probably the longest single trip would be around 1800 miles (3000km). Other distances have been shorter, but daily so accumulating. My Rover would easily have been doing 600 miles per week (1000km) for months at a time, hence my annual mileage was easily close to 30,000 (50,000km).

Ron.
 
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