Tam
Active Member
Eye watering price tag £50k plus but must have an intresting history i hope
1966 Rover P6B Prototype | Graeme Hunt Ltd.
1966 Rover P6B Prototype | Graeme Hunt Ltd.
It’s been up for years. Lots of comments each time about its dodgy provenance.
I presume this is the one where the only original items are the chassis tags and the gullibility of potential purchases
And you would be wrong.
Come on Chris, spill the beans. What do you know?
Everything. I was the one told about it.. I passed on buying it due to too many projects. I know the history, I've been involved in the restoration, and we have loads of pictures from Gaydon showing how it was used for development and testing.
It's been restored exceedingly well, and to a high degree. The history of the car is second to none. This isn't some ringer with an original chassis number attached - as some have intimated elsewhere.
Did the original have the series two clocks and switches?
And what are the air vents, an idea which was never followed through, or an addition during the restoration?
Are the clear indicators original. small point but they jar visually to me like a modern update.
When it was converted to LHD in order to undergo testing in North America, it was fitted with the round dash, and switches, previously seen on the 2000S mock-up.
The air vents are part of the original a/c system. They never made it into production.
Again, pictures from Gaydon (b&w), and from the Rover engineer who drove her (colour)
Original from the LHD conversion. Colour pictures prove this is correct.
I think for me and I was to buy a prototype for this sort of money, it would have to be something special. This car is interesting and I am sure has a fantastic history, but at the end of the day, it looks like any other P6. In a show you would walk right past it. Now if it were a Graber coupe, or a factory convertible, or an original slanty nose gas turbine car, then I see the value. Not for this one though I am afraid. It just isn't different enough for me to be worth so much more than a standard production model.
I think for your mentioned cars there would be a doubling if not more in price even up to a factor of 10 I suspect.