immaculate Colorado '70 NADA P6 - Sky blue metallic beauty

Mmm - that's rather lovely isn't it. First time I've seen pictures of a NADA without air con. I'm pretty sure it was original like that cos it's got the normal engine steady bar rather than the special A/C one and I can't see him having easily replicated the heater control slides. Definitely a standard heater box and decker panel as well. Something strange seems to have happened to the panel (ex speaker grille) around the electric window switches though. Can Ian tell us what this should look like on a non A/C car?

If I was to really nit pick it looks like a non standard colour - possibly metallic? But hey - anyone who does as superb a job as that restoring a NADA is entitled to choose their own colour! And you haven't seen mine yet!

Chris
 
Certainly is a nice car, and the colour suits it well.

I have to say that fuel pump installation looks like a pigs breakfast along with the diff mounting plate earth wire that looks to have burnt out right next to the pump.

There are a couple of other things in the pictures that either need doing or haven't been done correctly, but I'll leave others to see if they can spot those. Nothing that would stop me wanting it though.

The parts availability must be a lot more difficult there I would think.
 
hi chris,
i have just last week listed the standard features of the NADA / Federal and the optional extra was AIR-CON, but most did have it. the front window switches are mounted in a panel the same as the air-con fascia, but without the holes and markings for the knobs that control it. the guy has probably had to make a fascia for his as they seem to get badly damaged and cracked etc and are one of those impossible items to get hold of being so unique.

ian
 
Interesting for the reserve fuel tap thread, this picture clearly shows the reserve fuel valve under the car near the dif.

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Really a beauty !

Originally she was burnt grey. Now gleaming in that blue colour - very extraordinary but not bad in my opinion.

Rudiger
 
chrisyork said:
First time I've seen pictures of a NADA without air con. I'm pretty sure it was original like that cos it's got the normal engine steady bar rather than the special A/C one and I can't see him having easily replicated the heater control slides. Definitely a standard heater box and decker panel as well. Something strange seems to have happened to the panel (ex speaker grille) around the electric window switches though. Can Ian tell us what this should look like on a non A/C car?
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My Brigade Red 3500s doesn't have A/C either. Most seem to have had this fitted but there are some cars around without - not suprisinngly there aren't many of these in Southern California.

I'll try an fish my window switch panel out of the box where it is and get some close up photos. To be honest it was a pretty crude bodge originally; on close inspection it looks as if they attacked a standard speaker grille with a pair of side cutters and a Stanley knife to fit the switch panel

Aidrian
 
mrtask said:
I wonder if he is a member of this club?
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Lance LaCerte is (or certainly was) a member of The Rover P6 Club, so I'd imagine he is of this Club too. He used to be on the old Rovernet mailing list, years ago.

Stunning car. Beautiful.

Cheers
Nick
 
Lovely car, cracking job in the engine bay as well which is always nice to see.

How would the reserve work in that position?? if you had to use it there would be a 6' air lock. It is not clear how the electric pump has been connected to it. surely this is not how it was originally designed.

Colin
 
Richard wrote: "Interesting for the reserve fuel tap thread, this picture clearly shows the reserve fuel valve under the car near the dif."

I'm the webmaster for the BritishV8.org website (where this car is shown)... and I'm very interested to make any additions or corrections to the documentation of this or any other V8 Rover car. (Most of my experience is with MG V8s.) There's so much about these 3500s that's new to me - you hardly ever see them in USA!

Please don't hesitate to shoot me an e-mail, and also photos if you have them. ( All my contact can be found here: http://www.britishv8.org/British-V8-Contact-Info.htm )

I'll be happy to introduce more people to these fascinating cars.
 
OrganDoctor said:
Amen on losing those seat covers.
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Many of the Federal 3500s were supplied with box pleat AMBLA seats though some did get the optional box pleat leather. Rover/BL apparently dropped leather seats as a standard fitment to keep the price down

If you sepnd much time on these seats there is a practical side to the seat covers. If you ever have to drive very far on a hot day in a car without A/C and with vinyl seats you will quickly come to appreciate the need for seat covers. If you don't have them getting in is sometimes painful and getting out means peeling your legs, rear end and back off the AMBLA

Mine will eventually get a set of sheepskins - probably a little bit tacky (literally so when the kids spend anytime in the back) but supremely comfortable

Aidrian
 
HI, Welcome to the P6ROC Forum.
One thing I did notice was that in one of the photos Lance was questioning what the red bracket was for. This is a support for the boot lid if you have the spare wheel mounted on it. The rover emblem on the bootlid comes off, and there should be a spacer and some other parts to mount the spare wheel on there, giving you more boot space.
 
Mad_Dan_Eccles said:
OrganDoctor said:
Amen on losing those seat covers.
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If you sepnd much time on these seats there is a practical side to the seat covers. If you ever have to drive very far on a hot day in a car without A/C and with vinyl seats you will quickly come to appreciate the need for seat covers. If you don't have them getting in is sometimes painful and getting out means peeling your legs, rear end and back off the AMBLA
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Living in Greece i agree with the above! There 's no way i am going to do any trip in the summer sitting on leather. However, i believe that there are more tasteful materials than fluffy sheepskin covers! Which are not going to help much in hot weather anyway. Instead we use straw matt covers. They are really cool, smell nice, and doesn't look 70's Kitsch. I 'll try to post some pics sometime.

Demetris
 
hi arthuy,
all the NADA / Federal cars were designed with the petrol reserve system at the back exactly like the picture shown. firstly the compressor and brackets are in the way for using the mechanical fuel pump so it was capped off and redesigned. the fuel line from the tank drops down to the electric pump through to the reserve tap system that is mounted up front on english cars. exactly the same principal, it also does away with having to send the reserve pipe to the front of the car ( as mentioned by someone ) , but as you can see by the picture the petrol reserve cable is around 8 foot long as it is mounted at the rear.

ian
 
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I thought that there was two pipes in the photo of different diameters and the cable. There wouldn't be much range in the reserve line so close to the tank would there?

Colin
 
There are two pipes from the tank to the reserve change over valve then one on to the engine. The two pipes from the tank pick up at different levels in the tank, hence the reserve capacity. In a UK car both pipes from the tank go all the way to the engine bay, The capacity actually in the pipe is minimal, the reserve capacity is due to the different level pick ups in the tank exactly as for this NADA.

Chris
 
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