Mk III 3 Ltr with Velour?

I recall David Green had a set of light brown cloth covered P5B seats for sale some years back. Listed on fleabay twice for not a lot of money but they didn't sell. I thought about buying them but considered the storage & the fact that I'd hardly be changing my very nice original leather interior so didn't bid. They were very nicely done though, looked factory or professionally re-trimmed.
I've put that 3 litre on my watch list. I could probably live with that one even though it's a MkIII & an auto. Though looking again it needs carpets & I'm not too impressed by the re-covered door-trims (no stiching-feature by the looks of it). In fact apart from the seats, the whole interior trim needs replacing IMHO.

I won't be buying it of course. :|
 
You're not starting to hanker after a P5 are you, Chris?
That's the second topic on P5s in as many days!

Michael
 
There is no way that car has done 36,000 miles. Look at the state of the interior. It's got industrial office carpet, that's lounge suite fabric on the seats, there's a massive crack in the instrument panel and the brake pedal rubber is worn right through! Nothing inside that car says low mileage to me. As for the outside, those spot lights are awful and the tyres are very wrong. I like a nice 3 litre coupe but that isn't great. The whole interior needs re-doing and i'd be curious to see under the bonnet. They have no history on the car prior to 1985 so I suspect it had done over 100,000mls by then.
 
I agree with Kiwi Rover about the mileage. 20 years without history !
Plus surely if it was a geuine 36K mile car he'd have a high reserve price?
 
The arm-rest looks wrong too. :LOL:
I wouldn't re-do the seats though as I like the difference & they look well done. But the rest of it...........?

Didn't even notice the brake-pedal or the crack in the binnacle.
 
I'd like to see more, and better quality, photos. I agree it looks like some sort of cloth, or could it just be the normal trim covered in a fine growth of mould :mrgreen:

I don't think cloth was ever a listed option on the P5/P5B, although some destined for Govt use were trimmed in cloth by Hoopers, but they were saloons. That doesn't mean the original owner didn't have it retrimmed. I've seen cloth trimmed Rolls Royces, yet always thought half of the appeal of the RR/Bentley was the leather interior.

My first impressions are not that of an 'obsessively maintained' 36,000 mile car.

I'm also not sure about the colour, it looks like Zircon Blue / Silver Birch (roof) to me, which was a P5B colour, but not a P5 one. P5 coupe colours for 1966 were Steel Blue/Charcoal (roof), Light Navy / Steel Blue (roof), and for 1967 model year Admiralty Blue/ Silver Birch (roof). Also, P5s didn't have the coachline.
According to DVLA it was regd. end of July 1966, so should be a '66 model.

Of course, there are many 46 year old cars that have been resprayed and retrimmed, but at a genuine 36,000 miles? I know some owners might have treid to update their P5s when the P5B was announced, but the usual obvious way was with Rostyles, which this one doesn't have.

Still, yet another Mk111 P5, of which there aren't many about now.
 
Well, I've just dug out my P5 book (James Taylor) which does make reference to cloth trim.

It states that production records do not reveal how many cars (this is in the P5B section) were fitted with special interior trim. However, several cars were upholstered in beige cloth instead of leather, one of them being a 1969 coupe, painted in Tobacco Leaf over Mexico Brown (neither of which were P5B colours). So, maybe they did one in 1966.

I've posted on the P5 forum in case any one there knows any more.
 
That would tie in with the set David Green had. I do sometimes regret not buying them, they really were not a lot of money though I can't recall exactly how much.
 
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