Oldlook
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Hello everyone, I've been reading this forum for some time now, and I've learned all kinds of interesting things. I want to thank you all for your knowledge and project threads, since I don't think I'd be very confident working on these cars with only a book to reference!
As for my cars, I have two P6's, the last two from my father's Rover days. He worked on a lot of Rovers in California in the late 70's and 80's, and owned several over the years. My parents brought their most reliable driver and one project car with them when they moved, but the move was basically the end of the Rovering. The driving car ruined its engine a year or two later, and more important things needed the money. The driver got a garage slot; the other car wasn't so lucky. Then they sat for twenty years.
That's the backstory; now I'll actually talk about the cars! The driver is a 1968 200TC, originally April Yellow with (I think) a black interior: it is currently white with tan/black/red interior. It suffered terminal overheating and was never repaired, thankfully I have a complete spare engine out of a '65 SC and another TC head to mostly make it stock again. The engine combined with a failed emissions test were what took it off the road, so I feel relatively confident I can make it drive again. I don't have much mechanical experience, so it should be interesting!
The other car is a (late) 1969 NADA 3500S, Corsica Blue/black vinyl, no front seats, rusty floors, not much good paint left. It was bought non-running, last registered in '79, and is known to have sat through at least one flood in California. I'd love to make it run again and restore it, but I know it needs a complete strip-down and a lot of work, and I don't know how rusty the important parts are. I'm not going to consider it until the 2000 is running well and polished up a little.
I feel like I've talked too much, and the forum ate the first try at this post, so I'll stop here. I'll post pictures if I can tomorrow.
As for my cars, I have two P6's, the last two from my father's Rover days. He worked on a lot of Rovers in California in the late 70's and 80's, and owned several over the years. My parents brought their most reliable driver and one project car with them when they moved, but the move was basically the end of the Rovering. The driving car ruined its engine a year or two later, and more important things needed the money. The driver got a garage slot; the other car wasn't so lucky. Then they sat for twenty years.
That's the backstory; now I'll actually talk about the cars! The driver is a 1968 200TC, originally April Yellow with (I think) a black interior: it is currently white with tan/black/red interior. It suffered terminal overheating and was never repaired, thankfully I have a complete spare engine out of a '65 SC and another TC head to mostly make it stock again. The engine combined with a failed emissions test were what took it off the road, so I feel relatively confident I can make it drive again. I don't have much mechanical experience, so it should be interesting!
The other car is a (late) 1969 NADA 3500S, Corsica Blue/black vinyl, no front seats, rusty floors, not much good paint left. It was bought non-running, last registered in '79, and is known to have sat through at least one flood in California. I'd love to make it run again and restore it, but I know it needs a complete strip-down and a lot of work, and I don't know how rusty the important parts are. I'm not going to consider it until the 2000 is running well and polished up a little.
I feel like I've talked too much, and the forum ate the first try at this post, so I'll stop here. I'll post pictures if I can tomorrow.
