Practical Classics Restoration Show - 28-29 March 2015

[chrisw]

Just a place holder for now, but the RSR will have three cars on the stand, so please take the time to come and visit us.

Although the RSR is more of a general Rover Club, than one dealing with specific models only, we currently have over 140 P6s within our membership.

As such, the Restoration Show in March will see us displaying two P6s out of the three cars that we hope to have with us.

One of the P6s will be a car currently undergoing a full restoration, after spending a large amount of time outside for many years. This is an almost unique car, a factory right-hand drive NADA 3500S, one of only six or seven built by the Engineering Department as they looked at taking them into production in the UK. There are only two of these cars left, and this was originally registered ROV1 and was the personal car of Rover's then chairman, Sir George Farmer.

We hope to change the front suspension over the course of the weekend.

More to come..

 

[MarkGray]

The RSR was at the Practical Classics Restoration show at the NEC Birmingham this March and displayed a variety of vehicles in varying states. We had Derek Spooner's delightful series 1 StationWagon having a brake refurb and and adjustment prior to an overseas trip and Mark Gray was changing the clutch on his P6. Pre-war cars are not forgotten, Chris Cartmel's P2 has the sunroof removed to investigate the weatherproofing.
All the cars drove to the show and had to be made ready to drive away again Sunday Evening.

This is Alan Buttle's immaculate P3 75

In the foreground in Mark Gray's ailing P6 and behind is Danny Hopkins' ( from Practical Classics ) P6

Derek studies, in depth, the inner workings of his Land Rover

While Chris Cartmel removes the sliding sunroof from his P2, with a view to repairing the drain tubes.

A closer view of the Practical Classic's P6 that we were happy to display on the RSR stand.

The RSR was also proud to show the early Rover heritage with these two two-wheeled vehicles. The bicycle may have been one of the bikes used in the 1908 Olympic races

Edd China from the TV programme 'Wheeler Dealers' paid us a visit and is seen here with Mike Maher the RSR chairman and Maria Gray who was this time in front of the camera, having been the photographer for all the other pictures in this post.

The SD1 belongs to Guy Worral and is a very nice example of the rare V8-S variant.

Mark was still working on the clutch as it was getting near to the end of the show, but he was able to complete the job and drive home.

Mike Brewer the other half of the 'Wheeler Dealer' team also stopped by, and is seen here explaining exactly how much clutch free play there is.

A general picture of one corner of the RSR display with the P3 75 straight ahead. The RSR was given a large display area and managed to show a wide variety of vehicles.

Another picture of the stand with the P2 and Station Wagon on display.

The P6 clutch is being tested, Mark underneath and Angie working the pedals.

One of the reasons the clutch took so long, Mark was always ready for a chat, here Guy and Mike discuss the finer points of classic cars.

The RSR would like to thank everyone who came and said hello to us during the show and also those people who stopped by to help out, especial thanks go to the motley crew shown here who gave up their weekend to be there.