Well... not quite yet; here it is sitting in New Zealand rain; it’s shipping up to Tokyo from Auckland mid-December
44,000 mile original; I bought the car in 2008 and the alloy wheels were added a year or 2 later... so, you might ask, what’s the car been doing since 2008? Well, a workshop was commissioned to do an engine/gearbox transplant; the Rover now has a Range Rover Discovery engine and Toyota W57 5-speed
The old engine and gearbox were pulled and sold... the workshop took delivery of the engine/transmission/custom bell housing from the machine shop up the road and then took an astonishing 3 years to complete the work ( ! )
Names will not be named ‘n shamed as, eventually, all was amicably settled... Ah, well you say, that still only takes the story to 2011... and you’d be right...
Late 2011 the workshop owner sent a video of the car running and driving with apologies as to the time this had all taken; All Good
“I’ll send you an account shortly, I’ve got to sit down and work out what parts we needed to get in and a few extra hours to charge out so bear with me”
I’d intended to go and sort all this out face-to-face on my next New Zealand trip, except there hasn’t been a “next trip”
So... waited and phoned and emailed and phoned... eventually lost patience and gave up
Years go by, ( 9 years! ) and I get a snarky email from the workshop owner: “haven’t heard from you in Years, your car’s still here, if you don’t pay your Bill I’ll sell it! “
I immediately got back to him and said “You’ve never sent a Bill and selling the car would be inadvisable”
We worked it out, I’ve no idea what the disconnect was but the workshop did right by me in the end and the cars getting picked up by the Shippers in a few days
I was 48 when I bought the P6B and I’m 61 now... the Project continues...
Graham