1977 V8P6B on Ebay for spares/repair.

Thank you for the kind words and appraisal of my Ad!
Yes, i like to tell it how it is, ive been bitten on the bum in the past and i really would not want to do that to anybody else, its just not right.
The car isnt a complete shed but, as I have been at pains to point out, it really does need work and what has already been done ( in part by myself) is not up to the standard that I am happy with.
The car is very saveable and, IMHO, it should be as it is one of the last ( certainly not THE last) P6 V8s to be still on the road.
My wife tells me that im "too honest" however, my honesty allows me to sleep at night!!! :wink:
Im selling her because it will require more time than i have and more skills than i currently ( if I ever will) possess to bring her back to the condition she deserves to be in.
Im hoping to buy another P6 V8, something that is solid and wont require the kind of time off the road that means loads of work.
Im more of a driver than a tinkerer or repairer, I dont mind doing bits of work on a car but Id like to avoid the major stuff.
Thats what happened when i bought a "good" 2.8i Capri a few years back, bought as a buy it now, i trekked from West Norfolk down to South London early one Saturday morning to be confronted by a car with more dents and grot than this car!! Driving it back told me that the axle was shagged and so I ended up replacing it, fettling it till the rampant rot, hidden well I might add, beat me into submission and i sold it at a loss.
You live and learn!
Im quite apprehensive about buying another P6 now, Ive, sort of, learned where to look and I understand them better but I am also painfully aware that there are ones out there which are tarted up heaps.
I shall have around £3000 to play with.
What are the chances of finding a decent V8 for that sort of money?
Ive been around the block more than a few times to know that wont buy me great let alone tip top but, honestly, am i really likely to find a decent, solid potential daily driver for that kind of money?
Go on, give it to me straight........
Rob.
 
Rob M said:
I shall have around £3000 to play with.
What are the chances of finding a decent V8 for that sort of money?

I'd hope to be able to find something solid for that kind of money. It won't be a concours winner, but it should be useable with room for improvement without acres of welding to do.
 
Excellent listing. Prices are lunatic at the moment - it seems across the board, might be better to hang onto your money a little while.
 
That is an excellent ad Rob :D . You should find a solid car for £3k. As you say, you know where to look for problems now. If they are solid in the usual rot areas and the car starts and drives OK, you can't go too far wrong.
 
NickDunning said:
Excellent listing. Prices are lunatic at the moment - it seems across the board, might be better to hang onto your money a little while.
I wonder if this is just the normal price hike UK classic cars get going into spring/summer or more to do with global uspurge in classic car values due to lousy ineterest rates? I suppose low sterling values maybe mean that more cars are leaving the UK also? When you think that a few years ago a £10k car cost 15k Euros. Now you can get that £10k car for 10k Euros!
 
Thank you all for the feedback.
If its any interest, I still keep tabs on Scimitars and, they too, seem to be picking up in price.
At one time, you could pick up a very reasonable 6A for around a £1000, infact two out of the three i owned were bought for under four figures.
Lately, as tidy as they seem, some are getting into the £3000 territory when, perhaps, a year ago they would have been more like £1800.
Bear in mind that is the "less popular" 6/6A and not the coveted 5/5A.
Id agree that, perhaps, with interest rates on the floor and people more acutely aware than ever that life really is too short,they are now throwing their money into classics as a sounder and more enjoyable investment.
In terms of the Scimitars, the top ones were making very good money indeed and, maybe, as those become more scarce, the good ones are being looked at and bought to improve.
I reckon the P6 is certainly going down the same road which is a bit of a double edged sword as, for people like me, it will be harder to find a good car within my budget and for the owner/seller it will see the value of what they have rocket.
As soon as mine goes, i can start looking around. The Scimitar used to tick 90% of the boxes, the V8 ticks all of them IMHO. :D
 
3000 should still buy you a solid driver if you shop smartly.
Never forget that the internet is only yesterday's news. The real deal is ye goode olde classified ads in newpapers and magazines.
Oh, and patience.
 
The Rovering Member said:
This 'P6' seems to be doing fairly well for it's condition.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1972-Rover-P6 ... 7750520%26

No telling how much further it will go in the two days left though.
I reckon it will depend on how many banger racers are watching... :wink:
Ive got to say, just lately, ive never seen so many "barn finds" up for sale,im sure there are more shonky P5s out there than actually left the factory.
As an aside, Ive now got 146 "watchers" for the V8 so, I suspect, that will be 144 who have no interest in bidding whatsoever and 2 who are considering a punt once they have stopped playing psychological poker with the bidding process.
Then again I may have 146 automobile doggers who are merely watchers and not players. :mrgreen:
 
JVY said:
NickDunning said:
Excellent listing. Prices are lunatic at the moment - it seems across the board, might be better to hang onto your money a little while.
I wonder if this is just the normal price hike UK classic cars get going into spring/summer or more to do with global uspurge in classic car values due to lousy ineterest rates? I suppose low sterling values maybe mean that more cars are leaving the UK also? When you think that a few years ago a £10k car cost 15k Euros. Now you can get that £10k car for 10k Euros!

There appear several factors in this - apart from the usual seasonal rise.

A chap I know who deals in a lot more cars than I do believes it is to do with classic sporting Fords getting out of the reach of most people and other cars, which have previously been in the shadows are taking off (he named Lotus Sunbeams and Dolly Sprints).

P5 prices have been increasing steadily for some years, with a really good one quite capable of going for circa £15k. I suspect we're now in a world where a really good P6B will readily attract five figures as well.

The 2000 auto I sold recently went for about a 1/3rd more than I thought it would (£3165), at the moment it seems we're having to re-adjust our perceptions of what a P6 will go for.

There are very few quality cars on the market at the moment, and this will also drive prices up.
 
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