A P6 In India?

SydneyRoverP6B

SydneyRoverP6B

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I was just thinking about all the different places around the World where you might find a P6.

I am pretty sure that British Leyland didn't export Rovers to India, but now years later that does not preclude one or more showing up there. Has any forum member ever seen a Rover whilst visiting India? Come to think of it, what about Singapore, Hong Kong or Russia?

There could be a Rover waiting to be discovered in Tibet right now.....

In which country have you seen a P6 where you never imagined you would?

Ron.
 
Do you have a copy of the dealer directory which would have came with your car? I have at least on of these, however the one which I know where it is, is in the glove box of my Adelaide based Rover, and I am now in the USA. I do however recall that they had agents in the African countries (Rhodesia I think is one example, but it is called something else now). So I suspect that they might have sent Rovers to India as India is part of the British Commonwealth. Also they made Rover 2000's with motors designed to run on 73 octane fuel. The CR was only 7.5 to 1. They must have been a little sluggish I think. I wonder if there are any NOS 7.5:1 CR pistons kicking around anywhere. You would never have any pinging problems again with those, however you would probably have not power from the motor either.

James.
 
I dont know about Rover dealership networks or import quantities etc but my ex-company shipping agent in Madras had a P6 2000 auto, which with it being an auto and I think it was air conditioned , it always seemed very sluggish. It was a pleasant change from seeing the millions of Hindustan Ambassadors (the old 1958 Morris Oxford) though – still produced today virtually unchanged.

In Ceylon, a tea planter I knew living up in the hills in Nuwara Eliya had quite a collection of half a dozen British cars, he owned an ex British High Commissioners` Rover 3 ltr P5 Coupe, and a P6 2000 and his wife had an Austin Healey Sprite, all of which cost him a fortune to keep the rust at bay, getting new panels sent out from UK on a regular basis, as it rains more days than its dry up in the misty hills - but salt is only used on food not roads. Happy days
 
Have a gander here for india.

http://www.team-bhp.com/

I was surprised at how many classics are floating around in India, mind you having seen their handiwork up close, I'm not sure that I'd been keen on having a car restored there, but they are experts in the third world adage of making do with what you have.

The Dalai lama was apparently gifted a Morris to keep him sweet with the British, it was carried in pieces by porters to llhasa and was apparently last seen rusting away somewhere in a back street after the lama fled.
/memory of hearing that story somewhere

I am sure that there are dozens of Rovers quietly running around in the antipodes, or rusting away somewhere. If I had a chance I'd be going back to Thailand and Fiji/Vanuatu, I came across some really interesting cars there (a first generation RX-7 under a car port on a farm in Fiji) and they were all parts of the world where British public servants were sent.
 
The production records show P6's being sent to all corners of the world. The more unusal places are usually linked to British Consulates or British High Commision offices or other government establishments. In a lot of cases it would appear that these cars didn't get brought back to the UK so it is reasonable to expect that they passed into local hands when disposed of, therefore you find P6's in the most unexpected places.
 
All I want to know is did they make it into China.
But I suppose they must have via Hong Kong, so there is hope for me yet.

Graeme
 
I remember seeing a 2000 shoved off the road in Warri in Nigeria in 2004/5.
Tried to find the owner, but once I showed an interest, everyone owned it and
was quite happy to sell it to me......
 
ghce said:
All I want to know is did they make it into China.
But I suppose they must have via Hong Kong, so there is hope for me yet.

Graeme
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Given the Chinese attitude of not keeping anything old, I'd hazard a guess and say they might have been scrapped long ago if they were shipped there, BUT, it would have been a massive status symbol back then and I did find old 60's Chevrolet badges in an op shop near the US consulate in Shanghai... so who knows?
 
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