Bulletproof Rover P6

the only baffling part for me amongst that great briefing from John Murray (worked with him back in the 1980s) was the bit about the small steering wheel
do I understand it correct that because of the 2" thick glass, the car needed a smaller steering wheel? I have seen the car many times and it has the standard P6 steering wheel, anyway another good video from John (he has done several)
IMHO there was a better specimen from the MET at Lincolnshire last month (piccie attached)
 

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Why also dont they present the car in full livery replete with said 2 inch thick glass and the rest of the goodies? or have those other accessories been lost to time.
 
Hi, I read an article about it many moons ago and it was because the windscreen was so thick it was very close to the steering wheel and it would rap the knuckles.

Colin
 
You both make very good points, would 2 inch glass fowl the original steering wheel space wise I can only think that the glass would have been far more thicker.

I suspect that the original glass and goodies might have gone onto another service car when this one made retirement due to the cost of the stuff but can not say for certain.
That is a interesting P6 Ex plod vehicle Thank you for posting the photo Falkor, I have only ever seen two ex police P6 cars.
The one in this video and the one that was on ebay that attends the NEC in white the reg GWX or something like that, with all its livery another amazing P6 to be seen, so this one is one I haven't seen :) Thank you

Anyone have any idea just how many ex police P6 are left? I wonder how many owners there are that own a P6 but did not know its a ex police car.
There was a chap that used to come on to this forum some years ago, and his hobby was to record vehicle registrations information about the P6 and he even looked on selling sites and recorded if the car was being sold as scrap ect I think he had a very good database going at the time.
The P6 has had a very interesting life and even to this day truly amazing.
 
colnerov said:
Hi, I read an article about it many moons ago and it was because the windscreen was so thick it was very close to the steering wheel and it would rap the knuckles.

Colin
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Colin I posted just after you so I had not read your post,
Thank you for your info so it was not that you could not turn the steering wheel due to the screen thickness,
it was due to some pore drivers knuckles being damaged against the screen that was meant to protect him or her :rolleyes:
oh dear smaller wheel would now sound perfect
but with all that weight the armoured glass, door protection ect and the heavy valve radio in the boot plus passengers and now
a smaller steering wheel makes it harder to turn the wheel a strong driver was now needed.
 
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well he's done half a dozen posts on here this year so far, I wouldn't say he was very much an active member on here no, but yes he is a very much respected and adored member, although I am no longer on Facebook, for the 10 years that I was on FB, he was an absolute Legend for P6 posts/ images/ knowledge , here's to Ruediger W
 
I have done some work on this car when it used to be In the police station in Hampton traffic depo.
There are scratch marks on the door frames where the extra glass was mounted inside, all taken off for security reasons after car went off active duty.
The extra internal windscreen required that very small steering wheel.
The armour plating for the doors were Kevlar internal door trims which I took off as instructed and fitted a spare set of standard door trims.
Inner wheel arches and floor area was covered in a checker plate / Kevlar.
Mechanically standard except for heavy duty springs and rover uprated shocks.
Front shock mounts reinforced with the welded on brackets.
 
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