Ex-Police 3500S

That car really looks the business. I'm very curious, I wonder what do other forum members reckon it'll sell for? Does it belong to anybody on here? Probably a good thing I haven't got thousands of pounds readily available, or I'd be in serious danger of doing something reckless. :LOL: I like the chunky gearstick and small steering wheel with a chunky rim. What could the sign on the bootlid warn/say – 'SLOW' & 'STOP', perhaps 'DANGER' ?
I'd want to do a Cannonball Run-style long distance transcontinental road race in that, in period correct uniform! Exactly how fast did the Police motorway cars actually go? What were the engine specs? Hotter cam? Different needles in the carbs?
I want that car so much I'm going to have to go and rob a bank! :wink:
 
mrtask said:
That car really looks the business. I'm very curious, I wonder what do other forum members reckon it'll sell for? Does it belong to anybody on here? Probably a good thing I haven't got thousands of pounds readily available, or I'd be in serious danger of doing something reckless. :LOL: I like the chunky gearstick and small steering wheel with a chunky rim. What could the sign on the bootlid warn/say – 'SLOW' & 'STOP', perhaps 'DANGER' ?
I'd want to do a Cannonball Run-style long distance transcontinental road race in that, in period correct uniform! Exactly how fast did the Police motorway cars actually go? What were the engine specs? Hotter cam? Different needles in the carbs?
I want that car so much I'm going to have to go and rob a bank! :wink:
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I think this may be one of Les Duggin's cars. Not on forum. I will check. It is the business.

It MIGHT be the one with a factory fitted Rover 5 speed box, documented.
 
I think that a chap called James Jones owns this one. He must have had the car for a long while now, as I remember it from a local car show that could have well been about 20 years ago.
It was also featured in a P6 video that the P6ROC did some time back.
 
PeterB76 said:
I think that a chap called James Jones owns this one. He must have had the car for a long while now, as I remember it from a local car show that could have well been about 20 years ago.
It was also featured in a P6 video that the P6ROC did some time back.
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You may well be right - although the car does look very familiar to me.
 
The car received a winning bid on Ebay UK of 7900£. At the same time, several other apparently rather tidy P6es went through without attracting bids. Some of them for ridicuolously low asking prices.
 
NickDunning said:
I think this may be one of Les Duggin's cars. Not on forum. I will check. It is the business.

It MIGHT be the one with a factory fitted Rover 5 speed box, documented.
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Five-speed box from where? Is it an early LT77, or bought in from ZF or Getrag or somesuch?
 
I was going to be facetious and suggest the box came from an Austin Maxi .......... but they did make a 5speed RWD box for the Lotus Elan out of it and , I believe for the AC3000ME
 
DaveHerns said:
I was going to be facetious and suggest the box came from an Austin Maxi .......... but they did make a 5speed RWD box for the Lotus Elan out of it and , I believe for the AC3000ME
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It's based on the Maxi's gearbox? And where did the Maxi's 'box come from?
 
No idea where the Maxi's box came from -in the first Maxis circa 68 it was cable operated and a lesson in vagueness
 
DaveHerns said:
No idea where the Maxi's box came from -in the first Maxis circa 68 it was cable operated and a lesson in vagueness
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Oh right, fair enough. Wikipedia says it's a 'box-in-the-sump job: how would that be compatible with a totally different engine in a RWD Rover?
 
It wouldn't .As I said I was being facetious but it would appear Lotus took the gears out of the engine's sump
and put them into a RWD casing?

As an aside I was reading last night that the Cosworth T5 box is weak in 5th gear ,So is the type 9 - something to do with oil starvation to the gears on long fast runs in 5th
 
EccentricRichard said:
NickDunning said:
I think this may be one of Les Duggin's cars. Not on forum. I will check. It is the business.

It MIGHT be the one with a factory fitted Rover 5 speed box, documented.
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Five-speed box from where? Is it an early LT77, or bought in from ZF or Getrag or somesuch?
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Most likely an lt77, as I think it was originally a Jaguar derived box, there must have been a few in circulation prior to the release of the sd1 in '76. Presumably they must have tested them somewhere?
 
It isn't either of Les's 3500S Police cars.

The 5 speed in one of his cars, is a prototype SD1 5 speed box. Rover put this gearbox in this particular car, to see if they could cure the problem that the Police had, which was breaking reverse gears. (P6's didn't like reversing along Motorways along the hard shoulders at speed for any sort of distance and this is how the Police broke them)
 
MarkGray said:
It isn't either of Les's 3500S Police cars.

The 5 speed in one of his cars, is a prototype SD1 5 speed box. Rover put this gearbox in this particular car, to see if they could cure the problem that the Police had, which was breaking reverse gears. (P6's didn't like reversing along Motorways along the hard shoulders at speed for any sort of distance and this is how the Police broke them)
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Sounds familiar... Dad's 3500S broke a layshaft on reverse at about 80,000 miles...
 
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