Fay, 1973 3500 For Sale.

The Rovering Member

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This will be a bit of a marathon due to Photo*ucket & my old computer so I'll do it in sections.
Due to my circumstances, Fay is now for sale as an unfinished project. Saying that though, a lot has been done & just about all the necessary parts to finish the job come with the car. There is welding to be done but it is pretty minimal when compared to the repairs that we have had to do to my other P6's. Though it is mainly to the sills, it is mostly flat sections & the rigidity of the base unit has not been compromised at all as you will see. There are a lot of pictures so that the tasks that have to be performed are as clear as possible. To someone who knows their way around these Rovers with the skills, spare time & facilities, I see no reason why she couldn't be on the road with an Mot in a couple of weeks & become a daily driver.
Or a more leisurely approach could be taken of course. There is plenty of scope for improvement over & above putting her to use as a daily, two or three of the wings could do with replacing & some work to the door bottoms wouldn't go amiss. She has had a poor quality respray some years in the past & although she scrubs up nicely, a quality paint job would be needed if you wanted a car to line up in the concours rank at a show.
Anyway, on with this show.

Some shots of her now I've bolted her back together & spruced her up:







I thought I'd taken a couple of shots of the rear with the wings on but apparently not, I'll remedy that tomorrow. Meanwhile:





Some wing-off pictures. There are new shocks all round & new steel-braided brake hoses fitted:









Both rear elbows are nice & solid, rear crossmember & trailing arms have new polybushes fitted:









More after my dinner, hopefully this will whet some appetites too. ;)
 
Here we go again. More under-wing shots:







Doors are straight, if a little crusty in places:





The new shocks & polybushed rear end has given her a very nice stance:



Both D-posts are excellent:



Though as can be seen, the door rubber channel will need sections replacing, as here:




Door bottoms:

O/S/R:



O/S/F:



N/S/R:



N/S/F:



Boot mounts:



She once had LPG fitted hence the extra hole, there's another further down:





I'll add the parts needing welding in the next section.
 
Get your MIG ready. A journey along the sills:











The B-posts are as good as the D-posts:



As you can see, we supported her by the B-posts while the rear end was changed. If there had been any doubt about the strength or integrity of the base unit then Harvey would not have been so keen to adopt his favourite position in life, under the rear end of a P6: :D











So it's mostly flat sections to fabricate & fit. My brother said it was a good mornings work when he inspected it but he never got back to do the job, waiting for the warmer weather he said. I think he remembers Bruiser too well, not to mention half a floor in Josephine. :rolleyes:

Three other little bits I found:

The offside bonnet gutter:



The offside boot aperture. We had to fabricate & weld in an entire new boot lip on Bruiser so this isn't very scary at all:



Offside rear door shut. Looking like it'll need some attention in here:



And as I said, some sections of channeling for the door rubbers are needed:





Interior next.
 
It's mostly poor old POE's interior. Same colour but Fay arrived with boxpleat which wasn't original & was shabby in places. Carpet put together from original & good secondhand that I had or bought for her:

Shelf & dashtop replaced:



PAS with standard steering wheel, super light.



Flatpleat seats as would have been fitted when new:











I should have a video of the engine running up in a few days, not for long as the water pump isn't fitted. Just enough to show the engine is good. I drove her here some years back & she pulled well with no apparent problems. I had bought her, driven to the MoT station, then brought her back to my workshop after she failed on shocks, wipers, a bit of visible rust in the sill & a couple of other things which can all be viewed on the DVLA site. She'll need tyres. She'll need some reassembly. I have some panels which I need to inspect for condition which could possibly go with the car & I have a decent rear bumper to replace the scabby & slightly twisted one on there. The tank is drained & the fuel pipes all need fitting as we removed the rather Heath-Robinson affair fitted & I aquired an original system from Clive on here. The radiator was reconditioned, as yet unfitted. The only thing I can think of to pay for is the re-sleeving of the master cylinder. Sleeved & reconned rear calipers with the car. There won't be much to buy though I'm sure i missed something:



A list of things purchased &/or attended to:
Water Pump
Heater Hoses
Air Filters
Air Filter Mounts
Wiper Motor Mounts
Side Rod Boots
Top Joint Boots
Throttle Rod Bush
Bonnet Stay Grommet
Bonnet Side Rubbers
Bonnet Adjust Buffers
Engine Steady Bar
Brake Master Seal Kit
Front/Rear Shock Absorbers
Radiator Overhaul
Front/Rear Brake Pads
Carpets
Exhaust Manifold+Mod’s
Timing Cover gasket
Oil Pump Gasket
Water Pump Gasket
Sump Gasket
Helicoil Timing cover
Rear Calipers
Handbrake Linkage
Dashtop/Shelf
Flexible Brake Hoses
Fuel line system
DeDion rubber/rear shock rubbers/
Reserve ‘O’ ring

Price is £1750 subject to discussion. I estimate that's around half of what she'd be worth once back on the road without cosmetic work being attended to.
Any questions just drop me a line.

I'm off for a beer. :p
 
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If i had 1750 spare i'd be pushing it into your grubby mits.... That's such a good colour and the welding is minor for a p6
 
Fay has now been sold. The buyer is Richard Moon who's name some of you may recognise & who l've known for a few years via various P6 encounters.
He's just the man for her as he knows his way round the cars very well & will quickly reinstate her to the road again as a semi-daily run about.
He plans to run her in current 'shiny street-warrior' condition :cool:
 
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