G'day from WA

westOz74P6B

westOz74P6B

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Although living in Western Australia, I am originally from Sunderland, and that is my excuse for a leaning towards 'pommy' cars. Having owned a '76Triumph Dolomite, an '85 Rover 3500 SE2, and now (you guessed it) a '74 3500 P6B. What a nicely styled car they are. Mine is an originally delivered Rover to WA having the "Faulls" dealership plate attached in the engine bay and myself being the third owner, purchasing the car from the original owners nephew. It has previously had a respray in a lighter shade of green which I think looks nicer than the original darkish green (hopefully pictures to follow). Now the fun begins, needs the cracked dash (the aussie sun not only dries the skin out) repairing, rear brake pads renewing and currently in the process of fitting electric radiator cooling fans (as the viscous hub is showing signs of leaking). Also just removed (with cursive great difficulty) the leaky fuel reserve valve (what a daft place to put it on the series two's) and now draw fuel dirctly from the lower reserve line at the tank, which begs the question that the fuel guage must be calibrated to read empty at the higher take off line? and is there a way to modify this? Have also fitted an unused Mobelec fuel computer which I got from ebay (how retro is that, fitting a '70's aftermarket product to a '70's car) it works well reading in mpg but does fluctuate between high and low readings so makes an exact reading difficult as you have to learn to average the highs and lows (as the litrature explains) anybody have experience using these units? Looking forward to conversing with you all.
 
Hi and welcome to the forum;
I am sure that your time here will be addictive! as we are fortunate to have some very knowledgeable people on here.
Although Western Australia is a large area! we do have a few members down under!


Mike.
 
Scott, I have just joined club also and have a 1974 3500 S, co-incidence! My car spent much of its life in WA before the owners moved to TAS. in 1999. Look forward to seeing some pics. of your car and I will post some of mine when I get the chance. Peter in Tassie.
 
Thanks Pete, mines not an 'S', pity, did look at one though, it needed a bit of panel work so settled on a much tidyer non 'S', still, with four kids wanting their first car's one day may have to get a fleet of P6's ready. I'll endeavour to post pics, do you know how to do this?
Regards,
 
Scott, short answer is no, I don't know how to do it but I guess I will work it out when I've got a big more time. Also have 3 computer literate sons that I call on for computer help. Peter.
 
Scott, Looks like we put the photo(s) of our car on the 'Gallery' page and we can put a thumbnail pic. on our messages. Neither of which can I do without some help so it will have to wait a while. My pics. will have to be reduced in size before I upload them. Peter.
 
Hi I also bought my 72 P6b from Faulds in Subiaco WA -Julian Barber was the sales rep .>I was 22yrs at the time and ordered my car direct from the factory in England through Faulds using the overseas tourist delivery scheme .Even though it was imported It ws stamped as made in Australia - what a laugh as most imports came from Nelson NZ.
As mine is a/c ,only english assembled cars were used .
I was mining in Tom Price at the time of import .Sold it for a profit when I got back to NZ and then bought it back at a huge loss in a bout of nostalgia.
Still love the style and drive -regards Gerald
 
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