long term NADA project !!!!!!!

hi adrian,
that's the only problem. i am increasing the value of your cars over there now on rarity value. :D i have fetched over roughly 15 x 3500's now + 2 x 2000 TC's i have well over doubled what was in this country probably trebled, making ours worth a lot less :(

ian
 
josephp6man said:
hi adrian,
that's the only problem. i am increasing the value of your cars over there now on rarity value. :D i have fetched over roughly 15 x 3500's now + 2 x 2000 TC's i have well over doubled what was in this country probably trebled, making ours worth a lot less :(

ian
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Oh the poison chalice :LOL:

I wish there were more in NZ particularly for the aircon and electric windows.

NZ has a huge rust free p6 population but mostly all bottom specced accept for power steer.

Graeme
 
hi graeme,
i have all the bits you need. i had got them and was going to put them all on an english car with my son. but decided to buy a nice rust free car from california. so i have a full working air - con system, a full set of electric windows inc switches and wiring loom, impact beams, full set of bumpers, over riders, no plate plinths and all brackets, door pockets, centre console, full set of scoops with flaps, bonnet and ally strip, side markers and reflectors and last but not least an ice-lert with all bits. all now not needed as it is on the californian car. any one interested pm me for prices.

ian
 
Congratulations Joseph! I wish you all the best with your new car and you couldn't have been more lucky with all the knowledge and experience right at home! It's all very familiar as I started at 17 with my dad and now, at 21, I have my own NADA car (altough that one's a little more crispy than yours). I'll be following your project with great interest.

it does look really nice and original, except for the carb off course. The original setup will probably be in the boot! The interior confuses me though, the seats are ebony but the gloveboxes and more importantly the leatherpadded centreconsole trim is more of a bronze-ish?

Andries
 
hi andries,
i spent a long time talking to the guy i bought it from and he is only the third owner from new. the previous owner had recovered the glove boxes and centre console in that brownish colour. luckily i had a spare centre console and the guy i bought the car from has two glove boxes in the original ebony vinyl, of which i need as they are handed for RHD and LHD, so i was lucky he had them. so apart from that and the carbs it looks exceptionally original. i do have a spare set of NADA carbs, they are seized solid, but nothing that can't be stripped and re-built. i also have the AED and i think most of the other bits that i would need to turn it back to original inc manifold. the thing that i don't have is the fuel line set up as this will have been cut to match up to the edelbrock. talking about the edelbrock, 1, are they any good and 2, what are they worth second hand for selling.

ian
 
If you like snappy acceleration, as opposed to the SU carbs habit of sort of hesitating a moment before taking off, the four barrel carb is a big improvement. I think I used to use up a tankful of juice much quicker when I had a Holley four barrel set-up on my car.
I'm, well, not jealous, shall we say envious, I would have loved to have a NADA P6 V8 as my first car*. However, looking back from my mid-forties with the benefit of hindsight, I highly recommend learning to drive in more of a banger, and getting through the absolutely inevitable teenage first car accident(s!?) with a cheapie Fiesta or whatever, rather than dinging a lovely freshly restored rarity! Just my tuppence worth, unsolicited. I realise there are younger people who are much more responsible than me, and there are those who drive for a lifetime without incident. :wink:
It's funny, as soon as I saw that ebay listing after SoCalV8 posted it, I had a feeling it would be headingto Doncaster. :LOL:

*That ended up being a 7.6litre V8 Lincoln 2-door, but that is another story, for another day. 8)
 
Ian I wouldn't be so hasty to chuck out (or sell) the Edlebrock setup, certainly it transformed my P6b into a car that is more than competitive with modern cars in city traffic, there has been no downside in any respect. I would humbly suggest to get the car into full working trim and then compare to an SU set up car.

Graeme
 
hi mr task and graeme,
i appreciate your comments both of you. i have never had anything but SU's of one kind or another. i just appreciate the cars as they left the factory, but i am taking mine back to original and will leave the edelbrock on then and see what the difference is. it will make a change to drive a car with a different set up i suppose. i will let you know what the difference is like. my son likes it, i think more because he keeps telling me it will be faster than mine. he has been reading up on it.
i also agree the possibility of him having an accident is a lot greater, but the cars are meant to be driven and he does not want anything else other than a V8 rover. yes it would be a crying shame if it comes to a sticky end, but he has no interest in driving modern cars. he loves top gear and other car shows and knows a hell of a lot more about them than i did at his age.

ian
 
We are all different I suppose, all my first cars were higher powered and later ones sports orientated, no Morris Minors or Ford prefects for me, I never had any accidents or road drama and still to this date am totally accident free.

Graeme
 
Slightly off-topic, but what would be required to do an RHD conversion on a NADA?
Changing the dash/ wiper assembly doesn't seem a drama; but steering, column, idlers, etc. ( ? )
I have driven left-hook cars on right hand drive roads and don't like it...

GW
 
mrtask said:
It's funny, as soon as I saw that ebay listing after SoCalV8 posted it, I had a feeling it would be headingto Doncaster. :LOL:
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I had that feeling too Al. :)

At the moment it's still sitting in the shipping company yard, not too far from where I live - I took a detour past it this morning and it's still there.

There must have been something in the north London water in the mid 80's - you were tooling around Muswell Hill in your Lincoln and I was up the road in my 460 T-Bird - shame we never met at the lights.
 
So how will it work out insurance wise for your son to get into the hot seat? :)

Looks a cracker :wink:
 
hi andries,
i spent a long time talking to the guy i bought it from and he is only the third owner from new. the previous owner had recovered the glove boxes and centre console in that brownish colour. luckily i had a spare centre console and the guy i bought the car from has two glove boxes in the original ebony vinyl, of which i need as they are handed for RHD and LHD, so i was lucky he had them. so apart from that and the carbs it looks exceptionally original. i do have a spare set of NADA carbs, they are seized solid, but nothing that can't be stripped and re-built. i also have the AED and i think most of the other bits that i would need to turn it back to original inc manifold. the thing that i don't have is the fuel line set up as this will have been cut to match up to the edelbrock. talking about the edelbrock, 1, are they any good and 2, what are they worth second hand for selling.

ian
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Hi Ian,

Ah, you're quite lucky with the gloveboxes, but on the otherhand it's very easy for me or any other mainland-based member to grab a pair here so that wouldn't have been a real problem. Centre consoles are more difficult I guess? Mine has been leatherpainted in a white/vomit-like coulour so I'm retrimming that one. The original Toledo Red shines through but I can't get the leatherpaint off in a way that it would still look decent.

I think my dad has two set's, nackered manifolds though. We also have all the linkages, dampers and thermostatic switches so if you ever run short let me know. We're not intending to use them as we prefer HIF's. I've got a Weber 500 with fuel/LPG on a 3.9 so I really can't compare. It pulls nicely on the motorway, did about 140 kph going out of tunnels on the navi! But, I still prefer the original setup. The main advantage for me is in the adjusting area as it's only one carburettor and the differences on the intake hiss on the SU's are very hard to distinguish and therefore have to be done with a little to much guessing for my taste (I don't have the balancing tool :() Should be more powerful (single (more) airflow, single (more) fuel injection point but I can't really say because mine's not be compared with the HIF setup of my dad's. Second hand value depends on the type of carb. Holley's are quite weak (so I've been told), Edelbrock are old and Weber 500's are the one to have (so I've been told). Manifold's are always wanted by a lot of people as they are only available new from rpi etc.

I will take a look at the fuel lines. Think we have them. Do you mean the one between fuel line/RH float chamber, between the float chambers and the one from LH float chamber to the return line?

Andries
 
hi tokyoP6B,
converting to RHD from LHD is simple enough. everything in the dash is pre - cut, so parts can be swapped over. wiring loom, easiest would be to use an english one rather than extending the wires. i have done two conversions, one was chris yorks and the other was the blue one that went to scotland, which i bought back a couple of years ago and sold last year and was on ebay back end of last year and is now down south. in fact the white V8 that was recently on ebay with the rear end shunt was the guy that bought it to replace that car and you could see the NADA in the background.

grim V8 : insurance, i have no idea what it would cost. we have another four years to wait for that until he is 17 and i dread to think with how it keeps going up what it will be. :oops:

andries : it's funny sometimes how you just don't think about some things and that is obvious. i never thought about europe for asking for LHD glove boxes.

ian
 
Too bad you couldn't get Adrian to strip out the LHD-specific parts before it leaves--you're making it bl**dy difficult to find anything s/h on this side!

Scott
1969 TC--trying to convert to 3500 interior!
 
hi scott,
i don't want to convert to RHD, it was tokyoP6B who was just asking how easy / difficult it was. i like LHD and it does not bother me over here in a RHD country. if you want parts ruth burgess in canada has plenty of cars that have been parted as you say, we say broken up.

ian
 
hi all,
my dad went down to essex yesterday and fetched me home this genuine NADA drivers side box pleat seat do to the one in mine being useless. ( many thanks again roly )
from this
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to this
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my dad has taken this of me as i am getting excited
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joseph
 
Just an idle daydream here, but what would a NADA like that go for in the US?
There's more chance of me falling pregnant than getting it into South Africa
with their new import rules, but i can still dream, I guess.....
 
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