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Veronica Manganese

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Hi everyone
My husband Gary and I live in Oregon, and have driven P6s since we got married in 1980. I owned a Rover prior to that, having been introduced to them by another friend. Anyway, we were quite poor, and found that we could pick up used Rovers for not much money, and that they were such a joy to work on, that we could keep them running pretty easily.

Right now Gary and I each have 1968 2000 TCs. They look a little rough, especially mine, but hey, they run! I had to swap engines in my car, and then put in rebuilt front calipers and master cylinders, since the car had been sitting for a long time. I did all the work myself, since I wanted to prove to myself that I could...including taking the head off and setting the valve clearances (I even made the head bold spacers that were required, using a friend's machine shop). Anyway, we're out in the middle of wheat fields in eastern Oregon, so you folks on the forum are the only people we've got for technical help!

We have the wonderful workshop manuals and a parts catalogue, thank goodness (and the Rover workshop manual has absolutely spoiled me - I've never seen a manual so easy to understand and so complete!), but of course there are always some little things that one would like advice on, for which I will visit the technical forum.

Anyway, just wanted to say hello and thrilled to find this forum!

Veronica :D
 
Hi and welcome, glad you found us. Their is lots of help if needed here. You will be asked for one thing though........... Pics of your p6 as we love the pics. Cheers Mick
 
Hello and welcome to you both, it's always great to hear about people keeping p6's on the road, regardless of the looks as Happydays has mentioned we would love some pics of both your cars :D :wink:
 
Welcome, need advice on P6's? Post it up and someone usually has the answer on here. It's a bit like magic. But your car doesn't exist without pics :LOL: Very pic happy on here.


John.
 
Ok, Ok, I get the message. Will do some pics. I love the picture of the P6 in the snow. I could do that. Or maybe, right now, the P6 in the wheatfield. Our field just got harvested. My P6 is under a car cover at the moment - I'm embarassed, it has gray primer over the rust spots - it was originally light yellow. My dream is to make it two-tone, with sunflower yellow on the bottom and a black roof and quarter panels. My husband's is hunter green. I've gotta say it's a THRILL to see the pictures of all of your cars. The husband is drooling for a V-8, but he already has an Alfa Romeo Spider and a 164 sedan that he expects me to work on, so I'm not that excited about his having yet another car for me to maintain!

Say, is Pierre Janusz still selling parts? He has helped me out so much in the past, but I've lost his e-address. We wanted to visit him when we were in England a few years back, but turned out he was in Oregon visiting his daughter (I think). Wish teleportation was real - it would be so great to beam around the world visiting with friends. :D

VM
 
Will be great to see your P6's el 'natural, P6 in other places are always good, with the internet being a world wide access point and knowledge interchange.
So Greeting from the other hemishere deep down under in New Zealand.

Graeme
 
Welcome!

This is the infomarmation that Ruediger has listed on his website:

RPS Rover Parts Services
Pierre Janusz
20 Downtown Avenue
GB – London
SW2 3TR
Tel./Fax (+20) 86969645 / 88835309
Email: roverpartserv@aol.com
 
Hello Welcome . Great place this , all the help you'll ever need . As above , pictures please ! :D
 
It must be great to have access to a machine shop and to be able to make bits on a lathe .Wish I'd done metalwork at school back in the day
 
Hello and welcome!

It's about time we had a little competition for the ever competent Stina!

You have quite a few things going for you here - firstly, you'll always find freindly help and support. Second, we're all fascinated by US model P6's, theyr'e subtley different and better than the UK norm! And lastly, you really don't know the meaning of the word rust where you live!

Have a browse round on the projects pages - you'll begin to understand what a rusty body really looks like - then you'll feel perfectly laid back about exposing a couple of rust spots and some faded paint to public gaze. We all know already how irrelevant they are to a nice P6. I happen to think that '68 was about the best year for a P6. It's after the gearboxes are pretty well sorted out and before the spec starts to be degraded by the odd bit of penny pinching or a tad too much bling!

So lets see those pictures!

Chris
 
The husband is drooling for a V-8, but he already has an Alfa Romeo Spider and a 164 sedan that he expects me to work on, so I'm not that excited about his having yet another car for me to maintain!
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Sounds like your husband is a lucky man :LOL: .

Seriously, hello & welcome. Some pic's of your P6s in their Oregon setting would be good. :D
Here is a pic of my P6 amidst some Scottish scenery on the banks of Loch Lommond:
 
Hello Veronica and Gary. I live in Salem, so don't forget to give me a holler the next time you go west 'over the hill'. Oddly enough, I got my TC in Powell Butte, between Redmond and Prineville. We were just out to LaGrande a few weeks ago.

Scott
 
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