New Project (to go with the old one)

tone down the wheels and i think you're 98% there... more wolfrace than 5 spoke....

It's a brilliant look...
 
Mmmm Bit too low at the front, nowhere near high enough at the rear, and needs an inch or so out of the cabin height?

Of course I ought to be truly horrified at such treatment of such a grand old lady. At least the cars the yanks use tend to be their equivalent of a Fiesta or whatever when new. But there again, if you weren't doing it it would probably have gone to the crusher.

Chris
 
Of course I ought to be truly horrified at such treatment of such a grand old lady. At least the cars the yanks use tend to be their equivalent of a Fiesta or whatever when new. But there again, if you weren't doing it it would probably have gone to the crusher.
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If it was an existing complete running car and was all good i'd think this was wrong, but when it's a collection of bits it's all fair game (imho :) )
 
In terms of wheels, I'd even be tempted to stick to steels with the chrome hubcaps, just have them banded at the rear and fit modern tyres. Although they may be a bit small, the wheels are already 16"
 
Thumbs up for steel wheels. Deep dish with hubcaps. Those modern things are awful. I can't get into this fashion of trying to make the wheels invisible & expose all the mechanical gubbins.
It's just more stuff to keep clean.
 
Deep dish with hub caps would look very nice, the modern ones are bit to MAX power but then they still look kind of ARC 5 spokes! What about good old polished centerlines, real retro!

How do you do the photo shop, wish I could create an image of my P6 in red with the alloys fitted & smooth deck lid!

Also a P5 Coupe in Admriatly blue, silver birch roof, lowered with 17" American Torque Thrust II's fitted, say 8.5x17 rear & 6x17 front, keep the rest of car standard, maybe loose the front indicators, incorperate them into sidelites the the latter into the headlites! If I won the lotto then this would be my next project! :p
 
Not too bad... :wink:


Now lay the grill back a few degrees a la '34
Lose the front apron and maybe move the front bumper back or lose it.

Another vote for banded steels with chrome hubcaps as well.
 
The Rovering Member said:
Adam Birch wrote:
I already know of someone who's a bit like that with their rovers, in fact I was with him today. They have 2 P2's, one only just on the road - this will be coming up to the Whitewebbs RSR meet,


When is the Whitewebbs meet Adam?
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It's the Rover Sports Register Whitewebbs meet, at the Whitewebbs museum of transport, to be held on 27th February.
Adrian Mitchell is the organiser, who can be contacted on 02085320542 or amitche1@ford.com - if you do call, you'd have a better chance catching him if you call after 7pm.

Cheers, Adam.
 
Nice !

Needs to be lower with bigger wheels though :LOL:

Here's a couple of others I've found....
 

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I'm not too keen on the red one (too much colour, tyre-sidewall and chrome going on), although as you say the raked grill is a definite improvement.
 
Shock Horror - I've touched it today !!!

I'm back in hospital on Monday for more chemo, so in a fit a madness I had a play with the engine, Pete and I got the starter to spin a few months back, but it was clear the engine was seized, so today I thought I'd pull the plugs out and chuck something down the bores and let it soak while I'm in hospital, hopefully it'll turn when I get back.

Anyway, didn't quite go to plan.....

Take one 60+ year old engine.



Clean out round the plugs, and spray plenty of wd40 down, and leave for a while. Try the first plug..... SNAP, top of the plug snapped clean off, bringing the electrode out with it, leaving the threaded section in the block. Hmmm... move on to the others, they all came out fine... phew... so back to the broken one.

So I've got the threaded section stuck in the block with a clear hole down the centre, so I'm thinking easy-outs, so I search round in the garage but can't find them, so them I spy the torqx bits, first I applied a little heat with the blowtorch although I don't think it really did anything, so I applied plenty more WD40 and hammered the T55 bit into the hole in the remains of the plug, fitted the socket and breaker bar, and...... nothing the bit spin in the plug. The next size I've got is T75, which looks way too big, but on the basis I had no other choice, I gave it a few taps with the hammer, and it appeared to be going in, so I gave it a good few whacks to get it right in, fitted the socket and breaker bar and..... it moved !, and wound out fine. Job done.

I have to say I've never seen a plug fail like that before, and I didn't know all plugs were the same thread, I wanted to put something back in the hole so tried an old 216 plug, screwed straight in !







Anyway that was enough for one day, so I sprayed loads of wd40 into the bores and popped the plugs losely back in. See what happens in a few weeks time.
 

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I don't actually intend to use this engine, I'm just on a bit of a personal mission to get it running. Always easier to get rid of an engine if you can say it's been running, and preferably if it "can be seen running". Alledgedly it did run when it was pushed into the barn it was stored in, but that was at least 10 years ago :LOL:

I'm not going to start stripping it to free it off, so if a good soak of WD and possibly some diesel doesn't do it, then I'll just pull it out and pass it on as seized.

I'm not sure if you can see from the photo, but it looks like Rover used the same engine mounting points right through to the T16, like tolson is fitting to his P6, I'm tempted to use one in this.
 
I'm not sure if you can see from the photo, but it looks like Rover used the same engine mounting points right through to the T16, like tolson is fitting to his P6, I'm tempted to use one in this.
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I'd like to see that!
 
I don't know if they sell it in the UK, but I swear by a can of "Penetrene". It's about ten times better than WD40 and doesn't evaporate like WD does. It's brilliant for loosening up stuck parts.

It's slowly disappearing from Australian shelves too sadly.

I thought I was the only one that had spark plug dramas!
 
I read somewhere once that a guy heated up a pot of olive oil of all things until it was pretty close to ignition point then poured it down the bores and left it a while.
Apparently it worked a treat, but I can't verify it.
If you're not going to use the engine, maybe it will make a nice guinea pig for the theory.....
 
I had another brainwave last night, which was to run hot water through the water jacket (hook up the hose pipe to the hot tap) to heat the block, getting the block reasonably hot might help.

I've also got a bottle of redex kicking around, so that could go in too.....

How about a bottle of Coke ??
 
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