New V8 auto project.

Nice!! did not see those mud flaps on TM or I might have been fitting them instead , mine are quite tacky and some missing make the whole car a little poorer. Love the glass too.
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I don't think anyone saw them on TM, I was browsing about 20 minutes after they were listed and I hit the buy now! Didn't have to think about that at all :D
I'm loving the Sundym too. The only thing that has stopped me putting it on the red TC is that it has an early heated rear window.
 
Hello KR,

Gee that looks very nice indeed KR... :D The 14" P6 Rostyle wheels look excellent against the white duco. I see that you have an additional stop light against the rear window. I have seen only one or two Rovers locally with such a brake light fitted. Is that a P6 Rover Owner's Club "25 years of the P6" on the rear window adjacent to the fuel filler cap?

Ron.
 
Thanks Ron, I have become very fond of white cars in recent years. Not sure why... :? And Rostyles make anything look good!
That is a P6ROC owners club sticker in the window. The Auckland Rover club sticker is on the other side.
The high stop light would have been fitted when the car was imported in 1994 as a legal requirement along with the retractable seat belts. Fresh imports were required to comply with certain safety standards.
 
You must be pleased with this one! You were asking before about a "build sheet" and you can buy one online from the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust for a P6 or P6B

http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co...s/technical-specification-packages/index.html

provided your car was UK assembled, they don't have details of the NZ built cars tho' :cry:

You can get a simple build cert for 45 quid. or an attractive "full spec." cert. for 65 quid

This will tell you: Date of manufacture, what Colors ( interior and exterior ) and what options; all based on the chassis number

I've got a BMIHT cert for a 3500S somewhere in my collection and will scan or photograph it + upload if interested ( that's if I can find it! )

Perfect if you need to prove your car is over 40 years old, to save on rego. too

GW
 
Wow, they've gone up! I remember when they were 25 quid! Unfortunately, I already know most of that information. I can hazard a guess at the approximate date of manufacture, I can see the colour scheme and I know what options it came with. The only things I would be curious to know would be the UK registration number and the first couple of owners.
The build sheets I meant were ones like these:
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I only have these two and both were found taped to the inside of the roof panels. Neither of them matched the cars they were stuck to. Has anyone else come across them before?
 
hi kiwi,
never seen those before and i have stripped a lot of rovers down for either breaking or full restorations, very unusual.

joseph
 
Curious aren't they? The oddest part is that the one on the left was in a '71 Auto. It was corsica with a Buckskin interior but 453 chassis and no HRW. The one on the right was in a '73 Mexico brown 'S' with huntsman roof and buckskin ambla. That did have PAS and HRW but no leather and a 482 chassis. The tape on them appears to be original. Both are dated 1972 and have 'PRoC' or 'PReC' or 'PR&C' written in pen on them. Any thoughts anyone? Anybody else seen them before? Anyone seen the option codes before? 'E.3969, E.3977, E.4001'?
 
I have a P5 book somewhere and if I remember correctly, it says that these build tags can often be found under the headlining. I will dig it out later this evening, if I get a chance, and scan the page in.
 
I have the line tag for my P4 which was left behind the dash, the E numbers or optional extras listed for the Duo colour & Overdrive.
 
Aren't the "453" chassis numbers NZ assembled? Legend has it when these were CKD'd into containers UK side, the roofs were cut off the base units so more base units could be packed per container. Perhaps some UK build tags were attached to base units that were then CKD'd and subsequently built to a quite different spec. NZ side.... ( ? )

Were manual 3500S's ever assembled at the Nelson plant ? The heritage cert. I have is for a '73 3500S that is UK assembled, 482-00XX-C chassis ( 482:　Export RHD )　chassis number, but the destination Dealer was BLMC, Dunedin, New Zealand. What NZ assembled cars I've seen have all been autos ( albeit in my limited experience ) Certainly strange for a 3500s tag to be taped into a Auto car; the base Unit floor would be different, but the roof would be the same panels, Auto or Manual. A roof repair in the past using 2nd hand parts ( ? )

I've only parted out one P6; but never seen that tag, interesting !

Dumb question: did you get the Air sorted out? Any dramas or advice for other owners with factory Air? No doubt system uses CFC-12 which can still be had in NZ ( ? ) Careful around that stuff; in the presence of flame or extreme heat produces phosgene gas, ianP6man has posted about a CFC friendly USA-sourced alternative ( which being in the trade is likely old news to you ! ) Well done, a stunning result!! Nice to see one saved from the wreckers 8)

GW
 
As far as I was aware only auto's were built in NZ from CKD kits, all S models were CBU.

Graeme
 
I have never seen a NZ assembled 'S'. However, according to James Taylor's book there were some CKD 'S's built (not many though) but there is no way of telling where. Roofs could have been swapped either before shipping or later in life, it's just odd that both the tags are for UK market cars.
I haven't had the AC regassed yet, I will hopefully be getting on to that very soon. I was under the impression that R-12 gas was no longer available. The car has an AC service sticker under the bonnet from about 5 years ago so I know it was working then and presumably running R-134 gas. I'll show it to the AC guy this week I think.
 
Just bought a few old magazines off Trade me a couple of days ago and one of them contained this:
YourClassicJan94.jpg

This is in a copy of 'Your Classic' from January 1994. Same magazine, 6 months after the other ad, same price but another 2000 miles on the clock and a completely different phone number and area code. (anyone know where that code is from?)
My guess is that the car sold in '93 to the NZ-er who tried (and presumably failed) to sell it before shipping it back to NZ. Interesting. I really must try to get hold of the previous owner again, see if he found any of that history.
Anyway, the car is booked in to have the AC re-gassed tomorrow so hopefully... :D
 
Thanks Harvey.
I drove home from work to day in air-conditioned luxury :D Very pleasant! I'll be interested to see how good it is at demisting as this car fogs up terribly in the mornings.
 
Al
Who did your a/c servicing ? Is it still holding its gas.?
I drove my P6 over the Nullaboor in 1973 with 1/2 pd of butter over the a/c outlet vent to keep it from melting. The chilly bin got hot within 2 hrs out of Perth ,in the searing heat.What we couldnt eat went next to the vents to stop it spoiling held in place with selotape .
The a/c worked a treat way back then
Not working at all now and we are in for a hot summer
Also the a/c improves the demisting of the screen ,as you have probably found out by now
Have a good Xmas
Gerald
 
AC was regassed by Autosparx in Kelston. To be honest I've barely driven the car since. I had an issue where the compressor would cut out occasionally which seems to be related to the overpressure switch so i've been meaning to take it back to get the pressure lowered a bit but just haven't had the time. The rego has been on hold since October 'cos I couldn't afford to register both the V8 and the TC and as the TC's rego was a third of the price, it won. I keep meaning to get her out again but have been too busy with work and such to deal with it. :( Maybe in the new year? I must admit the AC would be nicer than the TC's black leather interior on days like today!
 
Thanks Al
I get my P6 out of the paint and panel shop in the new year . I have been watching its process carefully once a week ,over the past month .So far the work carried out is very very professional. They found one panel that was damaged and repaired before the dealer I bought it off released it to me way back in '72. Probably got the bash en transit ex UK or on the wharf in Freemantle after unloading.
Ive got them to go over the whole car and remove any imperfections in the body and paint. Im more than pleased . A 30 year birthday present to her from me .
I will trundle it over to Kelston for some cold air injection before taking her home .
I am looking forward to putting some miles on her over summer after two years under covers.
Roll on 2011
 
Well, I've had an interesting development! I recommissioned the car at the end of January after her 3 month lay up and took her to a music festival along with the Red TC which was very pleasant. I then got a bit enthused and though that I would take her on my annual 2 week camping trip up north, borrowing a trailer for all our gear. I gave her a service and fitted a towbar and she did the job ok. A few problems showed up and I probably won't try it again in a hurry but it sure was nice having a decent car to drive once the trailer was off.
Anyway, i'm getting sidetracked. When I first bought the car, I called the previous owner to make sure it wasn't stolen or anything and he mentioned that he might have some paperwork for the car. As he had recently moved north to Whangerei I never got around to chasing him up, but I was holidaying fairly close so I gave him a ring to see if he had found it. He had and was happy for me to drop in and pick it up! :D
The upshot was a 2" thick folder of bills and receipts gathered from his time with the car including all the import paperwork, original service book and a few other bits including sales receipts from the first owner to the second owner, and second owner to him. :D :D

So, the car was first registered in Jersey to a Neville Hamwee. Registration number J126.
On his death in 1988, the ownership was transferred to Nicholas Hamwee of London and she received a new registration number of GYY486L.
He sold it in 1993 with 31,000 on the clock to Roger Tyler (now of Whangerei but at the time living and working in London) who drove it for a year and left it with his Father to sell when he came back to NZ. Unable to sell it, he decided to bring it back to NZ in late 1994 where he used it regularly, adding about 1000 miles a year to the 37,000 it already had. in late 2009 the car had been sitting for a while as he had upgraded by then and trying to coordinate 2 house moves, he had a buyer lined up for the car but they pulled out at the last minute. With the car not wanting to start and rust starting to appear in the doors and time running out, he felt he had little choice but to call the local wreckers to come and take it away. :( luckily for me, they thought it was too good to crush and advertised it and that's where I came in. 8)
The folder included lots of costly bills for things like a trans rebuild, AC recommission, uprated swaybar, Koni shocks and new rear springs and lots of other minor bits and pieces. All in all, not a bad bit of history to have!
 
Hi Al

What a result! I doubt your car has seen salt then. Certainly none used in Jersey - and the island's too small to do more than 50! London also tends to have much less salt than the rest of the UK as it is a few degrees warmer thanks to all the people and buildings. And again less opportunity to use the performance.

Chris
 
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