p6 special edition?

[marty]

just recently caught pics of p6 2200 with steel electric sunroof, black vinyl roof etc; They all seem to be white in colour. Was this a limited edition? Most P6's having sunfoof would be of the manual operation varity with tudor webasto

 

[Pilkie]

Steel sliding sunroof,electric or manual was a factory optional extra as was any webasto sunroof.
fitted to a variety of models and colours.
Not a limited edition,the only limited edition if you can call it that,was the VIP.

 

[NickDunning]

just recently caught pics of p6 2200 with steel electric sunroof, black vinyl roof etc; They all seem to be white in colour. Was this a limited edition? Most P6's having sunfoof would be of the manual operation varity with tudor webasto

It'd be interesting to see the photos.

The electric sunroof was a rare factory option from circa 1971.

This is likely to be a custom built machine, not anything from the factory. As Mr. Pilkie says, the only real limited edition car was the 3500 VIP of 1975-1977.

 

[marty]

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C244965



http://www.flickr.com/photos/retromotor ... owknowhow/


There's also a car advertised with the P6 club mag; ~ also in white!!

 

[chrisyork]

An interesting theory. As far as can be ascertained, Rover didn't seem to do batches of unusual spec cars. The line was set up to build cars to customer order, so that any extras were batched as part of the build kit. I strongly suspect that even VIP's didn't all go down the line together - rather that the build kits were all assembled as a batch, and then the cars inserted into production over the course of a few weeks. Plus I can't see Rover doing a "loaded" version of the base model, they'd be more inclined to do a super spec version of the top model eg the VIP.

Proving one way or another is going to be tricky as the factory records don't record the options specified, even when they are very major ones like Air Con. The only approach I can think of that might work would be to find a dealer with a big enough throughput (eg Henly's of London) that they see a significant chunk of output from any given week. Then you need to hope that they are old fashioned enough to have kept old records.

Chris