Swiss car with dash mounted grab handle

An optional extra for S1 and S2 models when new,that was not taken up by many!
Now they are quite rare to find in cars,let alone s/h or NOS.
Can fetch up to £100 when a NOS one turns up on e-Bay!!
Got one in my car,as ive fitted a few of the available optional extras.
 
Looks like a nice S1 V8. At £8,500 (12,500CHF) you would expect a pretty mint car. The interiod looks cracking.
RE the grab handle, I wonder if you could fashion one out of hardwood and upholster it with foam and vinyl to make an original looking copy. Does anyone know how it is fastened to the dash?
 
The Becker stereo looks perfect in the P6 interior, first example I've actually seen.
The gear selector shaft doesn't appear to have the 'draft excluder' brushes. It looks more like a brushed aluminium plate sealing up the space??
Looking at the parts diagram it looks like a plate is normally below the brush 'gate'.
I'm sure mine only has the brushes... Jim
 
Swiss cars were always very high spec. Hence the bright waist trim strip. That's not a later addition, if you look closely it is the S1 narrow version. Very desirable. You could order it as an option in the UK, but not many dealers knew about it and even less ordered it.

Chris
 
JVY said:
RE the grab handle,does anyone know how it is fastened to the dash?
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At the mount points there's a simple captive stud that goes through the dash panel with a nut on the end.
 
Geoff at Wins did have a couple of NOS grab handles in stock a few months ago. They may have sold now though.

I have one in my Three Thousand Five and it's a nice thing to have.
 
Pilkie said:
JVY said:
RE the grab handle,does anyone know how it is fastened to the dash?
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At the mount points there's a simple captive stud that goes through the dash panel with a nut on the end.
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So, for mounting arrangements it's the same as the rear armrests. But how is the setup with a glovebox-light and the series 2 switch panel? Did Rover supply grab handles together with a glovebox-light? It would complete my interior together with doorbins!

I like the narrow side strips, my dad used to have them on his old Three Thousand Five when I was young(er)!
 
Heres a pic of mine,it just fits round it.
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corazon said:
The gear selector shaft doesn't appear to have the 'draft excluder' brushes. It looks more like a brushed aluminium plate sealing up the space??
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That's the early type as originally fitted with the PRND2D1L selector pattern and the round gearknob.


corazon said:
Looking at the parts diagram it looks like a plate is normally below the brush 'gate'.
I'm sure mine only has the brushes... Jim
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Brushes only on the later cars, certainly all PRND21 cars (although I don't know for certain if the selector itself changed at the same time as the pattern), and with the later shaped gearknob.
 
Thanks Harvey,
Since the car in question has the earlier one fitted to a PRND21, they must be interchangeable?
I think I prefer the look, it's cleaner.
Is there any reason why the brushes were favoured later?
Jim
 
corazon said:
Thanks Harvey,
Since the car in question has the earlier one fitted to a PRND21, they must be interchangeable?
I think I prefer the look, it's cleaner.
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Selector plates, selector housings and gearknobs are all interchangable.

corazon said:
Is there any reason why the brushes were favoured later?
Jim
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ISTR on the early ones the ally slider used to jam up.
 
I have only seen a couple of grab handles fitted to local Rovers. The cars in question were always finished to the highest standard and were at a club display day.

The handle is not shown within the 3500/3500S parts book, so were they an optional extra only for the 2000/2200? The last one that I saw fitted was within a 2000, but I can't be absolutely certain with the others.

Ron.
 
How interesting. I hadn't spotted that. Certainly they were still being fitted to some NADA 3500S. Maybe they were deleted around the time they came out, say '67? I'm going to have to browse a few 2000 parts manuals now!

Chris
 
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