The P6's most serious shortcoming.

WarrenL

WarrenL

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Now that I'm starting to drive my P6 on a more regular basis after several years of on the road/off the road drama, I've begun to notice some of the shortcomings of a 50 year old design, the most dire of which is THE LACK OF A COFFEE CUP HOLDER. I'm in a real bind here. With nothing to hold my supersized caffeine infusion canister, I cannot take this car out in the morning, and I'm severely disincentivised from driving it in the afternoon. A quick look around Repco and other big box automotive accessorizories has turned up nothing useful. It's the 21st century - others here must have experienced the pain. Has anybody seen anything that can be installed in my P6 without desecrating its near perfectly unmarked interior?
 
Yes have noted that problem on many occasions, you may need to install the "wife option" for making and holding the said coffee this of course has the added bonus of more spousal time :LOL:..... now where did I put my coat?

That guy
 
The Wife is so Rover-hostile at the moment that asking her to ride in it for the purpose of holding my coffee cup would result in an immediate down tools and walk out, if not a divorce. Moreover, I do believe you're living alone at the moment, That Guy...

I was hoping somebody would come up with an eBay link or some such.
 
Easy .
Move on from caffeine to gin , there are a number of places to tuck away ones hip flask , and it's better for your health , keeps you going longer and your less likely to spill it :wink: :LOL:
 
happy days said:
And it won't burn you if you spill it on yourself
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I've always found that a suitably fat thermos mug jammed between the seat and the door card is a pretty effective solution.

Yours
Vern
 
It has to be something that can successfully, and safely, hold a standard paper takeaway cup. Gin just won't do, fellas. I don't drink (save the odd beer), and coffee is as essential as petrol to a successful car journey these days.
 
But Warren, you're currently a "top P6er" for your successful ZF-ing of your transmission!
Surely an innovator of your calibre can develop a cupholder that will teach Repco et al, their business?
Or do you need the coffee first to switch the brain on?
 
I don't know that I'm such a great innovator - I'm really just standing on the shoulders of giants. More of a coordinator, really. And without that morning coffee, I'm unable to coordinate so much as my own limbs!
 
something as simple as a circular piece of foam stuck down somewhere? They used to sell them in petrol stations before the cars all had them ;)
 
I carry a bidon filled with water. Modern cars are filled with items that, although nice, are hardly necessary.

Ron.
 
I've visited the provinces, and they have this strange aversion to vehicles without cup holders.

In Canada for instance, the first stop on any journey, however short ((less than an hour ( they measure in time, not distance??))
the first stop is at a "Tim Hortons Coffee Shop"

I recommend, if visiting these extremes of the commonwealth, not to stay too long as these habits can quickly become addictive,
Indeed one does it without intent.

If I remember correctly the antipodes' refer to an off licenced premises as a "bottle shop" and some are even "drive through bottle shops"
Then they ask if you want your beer Hot or Cold??

Purely on the grounds of research I will visit Brisbane in the new year, to check on their progress.

Must remember to check if the hire (rental) car has cup holders.....

Jim. :wink:
 
Thanks John. I've had a local lead come in by text message, so I'll follow that up first, but I think yours might be the next option. It has to be something that doesn't involve screwing or gluing to Brown Rover's near-pristine interior. Ron, I had to google "bidon". One of those'd be overdoing it here, but I do know that in Australia and other uncivilised Third World countries where most driving consists of vast distances on unpaved camel tracks, you need to carry a selection of them, filled with water and petrol (don't get them confused in an emergency).

An overhead view of Ron's Rover:
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Jim, customs in the former colonies would appear strange to a bloke coming straight from the Mother Country. There are rumours percolating to the effect that things are improving (some Kiwis have opened a cafe in Soho), but when I last visited the green 'n' pleasant in 2009, the coffee was still utter crap, and probably more effective poured into the tank than down one's gullet. Out closer to the tropical sources of fresh beans, we've all become hideously addicted, and that's how the Japanese took over the local car markets. By meeting the need for paper cup holders* whilst the British continued to insist we stop our cars and get out for tea and scones (and wicker baskets remained on the options list), the Rising Sun soon set on the British Empire.

*The first car I owned with such an appendage was a 1982 Mitsubishi.
 
Hi Warren,

:LOL: I don't normally carry Jerry cans, but if I were to head off into the arid zones, then I probably would.

The bidon that I carry is of the sort that I would normally carry within a bidon cage on the down tube on my bikes. :wink:

Ron.
 
Ron, I had a speed read moment then, I had to re-check, I knew I couldn't have read bidet...... :oops:


John
 
I did a quick Google image search for "bidon" and it seemed to be all plastic jerry cans, but then I scrolled down and noticed there are other types as well:

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