This could have been my Great Uncles car - except his was in Brown. This car was stuck in a garage for 30+ years. Strangely many barns have dirt floors which help to keep cars better than a concrete floor. Concrete sweats in the cold and helps corrosion underneath while in a dry and ventilated barn with a good roof, soil is like a desiccant !
A very nice P6 you have bought! Great color! I had years ago exactly te same P6! Also with a manual and the same color. Mine had a black interior. But I must say…your interior looks great like it is! 👌 Good luck with it, and keep us posted!
I bought one of these from a colleague (a 1974 if I recall) in 1986. It needed a full exhaust system ...I found a virtually new system from a local breakers yard. I did various service work including a carb strip down and clean. It proved a little too thirsty and decided to sell. I cleaned it up ....I mean cleaned up ....door shuts ...total engine bay....wheel arches....boot stripped out and rubber linings tyre wall blacked. The full interior and carpets shampooed after stripping out the seats. Advertised for sale and not a single response ! Eventually, a motor trader I knew with a showroom offered to sell for me. I took it to him , placed in the showroom where he threw a sheepskin on the seat along with the Haynes manual and left the doors and bonnet open. It sold within 48 hours when a bus driver traded his Mini for it !!!
Looks like a very late 'High Compression' S before the October 73 revisions. Lower Compression ratio, and fitment of Hif6 type carbs as per the 2200 models, introduced at the same time along with trim changes as per 2.2 Couple of things as per originality. Non PAS car, so steering wheel IS correct. Some rubbish in the comments here. Also, Ambla Box pleat trim, is completely correct, in Bronze here, Ebony and Buckskin were also offered with Monza Red bodywork, Leather remaining an option. So, all seems authentic, I'd ignore some of the expert advice on here regards trim, steering wheel etc, entirely correct. Lovely Car, had a few, all the best.
Ooh, I do love a P6, or a P5 come to that. Either way, the sound of that glorious V8 still does something to me. At a time when my dad was running a very nice Super Minx, I had two mates who's dads had P6s. Now, my dad's car was lovely but my young, envious eyes lusted after those Rovers. What are your plans for these two?
I had a 3500S years ago, it had the same steering wheel and no PAS. I think, on the V8's at least, big wheel = no PAS, small(er) leather covered wheel = PAS.
@@htimsid P6b was a pre production moniker. You could buy a P5b but the P6 was 3500 in the sale rooms. Look it up. The P5b was sold alongside the P6 3500
