So great you're keeping the Rover. I love that car too! With all your cars in the barns and outbuildings and coming acquisitions, you could open a classic car museum!! You have the best eclectic British collection of daily drivers on the internet!
I had a 1972 2000SC back in 1982, in Monza Red, which I believe is the colour in this video. Having kept it for four years it, it was, other than a water pump failure (and it gave me plenty of warning too) a totally reliable car over several thousand miles. This was a time when we had a property motor industry, lovely car.
If you're changing the front shock absorbers, you need some easily made up "special" tool to compress the bush on the chassis mounted end. They fit to a thick metal post, with two holes, drilled through it, vertical and horizontal. You use the outer hole to fit the compression tool against a thick metal washer. Then fit a heavy duty split pin through the other hole once it's compressed, to hold the washer in place. From memory, it was many years ago, I used a hardened steel pin in the outer hole, then tapped a wedge type ball joint splitter in between the pin and washer to compress the rubber bush. Then it's just a matter of dropping a new split pin in the other hole. You can tap two metal wedges, or chisels, in each side of the mounting post, if you don't have a suitable sized ball joint splitter, or the proper factory tool.
I Would be doing the same thing Adam if I had a beautiful example of the P6 like yours , I have watched all of your videos and enjoyed all of them , keep up the good work and will look forward to seeing the P6 next year, in the mean time will carry on watching other content you put out.
Good choice. Just a great car and years ahead of its time. The first car of the year for a good reason. Curious to learn your final shock absorbers choice 😊 maybe Koni
Hi Adam, another classic Rover saved then, nice to see. I’ve got a 1972 P6 2000TC since May this year besides my 1979 XJ6 S2, which I own for almost 14 years now, and I can’t really compare them. They are totally different cars obviously. The 2000TC is much more noisy, but the car drives really well and I think it’s a keeper. Good luck with it, how many are left where you live, by the way. In The Netherlands only 38 of the 2000TC according the MOT Wilfred
My uncle had a 2000 from the early 70s to early 80s. He was of the generation when a car was a "pride and joy" and he spent a lot of time keeping it immaculate.
You missed a treat then, I had 2 x 2000SC, 1 auto and then a manual, both good cars, but then I got a V8 auto, superb a real step up, I wish I still had it.
@caw25sha I had dozens of them in the 70s and 80s, mostly V8 models. Early ones had a Borg Warner 35 type auto gearbox, then the smoother shifting type 65 from late 1973. My favourite Rover P6 was the V8 3500S manual, few cars were as fast, or comfortable. I only moved on to V8 SD1 Rover's when I needed more space for the kids, and 2 big dogs. The British police loved both the P6 and SD1 as a fast response, and motorway patrol car, buying some to store and put in to use long after production of each model ended.
@@terryc8164 The police and security services had a variety of P6, and the 2600 and 3500 SD1, but some were built to the stripped out bare minimum police special spec. Such as no electric windows, no air con, no sunroof or wood trim on doors and dashboard and base model cloth trim. Back in the 70s and 80s I ran dozens of P6. They were so easy to swap parts about on to make it to the colour and spec you wanted. I upgraded each one, and broke a few really rough ones for parts, the engines and bits, always sold to kit builers. I still have a rare 1975/6 spec Hunstman model, owned since 83, but badly wrecked by vandals. I also have a 1985 spec SD1 Vanden Plas V8 manual. Found out it was a factory development car when the dealer did a Vin plate check after wrong spares kept being supplied. It's fully loaded, has mix of Vitesse/Vanden Plas Efi mechanicals. It has cards with electronic mixture control and fittings not shown for the V8 carbon model. It's got the optional cloth interior, but very fine needle patterned, in a grey/blue with navy piping that I've never seen on another SD1. It also sits on the 14" wheels, in a paint and polished colour ive not seen on others. With the lower Vitesse suspension, it sits about 4 to 5 inches ground clearance fully laden. It will do almost 40mpg on a steady run, and it's seen 125 on the speedo, allegedly officer 😁, and was still pulling to go. I goes and corners likes it's a track car on rails. I've driven a TP Vitesse, and it didn't seem any different to mine. I've owned it since it was 4 years old in 1989, but I stored itxafew years ago.
Yes, the v power (as with all fuel) degrades when standing, so why not put it away with a minimum amount in the tank? Then presumably if and when you restart it you can add fresh fuel.
