1970 Rover 2000 TC Winter Beater of Distinction - NEW! Now with Colour Photographs

[HMC]

Yeah, looks sporty, doesn't it?

Much in contrast to the character of the cars, really.

Whoever expects the P6 to be a sports saloon (even a V8S) is in for a severe disappointment.

Fair point, but if your determined and trying to stop a heist, its suprising what they can be made to do for the cameras....

 

[Junkman]

Oh, they can move alright.

 

 

But it's more like this

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVz4AJMNsoo

 

than horse racing.

 

They are much more suited for wafting about.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Somewhere,I've got a 'Motoring Which' yearbook from 1969 which has amongst many other gems a great new versus used test of 'sports luxury' cars. They were used Bentley S2 v new Audi (90/100?), used DB5 v new H120 Rapier and used Daimler V8 250 v Rover 2000TC.

From memory they seized two Rovers during top speed testing ! There was a comment from Rover that they'd investigate but thought that it would only be an issue on the continent , the implication being it wasn't a big deal!

I'll dig it out and get the i.t. Dept to scan it when they get home from school.

[Junkman]

Well first of all, a Daimler 250 is so damn good that it will put pretty many cars to shame. It is hence on my shopping list.

 

However, it is true, the 2000 TCs always were and still are infamous for seizing up at sustained high speeds, something not commonly experienced in Britain, where 70 is tops, with maybe a few occasional short blasts above. However, they had extracted 124hp from a 2 litre, when most of them had around 80-90. Even the BMW 2000 had only 100, or 120 in Tilux (also twin carb) guise, the latter also not too famous for being durable.

 

It is also true, that considering the small proportion of cars sold abroad, Rover didn't make the remedy a top priority.

However, the issue was subsequently not just addressed by Rover, but well and truly knocked into the ground once and for all with the sledgehammer called 3500.

Once this was done, they returned to sanity and replaced the 2000s with the 2200s, which really are superior in many aspects. Many 2000s do have the bigger hearts beating in them today.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Is that right, 124bhp from a sohc 2 litre with points and carbs? in 1970? Flipping nora.

[dollywobbler]

No,  not sure it is right. 114bhp from the 2000TC according to my reference book, 90bhp from the single-carb. In the 1960s. Bear in mind that my 1986 Nissan Bluebird 2-litre generated only 105bhp.

 

I have seen 124bhp bandied about, but wonder if that was an SAE figure rather than NET? 

 

EDIT - this would back up my thinking. http://www.classicroverforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12311

[Sigmund Fraud]

Is that right, 124bhp from a sohc 2 litre with points and carbs? in 1970? Flipping nora.

 

Pretty good, but in the same period the Italians were making the Alfa 2000 'berlina' which had 10HP more (admittedly, with the help of a second camshaft and huge DHLAs) and wouldn't explode when being ragged up and down the autostrada at top speed.

[Junkman]

Pretty good, but in the same period the Italians were making the Alfa 2000 'berlina' which had 10HP more (admittedly, with the help of a second camshaft and huge DHLAs) and wouldn't explode when being ragged up and down the autostrada at top speed.

 

Provided it started up in the first place.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Provided it started up in the first place.

 

It would always start, as long as the manufacturer's recommended starting routine* was followed !

 

* This being the renewal of all the ignition parts and a full rebuild of the carbs.

[Junkman]

Phakt is that a few of the horses a 2000TC once managed to mobilise must still be left in my car, since it does move with considerable urge, if asked to.

At the end of the day (sic) it does the same 75 on the 'way the V8 does, although with considerably slower movement of the fuel gauge needle, thus reducing my carbon footprint to only size 22.

[daveb47]

Lovely car,I used to have a 2.2 tc in blue,reg no.TSR999T which i wish i still had.

Also had a 3500 s which gave me a scare on the a12 one day when the rear trailing arm decided to become detached from the bodywork and sent me up an embankment between 2 fence posts then back onto the road at about 80 mph.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

It is wonderful, I'm jealous. 

 

I should just say to hell with it and buy a P6 sooner rather than later, now is as cheap as they (and fuel) are likely to get. I'd have to street park it round the corner though

[Junkman]

They are the best cars of evah to street park around a corner, especially in slightly tatty V8 guise.

Every little crook thinks you are the bigger crook and thus will leave it well alone.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Just walked past the spot I would park it in and it's all rainbows from someone spilling a load of oil.

 

It's a sign!

[daveb47]

The 3500 i had was in white & when i had the cb shop on east hill in colchester i used to park on the double yellows the traffic wardens used to leave it alone as they had decided that a white rover with a radio in it (cb) must belong to police.

[Junkman]

Catching the glimpse of a white P6 in the vicinity, or even its brief reflection in a shop window, makes me shrug to this day.