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

[Sigmund Fraud]

Still sounds better than any of my fleet, and they are all at least 20 years newer. Well bought, sir !

[rml2345]

Still looks good in the pics. As long as it's solid in all the important places and runs alright it'll make a fine wintermobile.

[Asimo]

Love the hub caps.

Has any car ever had better hub caps than these stainless steel P6 jobbies? I have seen them fitted to all sorts of non-Rover, recently an LDV Pilot!

[ShiteRider]

The P6 is on the must own list, there was one near my house festering on a driveway. I left a note on the screen and put another through the letterbox but heard nothing back.....

It disappeared a fortnight ago, i hope it's found a good home/safer place to hibernate.

[Inspector Morose]

That is just about all I'd ever want in a car. Bastard. Dead jealous.

[eddyramrod]

I nearly had one when I was 20, and again much more recently in Cyprus...

This one, in fact, I was considering it before I bought my Capri.

 

I also drove a V8 once, many years ago, and you're right, it's a whole different beast.

[vulgalour]

Why would anyone ditch that delightful beige interior for black?  Some people have no taste, I commend you for reinstating the far nicer colour.

[purplebargeken]

Fuggin ace that is. Slightly marred by the lack of a Mobylette however. 

 

Whap some leather feed stuff on those seats asap though.

[Angrydicky]

I agree with Vulgalour, black interiors are horrible. Looks great, and a local car to you as well, with the NC Manchester reg.

[Jim Bell]

That looks suitably dashing.

 

Do shove it this way when youre finished with it (for four hundred pounds)

[HMC]

Lovely! those pre bl facelift p6s really are a fantastic, and the colour is just perfect. Have to say your intro made me picture a sorry looking p6- which this is not at all.

 

If your definition of a winter beater is to sell in the spring, id be interested too!!

[Vince70]

Bloody love the P6 its a car I've always wanted...

My father had an early one back in the late 70s and have fond memories of holidays down Cornwall in the old girl..

My fathers was a 2000 blue automatic with cream leather and a Matt black bonnet which he bought for a £50 and a scalextic set lol..

 

I remember us going up a bloody steep long hill in torrential rain the stuff you usually get when going away on holiday to Cornwall and seeing an expensive Merc broken down on the side of the road while the old rover never missed a beat and got over the top no problem...

 

Those strip speedos were fantastic.. I also remember the old girl had one of those map reading lights on a stalk fitted to the dash..It was just a shame my mother was terrible at reading the map lol...

 

My father was going to get another one years later which was a very late one from his mate which was a real low mileage immaculate one which I think was on a R plate in red with the 2.2 engine with cream cloth but the guys son put it around a lamppost the day before buying it..

[Junkman]

Why would anyone ditch that delightful beige interior for black?  Some people have no taste, I commend you for reinstating the far nicer colour.

 

Thank you very much. The colour choice happened entirely intuitively, not a single synapse had to be utilised.

[Lord Sterling]

That car looks wonderful Junkman, absolutely wonderful. After being a passenger in your P6 V8. I have decided that I need a P6 in my life at some point. Maybe getting rid of the 800s could help me step in this direction.

[Junkman]

I'm pretty sure the car will be up for grabs in April 2014, complete with a fresh goddamned MoT.

I am absolutely sure that it will be better then, than it is now.

[michael1703]

Are those p6 seats? Thought they looked more like p5 seats

 

Been a while since I've sat in a p6 but thought they were cloth and squarer looking

[Junkman]

The seats are totally oreganol P6 Series 1.

"Ambla" (vinyl) was standard, next up was cloth and on top was leather. Headrests were optional until 1973 (I think) when they became standard for the front seats.

Those are 'flat pleat', whereas the ones in Series 2 cars were 'box pleat' and the front seats were slightly different, i.e. the seat backs were reshaped to allow a bit more room for backseat passengers, and the seat cushions had an indent on the sides to allow for inertia reels.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I'm ashamed to say I looted the bodies of two P6s in 1980 for their beige flat pleat leather front seats,which I fitted( bolted straight through the floor ) to my Mk2 Cortina. The two in the back were pretty much unusable by anyone with legs, but I thought it was the dogs bollocks,I even had a Carobes centre console and stuck wood grain Fablon on the door tops and dash.

Unfortunately this wasn't my only Rover interior rape and pillage,I broke a 20,000 mile one owner 3 Litre mk3 and used its seats as a 3 piece suite, only the passenger seat had a headrest,you could specify them individually.

 

In my defence I was only 16 when I created the super luxury 1600 deluxe Cortina and 19 and skint with our first flat in the case of the P5.

[dugong]

I have driven this car on the same access road in which I tried VA's Princess. 

 

 

 

I prefer the series-1 cars because of their purer shape. It seemed a thoroughly pleasant way of getting around. It was happy being shunted back and forth up the access road for these pictures, too - it never threw a strop or got so hot it refused to start again.

[Junkman]

Aaaaaah! Oooooooh!

[dugong]

Aaaaaah! Oooooooh!

 

Sorry for their lateness - I've been on a film shoot for the past two days. 

[Junkman]

You lucky bassa what with all them groupies around and stuff.

[dollywobbler]

Love the snickety gear lever in these. 

[Junkman]

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.

[dugong]

[michael1703]

Good atmospheric pics, just needs vinnie jones slamming the drivers door on some muppet/slags head

[Junkman]

After a week of ownership I can say with absolute certainty, that this car, contrary to my V8, is not possessed by an evil spirit.

I just thought whoever is interested in buying it in Spring might be interested in this fact.

[rml2345]

Are P6s often possessed by the spirits of the deceased? Those pics look fab BTW... Some contenders for calendar 2015 already. 

[Junkman]

I only know of one so far. My V8. It's determined to kill me and I have finally started to simply accept my fate instead of trying to fight it.

 

 

Entirely btw, the 2000TC which is subject of this thread is fitted with matched tyres since yesterday.

[purplebargeken]

Temptation....... get thee behind thee with the AS loving wife.