Granadaland Gets Greenhouse Gassed Again - Caution: P6 content! Car runs! ish

[scruff]

I hope the engine is as sweet as a 27k Rover V8 should be. You chaps are total winnahs as far as I'm concerned, three P6 V8s omgomg   

[406V6]

Lovely. The dashboards on these are, IMO, the high point of car dashboard design. So clear and pleasing to the eye. You have to have driven one at night (my Dad had a 2200 TC back in the day) to see the backlit lettering around the switches in the middle to really appreciate them. Just a shame the wood trim was nasty plastic instead of real wood (on the 2200 anyway).

[Inspector Morose]

Swap for a real Rover?

[jonny69]

That looks really rather comfy.

[Junkman]

Good man for continuing to BUY BRITISH.

Those newfangled German executive expresses will never catch on..

 

Can you just imagine- flip floppy rear headrests?hardly a patch on the the uncompromising reliability and quality you get with a Rover.

 

We drove to the Techno Classica, then on through Austria, half way down the Italian peninsula, back via Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and France,

in our desire to buy some bonkers car. It didn't happen.

 

What happened instead, is that we ruefully returned to Blighty, posted that shitpile Benz on eBay and bought another V8 Rover.

 

Questions?

[Alan_Green]

Great. You can swap the blue and yellow panels over to have two blue & yellow cars. That definitely looked better.

 

I can't believe how good these machines are looking to me nowadays. I'm asking for a V8 P6 driving day experience for my birthday.

[Junkman]

Just attend an event attended by the GGG and P6 V8 drivage will be arranged.

[Junkman]

Right. The collection will commence on a Friday the 13th, 7am.

 

WCPGW?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Well, it looks like neither of us was smart enough to go to bed early. 

[Junkman]

How could one possibly sleep in the light of such epicness commencing?

[fatharris]

Has anybody ever told you that you're mad?

Good luck with the collection!

[oldcars]

Friday 13th + Rover = brave winner 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Oh what a beautiful day.

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Obligatory petrol station shot.

[vulgalour]

Oh, so you're not attempting to drive it home then?  MASSIVE LET DOWN.

[cort16]

Even worse he's driving it home on a Vauxhall

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Even worse he's driving it home on a Vauxhall

 

 

Don't worry, it's a secret Renault. 

[Junkman]

Well for collecting a Rover P6 V8 in a faraway county, we naturally used a Rover P6 V8:

 

 

 

We parked it in someone's garden in Leicester:

 

 

And continued our journey with this:

 

 

 

We drove...

 

 

And drove...

 

 

 

We stopped.

 

 

Because we were hungry.

 

 

Well, it turns out that "country" is a synonym for expensive. Just the starters were already 5 quid here.

 

So we drove...

 

 

And stopped again.

 

 

Here, they wanted 9 quid just for a breakfast!

 

So we drove.

 

And stopped again:

 

 

 

Here we had some proper proper food and drinks for not too much money.

 

So we drove on.

At our destination near King's Lynn, we were greeted by a mid engined turbo with two seats:

 

 

And this:

 

[Junkman]

Then we saw our loot in the flesh for the first time.
 

 

 

 

It has Blues.

[Junkman]

There was some loadage and strappage.

 

 

[Junkman]

For the entire journey to the unloading station, this was the view out of the rear window:

 

 

And for quite a while, this was the view out of the front window:

 

[Junkman]

We stopped again.

 

 

Because there was this:

 

 

Inside, there were some pretty cars:

 

 

 

And an ugly one:

 

 

The signs were at the wall:

 

 

Next door were some people in a workshop:

 

 

[Junkman]

Then we did a lot of driving. A lot.

We stopped again and unloaded our luggage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was at a well known Rover P6 sanatorium near Leek:

 

 

[Junkman]

Then we had to return the higher hire shit to Leicester and drive home with the haunted Rover.

All in all, we were on the road from 7am to midnight.

 

Oh, and I won't deprive you of the temporary companion of the new Rover, because I'm nice.

 

 

[Junkman]

Even worse he's driving it home on a Vauxhall

 

You are obviously completely unaware of the sheer heroism embedded in this.

Another mile in that piece of shit and I would have pissed blood.

The only redeeming feature of that thing is that the pedals are lifted straight from a Renault 16.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

That's a long day - but a rewarding one.

[vulgalour]

If nothing else, this thread was worth it to see a Riley Elf in the wild.

[johngarty]

Epic. Lots more updates please 

[Lukas]

Then we had to return the higher hire shit to Leicester and drive home with the haunted Rover.

All in all, we were on the road from 7am to midnight.

 

Oh, and I won't deprive you of the temporary companion of the new Rover, because I'm nice.

 

 

 

Thats the most beautiful and desireable car I have seen for a while! Sorry Rover-lovers... 

[billyboy406v6]

An excellent and epic thread and no mention of Mercedes motor cars, well done sir !!