Junkman's Irish Climate Improvement Mission A Full Success! - Caution: P6 Series 1 V8 Porn!

[Junkman]

So the sooner I have it painted grey, the better?

[vulgalour]

For this and many other reasons, yes.

[Noel Tidybeard]

maybe it should be Mango with tobbaco interior

[rml2345]

Whatever colour it becomes it will be most handsome indeed, the series one cars are by far the best looking IMHO.

If it had been a tourer I'd have literally burst with jealousy but as a saloon it can just about be contained by emergency jealousy measures.

You fabulous bastard.

[Honey Badger]

I seem to be the only one who prefers the series 2 cars, I think the plastic black grill is much better looking than the chrome.

 

Either way P6 ownage is for winners which ever car you have, enjoy the new car.

[Junkman]

No, I must say I also think the facelift worked extremely well.

[Junkman]

You know you like a car when you do stuff to it that isn't really necessary.

 

This is a steering wheel:

 

It suffers from an advanced state of decay and purefaction:

 

So I changed it for the steering wheel that was in the car years ago:

 

 

I installed the only bearable infotainment system known to intelligent forms of life:

 

 

Replacement panels collection has commenced with obtaining this wing:

 

Note the freebie taillight, something that delights a miserly cheapskate like me much more than it should.

[Junkman]

 

Mr Conelrad took it.

I just leave it here.

[scruff]

That car is disgustingly fit. I think the slightly shabby exterior just adds to the appeal. Absolute top swappage Junkdude.

[Junkman]

I love this bloody car to shrapnel.

[Junkman]

Does it suit me?

[Guest Breadvan72]

It IS you.  There is some some of unheilige vereinigung or sinister gestalt going on here.

[Shep Shepherd]

Oh, and I was told the car has a quite interesting* history - it once belonged to Danny Hopkins of Craptical Plastics.

 

I saw it for the first time years ago, when it was owned by a chap in Blackpool, who installed a ZF4HP22 upgrade.

I bought the leftover original gearbox off him, which not much later grenaded in the haunted Rover of Doom.

As I said earlier, it currently has a fresh BW35 since Mad Manx Man uses the ZF in one of his other cars.

 

Oh, and the original steering wheel from it has been hanging on a hook in my cellar for years. Don't ask.

 

I wondered why the number plate looked familiar. It looks a lot better with the standard wheeltrims and blackwalls, as opposed to the Rostyle lookalikes and whitebands that it had when it was featured in PC. I didn't realise it had been the subject of a colour change at some point before DH owned it, though.

[chaseracer]

I have been Junk-chauffeured in this marvellous vehicle.  Verdict: ACE.

[Junkman]

Great Britain, c. 1972

 

 

Today, an impeccably attired gentleman from that London arrived at the Junktowers.

 

 

He had this in the boot of his car:

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

"You know when you've been MANGO'D"

[Junkman]

Mango no go with Serio uno.

This is Toledo Red.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Those seats are just marvellous.

 

One of my Grandfathers was tremendously keen on Rovers and the P6 particularly. He owned a considerable number of them in the 'sixties and 'seventies. Interestingly, he preferred the pre-facelift cars. I can't remember why though. He had one in the same colour as this 3500 and one also in the original Tobacco leaf too. I don't remember either of them, he had them before I was born and I have only seen them in photos. I do remember an Almond one he bought in about 1973 though; it's one of my earliest car memories. These Rovers really suited him and he was bereft when they stopped making them. He used to joke he didn't need to test drive cars - he knew he wanted a Rover.

 

Shortly before he died, I took him shopping at a supermarket in Knutsford. Parked by the entrance was a 3500. It was absolutely immaculate and in Almond, with cream leather seats - very similar to one he had owned. He paused a while and gently touched the rear wing, thinking of better days, and all that time had stolen from him.

[Junkman]

Sadly the single front seat squab is rather torn, so I might need two further front seat squabs.

The rear seats and armrests are in remarkably good condition, so are the front seat backs,

of which only one has a tear in the vinyl covered back cover plate.

Depending on how good the dying process (see what I did there?) works, I should be able

to make a good red set out of what I have.

I will make new doorcards and the rest of the trim is vinyl, so it shouldn't be too difficult to

make it red as well.

[hairnet]

OMG LOLSETH IN DA NORTH

[seth]

Great to meet you if only briefly.

I had thought about sitting on a Rover seat while piloting the Hillman but decided that might not work out.

[Junkman]

It was entirely my pleasure. Many, many thanks again!

Next time you hopefully have the time for a cuppa and a tour of the Junkmansion.

 

I suggest you to get a full set of Rover seats - in their original packaging.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I recall that when I was in the Air Cadets in the 1970s the Squadron Warrant Officer had a tobacco coloured P6. He once gave a couple of us spotty oiks a lift in it on the way back from some do or other. The seats were covered with thick clear plastic covers, which struck me then as now as naff.

[Junkman]

I'd love to have those seats now, though. They must be mintola.

Besides, I've heard there are people who have that shit on their settee.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I saw a Ford Cortina about five or six years ago which still had the plastic covers on the seats. It was remarkable. The car looked well used but cared for in the way cars owned by elderly people sometimes do.

[drum]

Those new seats are v nice. You'll have to change the colour of your driving gloves now though.

[Junkman]

I like contrasts.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I prefer the later grille myself, but the earlier leather interior and 2000 steering wheel. The original 2000 dash is a work of art. When you think the 2000 was being made at the same time as the Morris Oxford - how modern must it have been?

[Junkman]

Although I'm not at all adverse to the facelift models, the G-planness of the Series 1s is delightful.

We all know that the P6 launch in 1963 was a sensation. It immediately went on to become Europe's first COTY of evah.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

This is flawless: 

 

 

I have encouraged JM to remove the rev counter and install the 'floating' clock as above.