HMC Quattroporte assaulted

[HMC]

So the 65p o- ring arrived today and the p6 no longer leaks petrol out of the fuel reserve tap. Now i can drive it again and it no longer needs to be pointing uphill!

 

[egg]

That P6 will be for sale for about 5 nanoseconds when the time comes...

good luck chief on the overseas trip, don't go near any rioters.

 

[SiC]

In this bi-monthly 1100 club magazine, Idle Chatter, they have reprinted the "notorious" Practical Classics article. (I'm still part of the club as it's inevitable I'll end up with another ADO16, it's a good magazine they make and it gains access to early listings on their marketplace)

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

In this bi-monthly 1100 club magazine, Idle Chatter, they have reprinted the "notorious" Practical Classics article. (I'm still part of the club as it's inevitable I'll end up with another ADO16, it's a good magazine they make and it gains access to early listings on their marketplace)

It's a bit harsh saying it's more rot prone than an F Victor. They had basically disappeared 8 years after production finished whereas there used to be quite a number of ADO16s around up to the mid to late 80s being used as daily drivers. 

[HMC]

P6 updates- the refurbished selector knob arrived today.

I fitted it and celibrated a fully functional gear selector by going for a spin. Who knew satin/matt almond was an actual colour.

[HMC]

Done a quick “aerial” shot in the works car park. It went bald on top like me!

Unsure wether to leave as is or satin black the top to mimic the original covering that has since disintegrated (p6 roof, not my shiny dome 😂)

[PhilA]

Cream. Still goes with mustard and black, keeps the heat out when parked a bit better.

[trigger]

Absolutely fantastic stuff! Love the little Moggie with it's local to me history, Bridge Garage is what is now called Bridge Classics which raffle all the classic cars on Facebook, the other garages I've heard off but long before my time.

The Rover is pretty awesome too, the funny thing is that it's now ULEZ exempt so you can happily drive into the city in that but can't in my low mileage diesel Fabia.

[LightBulbFun]

55 minutes ago, HMC said:

Done a quick “aerial” shot in the works car park. It went bald on top like me!

Unsure wether to leave as is or satin black the top to mimic the original covering that has since disintegrated (p6 roof, not my shiny dome 😂)

hah its just like the ones from The Getaway  which I was playing recently on my computer for old times sake so have nice high rez screen shot!

(camera controls in the game are a bit shite, well non existent!)

[HMC]

6 hours ago, SiC said:

In this bi-monthly 1100 club magazine, Idle Chatter, they have reprinted the "notorious" Practical Classics article. (I'm still part of the club as it's inevitable I'll end up with another ADO16, it's a good magazine they make and it gains access to early listings on their marketplace)

Thanks for posting it up! Interesting that in the intro its described as one of the catalysts for forming the club, so in an odd way it probably did more good than harm. Sobering reading as the age range of those  models at the time was only 8-20 years approx; mine is now 50.

[Surface Rust]

4 hours ago, HMC said:

Done a quick “aerial” shot in the works car park. It went bald on top like me!

Unsure wether to leave as is or satin black the top to mimic the original covering that has since disintegrated (p6 roof, not my shiny dome 😂)

I was watching one of the yank YouTubers who had a land yacht with a similar baldness, they sprayed it with a textured bedliner for a pickup, to the camera at least it looked just like a vinyl top.

[HMC]

12 minutes ago, Surface Rust said:

I was watching one of the yank YouTubers who had a land yacht with a similar baldness, they sprayed it with a textured bedliner for a pickup, to the camera at least it looked just like a vinyl top.

brilliant idea

[eddyramrod]

4 hours ago, PhilA said:

Cream. Still goes with mustard and black, keeps the heat out when parked a bit better.

Heat????  Phil, have you seen which island this man lives on?

[HMC]

Its a tricky one as part of its appeal (to me) is that it looks like it does. I gathered the courage to temove the rear seats and hanve a good look at the structure there. Its mint.

Too many are superficially tarted up and have hidden problems. I might need to do an early 80s dodgy dealer line up pic with shonky ado16 and p6 in the “px to clear” section of the lot.

[HMC]

6 hours ago, artdjones said:

It's a bit harsh saying it's more rot prone than an F Victor. They had basically disappeared 8 years after production finished whereas there used to be quite a number of ADO16s around up to the mid to late 80s being used as daily drivers. 

I wonder if familiarity bred contempt; If it was a rarely seen italian saloon of the era perhaps they would have emphasised its qualities more. At the time they were 10 a penny and utterly disposable.

This very forum used to hold (still holds?) a similar view of the original ford ka, certainly 10 years ago this was the case on here.

[eddyramrod]

You might have something there!

[timolloyd]

Love the look of this P6. There was one of these outside every flat roofed pub in the late 80s.

[BeEP]

On 06/04/2023 at 13:21, artdjones said:

It's a bit harsh saying it's more rot prone than an F Victor. They had basically disappeared 8 years after production finished whereas there used to be quite a number of ADO16s around up to the mid to late 80s present day being used as daily drivers. 

Both of these have been tootling around West Norfolk today.  The white one is off to a new home in a fortnight with a good friend who I met through the 1100 club 27 years ago (where does time go etc...)

[HMC]

Went to a local autojumble where shiny car syndrome struck with a mates midget which was woken from slumber and ftp’d whereas im increasingly confident with the p6 and its improving with use (and rescuing midgets)

At the show i got hold of some bound back issues of the automobile @barrett that im looking forward to reading, and the p6 wasnt even the most patinated car there…

My mate steve that speciallises in small chassis triumph parts found some gearboxes to buy which didnt fit in the spitfire he came along in, so they where chucked in the book of the rover.

Meanwhile back at home i lined up the rovers…

And set to sorting the crappy running on the p4. I changes condensers and swapped with a good known coil all to no avail. I pulled the plugs and they were old and sooty, replaced those and noticed the choke was not adjusted correctly and wasnt fully home on the carb. Could a partly “on” choke mess the plugs up and cause the engine to run unevenly if it was rich?

Anyway it seems to be running perfectly again after these findings and adjustments.

Steve was also very taken with the unmolested originality of the minor and made me an offer over what i paid for it so thats going to be his.

[HMC]

6 hours ago, timolloyd said:

Love the look of this P6. There was one of these outside every flat roofed pub in the late 80s.

@grogee

[High Jetter]

"you won't get me, I'm a part of the union..."

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, BeEP said:

Both of these have been tootling around West Norfolk today.  The white one is off to a new home in a fortnight with a good friend who I met through the 1100 club 27 years ago (where does time go etc...)

Oh my. They look so good!

[grogee]

12 hours ago, HMC said:

@grogee

Union used to be quite rough as I remember. Looks like they offer bunk-ups now, which is nice.

That Rover has seen things. It's badass in a very classy way

[wuvvum]

On 4/6/2023 at 3:45 PM, LightBulbFun said:

hah its just like the ones from The Getaway  which I was playing recently on my computer for old times sake so have nice high rez screen shot!

(camera controls in the game are a bit shite, well non existent!)

Look at all the traffic chaos that broken down Iveco is causing.

[/Cavcraft] 

[ETCHY]

The P6 is cool. Whenever i see one that's a bit 'cosmetically challenged' i always think of a series called i think  'the gaffer' as he had one.

[HMC]

p4 news

Went for a bit of a potter along some remote unmarked roads over the edge of dartmoor. The p4 then conked out in the middle of nowhere. No fuel was getting to the carb, a kind lady passed by and gave us some fuel (the guage doesnt work but i was suprised that it might be empty) and still no fuel being pumped. My diagnosis is thhat the diagragm in the pump has failed, maybe old age +/- E10? anyway we walked (miles) to a pub, had a drink and have caught the bus back to tavistock. Ive got a new pump in the stash that came with it so im going back out there later to (hopefully) revive it.

[SiC]

Did the fuel tank reserve switch not work?

Some years use a valve, some years use a second pump. If the diaphragm had failed, I'd expected to be pumping like crazy as fuel isn't building up pressure. 

Check the terminals on the pump aren't loose. Mine were simply. 

[grogee]

Wow, do these have an electric pump? That's wild

[2flags]

Just saw this on Facebook. 

#Ad - 1962 Rover P4 80 with just 35k miles

Full listing on eBay —

Have you sold the P4?

[2flags]

I see that you have.