Rover P5b coupe

[felixlighter]

Bought this today,any one know the best place to get spares for these?

[davepoth]

Rimmer Brothers will stock a lot of things, but you'll pay for the privelege. Try the owners' club.

[2001se]

try wadhams they stock most things..what you after?

[VinceFox]

Now THAT is a very, very cool car. Please put moar pics up.

[felixlighter]

Here's a few more pics of our new purchase for a bit of a re-furb, body a bit tatty, good interior, engine average.
Intend to use this year for the shows etc and do all the work required this winter.



Here's one we did last year




Hope you like them

[VinceFox]

Massive win

[FunBusMk2]

Stunning. Absolutley stunning - I think I need a lie-down now.

[tonys]

This is a good starting place
http://roverp5.proboards.com/index.cgi

Now all I have to do is remember where I've seen photos of that P5B before , fairly distinctive exhausts.

[red_rover]

LOVE. WANT. NEED.


Fantastic buy! I absolutely adore it!!!

[felixlighter]

Cleaned up a few bits

[0a]

If only someone had sat down the Rover board in the 80s or BMW later on and made them look at and drive this car - everything a car made under the Rover brand should be.

[felixlighter]

The shiny axle is fitted

Edited by felixlighter on Sunday 29th April 16:37

Edited by felixlighter on Sunday 29th April 16:38

[VinceFox]

Just so much love for these.

Agree with the comment above, the essence of what rover should have remained is captured perfectly in this model. Shame on them for how the brand ended up.

[felixlighter]

Although probably not for the rover purists I decided to remove the centre exhaust box and let the "flowtech raptor" mufflers do their job and it sounds fantastic, remarkably like the mustang in Bullit. Built into this mod is the facility to replace the existing box fairly quickly as I used flanges that can be unbolted easily.

Edited by felixlighter on Sunday 29th April 16:48

[felixlighter]

VinceFox said:

Just so much love for these.

Agree with the comment above, the essence of what rover should have remained is captured perfectly in this model. Shame on them for how the brand ended up.

I agree, a shame, I'm no rover fan to be honest but this model does it for me. When you do any work on this car you can see how antiquated there methods were:- example, nearly every fastener has a nut bolt washer and spring washer with very few captive nuts etc.