Rover P5b coupe

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

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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

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Cleaned up a few bits

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The shiny axle is fitted

Edited by felixlighter on Sunday 29th April 16:37

Edited by felixlighter on Sunday 29th April 16:38

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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

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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.