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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ธ.ค. 2022
- This is my barn find RoverP4 January 1953 It is a one owner Car I bought it 3 July Reg.DEB 216 Reg. in Cambridgeshire. Bought from T.H.Nice Ely, about 10 miles from the Barn Where it was stored at Queen Adelaide. The owner was Mr. Harrold Lee . If anyone knew him I would like to talk to you .
I believe this Rover was Used for a Wedding. If you have a picture or any information please give me a call bob 07747102305 Swansea needs proof that the Reg belongs to this Rover or they are taking it off the car and giving another horrible one to put on her This is an important part of English vehicle History and BELONGS to this car I do not intend to let this happen Bob Hale Euston. Near Thetford - บันเทิง
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Wow! This brings back memories, I owned two Rover P4 75s at the same time. My uncle owned a scrapyard he called me about a rover he had so I went to view it. On arrival my uncle had a crane grab above it's roof ready to pick it up, No I shouted I'll have it. He knew I would seeing the grab lol 😂
Six months later I saved another 75 from another scrapyard. They were both 1952 and a few cars apart on the production line judging by the chassis numbers etc. This was in the late 70s.
Then I moved onto Singer Hunters, the model with the horses head bonnet mascot. Happy days.
That is really a barn find! I have owned my Maggie for a year now, she was off the roads for 50 years but in much better shape than DEBs. You have done a good job!
Thanks
Have just purchased a '58 90. Been on blocks for 32 years. Will pick up in a day or two. Breathe new life into him.
A late great family friend of ours had a P4 60 and he loved it. He owned it for 35 yrs and his family own it now.
Lovely video, My Grandad had one like that and it was the first car I drove, well I was 5 so grandad did the pedals and I steered round Breen Sands by Weston Super Mare. on the way back I sat on the back armrest and would shout "Bash in to them grandad" Great memories : - )
We went to Brean sands regularly when we were kids, usually in a '39 Commer van, then a '34 Morris 10/4, then a '54 Bedford CA. I would ask my dad if I could have a drive but the answer was always the same, "If you hit a half shaft off then we're stuck!"
Great bit of resurrection.
It's good to see it come back to life 🙌
Great video!I love those old Rovers, I bought a 1958 75 from the house on the corner of Bridge Street and Bury Road, Thetford, must be 40 years ago, I think I paid £100 for it. It ran well but had no brakes - I drove it home though! I remember he had another car in the garage too, an Armstrong Siddeley 234, a rare car but it need too much work for me. I had two others at the time, 767 VAR and KEX 615. They were so comfortable and reliable. I'd have one now but that lovely interior would get ruined by my dogs.
I live about a mile from where you bought your car from
@@bjhale7314 I still live in Thetford, and still like old cars.
Very interesting: actually an unspoilt original under all those years of crud - interior leather quite good!
- I purchase a 1955 Rover 90 [EJE 249] in 1984 from Adams and Oliver in Warboys - that had originally been supplied by T.H. Nice of Ely - and spent its life on a farm in Haddenham
- The Rover P4 Club can help with number retention
Thats interesting I have just bought a 1953 Morris Oxford It was the very next car sold by T H nice of Ely. By p4 Rover is DEB 261. the Morris is DEB 262
Very good Bob. A mix of the earthy and the whimsical. I'm looking forward to Part 2.
Its on there now
Great video. Really enjoyed it. We've all had trouble with those bastards at DVLA . The Rover Sports Register or owners clubs should be able to help . DVLA can't remove the registration if it was originally assigned to it. But you need to prove that. However if the DVLA hadn't destroyed all their old paper documents when they went digital, then they would still have a record of it ! There might also be register of sales from T H Nice still in existence. I take it there was no log book supplied with the car? Good luck with the project.
Awsome story!
How do you plan to solve the tappety noise your engine is making? Mine sounds similar and I’m a bit worried.
That worth worrying about. Most go them are the same
The DVLA are so unhelpful, regarding old cars. I have been trying to locate my old Saab 96. It was given to me in Jan 1971, by my father, for my 21st birthday.(SJA426J) I have spoken to the DVLA on numerous occasions, even sending them details that they could sent to the current keeper and he could contact me or not. They refused to help in any way. The only information that they would give me was that the car had been put on SORN in 2010, so it has probably been scrapped. I told them that if it was rotting but had not been officially scrapped, I could buy the wreck with its original reg number, scrap the car and put my old number on retention. I could then transfer it to another red 1971 Saab 96. What the hell do they think so 70 year old guy is going to do with the current keeper details, if they supplied them, go round and steal the car?!!!
I'd like to find my first car, but I'm pretty sure it's been scrapped. It was nothing special (VW Golf) but I bought it when I was 17 with money saved doing a Saturday job since I was 14, so it had a lot of sentimental value. I was forced to sell it when I left home and had nowhere to store it. To be fair to the DVLA, their hands are tied by Data Protection regulation.
Try the P4 drivers guild forum? Chances are, if it was still around in 2010, someone will have heard of it.
the Rover owners club can help with finding/dating the car perhaps ?
looks like rover 75
Couldn't stand the sniffing and the wobbly camera!
Yes I had a cold. and as for working on theses. p4 Rovers they are the worlds worst cars to work on Enough to make a saint swear
SEE THE SECOND PART.
Sniffling and bad grammar not necessary so I put it off, good programme spoiled.
Pot calling the kettle black comes to mind. A three-clause compound-complex sentence in which the first and third have no verb while the second has a doubtful phrasal verb - 'turned it off' is standard English. Strictly speaking, the final clause needs a cohesive device of some kind, perhaps in the form of a subordinating conjunction. Oh well.
@@nicholascope1497
Apart from the fact my Father used to drive us to Cornwall from East Anglia in a Rover 90, during the sixties, it was the benign cussedness of this independent 'old boy' that kept me watching. His dialect was also part of the richness, and an attitude to life that might be ending with his generation. He probably has more personality than Mr Hardy could ever muster..........
@@artrandy Quite agree. The countryside setting, the forlorn old Rover (genuine barn find!) and the elderly enthusiast all came together to make a delightful piece of viewing. It then took me aback to read a comment dismissing all of this because the language wasn't good enough (on invalid grounds).
@@nicholascope1497
There are some people who don't recognise the charm that exists in others, because they're probably devoid of any charm themselves, and I think this a probable example. His silly comment says more about him, than it does about this vid, but he's probably unaware of that........
@@artrandy My mother used to tell me how, when she started school in the 1930s, a teacher would hold a ruler in her mouth to 'correct' her vowel sounds. That was almost a century ago & I'd thought attitudes like this were extinct. And yes, we're on the same page on the charm idea.