1976 Rover P6B V8 Goes for a Drive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2021
- When Rover dropped the Buick V8 into the P6 2000 frame they made a very different car, lets take one of the last ones for a drive
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Designed in an era when Rover was genuinely a quality manufacturer and also highly innovative, the P6 was way ahead of its time in all but one respect where it was woefully out of touch with the future. And that was the controls, which were designed with Haptics in mind; in other words they were made to be distinguishable by touch alone so you could concentrate on the road ahead. If only the designers had known that the future was touchscreens where you have no sense of what you are doing unless you take your eyes off the road for several seconds at a time just to change the temperature. I can understand why they thought that such controls were a safety innovation, but they were obviously completely wrong.
The car the bank manager drove to work and the bank robbers fled in, probably being chased by one in police livery. So many used on TV in the 70s, leaning on their door handles, smoking tyres. Peak Rover.
What happened ?? If you said to me as a kid in the 70s, 'there will not be any British car industry by the time you are 40 something'... It was just inconceivable.
A long lived design, and rightly so. It was highly regarded in the 60s and 70s as a reliable, solid, comfortable, stylish and desirable car.
Pulls fuel reserve instead of choke by mistake, then talks about fuel reserve and points at the choke by mistake 😂😂 Love the review though Mat, keep it up!
Rover did manage to sell their gas turbine engines...to Avro. They were built into Vulcan bombers as the APU in the tail
My dear friend, this is such a great and 'appropriate' video... I have just paid my deposit over a really rather amazing 1972 V8 auto, in mexico brown over a pristine buckskin interior, coupled to sundym glasses, ETs and power steering... This will complement my much-loved 1974 2200TC in cameron green, Lady Margaret, whom I have had for almost 20 years... The P6 is my top favourite all time classic... I have been loving it desperately ever since I was a little boy, and now driving it makes me a very happy (and fortunate) man. There's no more rewarding car really...
I had a P6 2000TC 1983 till 86, lovely car to drive here in NZ. I had a horrendous crash in it when a car pulled out across the main road on me, other car went airborne, and I took out a power pole, BUT I waked away with a slight bruise from the steering wheel. The chief fire officer came to the scene and told me that he drove one also as people survived big crashes in them! The engine incidentally dislodged under the car as it was designed to. This car saved my life, as it was designed too! I bought another body shell and rebuilt the car my self, then sold it for a song as we were moving to the South Island. One of three cars I never should have sold, the P6, a Vitesse and a TR4a!
Lovely to see this video, it really brought me back. I had a Rover 2000TC, which I absolutely loved, but always wanted the V8. Sadly, my love affair with the 2000TC was cut short when my wife rolled it on a dirt road in rural Victoria, Australia. She fell into a deep ditch and landed on the roof, squashing it down to the dashboard. Luckily she is only 5'1" tall, so came out of it without a scratch.
The engines were cast at Birmal castings Dartmouth Rd Smethwick. Was a massive aluminium foundry all gone now. I worked at it in the 70s.
My dad was a Production Superintendent on the P6 at Rover and had moved into the production planning office by about the time this particular car was built. I learnt to drive in his second P6, a 2200TC. Shortly after I passed my driving test I reversed the car off our drive one cold winter morning with full choke and my wet shoe (leather sole!) slipped off the clutch. Forward drive was thus engaged instantaneously with the result that the transmission shattered and I sat in the road going nowhere. Dad died in 1978 at the young age of 52 and hundreds turned out for his funeral. The Rover staff collection was so big that they ended up making a three foot high Rover badge of flowers as a wreath. It wouldn’t fit inside the hearse so we drove to the cemetery with it tied onto the roof. He loved working for Rover and he loved the P6 especially, so it was great to see this video. Many thanks.
The only thing better than a late P6 Rover V8 is a early Rover P6 with a strip speedo and a spare wheel mounted on the boot as to me that’s pure perfection.
My favourite teacher ever had a 3.5 litre V8. I loved her and love her to this day
I would be delighted to own a P6. I remember seeing them here in the US when I was young, and I admired them even then. Oddly, one of my favorite features is the green switches on the dash.
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I do love a P6B.
Took my driving test in my Dad's P6 with a manual gear box. Very posh but a 3 point turn was a challenge. Those were the days.
I remember seeing a final version of the P6 at a car show a few years ago. It had the Webasto full roof and cream leather interior with a Royal Blue finish. Absolute beauty
Also worth a mention is the very high quality of the interior plastics. Even in the Australian climate, any degradation of the plastics, (vinyl dash top aside) is very much the exception rather than the rule. The reverse of course applies to the SD1.
It has an extremely beautiful dashboard