[ROVERNET - UK] P6 Nomenclature Question

[Kent Kinard]

I've gotten used to referring to mine as a Series 2.

Kent K.


On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:50:56 +1000
  "Paul Smith" <Paul.Smith at auroraenergy.com.au> wrote:
> "Facelift" since the mechs were unchanged!
> 
> PVS
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>From: rovernet-bounces at lyris.ccdata.com
> [mailto:rovernet-bounces at lyris.ccdata.com]On Behalf Of 
>Glen Wilson
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:05 am
> To: rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
> Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] P6 Nomenclature Question
> 
> 
> These questions always stir up lots of dust!
> 
> James Taylor uses the terms "New Look" "Series II" and 
>"Mark II" to 
> describe the P6's with the plastic egg-crate grille. He 
>explains that 
> the Rover engineers called the cars "Mark II" P6's, the 
>PR people called 
> them "New Look" P6's, bu that the dealers and the public 
>called them 
> "Series II" P6's even though the factory never used that 
>nomenclature. 
> In the production figure section of the book, the 
>terminology used is 
> for the 222 cars made for the USA market is "2000TC Mk 
>II Federal LHD"  
> The picture in the book of one of these cars simply 
>refers to it as a 
> 1971 Federal 2000TC in the picture caption.
> 
> I would guess that "2000TC Mk II Federal LHD" would be 
>the official 
> factory designation for what we got in the States.
> 
> Do you guys in countries that got lots of later cars 
>call them "Series 
> II" cars, or what?
> 
> Glen
> 
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