[ROVERNET - UK] P6 Nomenclature Question

Glen Wilson rovercar at comcast.net
Tue Aug 22 13:54:57 BST 2006


I still might not understand the question, but Taylor's book says the 
last 2-liter P6 would have been manufactured before the end of September 
1973.

 From the net:

"The last 2200 came off the production line on 19th March 1977 and was a 
Left Hand Drive Export version, which was converted back to right hand 
drive by Tourist Trophy Garage, Farnham."

"VVC 700S was the last Rover P6 off the production line, with a build 
date of 19th March 1977." It was a 3500S.


Paul Smith wrote:
> 72ish; the 2200 followed it.
>
> PVS
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> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] P6 Nomenclature Question
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>> I called it the P6 2000 to distinguish it from the SD1 2000 (should have
>> used inverted commas!), but what I meant was when was the last 2 litre
>> P6 built. I thought calling it a P6 2000 would be generic enough as it
>> is important to the answer...
>>
>> Glen Wilson wrote:
>>     
>>> Drew Egginton wrote:
>>>       
>>>> From an interesting gem I learned the other day... When did the P6
>>>> Rover 2000 cease production? (Think carefully!)
>>>>         
>>> I'd say the last time a model called simply the "Rover 2000" was sold
>>> was in the 1966 season when the TC was already being marketed but
>>> before they started calling the single-carb car the SC.
>>>
>>> Taylor's book states that at the October 1966 Earl's Court Show, Rover
>>> displayed two 2000TC's, a 2000, and a 2000 Automatic. Price lists for
>>> 1966 showed the same three models. Beginning with the 1967 price list,
>>> a 2000SC model is listed.
>>>
>>> So, I would say that the last time a model called simply the "Rover
>>> 2000" was sold was in the 1966 season.
>>>
>>> Technicalities: Rover never marketed a car called the "P6 Rover 2000"
>>> because P6 was an internal designation.
>>>
>>> However, if you ask me, "P6 Rover 2000" is a sufficiently generic term
>>> to cover the 2000, 2000 Auto, 2000TC and 2000SC. They were all P6
>>> models with 2-litre engines (unless you're getting really tricky about
>>> the 1978cc engine size).
>>>
>>> But I'll stick with stating that the last time a model called simply
>>> the "Rover 2000" was sold was in the 1966 season when the TC was
>>> already being marketed and before people started calling the
>>> single-carb car the SC.
>>>
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>> Glen
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