[ROVERNET - UK] Was: original NADA 3500 S right-hand-drive !,

[RoverP6 at gmx.de]

Well done, Chris !


Rudiger
www.RoverP6.info




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Von: "Chris J Wilson" <chris at chris-wilson.org>
An: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Gesendet: Freitag, 10. August 2007 21:12
Betreff: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Was: original NADA 3500 S right-hand-drive !,


And if you read page 113 of the book, it says:

"How seriously Rover considered producing a right-hand-drive version of the Federal 3500S as a sort 
of more upmarket Three Thousand Five is unclear. A commission number series was certainly reserved 
for such a car, and there have been reports that up to six examples were built. However, it is 
possible that the cars in questions were actually left-hand-drive models converted at Solihull to 
right-hand drive: one such car, 43300062A - originally registered ROV 1 and later re-registered OXC 
140H - was converted in the engineering department in October 1969 for Sir George Farmer, then 
Rover's Chairman."

Oh yeah, and I've just bought the car for £750. I'll be speaking with the owner over the next few 
days, and then I'll have to arrange to collect it, and store it somewhere for now.

If people are interested, I'll keep everyone informed as to how everything is going.

As for this weekend, I'm going to take off the front brake calipers and master cylinder on my 1970 
Series 1 P6B Estate, and rebuild those as well as finish connecting the exhaust. I'm not doing too 
much on her for now, as I'm moving in a couple of months and she'll go into the new garage then. For 
now, I've got most of the panels stripped off and am getting her ready for some rust removal in the 
back end..


~Chris



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Sent: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:44:50 +0200
From: <RoverP6 at gmx.de>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Was: original NADA 3500 S right-hand-drive !,
now WHAT??

>
> Indeed NADA RHD - that´s the reason why ths P6 is a rarity !
>
> Auction description says "One of two known to have been built by Rover for very senior management
> hence the the factory Rover registration plate (XC). This car is infact mentioned in James 
> Taylor's
> P6 book page 113 and is well known within P6 circles as ROV 1."
>
>
> Rudiger
> www.RoverP6.info
>

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