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by **gridrunner** » Sat May 15, 2004 6:51 pm

this afternoon

only been here 4 months!

by **turbozutek** » Sat May 15, 2004 6:56 pm

Hey GridRunner!

Uhmmmm...

What am I looking at here ?

Chris...

by **gridrunner** » Sat May 15, 2004 7:03 pm

I've got an upholstery firm for a neighbour, and they seem to have a Rover P6 (I think) in their yard.

by **turbozutek** » Sat May 15, 2004 7:05 pm

Holy whack!

Your fvcking right!! I didn't spot that at all.

Quick, nick it!!

Chris..
::):

by **gridrunner** » Sat May 15, 2004 7:12 pm

call it intution of the male variety, but I don't think it's going anywhere fast.

Which is surprising, would have thouht it worth something, nice colour too.

I'll need to ask the gadgees next time I see them.

by **kn0wledge** » Sat May 15, 2004 7:43 pm

That, my friends, is a Rover P6B. Looks like a non-V8 model (i.e. the shitty one).

The V8s are very nice cars to drive. Fast, and with decent handling. I did at one point seriously consider buying one, but after having borrowed it for a week and calculated its average MPG to be 14 urban and 19 extra-urban, I decided not to bother.

By the look of that one, it's non-repairable. Every panel can be unbolted from the sub-frame (even the roof) and replaced, but once rot has set in as bad as that one looks, they are generally unsalvageable.

by **gridrunner** » Sat May 15, 2004 8:17 pm

Ah kn0wledge, you appear to know your cars, care to identify this one?

That's me with the glasses (four eyes etc...)

by **gridrunner** » Sat May 15, 2004 8:28 pm

Joe 90

by **kn0wledge** » Sat May 15, 2004 8:37 pm

No idea. Looked like a Beetle at first glance (flat windscreen, roofline, shape of rear window) but Beetles never came with suicide doors.

by **turbozutek** » Sat May 15, 2004 8:52 pm

Given the steering wheel and the door I think it may be a BL [British Leyland] of some description ?

Only other thing that pops in my head is a Volvo Amazon or P10 - but I don't think they ever had inverse doors.

Exact model ? No idea.

Chris...

by **gridrunner** » Sat May 15, 2004 8:56 pm

You're being deceiced by the scale of things, I'm only about 8 or 9 nine years old, an average sized adult would be toching the roof.

by **crazygray23** » Sat May 15, 2004 9:01 pm

going by the bonnet it looks like a fiat whaddayacallit........121 or summat like that :?:

by **turbozutek** » Sat May 15, 2004 9:04 pm

A Fiat Topalino ?? [Little Mouse]

Yeah, could be.. That it ?

/Drove one last year in Italy - loved it.

Chris...

by **gridrunner** » Sat May 15, 2004 9:07 pm

Close enough, am I giving in too easy?

When ever we went back home, my dad who never had a british driving licence, hired wee Fiats, this is a 600.

by **turbozutek** » Sat May 15, 2004 9:09 pm

Ok.

But why is it right hand drive ?

Chris...

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