1976 Rover P6B V8 Goes for a Drive

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  @petersimpson5859 · 5 years ago

  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.

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• FR

  @frglee · 5 years ago

  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.

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• JO

  @JohnRussellHodge · 3 years ago

  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. &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;The Rover staff collection was so big that they ended up making a three foot high Rover badge of flowers as a wreath. &nbsp;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.<br>Someone else commented on the indicator sound which took me straight back to driving it as a youngster. The thin indicator and lighting stalks made me remember when I used to try to impress myself by smoking whilst driving. I have memories of a Hamlet cigar stroking the upholstery as I cornered with that big steering wheel… and the time I stuck fake scratches onto his new 2200’s front wing a few days after he got it home! There was a six month waiting list in those days.

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• VS

  @vspencer9764 · 5 years ago (edited)

  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.<br>We really did know how to screw together a luxury saloon back in the day with the P6 and the Triumph 2000 being two of the most beautiful looking large &nbsp;saloons ever produced.<br>My Dad always liked a Rover and had a nice Rover P6 2000 tc and nearly got his dream V8 but it got written off the night before he picked it up and it was his dream car and always regretted not getting that burgundy late R plate V8 and I can still remember that lovely smell when you opened the door up to the pure luxury of a P6.

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• H4

  @H4lminator · 5 years ago

  It has an extremely beautiful dashboard

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• CR

  @CrownChrome-f3y · 3 days ago

  A timeless design that really stood the test of time. It was a genuinely well-regarded car in the 60s and 70s.

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  @kevinnye5132 · 5 years ago

  That’s the most enthused I’ve ever heard you about a car , your definitely a font of information on P6 and your 20+ years of owning one shows. I would have been one of those peasants in the 70s you would have blasted out the way 😂 as you wafted by. Really enjoyed this video Matt , great stuff , oh and the sound of indicators is a memory you never forget 👌🏻.

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• SE

  @Sean_Coyne · 4 years ago

  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&apos;1&quot; tall, so came out of it without a scratch.

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• DA

  @DanielRR812 · 5 years ago

  My dear friend, this is such a great and &apos;appropriate&apos; 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&apos;s no more rewarding car really...

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• ED

  @edwinblank58 · 5 years ago

  Beautyfull and original V8! Quite hard to find nowadays.

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• RO

  @rogerking7258 · 4 years ago

  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.

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• WI

  @willswheels283 · 5 years ago

  What a nice motor, and a great review Mr Richards, The P5 and P6 were great cars, they were the BMW/Audi type choice of the 60’s. <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;If you couldn’t afford a Jag and you didn’t want a Triumph you went for a P6.

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