Help! How to sell my Rover P6?

I'd love to buy your P6 - and watched it through ebay.

Why didn't I?

1/. You're a bit too far for me to come and view 2/. The head gasket's away and this means it may need a skim at the very least - then conversion to unleaded. It might blow on the way from your house to mine? 3/. It's not tax exempt 4/. I don't have the storage space. 5/. My wife would kill me.

Otherwise, I would like a tax exempt, auto. Preferably a Triumph Slag; it would be with being killed for a good one of those.

P.S. anyone want to buy my TR7?

ken

1981 TR7 DHC

Firstly, describe it as honestly as possible, warts and all. That way nobody can complain that it's not as you described it.

Secondly, to keep out the scam artists and muppets, use buyer/bidder control -

Thatway you can make it open to pre-approved bidders only - anyone who isserious about buying it has to contact you first to confirm that factbefore you allow them to bid. HTH

Is the head gasket away? I don't remember this bit of information, though I did wonder about the temperature guage failure...

How much. You are vaguely local, no? I would certainly like to have a think about it; the Supra and Sera are always being offered for sale. Last temptation was a CX 25 GTI Turbo 2, but when I saw the standard of the repair work on the door, and learned that the same person was repiping it, I kinda lost interest ;)

Richard

"RichardK-PB" wrote

No, this is fine, it is the exhaust manifold gasket and not the head gasket. Temp guage is most likely an electrical fault.

fishman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Stick in an new sensor - worked wonders on my P6.

So wonderful in fact that the car now sports a reconditioned radiator :-/.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@odie.unix-consult.com, Timo Geusch decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Timo, it's *yours*... of course it's got problems :)

Pete M was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

I think it just prefers to be in Ely[1] rather than down here in the smoke. Can't really blame it...

[1] I usually have the bigger bits worked on at Ely Services. Proper old-fashioned place run by enthusiasts who know what they're doing. Definitely recommended if you've got a P6.

Shuttit. Just please, don't mention this car again. I am getting seriously tempted by it, and I am supposed to be cutting down on cars. At least you didn't say "You're on" when I joked about £300, I've got a firm offer on my Apple //c and it ought to be going on house repairs, not bangers ;)

Richard

Just buy it, before I have to, ffs!

Mind you, that TR7 also sounded tempting, but I _really_ must get that s**te old Golf back on the road first.

Just push it back until it's on the road.

See? Easy...

Even I'm half tempted..

as long as I can turn up to buy it in the Excursion.

Hmmm, pushing back would take me through the garage into the back garden ;-)

I can see you're experienced in this area....

I remember once helping a friend change the exhaust manifold on his

2200TC. We looked at three in a scrapyard before finding one that wasn't cracked in exactly the same place (this was in the eighties when scrapyards were full of them). From what I remember, the crack was very close to the mounting flange, but on the underside where it's hard to spot. Now, OK this may just be a 2200TC weakness, but I'd still be sceptical about anyone claiming it's just the gasket blowing.

From reading the description it's the exhaust manifild gasket that needs replacing

Yup.

"Willy Eckerslyke" wrote

Interesting reading. I haven't assessed the problem myself. I got the car in a direct swap for a Lancia that was stuck in my ex's garage with no brakes. My reasoning was that at least the P6 drove and was therefore an "everyone's happy" deal because the guy wanted my car to finish the project I'd started and wanted the P6 off his drive, and I wanted to get the car from Coventry to Manchester. The guy who took my Lancia told me it was the gasket and I took his word for it as he was a knowledgeable guy whose friend has 27 P6's!

You still have it, Timo? I still want one. And still have a dead XJ6 to contend with.

From Coventry? Looks very like one that was on ebay a year or so ago (when I was last looking for one.)

Sean realised it was Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:20:14 +0000 and decided it was time to write:

What series? Which engine? How dead?