Month: November 2014

  • Rover P5B Engine Tune-Up

    Rover P5B Engine Tune-Up

    Rover P5B Engine Tune-Up. When I bought the car earlier this year the engine ran OK-ish, but not exactly smoothly. Being new to the P5B, I wasn’t sure how much of that was down to a 46 year old design, how much was due to wear-and-tear or faults, and how much was due to poor engine setup.…

  • Alexei Sayle: I Was a Mug for Buying a Classic Car

    Alexei Sayle: I Was a Mug for Buying a Classic Car

    Matt Johnson kindly sent me the link to this article which I hadn’t seen before. Can’t say I agree with Alexei Sayle, but he’s someone I admire and he is at least a well-known (ex) owner of a Rover P5 – apparently he owned a 1970 P5B Coupe in the ’80’s: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/columnists/alexei-sayle/9902600/Alexei-Sayle-I-was-a-mug-for-buying-a-classic-car.html Alexei also mentions his car…