Fitting Inertia Reel Seatbelts to a Rover P5 and P5B. Once I’d stripped the carpet, seats and console from the interior, the plan was to fit inertia seatbelts to make things more comfortable, and fit rear seatbelts as well so I can carry my 6 year old in some safety. You…
Stripping The Rover P5 and P5B Interior. My wife had conveniently gone away for two weeks, so I made the most of the opportunity and stripped the inside of the car – seats out, carpet out. I started in the rear of the car – on my car the seat…
Rover P5B Petrol Smells. You might think that a car that suffered a major engine fire 2 years ago would have had its fuel system pretty thoroughly checked and replaced. Hmmm, not so. An occasional whiff of petrol was turning into a more frequent thing. After several checks it seemed…
Fixing a Faulty 10V Regulator on a Rover P5B. The fuel gauge and temperature gauge seemed to be possessed by some sort of ghost, with random movements of the needle. Sometimes the temperature gauge would rise to max, then sink down. After an initial panic I decided it was the…
Restoring the Rover P5B Interior. Things have been pretty quiet on here recently, but there’s been no lack of progress on the car. I haven’t been using it much as there’s a small fuel leak from the left carburettor which, given the cars history, I’m going to get sorted next week. So,…
A major part of renovating the interior has been sorting out the centre console. This was in quite a bad state, dirty with worn carpet covering. So I set about stripping down the centre console so that I could everything properly. You can see the stripped down in the photos…
The last week has been really busy at work so I’ve just been driving the car, getting to know it better, and working out what needs doing first. So far there haven’t been any bad surprises – a few clunks from the driveline I hadn’t noticed, the exhaust is blowing…
“…Shone Like A Meteor Streaming To The Wind.” (Rover 3 ½ Litre Brochure, 1968). My Rover P5B Coupe, registration BGU 122G, was manufactured 0n 22 August 1968 and despatched from the Solihull factory on 3 September 1968. The car has a Silver Birch roof over Admiralty Blue bodywork, with Buckskin…
We collected the Rover yesterday – caught the train to Trowbridge then drove the car back, via a stop-off at Stonehenge to see the new Visitor Centre. All went pretty well, although it’s quite nerve-racking when you’ve got your wife and 6 year old in the car with you whilst…
It’s taken almost 6 months, but finally I’ve made an offer on a car – 1968, Silver Birch over Admiralty Blue, Buckskin leather with Mortlake Brown carpets. Widely accepted to be the best colour combination available (although I really like Zircon Blue as well). The car isn’t perfect but there’s little…