Wasn't sure which section to put this in, thought this was the most relevant!
Thought id chuck this up here for anyone whos interested to have a look at. This is a barn find me and my old man found in 2011. This is copied from my local forum from over the past couple of years, so forgive some bits which might not make sense.
So, its a kinda long story, but my dad discovered a 1960 (i think) Rover P4 100 2.6 straight 6 in a barn near this old mill, in between ottery st mary and tipton st john. Its taken 6 odd months to manage to convince the old guy who owns it all to sell it to us, but yesterday he gave in and we purchased it from him. Then it was the job to try and get it out of where its sat for over 30 years, which we started on last night! Anyway, Ill explain with some pictures!
This is the old mill which its in the grounds of:
As the pictures show, the exterior does need a clean up, theres a small amount of corrosion here and there, but over all its very solid (as far as we can see). But really its in outstanding original condition!
Safety first! lol
Pumping up the tyres... Yes, they actually held pressure!!
Now for the really amazing bit, the interior!! Obviously it needs a bloody good clean, but, its pretty much perfect.
See what i mean!!
Trying to free the brakes up.. luckily the front ones are fine, as they're discs, but the rears were a little stubborn!
So much so that one of the rear tyres decided to blow out! Which made my dad jump slightly haha.
The engine is seized, not that thats really any problem, hopefully it wont need any welding doing underneath.
.... the next day.
We went there today to collect it, hoping that it wouldnt be too much of a pain in the ass.
I'll let the pictures do the talking.
Mobile tool kit!
Jacked her up to try and find the problem as to why the rear wheels werent turning
Took the drum off, that wasnt the problem, as it still wasnt turning
Decided the best thing to do was to disconnect the prop, which we did.
SORTED!
In comes the landy to tow it out! - Which was a slight challenge because of all the wet weather, even in low range diff lock, but she pulled through! This hill was alot steeper in real life.
After looking over it all, theres a few small spots of corrosion, the front o/s wing has a hole in it inside, but it can most probably be repaired. Think we're going to get the whole thing resprayed, as repairing/spraying each panel just isnt worth it.
He's got the engine out, ended up being one very seized piston, but that's all free'd up, ordered new piston rings, engine enamel ordered, head sent away for a skim and one or two of the spark plug threads to be re-tapped or heli-coiled
So the engine got taken out (with more than a claw hammer and mole grips :lol
Wings off, these have been repaired as there was some rust, but luckily not too much!
Back home and into the garage to take the suspension off clean, to put new bushes in and paint up the front of the chassis and suspension with this special chassis paint (awesome stuff!!)
Back to the garage...
Now the engine was ready to go in, which has been rebuilt with one new piston (as one of the previous was ceased solid and ended up needing replacing) and new piston rings - everything else was in such good nick! And obviously all cleaned and painted, as close to original as possible. The more we look at it, the more it looks like the 17,000 miles on the clock is genuine.
Couple of nicely painted up pieces -
And the best bit VIDEO!!! vvvvv
^^^^
Underside
Not long now til the rover should be on the road! Bottom half has been painted.
Finished! Apart from some small interior bits to finish off.
The old boy who used to own this was clearing out a room the other day and found these!!
Original service history. Last serviced in 1976 with 16666 on the clock. And other original booklets. The service schedule is so detailed, although it shows how much more maintenance engines from back then required. Here's a picture of a couple of pages.
Also an Autocar magazine from 12th August 1960. Which has a road test for the Rover 100 in it!
A couple of examples of prices back then.
1954 Jaguar mk7: £295
1955 Jaguar xk140: £565
1951 Mercedes Benz 220: £295
So yeah pretty exciting stuff!... Alright maybe it's just me.
Thought id chuck this up here for anyone whos interested to have a look at. This is a barn find me and my old man found in 2011. This is copied from my local forum from over the past couple of years, so forgive some bits which might not make sense.
So, its a kinda long story, but my dad discovered a 1960 (i think) Rover P4 100 2.6 straight 6 in a barn near this old mill, in between ottery st mary and tipton st john. Its taken 6 odd months to manage to convince the old guy who owns it all to sell it to us, but yesterday he gave in and we purchased it from him. Then it was the job to try and get it out of where its sat for over 30 years, which we started on last night! Anyway, Ill explain with some pictures!
This is the old mill which its in the grounds of:
As the pictures show, the exterior does need a clean up, theres a small amount of corrosion here and there, but over all its very solid (as far as we can see). But really its in outstanding original condition!
Safety first! lol
Pumping up the tyres... Yes, they actually held pressure!!
Now for the really amazing bit, the interior!! Obviously it needs a bloody good clean, but, its pretty much perfect.
See what i mean!!
Trying to free the brakes up.. luckily the front ones are fine, as they're discs, but the rears were a little stubborn!
So much so that one of the rear tyres decided to blow out! Which made my dad jump slightly haha.
The engine is seized, not that thats really any problem, hopefully it wont need any welding doing underneath.
.... the next day.
We went there today to collect it, hoping that it wouldnt be too much of a pain in the ass.
I'll let the pictures do the talking.
Mobile tool kit!
Jacked her up to try and find the problem as to why the rear wheels werent turning
Took the drum off, that wasnt the problem, as it still wasnt turning
Decided the best thing to do was to disconnect the prop, which we did.
SORTED!
In comes the landy to tow it out! - Which was a slight challenge because of all the wet weather, even in low range diff lock, but she pulled through! This hill was alot steeper in real life.
After looking over it all, theres a few small spots of corrosion, the front o/s wing has a hole in it inside, but it can most probably be repaired. Think we're going to get the whole thing resprayed, as repairing/spraying each panel just isnt worth it.
He's got the engine out, ended up being one very seized piston, but that's all free'd up, ordered new piston rings, engine enamel ordered, head sent away for a skim and one or two of the spark plug threads to be re-tapped or heli-coiled
So the engine got taken out (with more than a claw hammer and mole grips :lol
Wings off, these have been repaired as there was some rust, but luckily not too much!
Back home and into the garage to take the suspension off clean, to put new bushes in and paint up the front of the chassis and suspension with this special chassis paint (awesome stuff!!)
Back to the garage...
Now the engine was ready to go in, which has been rebuilt with one new piston (as one of the previous was ceased solid and ended up needing replacing) and new piston rings - everything else was in such good nick! And obviously all cleaned and painted, as close to original as possible. The more we look at it, the more it looks like the 17,000 miles on the clock is genuine.
Couple of nicely painted up pieces -
And the best bit
VIDEO!!! vvvvv^^^^
Underside
Not long now til the rover should be on the road! Bottom half has been painted.
Finished! Apart from some small interior bits to finish off.
The old boy who used to own this was clearing out a room the other day and found these!!
Original service history. Last serviced in 1976 with 16666 on the clock. And other original booklets. The service schedule is so detailed, although it shows how much more maintenance engines from back then required. Here's a picture of a couple of pages.
Also an Autocar magazine from 12th August 1960. Which has a road test for the Rover 100 in it!
A couple of examples of prices back then.
1954 Jaguar mk7: £295
1955 Jaguar xk140: £565
1951 Mercedes Benz 220: £295
So yeah pretty exciting stuff!... Alright maybe it's just me.
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