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Freewheeling November-December 2018 Freewheeling The magazine of the Rover Owners’ Club NSW and ACT. November/December 2018. 1 cope newcastle.htm Dennis specializes in : ~ Rover classics ~ Land Rover ~ Discovery ~ Range Rover * Modifications * General repairs * Trip preparation * RTA registration inspections * CAMS rally registration inspections Triggs Motors 88 Excelsior Parade, Toronto ABN:45413062141 Phone (02) 4959 2122 MVRL:27049. Fax (02) 4959 5061 Email [email protected]. 2 ISSN 2206– 2963 President President’s Comments Robert Walker president @roverownersclub.com.au Welcome to the November/December Rover Ramblings. Vice President The editor tells me another input is required, which means an- Richard Dalziel vicepresident other month has come and gone. @roverownersclub.com.au (and this is the last Freewheeling for 2018) Club Captain Andrew Holland clubcaptain It is my sad duty to inform members that Derek Scott and Colin @roverownersclub.com.au Bailey have passed away. Colin had been in poor health for some time but Derek’s passing was totally unexpected. I attend- Secretary ed Derek’s memorial service on behalf of the club on Friday 26 Dudley Bennett secretary October. There would have been in excess of five hundred peo- @roverownersclub.com.au ple in attendance and many fine classic cars were parked in Treasurer front of the church. A very appropriate send off. Condolence Richard Dalziel treasurer cards were signed at the October club meeting and sent to the @roverownersclub.com.au families. Derek was our delegate to the CMC so we will need a replacement. Anyone out there prepared to volunteer? Registrar Rob Turner registrar Our activity to the steam museum resulted in four cars attend- @roverownersclub.com.au ing and although the weather was dubious it turned into a fine Editor day for the grand parade. Paul Wagstaff brought his P3 and, Ken Dunkley editor with a very proud grandson, took part in the grand parade to fly @roverownersclub.com.au the Rover flag. Web master Our next major event is on 11 November 2018 and is the club Rob Turner webmaster DISPLAY DAY being held at Linnwood House. Those who @roverownersclub.com.au won best of type in 2016 and 2017 are eligible to enter the For a full list of all positions including phone num- Champion of Champions class. I hope you will all turn out in bers, see the back pages of this magazine. force. Can we make fifty cars? Should be possible, with 368 vehicles in the club. The Rover Owners’ Club welcomes new member:- The other function is at Canberra in early December for the ACT club Christmas party in conjunction the Armstrong Sidley Douglas Shearman club on 1 December, followed by the All British Day on 2 De- Doug has a 2001 Rover R40-75. cember. Full details are in Rovernet and Freewheeling. A date for your diary is THURSDAY 13 December at Five Dock club room for our Christmas party. So please join us for a catered supper and enjoyable company to toast the Christmas season with fellow Rover owners. The photographic competi- tion with prizes will be held with three divisions – Rover cars – event memories – general photographic division. Time to search the files and pick the winners. Cover Photos Your committee are preparing the 2019 calendar of activities for Front Cover: meetings and visits so if you Paul Wagstaff and grandson taking part in the have any special requests please Grand Parade at the Campbelltown Steam and Kero Day. submit to Andrew Holland or Photo by Robert Walker myself. All ideas are welcome. Remember it is your club. Back Cover: Great countryside and great driving condi- Till next year, have great Christ- tions in Tasmania mas, a safe New Year happy and Photo by Mark Nelson safe Rovering. Robert Walker President 3 4 Driving a P3 for the first Time. Text by Max Pegler. "No one who drives the Rover Sixty or Seventy Five for the first time can easily forget the experience". Isn't that the truth... To misquote Warren Brown the comedian - this thing has three pedals. It doesn't matter which one you press, nothing happens! After two months in the workshop sorting out niggles, it's time to swallow some brave pills, do battle with modern traffic, take it for a run for the first time & see what happens. Destination: Old Pacific Highway north. Hopefully south as well. Confidence is not high. It's been sitting around for a couple of years, some gremlins are inevitable. Some gauges don't work yet. And no seat belts. So, here we go. It starts easily, & just idles like clockwork. Letting the clutch out proves easy. Quite light, doesn't bite, takes up about halfway, no stalling. No problems there. Turn the corner out of the workshop, the steering is heavy but not too bad. Easy enough to point in bends and around corners. But at the straight ahead, oh my word does it wander on these ancient cross plies. This is a problem. At the moment it's impossible to relax. It cannot have been this bad when new. Hopefully new tyres & a wheel alignment will improve things. Hopefully then I'll be brave enough to go over 40 kph. Another brochure says of the steering "light yet positive in action with variable steering ratio for ease of manoeuvring . "Who's kidding who?” Radials apparently make these things point much more accurately. But I wanted the experience of something older, different to what's in the garage, so new Avon cross plies are on order. Right now though, I'd say 8 white knuckles out of 10. Power. Everything is relative I guess. It doesn't accelerate, it sort of accumulates speed. Age and weight are becoming very apparent. Yet it's not underpowered in a foot to the floor, pushrods through the bonnet sense because it seems to have just enough. Just get it moving, a bit of momentum, and then it'll go anywhere in third & fourth courtesy of low gearing and low down torque. Just slowly. The brakes. The brochure says it has them. The pedal isn't too bad, but the car slows rather than stops. Like towing a very heavy trailer. There's no bite, the car is starting to feel it's age again. Traffic isn't going to be fun. I was nervous about going down the hill at Brooklyn with drum brakes. Never had 4 wheel drums before. It's 5 kms down, and no prospect of changing back to second. So, third it is, and then let the mighty 7:1 compression - when new - do it's work. As it transpires very little brakes were needed. So I think fourth will be okay next time. The box of gears. Crash on first and second of course. I had real problems selecting gears, the box feels very heavily gated. This is going to take some mastering. At the moment it's in charge. The initial change into second resulted in the inevitable crunch. Change up earlier with a slower change & in it slots. It won't always go into first. Fortunately second gear starts are relatively easy. Third is baulky. So, first- second-third are awkward. But into fourth, as mentioned, and the car finds it's groove. The driving position is surprisingly roomy for a big bloke like me. And it's very comfortable. It's going to be a nice place to be on a long drive. The back seat looks cosy though. I looked at a Cyclops a year or two ago, & couldn't get behind the wheel. That would have necessitated modifying and moving the bench well back. Back to the P3. It's quiet. It rides well by any standard, although rough roads are yet to come. Getting out is very elegant with the suicide doors. Not so getting in, some idiot put a steering wheel in the way. 5 Vision forward is easy. Quite gentile in fact. Vision backwards is, err, an issue. Lane changing in traffic is about to become an art form. It has a quite dignified, but impossible to ignore horn. What else. It smokes. But then smoking was still in fashion then. Can it quit the habit I wonder? We don't know yet whether it also has a drinking problem. Actually it's designed to run on 70 octane fuel. Yet 5 years previously, 125 & 150 octane were refined for the Rolls Royce Merlin V12s. The British buying public then must have got a poor deal - long waiting lists to buy a car & then crap fuel! So that's the first outing. Not yet the 80kph touring car I wanted. Oh, and I made 24 kilometres before it boiled. The southbound trip was courtesy of the NRMA. As an aside, this example reputedly hails from Wahroonga, and was originally owned by the then chairman of the ABC. Sure enough, the internet says Sir Richard James Fildes Boyer KBE (1891-1961), resided in Fox Valley Road Wahroonga. So, if true, I'm chuffed this P3 has come home to it's old stomping grounds. To wrap up: is it a Rover? Yes. The clock doesn't work & it leaks oil. Is it a he or a she? Don't know yet, let's see how it's personality develops. At the moment it feels like a faithful butler who should have retired years ago. Quiet, dignified, slow but unflustered. I'm a long way off from becoming at one with this car. Am I happy or disappointed? More shocked really, how much effort and concentration the steering & gears need. But I'll master this thing, it'll fit like a glove eventually.
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