DOA: Rover P6BS/P9
Dec 09, 2020
2 minutes
by RICHARD PORTER
N THE POST-WAR YEARS ROVER HAD a reputation for making dependable but starchy cars, like redoubtable maiden aunts made metal. By the 1960s, though, changes were afoot. The Rover-BRM racer burnt the company’s trad image in the white heat of its gas turbine engine, especially when it lasted the distance in the experimental class at Le Mans
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