Last time, I introduced one of my two Rovers, the 827 Coupè. As you can see, the other Rover is also green, but that is pretty much where the similarity ends. The P6 is often referred to as ‘the last proper Rover.’ I don’t really like that term because it can be applied to just about every post-war Rover, but then again the P6 was the last car to be designed by an independent Rover, so I guess that gives it some justification.
Anyway, some of you may recognise OFL 134J because I covered the story of its discovery and return to the road in this magazine some six years ago.in 1994 by a dentist based in St Neots in Cambridgeshire. He died in 2005, at which point his widow had his car fully restored by local specialists Ely Service as a tribute. However, once the car was restored, she hardly used it, and though her gardener took it for an MoT annually until 2011, it rarely covered more than 400-500 miles a year. Then from 2011 to 2017 it was left in the garage.
