{"id":11,"date":"2009-11-18T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=11"},"modified":"2009-11-18T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T01:23:00","slug":"rovers-second-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Rover&#8217;s second attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;at conquering the US &#8211; the Rover P6. Rover sold the P4\/P5 in the US in limited quantities. Neither sold particularly well, mainly because it took an eternity for the P5B to make it to the US, and the P5 3-litre was painfully slow &#8211; especially with all that emissions junk stuck on it.<\/p>\n<p>So, in 1969, the US got a &#8220;federalised&#8221; (read: &#8220;crippled&#8221;) version of the P6 2-litre.. and in 1970 the P6 3500s v8 finally made it over here. This is mine:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"1970 Rover P6 3500s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bayleytweed.com\/photos\/rover-120908\/large\/IMG_9533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They sold pretty well.. and were very well-reviewed.. but despite the fact that the Rover v8 is fundamentally bombproof, it was good old British reliability that killed Rover off again in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The US-spec P6 v8&#8217;s were amazingly well-eqipped &#8211; A\/C, electric windows, full leather interior, and Icelert (yes, really) as standard.\u00a0 My P6 sat outside for a good seven years before I got it.. but fortunately the interior&#8217;s not too bad and those aluminium body panels really do help cars survive that little bit longer in the Northwest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;at conquering the US &#8211; the Rover P6. Rover sold the P4\/P5 in the US in limited quantities. Neither sold particularly well, mainly because it took an eternity for the P5B to make it to the US, and the P5 3-litre was painfully slow &#8211; especially with all that emissions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}