Registration: JLU 630K
Chassis: 84506319D
Odometer: 101,781
MOT Expiry Date: 06/2022
- An older restoration
- Previous long-term ownership
- Images from the time of restoration work
The 1971 Rover P5B Coupe was first registered in the UK on 11th October 1971 with the first ownership of 17 years and the second of just shy of 25 years, with five former keepers all told. The Rover was declared finished in Admiralty Blue complemented by a Silver Birch roof in February 2007, a classic P5B colour combination chosen during its restoration. A change from its original silver to Admiralty Blue with a Silver roof when it was restored, we are told, during the 1990s. The process documented by a photo book filled with images from that period. In 1997, we understand it received some £3,100 worth of welding and repair work, and the history includes further invoices relating to minor mechanical work carried out throughout the 1990s and 2000s, this may have been at the time some of the restoration work was carried out.
Inside, the car features Oatmeal leather with matching door cards which complement the colourway. You are going to find some wear at the bottom of the door cards and the roof displays a few minor wrinkle spots that a new owner may wish to address as part of further improvement, although the headlining remains in very good condition. On the exterior, there is some blistering to be found and some flaked paint missing or surfaces broken, for example, on the nearside rear and the offside front. The car has been running and driving on our site. It’s worth viewing and taking a look yourself.
Present with the car is its original book pack along with the passport to service, which contains only the pre‑delivery inspection stamp. The Ro‑style wheels are fitted with matching Vredestein tyres, so someone has previously considered the maintenance of the Rover. The accompanying paperwork includes some 20 paper MOT certificates, with the earliest dating back to 1978 and the most recent from 2021. Also included is a CD‑Rom containing stored photographs of the car, there’s a limited‑edition brochure produced to mark ten years of the P5 Owners’ Club, an amount of old invoices, and the current V5C.
