Rover Sports Register Forum

It's certainly possible to fit seatbelts to P3 front seats. I saw them in Eric Irons' concours P3 more than 20 years ago. Eric was a skilled engineer and would never have installed any mod. in his superb car unless it was 100% safe.

At nearly £12K this Norfolk P3 doesn't sound like a good buy to me. For that kind of money, classic clara, I would expect to be presented with a car with which it was difficult to find fault. This one doesn't appear to fit that description.

What you appear to be describing in your latest posting, SA103, is vinyl leathercloth used to cover door cards and miscellaneous trim panels. You will find a selection in green in the leathercloths section of Woolies' catalogue. They will willingly send samples on request. Known variously as Vynide ...

Woolies stock light green Union headlining, but now have Bedford cord- the seating material you are looking for- in beige and grey only, This fabric is a heavy, moquette-like woolcloth with a distinct vertical rib, named after the 15th. century Duke of Bedford who clothed his troops in it.Googling "...

Yes,it's union cloth- the same material as the headlining.

Directional stability on sub-standard roads is less of a problem with the P3: IFS counters the tendency towards wandering and tramlining encountered when driving a crossply-shod P2 on the HGV-rutted inside lanes of some of Britain's poorly maintained roads. That said, my experience of radials on "ou...

The rear shelf was covered with a thin, non-stretch Rexine type material properly called Vynide. You can get it from Woolies (item 242,p.6 of 21st edition catalogue) in a variety of colours.Today, of course, it's made from PVC. From memory, the side kick panels framing the vents are made of thin ply...

No- the back of the P4 front bench seat is a large, slide-in, hardboard panel covered with vinyl. The fabric covering the small side trims right at the bottom of the seat is cut moquette which is sometimes confused with fine-pile carpet.

That's a good rule of thumb for union cloth headlining colours. Black and grey interiors are also matched with light grey cloth. In the case of green interiors, Rover used a light green headlining cloth which is still readily available today. The colour "beige" can also include "fawn", which in my e...

" Generic type cheapo", "an unbranded one which had been fitted by the previous owner"? Hmm.... The next thing you need to do, Rob, in order to give yourself a chance of getting to the bottom of this problem is to get yourself a decent quality electric fuel pump and give serious consideration to the...