This model has power steering.
This car has had major repairs in its 36 years but has never been restored - all of the original features are intact.
The Rover 3500S was detuned in the wake of the 1973 Oil Crisis and models like this one have a 9:1 compression ratio compared to the 10.5:1 I'm used to.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOv69n7gsGk
Starting in the middle of the park, we head along Wythenshawe Road, Palatine Road, Wlimslow Road (B5167) and take a left along Mauldeth Road West. We turn right to head north along Princess Road (A5103), we then turn left onto Claremont Road and the footage stops on Quinney Cresent, Moss Side.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKtqJQobnG4
The footage starts near Junction 11 on the M60. We've just crossed over Barton Bridge then tucked into the nearside lane so we can take the right-hander through the Eccles Interchange to head back into Manchester along the M602. The kickdown on the old BW35 still works!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSJ6gPIXhCU
A 1970 Rover 3.5 Litre Saloon, DPK797J shows that she has no difficulty keeping up with modern traffic as she completes an anticlockwise lap of Manchester's M60 orbital motorway with ease.
This footage starts at the Shell on the A57 Regent Road - heading first out on the M602 then back into central Manchester along the same road.
This section is from J8/9 to J2.
The sound was recorded with the built-in microphone - even by modern standards the P5b is a quiet car.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fzFBjP9pI
A Rover 2200TC meets its end.
The only Rover P6 that made me any money, she was a mine of parts for my other cars but we needed the space.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhxQsCak-eo