The Rover P5/P5B
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sean sherry
Master
A double comment.... These Rovers are on a different planet to the much more revered Jaguars.
They were solid quality. Over priced ? I think not ... you get what you pay for. My experience ?
Having attended to many many of both, of their Auto Trans. The two litre cars were not up to much. They were perhaps aimed at the Triumph 2000s. also gutsless with an auto.
I have experienced everything on four wheels, from 1930 Austin Sevens, to todays offerings via owenership . Our new Subarus are amoungst the best ... Forrester & an Impreza. Both with excelent Subaru developed CVTs. I cannot fault them.
For Patrick.... are the Truck Drivers in Outback Truckers all that dumb and incompetant that, especially one of them doesn't even carry a spare Fan Belt. The one whose Brain is fatter than his Gut. Lives from hand to mouth. But I'm sure that the vast majority are hard workig men,
doing a very trying job in the Outback. I never realised how the other half lived to keep the country operating.
They were solid quality. Over priced ? I think not ... you get what you pay for. My experience ?
Having attended to many many of both, of their Auto Trans. The two litre cars were not up to much. They were perhaps aimed at the Triumph 2000s. also gutsless with an auto.
I have experienced everything on four wheels, from 1930 Austin Sevens, to todays offerings via owenership . Our new Subarus are amoungst the best ... Forrester & an Impreza. Both with excelent Subaru developed CVTs. I cannot fault them.
For Patrick.... are the Truck Drivers in Outback Truckers all that dumb and incompetant that, especially one of them doesn't even carry a spare Fan Belt. The one whose Brain is fatter than his Gut. Lives from hand to mouth. But I'm sure that the vast majority are hard workig men,
doing a very trying job in the Outback. I never realised how the other half lived to keep the country operating.
Patrick_R
Grand Master
Sean,
I don’t watch outback truckers much, as it is very sensationaliced as one would expect for TV. However, there is a good many of them just like you say, and see. Plain dropkicks that have no idea of anything, I call them “wheel attendants” because I wouldn’t even call them drivers.
You are correct, some just live day to day, and possibly will never own a truck.
I have never seen bigger bitches or wingers than trucks drivers, and I have also had the pleasure to deal with some of the greatest people I have ever met who are drivers and/or truck owners.
It’s such a colourful field.
Regarding fan belts, if the truck is a bit newer, say after 2000 it will have serpentine belts, sometimes one, or maybe two.
So not really serviceable by the driver, but these huge belts are very robust and rarely fail, but if they are neglected during service, or the trucks are not serviced correctly, these and many other things could fail. A lot of items today are gear driven not so much belt driven, so less chance of failures.
Yes, if it’s an older truck, they may have the old fan belts, and are serviceable by the driver if they are a bit old school.
sean sherry
Master
The older I get....(90 very soon)....the more I seem to remember of yester year......As an aprentice for the imporers of Morris cars 1950 into Nth Ireland, it was my regular job to pick up the new cars from the Docks twice a month.. Amoungst the Nuffield products I have driven brand new Rileys..a new Rover (the one with the single centre spot light) a new Singer SM ( the last of them ) The Morris cars Minor & Oxford were a giant leap forward in 1950, to the previous post war offerings which were tarted up versions of the pre war cars. eg Torsion Bar independant front suspensions. Well engineered Coloum gear shifts etc.
sean sherry
Master
The Rileybut still with the pre war wooden Bodys which eventually rot out Though my 1955 2.5 survived pretty well. into the nineties....
Patrick_R
Grand Master
You were very lucky to have driven brand new versions of cars most of us have only read about.
Great memories I’m sure.
sean sherry
Master
And the Rileys were way ahead with their engines. High Cams, Cross flow Heads,with twin SUs Designed in 1925 for Riley 9's Nothing new under the Sun....Firsr 4 valve heads were in 1903 !!
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