Beschreibung
H&H Classic Auction @Pavilion Gardens | Buxton, Derbyshire
29th November, 2023 13:00
1959 Rover P5 3 Litre MkI
Estimate
£9, 000 - £11, 000
Registration No: 477 KVT
Chassis No: the details below
MOT: October 2024
Four owner car from new, residing in its first family ownership for some forty-five years
Just 37, 000 recorded and believed genuine miles
Rare Mk I example that features manual transmission with overdrive
Restored in the early 2000s and recently uprated with adjustable shock absorbers and P5B differential
Offered with a large history file including the buff logbook
Launched in Autumn 1962, the Rover P5 was conceived to stave off increasingly refined competition from the likes of Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz. Available in Saloon and later Coupe guises - both of which employed four doors - the big Rover was the luxuriously-equipped with independent torsion-bar front suspension, a leaf-sprung 'live' rear axle and disc/ drum brakes. The initial 3. 0-litre OISE straight-six engine was a development of the one used by its P4 stablemate (the production runs of the two models over-lapped), and automatic transmission, overdrive on the manual, and Burman power steering were all optional, with overdrive becoming standard from May 1960.
