So pat and I took a little weekend trip up to Summerland to have a look. It turned out to be the first big snowfall of the year, so it was lucky we bought snow tire for our Echo the week before.
We hemmed and hawed for a couple of months, and after one false start of a deal, we let it go. Lat August, out of the blue, the seller called me up with a much reduced price, $1,000, as he did not want it to go to a fellow who was going to rat rod it. So, I bought it!
A month later, I arranged for a commercial towing company to ship it down, and here it is in my driveway alongside my '56 P4 90.
There are two big catches... the most serious of which is... no engine! The original apparently had a cracked block, and so it was scrapped. The second is a somewhat damaged hood (bonnet) caused by the so-called professional tow company which did not tie down the hood on the flatdeck truck!
I have hardly so much as looked at the car for two months, having been extraordinarily busy as a Campaign Manager in the recent federal election, but I am just now getting moving on it.
The first task was to find an engine. I did get a response to my Facebook posting from a fellow in Reno, Nevada who is trying to acquire a P4 75 as a parts car for himself. This was looking like the solution, especially since his in-laws live in Nanaimo, BC, just across Georgia Strait from here. Meanwhile I did post a second appeal, and have heard from a fellow in Chilliwack! Amazing that probably the only spare Rover 2103cc engine in all of North America happens to be only a 2 hour drive from here!
I am off to pick it up this week.... next post.
