Post by Minty on Mar 19, 2020 14:35:57 GMT
Hi all,
I've been a member of both the club and the forum for a couple of years now but haven't been able to 'fathom-out' how to add photo's to my posts until recently...and as I'm now sitting at home twiddling my thumbs (as I'm sure many of you are too!) I thought I'd take the opportunity to post up a couple of pictures of my pride and joy - my recently returned to the road, 'M'-Reg, Burnt-Grey over Silver-Birch, P5b Coupe'!!!
I bought her via the 'Car and Classics UK' website, from a lovely gent in Co-Clare, Ireland - who delivered her to me back in early January, 2018.
She had a very low mileage with full history etc and was amazingly solid and original - having been Ziebart undersealed from new and mechanically extremely-well maintained, despite having been off the road for many years.
Her paintwork was completely original but VERY worn/ tired and well past its best...so I've since spent the last two-years giving her a bit of a make-over...a full respray & thorough sorting-out of the interior etc, etc and whilst I still have a few jobs to do to finish her off - namely fitting new door rubbers, boot-seal rubber, windscreen rubbers etc, on the whole she's pretty-much done now...
She was ordered new by P&O, for their then Director of Finance, through Henlys via a brokerage in Berkeley Square, London (H.E. Bentley & Partners) in late June '73...she was registered TAN452M in Twickenham and delivered on the 1st August '73 - complete with laminated windscreen, Webasto sunroof, radio (with rear Vol control), dipping rear-view mirror, heated rear window etc...her Chassis No: shows she was the 12th from last car made...oh, and she still has a lovely 'complimentary' sterling-silver P&O 'Canberra' key-fob attached to her keys, as a nod to her past!
P&O kept her until 1976 when she was sold to a businessman in Ireland and exported - he kept her as a 'Sunday-toy' until 1987, when she was sold again to the guy I bought her from...
Amazingly for me, the first 'P&O owner' lived in a large corner house, on Pine Walk, Carshalton...quite-literally 400-yard's from my parents house at the time - I can vaguely remember seeing it driving by occasionally when I was a young boy...mostly because at the time, my dad had a 'K'-Reg, Silver-Birch over Burnt-Grey Coupe' too...so I would have been very-much 'on the look-out' for them! )
I hope you like her!
Guy.
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I've been a member of both the club and the forum for a couple of years now but haven't been able to 'fathom-out' how to add photo's to my posts until recently...and as I'm now sitting at home twiddling my thumbs (as I'm sure many of you are too!) I thought I'd take the opportunity to post up a couple of pictures of my pride and joy - my recently returned to the road, 'M'-Reg, Burnt-Grey over Silver-Birch, P5b Coupe'!!!
I bought her via the 'Car and Classics UK' website, from a lovely gent in Co-Clare, Ireland - who delivered her to me back in early January, 2018.
She had a very low mileage with full history etc and was amazingly solid and original - having been Ziebart undersealed from new and mechanically extremely-well maintained, despite having been off the road for many years.
Her paintwork was completely original but VERY worn/ tired and well past its best...so I've since spent the last two-years giving her a bit of a make-over...a full respray & thorough sorting-out of the interior etc, etc and whilst I still have a few jobs to do to finish her off - namely fitting new door rubbers, boot-seal rubber, windscreen rubbers etc, on the whole she's pretty-much done now...
She was ordered new by P&O, for their then Director of Finance, through Henlys via a brokerage in Berkeley Square, London (H.E. Bentley & Partners) in late June '73...she was registered TAN452M in Twickenham and delivered on the 1st August '73 - complete with laminated windscreen, Webasto sunroof, radio (with rear Vol control), dipping rear-view mirror, heated rear window etc...her Chassis No: shows she was the 12th from last car made...oh, and she still has a lovely 'complimentary' sterling-silver P&O 'Canberra' key-fob attached to her keys, as a nod to her past!
P&O kept her until 1976 when she was sold to a businessman in Ireland and exported - he kept her as a 'Sunday-toy' until 1987, when she was sold again to the guy I bought her from...
Amazingly for me, the first 'P&O owner' lived in a large corner house, on Pine Walk, Carshalton...quite-literally 400-yard's from my parents house at the time - I can vaguely remember seeing it driving by occasionally when I was a young boy...mostly because at the time, my dad had a 'K'-Reg, Silver-Birch over Burnt-Grey Coupe' too...so I would have been very-much 'on the look-out' for them!
)I hope you like her!
Guy.
...There's honestly and seriously no point in saying 'Oh, its easy...you simply do this...' because it's just like an alien language to me and I know it won't work, before I try doing it!!! 
