Rover 3500/3500s (p6) (1967-1976)

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

(1962-1969)

Losing Fisher & Ludlow (which had made monocoque bodies for the Standard 8 and 10) to the British Motor Corporation led Standard-Triumph to choose separate-chassis construction for its next small car.

The post-war story of Rover provides one of the richest seams of intriguing might-have-beens and one-offs that you’ll find anywhere in the history of the automobile. There was everything from Topolino

Autocar and the Volvo Amazon estate share a little bit of history. Back in 1965, the model became Britain’s first foreign-sourced traffic police car when Hampshire Constabulary purchased five of them.

ASKING £24,950 PRICE ENGINE 5340cc/V12/OHC POWER 273bhp@5250rpm ...