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The Club boasts an excellent magazine called Driving Force
edited by Nick Dunning and a superb website at www.p6club.com
maintained by Nick Dunning & Robert Pinner.
All of these points of contact are backed up by one of the best
technical teams to be found anywhere, and the Club boasts a wealth of
knowledge and experience within the Membership.
The Club also has a Yahoogroup webmail forum at which all Members are
welcome to contribute to and ask questions.
Through 'Team RP6DC' the Club is involved in road runs and
restoration shows and in 2002 raised over a £1000 for charity on
The Timbo Run for The British Kidney Patients Association and again,
another £1000 in 2004 on the Timbo 2 Run.
Over the years the Club has been involved in many Restoration Shows
with many award winning Club displays.
All displays are active, and we always aim to use Member’s cars
and to try and get the jobs done which the Member concerned can’t
do themselves. The shows are a way of others learning how to do
various jobs as well as being a place where many hands can make light
work of any job. We have replaced windscreens, engines, gearboxes,
panels, window to door seals, suspension bushes, brake components and
even changed a cars complete braking system from Dunlop to Girling.
Some of most adventurous displays included putting cars on their
sides on body turners and it is with this in mind, we have forged an
alliance with a company called CJ Autos and we now supply a
members car to the company for every show where they display, to put
on it’s side. This always attracts lots of attention.
The Club has accumulated quite a selection of silverware over the
years from these award winning Club displays, and the 2004 show
season came to a close with a trophy from the National Restoration Show
held at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire in November and also a working
club display at the International Classic Motor Show held at
the NEC in October. Our NEC display included 6 member’s
P6’s on the Club stand and 1 more P6 on CJ Autos trade display.
This 3 day event gave Team RP6DC the opportunity of replacing all the
front suspension bushes and ball joints on a Member’s P6 and
also, the underside of the P6 on CJ Autos, had a fresh coat of
underseal. These type of displays have attracted quite a large amount
of press interest in the Club and we can seen quite regularly in
Classics magazine, Practical Classics and Classic Motor Monthly and
also we have been pictured in other clubs publications, particularly
because we have encouraged our member’s children to get involved.
The Club’s philosophy is to get children involved both with the
cars and the restoration because children are the future of both the
classic car movement as a whole and the individual cars, therefore we
are children friendly, unlike some clubs out there.
2004 marked the 100th Anniversary of Rover, as a car producer,
and the 100th year celebrations were headed up by the Rover Sports
Register (RSR). The long weekend event culminated in a massive
display of Rovers of all ages at Ragley Hall, in Warwickshire. We at
the RP6DC are proud to say we were part of the event and it was a
glorious day especially as the display included over 65 P6’s and
our very own Denis Chick won the prize for the Best P6 at the event.
The RSR’s magazine following the event also had a front cover
which featured one of our member’s P6’s and the DVD/Video
of the event on sale from the RSR, also features several of the more
unusual P6’s which belong to RP6DC members including an Estate
and a NADA left hand drive car. Our own National rallies are also a
great draw and we have a great deal of fun and 2004 saw us at an
event overlooking a show ground with hundreds of cars and other
vehicles in Newport Shropshire.
The Club is aiming to be involved in similar events in the future, as
well as historic rallying, and all of course following the clubs aim
to use the Rover P6 Car.
MARK GRAY - Secretary.
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