Topic: Solved - MJW #461 - Rover P6 Estate by FLM Panelcraft

[woodinsight]

The base car is easy but who built the body on this estate?

[bleyland]

This started life as a Rover P6 saloon (to state the stated obvious) and I believe the estate body was built by FLM Panelcraft

[woodinsight]

This started life as a Rover P6 saloon (to state the stated obvious) and I believe the estate body was built by FLM Panelcraft

Yes it is.
Not one of the best aesthetic designs on this basis......

[Wendax]

Is the puzzle car an early version? All pictures I know of the FLM Panelcraft estate conversion show a rectangular rear window and a less sloped roof, like the car pictured below.

[bleyland]

Not one of the best aesthetic designs on this basis......

not too good from an engineering standpoint either from what I've read.  Seems they were rust magnets (even more than the standard P6) due to not prepping the area where they chopped through the original boot, and the designers of the estate also did not pay much attention to rain drainage.

[woodinsight]

Is the puzzle car an early version? All pictures I know of the FLM Panelcraft estate conversion show a rectangular rear window and a less sloped roof, like the car pictured below.

Quite frankly, I don't know, my source doesn't reveal that. I believe the puzzle car is dated 1966.

[barrett]

As far as I know this is the first prototype for the P6 Estate before series production begun, hence the differences