The front suspension design was highly unusual from the outset, as this Gordon Bashford sketch reveals...
With Spen King and Gordon Bashford working on the P6, you can be guaranteed some interesting technical solutions were discussed...
All pictures supplied by Ian Nicholls
Front and rear suspension
The front suspension design was highly unusual from the outset, as this Gordon
Bashford sketch reveals...
Styling sketch
The P6, as sketched in 1957...
Scale models
Fins were the order of the day in this dramatic proposal
Model making the traditional way...
Front-end styling takes shape...
Interior schemes
Early suggestion with pod-like dials
The more production-friendly final solution...
Full-sized clays
The final stages...
The first wooden full-scale model
March 1959 and the first running Rover P6 prototype is undergoing testing.
The P6/7 prototype - seventh out of 15 or 16 produced...