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A real beast of a V8, this Overfinch with a Corvette engine came on to the market late last year
Few Overfinch 630Rs come to market, but one of 25 of these Chevvy-powered muscle cars is for sale
One of only 25 Overfinch 630R Range Rovers has come up for sale.
The custom-made P38, built in 2000, is fitted with a 6.3-litre, V8 GM Corvette engine and produced more than 400bhp, which was tamed with a bespoke air suspension set-up, tuned by Overfinch in Leeds.
The car features tubular ceramic manifolds and four-pot brakes, and has a special cooling pack. As you’d expect, it is loaded with every conceivable extra, including oval fog lamps and dual stainless steel exhaust. The interior is in two-tone leather with embroidered F1 logos, with a customised burr walnut dashboard and tuned Harmon Kardon media kit with sub-woofer, including sixCD autochanger.
The car belongs to Goochie Babbar – owner of a Cockfosters-based flooring company – who has owned it about two years and has added just 9,000 miles to its 119,000 odometer reading. A former owner of several Overfinch-engineered vehicles, Goochie had been on the lookout for one of these V8s for a while.
“Overfinch Classics are now fetching huge money – £30,000 to £60,000 is not unusual, he old LRW. “Built by the original Hampshire-based Overfinch, they were the company which did all the really wild things to Land Rovers.
“Since the company was taken over in 2010 and moved to Leeds, many of the modifications are more cosmetic – bodykit, wheels and interiors. This 630R is one of the beasts they built in Hampshire.”
Goochie believes this car – which comes with a massive amount of paperwork – began life at a 4.6, which was then re-engineered with the addition of a turbo by ADI Engineering. It is believed that this vehicle was due to be exported to South Africa then had some minor damage on a car transporter, so the export was cancelled.
Goochie also believes the eventual Overfinch engineering was ordered by Rimmer Brothers, when they owned the vehicle: “I’m not sure why the F1 logo is embroidered on the seats – it’s had eight owners, so it could have been added by any one of them.
“I do know that his one was once owned by the same guy, now based in the Netherlands, who owned the one driven by Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear.
“It’s never given me a moment’s trouble, though it appears from the paperwork that it has had any electrical issues sorted out. The air conditioning could do with some TLC, but it’s otherwise very tidy.”
The Overfinch 630R Range Rover was, as we say, very heavily covered by the press, with Jeremy Clarkson memorably using it to out-drag a Ford Focus … while towing another Ford Focus on a trailer.
At the time, this custom edition was credited with 0-6mph in under 7 seconds and a 140mph-plus top speed. It was vaunted as the fastest P38 ever made, albeit in a state of tune which favoured high torque over bhp.
The Overfinch 630R used the P38’s air suspension to lower the car as it reached 50mph, giving its superb cornering ability which could then utlise the four-wheel drive system to its best advantage.
Goochie has huge folder of other paperwork including the original invoice for the work by Overfinch (which celebrated its 40th anniver sary last year). The ticket price on the vehicle – a classified advert in ebay – was £16,995.