Your Bangernomics successes

GunJack

Stoke wrote: »

Was it the Marina, Allegro or the Princess that had a habit of popping the rear glass out when jacked up incorrectly?

Quite possibly ALL of them.... build quality on British cars of that era was shockingly-poor, to say the least

Farzackerly

Stoke wrote: »

I can't imagine anything worse than a brown Austin Princess, with brown interior, brown steering wheel, brown bodywork, brown sunvisors, brown roof lining...... everything just...... brown.

I had a 2.2HLS Princess when they were in banger territory. Nice car, and I didn't see why all the detractors were so moany about them.

Was it the Marina, Allegro or the Princess that had a habit of popping the rear glass out when jacked up incorrectly?

Fairly sure that was the Allegro.

mark55man

My brother and I each had an Allegro back in the late 80s.

His was !!!!!! olive mine was !!!!!! brown - loved how eveything had that hint of colour

buyhighselllow

I saw an turd-brown Allegro Estate on Wednesday..excitedly pointed it out to my wife ! It was still going strong..Guess its a "Classic Car " now

GunJack

buyhighselllow wrote: »

I saw an turd-brown Allegro Estate on Wednesday..excitedly pointed it out to my wife ! It was still going strong..Guess its a " Classic Carp Car " now

just corrected that for you :rotfl:

Stoke

buyhighselllow wrote: »

I saw an turd-brown Allegro Estate on Wednesday..excitedly pointed it out to my wife ! It was still going strong..Guess its a "Classic Car " now

I suppose some BL cars could be considered classics. The Marina, Princess and Allegro, not for me.....

However, I've always been fond of SD1's. I know they're dreadfully built and all the good ones are kept in storage, but when they are fully assembled and in nice nick, they look really good imo.



They really aren't bad looking.

GunJack

Those Vitesse's did go like stink in a straight line...bit of a poor man's Jensen Interceptor

Stoke

Supposedly styled loosely on a Ferrari Daytona. Never really believed it myself, but still a really nice motor.

Was still built in India for their domestic market until 1996!!!!

GunJack

Stoke wrote: »

Supposedly styled loosely on a Ferrari Daytona. Never really believed it myself, but still a really nice motor.

Was still built in India for their domestic market until 1996!!!!

The Indians are pretty good at re-making old stuff...doing a range of classic bikes too as I recall, possibly Enfield and BSA stuff until recently...

Farzackerly

GunJack wrote: »

The Indians are pretty good at re-making old stuff...doing a range of classic bikes too as I recall, possibly Enfield and BSA stuff until recently...

Enfield India and more recently, Harley-Davidson.
That caught Trumperty out when he spouted on about "No Harleys should be made outside of the USA". Turns out they already were.