didnt think any were left

 

famous for there square steering wheel and being more aerodynamic in reverse.

Pete

 

pmsl

 

hatefull cars, still, fair shout for it still surviving

 

still moving on it's own and not being towed

 

They had a good engine steady bar on them we used to go the scrapy and remove them and fit them in to our mini's, direct fit strate to mini's bulk head, great little mod lol

 

Horrible little cars

 

Quite like them lol, they looked ace and were quite good if built on a good day. Unfortuneatly, BL didn't have too many of them

 

Nice to see something different on the road

Steve

 

I guy near me has a fucking mint beige one....its the Vanden Plas top spec jobbie with the square wheel and rolls royce grill

 

Bet that didn't get stuck in the snow with its push bike tyres!!


Cheers,
Grant

 

I think they are so hateful that it makes it cool, my dad had one when under 10 in a barn on the farm, and I loved it, was my space ship!

 

that the plough roundabout? looks rather familiar, you got a nice rs and from round that area mate?

 

The flat capped geezer driving it looks as old as the hills too

 

I agree with that.I bet it turned some heads unlike a honda civic.

 

Took the words right outa my mouth

Also, they just missed the Classic status as the last off the line were late 74........Oh Dam

Aparantly, the Owners club aint happy

 

owners club , JOKE !

 

A couple wrong pics I found

 

yep thats the place mate, nah only got a seicento cant park outside the house in anything bigger

 

Why are they so bad a car??

 

they hurt my eyes when I look at them

 

worst looking pile of shite ever

 

my mum fuckin loved these lol she had 2 at the same time when i was younger, shows wot women kno bout cars lol

 

pmsl...

 

The owners club is deadly serious, when i was with the capri club we'd watch as they'd turn up to classic car events with pots full of plants and well planned displays to try and win the best club stand trophys. mention rust or how bad leyland cars are to there faces and they'l either cry and run of or stab you lol

 

where you live dude? suprised you never seen my xr3i, 2.0 si or zetec-s around southport. am always up this end

 

Seen a minter in and around Edinburgh in skidmark brown colour with beige interior

Hatefull but very cool to see one on the road

 

allergro read allaggro lol,i prefer a austin maxi meself as the big car comfort shines through with one of them council estate chariots,i did once own own one of these when i was 16,i bought it from chester motor auctions and sold it in the local paper and made a nice few quid,happy days and the thing actually felt quite nice and was a 1700cc,mine was creamy white with a brown dralon trim ooh nice


Austin-Morris Managing Director, Ray Horrocks, knew that the Marina would need a showroom fillip in order to maintain sales impetus until the release of its replacement, the LM10 and LM11. The Longbridge drawing office headed by Harris Mann soon completed a neat facelift, which changed the look of the frontal aspect of the car (without any front panel changes) and transformed the rear view of the car, incorporating a higher boot-line and large Euro-standard wrap around lights. Despite the long-held belief that Ital Design was responsible for the revised styling of the new car, it was somewhat less involved in the process – simply handling its productionisation. Of course, the story soon go out that the Morris Ital was actually the work of Giorgetto Giugiaro and, as one insider has subsequently said: "...why spoil the story with facts, we thought!"
Being limited to a Ł5 million budget, BL's facelift went tits up,

 

fair shout for the fucker driving it!!!!!!!

 

just one of the faults were that if you jacked the front end of the car up in the wrong place the windscreen could pop out or crack.

 

Hydrolastic suspension for one lol

If you ever see one don't forget to let it down

Still, way ahead of pimp my ride

 

It's quite shocking to think that whoever designed the allegro sat back, looked at his drawings and said to himself 'Yeah, that looks good!!!' Good god!!

 

Oh yer
Hydro-spastic- suspension,Beige painwork,Square steering wheel, zero class.
born winner......not

 

i saw a red one 2 days ago

 

Mate of a mate (johnny smith, you might remember him from 5th gear) has an allegro with a 2.7 v6 twin turbo in it.

 

remember that topgear stunt going backwards up the ramp tryin ta jump cars. best thing for alegro, smash the fook outa it lol

 

Most cars with a radiator grille are more aerodynamic going backwards!

 

Lol at the Allegro, my Mum had one in poo brown when I was about 6, the only thing that worked properly was the boot lock lol.

 

Been watching Jonny Smith on Quest all weekend, Industrial Junkie

Good if you're a sad fuck like me and hate xmas

 

The hydrolastic suspension could be made to work extremely well, I had a "wet" mini(69), and a Metro mk1 with hydrolastic, converted the rear to independant, as was linked across rear as std, made a bloody useful difference, and held the road well, despite 135/145 tyres!!
I must admit to being a BL fan, liked them all myself even though build quality could be shocking, if I could find a Marina 1.8 Super estate in BLue in good nick I wouldn't hesitate to buy it.
tabetha