British Leyland

[merv]

Our only claim to fame with British Leyland is that Mrs merv had a 1973 Mini 1000 assembled in NZ. We sold it in 1981 and bought our first Honda Accord and never looked back.

[Indiana_Jones]

I even like the colour

-Indy

[merv]

That colour was so late 60's early 70's - my Bro' had a VW1500 Beetle in similar colour.

I had a metallic bronze 1970 Hillman Hunter woohoo no BL for me

[Indiana_Jones]

That colour was so late 60's early 70's - my Bro' had a VW1500 Beetle in similar colour.

I had a metallic bronze 1970 Hillman Hunter woohoo no BL for me

And what a colour lol

And no BL? you're just wicked jealous....

-Indy

[Mikkel]

Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been done, so badly, by so many.

Morris Marina's also have an almost magnetic attraction on pianos.

[Magua]

Rolls-Royce Phantom Two. 4.3 litre, 30 horsepower, six cylinder engine, with Stromberg Downdraft carburetor. Can go from zero to 100 kilometres an hour in 12.5 seconds. And I even like the color.

[Virago]

Rolls-Royce Phantom Two. 4.3 litre, 30 horsepower, six cylinder engine, with Stromberg Downdraft carburetor. Can go from zero to 100 kilometres an hour in 12.5 seconds. And I even like the color.

Someone had to do it in an Indy thread...

[avgas]

Rolls-Royce Phantom Two. 4.3 litre, 30 horsepower, six cylinder engine, with Stromberg Downdraft carburetor. Can go from zero to 100 kilometres an hour in 12.5 seconds. And I even like the color.

Pfffft......what a slow heap
Auburn speedster

..............is where the fun is at

[ducatilover]

Mine is brittish, but, not leyland.

A freinds wee Sunbeam Rapist. I garuantee it's the best in the country.
And who need Brit leyland when you get to play with a 51 Mercury?

[KiWiP]

WooHoo a rapier. One of my favorite bag of nails. It was seriously rubbish but I loved it. I bought it on a whim because I loved the way the central pillar disappeared when the front and rear windows were wound down. Just like a Maseratti! (I was 24 and in love forgive me). It was basically a Hillman hunter with fastback shell. Mine was lucky enough to have twin Holly carbs that needed balancing every full moon. I wasn't lucky though as the extra oomph from the carbs gave (on paper) 130bhp into a car that with a standard 85bhp had already invented drifting before the the first snowfall of winter. It was skittery but fun. Sort of like taking a crack addict to your sisters wedding.
Because I had neglected to look at anything other than the gold paintwork and awesome Italian styled windows, I missed a minor technical point. The overdrive would randomly throw itself out. The first time this happened was a couple of days after buying it on the A505 outside of Royston doing about 120mph I was passing some lesser mortal when I appeared to shoot backwards as my speed dropped 40mph in less than a second, my bowels tried to exit through my old chap and my hearing was permanently damaged, I'm not sure if this was through my screaming or the laughter from the car I had just been passing as it shot off into the delights that is Royston. A quick check of the Haynes showed that there was a small switch in the overdrive that would pull out the overdrive if you went down to 1st or 2nd. Problem solved by driving with my left knee permanently pressed hard on the gear stick to absorb the vibration that knocked out the switch. If you look closely you can still see a 4 and 5 imprinted deep into the skin.
I sadly had to sell it 6 months later as my bank manager said it would be cheaper to buy Shell than keep forking out on petrol. This photo was taken on my final Sunday drive
note the ridiculous lengths I had to go to to get to the end of the street.
Sold it to a lovely young couple who 'walked' up to my house the day after buying it. Nothing a quick whack with a 4lb sledge didn't fix and she was out of my life forever. Ahh happy days

[Big Dave]

bought our first Honda Accord and never looked back.

I can do you a deal on a full set of mirrors.

[pete376403]

WooHoo a rapier. One of my favorite bag of nails. It was seriously rubbish but I loved it. I bought it on a whim because I loved the way the central pillar disappeared when the front and rear windows were wound down. Just like a Maseratti! (I was 24 and in love forgive me). It was basically a Hillman hunter with fastback shell. Mine was lucky enough to have twin Holly carbs that needed balancing every full moon.

The 1725cc Rapier came in two rates of tune; the 76bhp standard version, and the 93bhp H120. The H120's engine featured twin dual-choke Weber carburettors, and was developed by notable Rootes tuners, Holbay. That would be a nice car to have today
http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/car...ev-hunter.html

[merv]

OK we doing Rootes Group now are we? Here's my Hillman Hunter and yes we were hauling trail bikes around then too, July 1975 at Arrowtown. All the cool guys had yellow sump guards then too haha. It was a 1970 model and I kept it 14 years

[dipshit]

My mates always got a laugh out of my Hillman Hunter that had 'Rootes' written across the front dash.

[Edbear]

I had a Hunter Super auto. I liked the body shape and room, but it was noisy and drank petrol at a rate that made my V8 seem economical!

My Bro-in-law had one but he couldn't leave a car standard and his one would blow a few V8's away...