British Leyland

**YellowDog** · 8th March 2010, 06:05

IMO - The Princess has to be one of the worst cars ever produced.

Saw a Triumph Dolomite Sprint yesterday - From what I remember tey were a damn good drive.

**Indiana_Jones** · 8th March 2010, 07:11

The Princess isn't my cup of tea, very interesting car to look at though.

The Dolomite looks cool from what I've seen, but if I could own any Triumph I guess it'd be the Spitfire or Herald.

-Indy

**YellowDog** · 9th March 2010, 20:54

My Dad had a Hillman SuperMinx and

one of my girlfirnd had a Hillman Imp which I never ever saw running!

**Indiana_Jones** · 9th March 2010, 22:23

My old man owned one of these:

-Indy

**Motu** · 9th March 2010, 22:36

That's the Triumph 1300? Not the Toldeo.The 1300 was front wheel drive,and a pretty strange arrangement too.I can't remember the detail of the drive system(without Google)...but remember they were a very easy clutch to do.I also remember one that had the whole front subframe drop out,rusted to bits.I had to fabricate new mounts and weld them into the body.Can't do that sort of stuff now....they don't trust people like me with a welding torch anymore.

**Indiana_Jones** · 9th March 2010, 22:55

Originally Posted by Motu

That's the Triumph 1300?

Correct.

-Indy

**Indiana_Jones** · 10th March 2010, 20:30

Another lovely pub trip in Wendy, good fun

-Indy

**Indiana_Jones** · 3rd May 2010, 22:17

Saw this beastie going into the city the other day

-Indy

**Mooch** · 3rd May 2010, 22:30

I've got an engine out of a GT 1300 one of those. Will end up in an old Mini 7 race car from the 1970s (1963 Mk1) . Techincally not British Leyland ..... More Morris or Austin

**Indiana_Jones** · 3rd May 2010, 22:31

Originally Posted by Mooch

I've got an engine out of a GT 1300 one of those. Will end up in an old Mini 7 race car from the 1970s (1963 Mk1) . Techincally not British Leyland ..... More Morris or Austin

Pics good sir, pics!

-Indy

**Mooch** · 3rd May 2010, 22:42

Work In progress , 1963 Mk1 in foregound , 1964 Mk1 in background

**Indiana_Jones** · 3rd May 2010, 22:54

Nice, very nice

-Indy

**Indiana_Jones** · 7th May 2010, 22:21

Wolseley 16-60

-Indy

**Motu** · 7th May 2010, 23:36

Leyland were trucks,good trucks of the day.This is a Leyland Buffalo,the biggest they made at the time,and very few were brought to NZ,a couple at most.I think I might know this one - when I was a boy my father worked for Dales Freightways,and they had a Buffalo tractor unit,used for pulling the biggest loads of the time.It was a favorite of my father's and he did most of the work on it - I remember one time going down to the workshop when he had the gearbox out,and he was slipping it through the gears with a screwdriver showing me how it all worked.A sad state to see the mighty Buffalo in...