Seen the never-started '83 Triumph on Trademe?

[RDjase]

10 Ks aint alot of pushing for a triumph of that era, The death rattle for the British Motorcycle industry was the decades of mismanagement, and the Japs getting their act together.
remember British Leyland, and all is clear why Great Britan lost the "Great" in their motor industry.

Whats wrong with a Austin Allegro compared to a Honda Civic or a Mitsi Mirage? .............

[James Deuce]

Whats wrong with a Austin Allegro compared to a Honda Civic or a Mitsi Mirage? .............

Surely you cannot be serious?

[RDjase]

Surely you cannot be serious?

And Marina's ! What a car those 1750 coupes

I fixed enough of the British leyland crap doing my appentiship, Rootes group ect
Its scary when the best relieble car out of them was the Avenger

I wonder why there car market fell over

At least there bikes were still Cool

[James Deuce]

Top Gear's anti-Marina crusade has placed them firmly in my pantheon of minor deities for all time.

[The Stranger:Me]

Can't be many world wide that have never been started

I thought that was pretty common for trumpets of that era.

[JimO]

Top Gear's anti-Marina crusade has placed them firmly in my pantheon of minor deities for all time.

there is a bit in the new series where james may is driving a marina that has already had a paino fall on it, its still on the roof, eventually another piano falls on it as well

[Kickaha]

And Marina's ! What a car those 1750 coupes

Dont forget the Marina 6, what a weapon, dont think we saw it here though

[cs363]

Reliant Robin, now there's a great British car.....

[RDjase]

Reliant Robin, now there's a great British car.....

Go Del Boy !

[RDjase]

Dont forget the Marina 6, what a weapon, dont think we saw it here though

Aussie assambled I think, had the same engine as the P76 , Just a 6 version of the ohc 4 engine , terrible things

I have got a 1972 wheels mag here somewere and it has review af all the Big cars of the year ,Titled "The Big Four"

XA Falcon

VH Valiant

HQ Holden

And ........... Wait fot it








That British leyland Tasman / Kimberly

[Dooly]

And Marina's ! What a car those 1750 coupes

I fixed enough of the British leyland crap doing my appentiship, Rootes group ect
Its scary when the best relieble car out of them was the Avenger

I wonder why there car market fell over

At least there bikes were still Cool

Don't forget the Kimberlys.

Oh, ok.......yeah, forget those fuckers.

[Motu]

Twin carb Tasman....or was it the other way around? 5th gear was a rarity back then,and a few people stuffed it up and hit reverse coming out.I took one such up to Graham Gordon once,and he showed me a few more he had kicking around the floor.One ripped the reverse idler right off the floor of the box,it got drop kicked by a con rod and the gear went for a six out the side of the block.

We can look back and laugh at them now,and how much better the Jap stuff was,but really there was not a lot in it....otherwise the Pommy shit would have died off sooner.I remember doing the 3rd recon engine on a Corona in 1974....it was only a couple of years old! And like the British bikes,those old Pommy shiiters handled much better than anything from Japan.Except the independent rear end Datsuns,they handled real well.

[Dooly]

Yeah we all used to hate the Brit cars back then but when you think about it, it was a breeze to work on that shit compared to today's techo, cant get your hands or eyes on stuff under the bonnet.
And the hydrolastic suspension was actually quite comfy. And we have the only pump up machine for those in the Bay so we still see the old shitters regularly.

[Motu]

The hydrolastic was great on the 1800,but were a bit choppy on shorter wheelbases....and not a lot went wrong with them really.On Waiheke we used an old grease pump to do the hydrolastics,not as good as the real machine,but it did the job.Remember putting a sparkplug under the bumpstop to drop a balljoint? I recently failed an MGF on being too low....it was hard getting it through to anyone that it just needed pumping up.The guys at work,let alone the owner had never heard of such a thing.Young guys haven't got a fucking clue about this game.

[Dooly]

Motu we use antifreeze in our hydrolastic machine as we were told years ago that the 'factory' stuff was'nt available. Dunno if it is now but antifreeze works fine and is easy to show up any leaks.