British Leyland

[5150]

Oi, me Marina only requires a $5 be thrown out.


So there!

You must have been lucky and go one of the few good examples

[5150]

What were they thinking?

[awa355]

What were they thinking?

I quite like it.

[swarfie]

I quite like it.

Your'e sick
The Poms (okay the Yanks as well) certainly built some fuggly ones

[Moi]

What were they thinking?

Any worse than this?



Before anyone says "It's not BL!", yes I know... but the handling was on-par with the Leyland... Non-existent!

[dangerous]

what was the sliding door one, commer maybe?
most shit giving was a herald with a 2L V4 in it... did NOT buy that one

[Motu]

What were they thinking?

They probably thought ''What better use for the TR3 than to use it for a Van''....well, what better use for a Fergy engine really. I used to look after a fleet of Leyland 20's when an apprentice, we were wrapt when they repaced them with CF Bedfords, real high tech back then.

[jim.cox]

Any worse than this?

Yes MUCH MUCH worse

Note the narrow wheel track

Note the further inset of the front wheels

Allow for piss-poor cooling of a god awful motor

And a gear lever only vaguely connected to the gearbox

They are a pile of pooh from one end to the other

The Thames on the other hand were not too bad

[Moi]

what was the sliding door one, commer maybe?
most shit giving was a herald with a 2L V4 in it... did NOT buy that one

The Bedford van had a sliding door



The Commer seems to have conventional doors though some appear to have sliding doors of the cab.

Wasn't the Triumph Vitesse an inline 6?

[Moi]

Yes MUCH MUCH worse

Note the narrow wheel track

Note the further inset of the front wheels

Allow for piss-poor cooling of a god awful motor

And a gear lever only vaguely connected to the gearbox

They are a pile of pooh from one end to the other

The Thames on the other hand were not too bad

Agreed... it was an awful vehicle to drive... if I remember, the Leyland went where you wanted to go only a good day and when the moon was in the right lunar phase...

[scumdog]

Your'e sick
The Poms (okay the Yanks as well) certainly built some fuggly ones

What country didn't???

[scumdog]

The Bedford van had a sliding door

Drove one with 272 Customline V8 and Snipe box - and no brakes.

'Exciting' isn't the word...

[Moi]

Drove one with 272 Customline V8 and Snipe box - and no brakes.

'Exciting' isn't the word...

Sphincter clenching might be a better description...

but aren't brakes highly overrated?

[Motu]

I had a CA Bedford with a Vanguard 6 and box, a Cresta diff and a Marina dash. Cool bike hauler, hold the doors open with the little loop on the handle. Sold it to a BIL who put an MO Oxford grille on it.

[dangerous]

The Bedford van had a sliding door

Wasn't the Triumph Vitesse an inline 6?

yeah thats the one... cool aye

yes Vitesse was a 1600cc six (massy ferg engine also put in the vanguard) the last of them with the 2000cc triumph six... only ever drove one, farking leathel take off and the rear end takes a bit to catch up to the frront half, creaked n groaned something terable and ID LOVE ONE