British Leyland

**Virago** · 17th September 2016, 11:39

Another Waimak one.

Porn. Pure fucking porn.

**Motu** · 17th September 2016, 12:31

Rover...the British Volvo. We do it this way, you may not like it now, but later, you will know why. Pity Rover didn't make their own V8, I would love to see what they would've come up with...and it wouldn't be simple and boring.

**1billyboy** · 17th September 2016, 14:56

Originally Posted by Motu

Rover...the British Volvo. We do it this way, you may not like it now, but later, you will know why. Pity Rover didn't make their own V8, I would love to see what they would've come up with...and it wouldn't be simple and boring.

They had a 3.5 V8

**Virago** · 17th September 2016, 15:08

Originally Posted by 1billyboy

They had a 3.5 V8

Yes indeed. It was a motor bought from Buick (hence the "B" suffix).

Motu was pondering what Rover would have come up with had they developed their own V8. An interesting thought.

**YellowDog** · 17th September 2016, 16:33

Originally Posted by Virago

Yes indeed. It was a motor bought from Buick (hence the "B" suffix).

Motu was pondering what Rover would have come up with had they developed their own V8. An interesting thought.

A home grown British Leyland V8 would have been every bit as good (extremely bad) as their V12.

Nothing's a better alternative to a Chev 350

**Motu** · 17th September 2016, 20:07

British Leyland maybe, but Rover, that's a different story.

**Dadpole** · 17th September 2016, 21:12

As I recall, the then head of Leyland was the former head of Triumph and very anti Rover. They would have been expected to develop a V8 for four pounds fifty.

**jim.cox** · 17th September 2016, 21:30

Originally Posted by Dadpole

for four pounds fifty.

and a packet of crisps

**YellowDog** · 17th September 2016, 22:17

Originally Posted by Dadpole

As I recall, the then head of Leyland was the former head of Triumph and very anti Rover. They would have been expected to develop a V8 for four pounds fifty.

ahem...... there was no '50'.

It was 'ten bob' in those days

**Dadpole** · 17th September 2016, 22:35

Correct there Sir. '71 was when they changed.

**YellowDog** · 17th September 2016, 22:54

Originally Posted by Dadpole

Correct there Sir. '71 was when they changed.

They might change back soon

**yevjenko** · 17th September 2016, 23:35

Originally Posted by YellowDog

They might change back soon

not bloody likely. Can you imagine the yoof of today trying to work out pounds shillings and pence?

**YellowDog** · 17th September 2016, 23:41

Originally Posted by yevjenko

not bloody likely. Can you imagine the yoof of today trying to work out pounds shillings and pence?

I'm always keen to see thrupennybits

**Moi** · 18th September 2016, 03:01

Originally Posted by yevjenko

not bloody likely. Can you imagine the yoof of today trying to work out pounds shillings and pence?

Slightly off topic... a year or so before I retired I had a maths class in which the majority of kids were 'above average' and they became interested in arithmetic in other than base 10... so I showed them all four computations in pounds, shillings and pence. That lead onto inches, feet, yards, chains, furlongs and miles. As far as they were concerned, using pre-decimal money and imperial measure was far more interesting than using other bases or using decimal money or metrics...