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Erm perhaps not 😉

I always liked the Equipe, pity that wasn't in the range earlier.

The Allegro is a sad tale. It's a car i rather like and it certainly developed into a fairly decent car (after as usual too much fettling of it after launch as was sadly typical with BL..) However compare it with a mk1 Golf and it shows that BL management really took their eye off the ball. If they'd gone with the original sketches by Mann, if they'd put it together properly initially, if they'd added a hatchback etc etc, things might well have been different. All rather sad.

That's in the condition i like a car, looks used but not knackered. I like the reg', being childish I'd call it fuk.

Yep me too and yep i cringe thinking about it now.

I'm going off memory & it can be flaky but I think it was a fastener in the middle. Or I could be talking shit & you're right 😉😄

Yep it does. The Minor saloon has an open bulkhead at the back with no cross bracing. There's a lift the dot type fastener/ clip on back of seat accessible from the boot . Backrest then flops forward. It aint totally flat but you can load through.

That's cool. When i was a kid in the '70's there was Datsun 120y on our council estate done up like the striped tomato too.

Don't forget though the backrest of the saloon back seat folds forward so makes boot bigger. Clever trick for a car of that age.

Nice motor. Lovely plush interior. Enjoy the waft.

The Corsair was bigger, didn't it have the same glass etc (or have I dreamt that) as a mk1 Cortina? That's why somehow the glasshouse on the Corsair always looked a bit narrow & the waistline beneath the windows were a bit like a ledge out from it (if you get what I mean ?)

I know as an old fart it's easy to look at stuff & go it was all so much better made etc etc years ago but just looking at those & the detailing on them, it is true. I mean they were just toys they weren't fancy expensive stuff for collectors they were just stuff that random kids with big grins on their faces launched into skirting boards across the world & played with in the garden etc etc. It really was a golden period for toy vehicle ( & toys in general IMO).

Jesus wept, what a munter.

Yes fair point, there ain't much steel there is there ?

The 997cc 105e Anglia i had, had a 90mph speedo. I reckon the only way it would've got to that is falling off a cliff.

Not sure if posted before? Invacar alert !

1960's UK .

I'm sure I once saw a test in Truck magazine or something similar of one of those against a Transit 4x4 County & the Sherpa was better off road. Looks bloody cool with jacked up 4x4 suspension.

Great thread I think that's one of the biggest issues with moderns, the interiors are often shit, they're generally just boring bloody black sometimes relieved by wanky mood lighting with a crappy digital display stuck somewhere. I like funky colours, velour or snazzy fabrics, colour keyed trim, maybe the odd bit of wood trim. It's time manufacturers got an imagination again !

A had a 105E Anglia with a green interior, it was in luxurious vinyl.. Just the thing on a hot summers day !

Nice vice, not a make i'm familiar with either. Any chance of more pics/ do you know anything about it ? (Apologies i'm a vice geek 😉)

I think it's Alan Sugar.

Great job, well done. There's something about early 1970's car interiors that i just think is cool.

So mundane, so ordinary, basically just dull street furniture at the time. Now, as cool as Polar Bear piss.

'Cos you'll get covered in oil fixing it..