Allegro Vanden Nah (Bad car! No picnic!)

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

(also I'm a lazy fat fuck who'd give up a winning lottery ticket if it meant avoiding an hour of manual labour)

[Lacquer Peel]

Looks like this is probably the answer. Someone on MacDroitwich came to the same conclusion and posted a photo of the nut. Looks easy enough to get to... if you can be arsed pulling the engine out, taking the box off... Which I can't. 

 

And I was so happy to have an E-Series Allegro instead of the (much more common) A-Series ones. Bugger!

 

ITTSG?

 

Sounds like a grim job to fix it but it's got to be worth it for the VANDEN CLASS.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I don't know whether you're talking about my car or DoncasterNow MacDroitwich.com .co.uk. 

[Junkman]

You should have sold it when the discs had to be changed.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Or changed them sooner so the brake judder didn't shake some nut loose in the gearbox. 

[Junkman]

Not sure whether I have ever seen a more halfly arsed engineering solution to a problem.

And I came up with a lot of them in my life.

[Junkman]

Rover 600 series plastic diff carrier beats it, though, now that I think of it.

[chaseracer]

Rover 600 series plastic diff carrier beats it, though, now that I think of it.

 

Don't tell Ian.

[costadelglosta]

Hi Conelrad

 

You're welcome to borrow my engine crane if you want? I can even deliver and provide technical

Support.

[mrbenn]

Another offer of an engine crane from me. I'm only about 10 miles from Stockport for info. Happy to lend a hand over a weekend if needed too.

[beko1987]

so that's 3 of you to fix it, just need a 4th to take photos now...

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Another offer of an engine crane from me. I'm only about 10 miles from Stockport for info. Happy to lend a hand over a weekend if needed too.

Hi Conelrad

 

You're welcome to borrow my engine crane if you want? I can even deliver and provide technical

Support.

Thanks guys, I'll get in touch if I decide to fix it. We could have a North West version of the Midlands tinkering weekend (whatever they called it). Who's bringing the recumbent bicycle?

[costadelglosta]

Thanks guys, I'll get in touch if I decide to fix it. We could have a North West version of the Midlands tinkering weekend (whatever they called it). Who's bringing the recumbent bicycle?

Just don't leave it too long. Winter is coming and my middle aged boned don't like the cold.

[mrbenn]

We should have have a North West tinkering weekend anyway, even if you don't keep the Allegro. Surely there is some chod in the area that needs fettling!

[Lord Sterling]

Yo! Just caught up wid 'dis. Spotted the Vanden NAH! on eBay and recognised the reg. No wai man, you MUST fix it. It's rare and shite enough, yet still classy and pretty much an accepted classic.

 

Man, even I'll lend a hand to get this fixed up if it means you keeping it (plus, I might actually get to drive an Allegro, a small dream of mine)

[Lankytim]

Do you need to remove the engine? You can do the clutch with it in situ.

 

I've had the engine in and out of my 1500c allegro about 4.2Bn times (not joking) it's actually easy to do.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

It's gone. 

 

[Ghosty]

Picnic season's over anyway.

[Skizzer]

Shame about what happened, as it was really rather lovely, especially the interior.

 

Still, other mothers have beautiful daughters too, as they say in Germany. Collection thread expected shortly?

[LC Torana]

It's gone. 

 

 

Good grief, you scrapped it?

[Jim Bell]

It's gone.

 

 

Sir! I have a question Sir! Oh Please Sir! Do tell us Sir!

 

What is replacing it?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Good grief, you scrapped it?

Think of it if you get a tin of Roses at Christmas.

 

Shame about what happened, as it was really rather lovely, especially the interior.

 

Still, other mothers have beautiful daughters too, as they say in Germany. Collection thread expected shortly?

Speaking of Germany, I wonder what happened to that lovely green Merc 190 I shunned for the VdP?

 

Sir! I have a question Sir! Oh Please Sir! Do tell us Sir!

 

What is replacing it?

 

12 months insurance on a yellow Rover, and a tin of Roses.

[drum]

According to telly experts* it was Britain's worst car anyway.

[chaseracer]

If ever a car was crying out for a K-series...

[oldcars]

According to telly experts* it was Britain's worst car anyway.

 

Want one even more now after watching it last night. That or a Marina, or an Princess.