barrett Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 Soz, bit of a weird one this. This fetching Tundra S1 Allegro just popped up on Facebook. Is it Louise2cv's old one?It's owned by a young lass who seems a bit 'new' to the shit old car world and I juat thought it might be nice to connect with a previous owner. I might just be talking total bollocks of course, but I don't recall seeing many, if any, other survivors in my fave BL shade of all time... chaseracer, Junkman and Squire_Dawson 3
SiC Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 I spotted this same car parked in a garage that's around the corner to me. The same garage, that if others follow some of my threads, that had the orange rubber bumper MGB GT that started my obsession with and hunt for MGBs again. Junkman 1
barrett Posted October 22, 2017 Author Posted October 22, 2017 Aha, well, Louise if you see this and you use Facebook you should join the 'Austin allegro appreciation society' page as I'm sure the new owner would love to hear from you
SiC Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 Looking at the MOT history, it appears that it was MOT'd south of Bristol - a good 20-30 miles away. No idea why it appeared near me. Is the new owner local to Bristol, or further away? Wondered if it's changed hands since I saw it.
stuboy Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 was this same louise who had a brown astra too?
lisbon_road Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 Much better car than their reputation in my opinion - not that they were brilliant but others of the period had their issues. Always seems a shame when they headline the 'bad cars' lists and stuff like that. Junkman, Sigmund Fraud, danthecapriman and 5 others 8
dollywobbler Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 Ok. Some interesting wiper evolution going on there. It now seems to have LHD arms and parking. lisbon_road 1
Louise2cv Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 Oh yes! It is! Thanks for spotting it Hopefully it is a sound little starter classic, seemed solid when I had it. It is about of a bitsa, having had the auto box swapped for a manual, but that included an A+ engine, so maybe it was a good move? Not sure what's happened with the wipers, will have to dig out my pics. Jim Bell 1
John F Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 I'm not known as an Allegro licker, but that cowpat green paint really suits it. flat4alfa and Junkman 2
SiC Posted February 14, 2018 Posted February 14, 2018 Just to update this thread, I've spotted it at the same place near me again. Reg for the next time I spot it to find this thread: HDY474N ! Cavcraft, danthecapriman, Squire_Dawson and 6 others 9
Louise2cv Posted February 14, 2018 Posted February 14, 2018 Imagine the embarrassment if you drove round with it insured as HDY 747N... Doh! flat4alfa, richardthestag, BorniteIdentity and 6 others 9
Louise2cv Posted February 14, 2018 Posted February 14, 2018 Yeah. Must have been nice in there though: she went home and bought her own! chaseracer and Junkman 2
BeEP Posted February 14, 2018 Posted February 14, 2018 On 14/02/2018 at 21:18, Louise2cv said: Yeah. Must have been nice in there though: she went home and bought her own! Do you have any idea what happened to Abby's (YCE872T I think). It might* have been me who sold it to her, including the impromptu fuel tank change (somewhat embarrasing when the person you've sold a car to fills it up and discovers there's a rust hole in the top of the tank!). Last MOT expired June 2017 and no current record of ownership with the club. Louise2cv 1
Louise2cv Posted February 14, 2018 Posted February 14, 2018 Not sure. She sold it after a period of ill health. I will ask
BeEP Posted February 14, 2018 Posted February 14, 2018 Thanks. Hopefully it's merely resting rather than dead. Interesting co-incidence that both yours and hers have headed to Bristol!
SiC Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 Went for another walk and took a few more pictures. Looks like a very sweet little thing and in pretty good nick. I didn't look underneath, but up top she looks alright. Not shiny and could do with a good polish, but no obvious rust. Then especially for Mally: Coprolalia, vulgalour, Dirk Diggler and 15 others 18
bezzabsa Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 shirley those are RHD wipers, as they clean upto the RHS A pillar???? Magnificent Rustbucket 1
Louise2cv Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 What's happened with the coach line? Is one black and one gold? Someone has done something with the outside because one front wing was a slightly different colour and missing it's pinstripe when I got it.
SiC Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 On 17/02/2018 at 18:42, Louise2cv said: What's happened with the coach line? Is one black and one gold?Yes I'm pretty certain one side is black and one is gold. On 17/02/2018 at 18:42, Louise2cv said: Someone has done something with the outside because one front wing was a slightly different colour and missing it's pinstripe when I got it.The paint on each panel varied shade depending which angle you looked at it. I'd think of it as shite, wannabe flip paint. Louise2cv and DeeJay 2
dollywobbler Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 On 17/02/2018 at 17:15, bezzabsa said: shirley those are RHD wipers, as they clean upto the RHS A pillar????They aren't, and they don't. Eddie Honda and The Moog 2
pauldoubleyou Posted February 18, 2018 Posted February 18, 2018 Anyone might think it’s wierd someone taking a photo of the inside of someone else’s car DeeJay 1
Magnificent Rustbucket Posted February 18, 2018 Posted February 18, 2018 On 17/02/2018 at 17:15, bezzabsa said: shirley those are RHD wipers, as they clean upto the RHS A pillar????I agree. They look like RHD wipers to me too. Lovely old thing, this. I have always been a fan of the rear lights of the Allegro - and so positive a name. They could have so easily called it the allegretto, but optimism prevailed.
BeEP Posted February 18, 2018 Posted February 18, 2018 DW is correct, they are LHD wipers. Look at any other RHD Allegro; the wipers park on the driver's side. Here's mine for example (albeit with wipers not quite parked!)
Magnificent Rustbucket Posted February 18, 2018 Posted February 18, 2018 But surely yours wipes more of the screen on the passenger's side - whilst the ex-Louise 2cv's wipes more of the screen on the driver's side - which is why RHD-set wipers clean up to the right hand side A pillar - even though they have to travel over a little more of the screen on their first wipe. I have something of a hangover this morning, but that seems right to me!! Like these? - Or do these LHD cars have wipers set to RHD? Confused now. Skizzer 1
Skizzer Posted February 18, 2018 Posted February 18, 2018 I’m with Mag Rust on this. But it wouldn’t surprise me if RHD Allegros were all wrong from the factory - or even randomly-handed. Sigmund Fraud and Magnificent Rustbucket 2
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