For Sale Spring sale. Anyone for an Allegro?

[D Spares & Tyres]

Well its in its new parking spot with some good company

 

The door shuts are what I assume to be champagne beige. Not its original colour, it started life in red then some hero painted it beige then someone ( possibly a child ) painted in this fine hue.

Here is a close up of her stretch marks

Poor sad face, don't worry princess your future is assured

[dollywobbler]

Excellent.

 

By the way, I ruin the table game, because I reckon Plas is pronounced Plass, as in CLASS. This is because it has Dutch origins, not French.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....I ruin the table game, because I reckon Plas is pronounced Plass, as in CLASS. This is because it has Dutch origins, not French.

They say "PLAH", you say "PLASS",

Let's call the whole thing off.

[vulgalour]

LHD wipers, just like my 1100!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The VdP arrived the same year as my fave David Essex track, gonna make you a plah.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I imagine Plah owners get all excited about the tables....

I've always said plass...

 

The tables don't operate smoothly and there is some trim missing off the cupholders.

[barrett]

Excellent.

 

By the way, I ruin the table game, because I reckon Plas is pronounced Plass, as in CLASS. This is because it has Dutch origins, not French.

You're quite right, it's 'plass' and anyone who tells you different is RONG

[somewhatfoolish]

Excellent.

 

By the way, I ruin the table game, because I reckon Plas is pronounced Plass, as in CLASS. This is because it has Dutch origins, not French.

If it's cloggy then wouldn't it be Van Den Plash?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

We have this discussion about Dutch etymology every time someone buys one of these.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

also it's plah

[Lankytim]

It’s not it’s Plas, forget who told me now, or if I saw it on TV but some “experts” were discussing and reconed it was pronounced “Plas”. Might’ve been the antiquies road show, actually.

 

Tbh I’ve always pronounced it “Plah”

[Junkman]

You're quite right, it's 'plah' and anyone who tells you different is RONG

 

EFA

[SiC]

We have this discussion about Dutch etymology every time someone buys one of these.

But it's standard Allegro chat. A bit like me pronouncing Equipe "wrong" at the NEC Classic Car show last year to my father-in-law. Out of nowhere a chap sprung up, tapped on my shoulder, told me I said it wrong and how to say it. Then buggered off.

 

Only on the Allegro stand could that happen...

[tooSavvy]

.... as in "Eh? - Keep".

 

As far as I know...

 

TS

[D Spares & Tyres]

I have never put that much thought into the pronunciation of it. Always called them Plass. Although I think I shall make a badge for the back that says Vanden Plarse

[Junkman]

It doesn't matter how Vanden Plas is pronounced correctly. What matters is that it has plah instead of map pockets.

[Saabnut]

I have an original sales brochure for the VDP 1500 dated Sept '75. Yours for a couple of quid to cover the cardboard envelope and postage.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

It doesn't matter how Vanden Plas is pronounced correctly. What matters is that it has plah instead of map pockets.

Which year did Plah become NLA? Not many people know that the three kings actually brought FOUR gifts to the baby Jesus: gold, frankincense, myrrh and plah. They saved the most precious until the end.

[Noel Tidybeard]

LHD wipers, just like my 1100!

 

negative they were always that way round- bizzarely the left one reaches almost all the way over to the screen bottom

[Skizzer]

Great that this is getting some love.

 

And it’s Flemish, not Dutch. You can add Guillaume Vanden Plas to your list of famous Belgians next time there’s a pub quiz.

[dollywobbler]

negative they were always that way round- bizzarely the left one reaches almost all the way over to the screen bottom

 

Sign of the times. Many 1970s cars put the blades at the bottom of the screen in front of the driver. See Hillman Hunter, BMC 1300 and Allegro - and Mini until the change in wiper design with the Clubman. They swapped them over for LHD.

 

Australia was having none of this nonsense, which is why Volkswagen Type 2s had 'RHD' arms, and the down-under Triumph 2000 had Stag wipers.

 

Yet, the Citroen Dyane had RHD whichever side the driver sat, though the GS/GSA had LHD wipers whichever side the driver sat. Most odd.

 

This has baffled me since I was about two. I've had a lot of time to think about it.

[Eddie Honda]

You can add Guillaume Vanden Plas to your list of famous Belgians next time there’s a pub quiz.

 

Alongside the Tin Tin bloke and Eddy Merckx?

[adw1977]

Excellent purchase!

 

Which year did Plah become NLA? 

1980 according to AROnline.

 

I have the March 1976 brochure for this model in my Flickr photostream:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/61090099@N04/albums/72157662758181068

[Datsuncog]

Mmmm... see, you're making me wonder what's happening with this heap, last spotted in a relative's barn a number of years back... bet it's still there. Must check if it's map pockets or PLAH...

 

 

 

[BeEP]

Mmmm... see, you're making me wonder what's happening with this heap, last spotted in a relative's barn a number of years back... bet it's still there. Must check if it's map pockets or PLAH...

 

Black plastic sill covers = series 2 = PLAH

[Shep Shepherd]

Alongside the Tin Tin bloke and Eddy Merckx?

 

And Plastic Bertrand 

[Junkman]

Alongside the Tin Tin bloke and Eddy Merckx?

 

And Marc Dutroux.

[Shep Shepherd]

Lest we forget Telex, the deliciously surreal Belgian synthpop band 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Poirot.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Jean Claude Van den?