Blue Allegro 1500 Special

[jlaldridge1988]

Hi I am on the serch to find a blue allegro 1500 special REG vkk820x That I used to own, i saved it from being scraped had been off the road since 1984 and it was a labour of love to breath some life back into it, would love to get in touch with its current owner who I think may be on this forum Many thanks, james

[Andyrew]

Yo!

It went down south with @HMC then came back up here to live with me in bedfordshire. 

[Andyrew]

@jlaldridge1988

If you have any more photos of the 1500 id love to see them! 

I should be nabbing the battery out of it today to charge and get it out on the road this weekend.

[Andyrew]

Big cat sleeping on the bonnet.

 

 

 

[sutty2006]

Hope that tyre doesn’t deflate lol 

[Shite Ron]

  On 21/02/2023 at 08:55, Andyrew said:

Big cat sleeping on the bonnet.

 

 

 

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Is that a 615 or 621?  Not many around anymore.

[Six-cylinder]

I got to take it to Milton Keynes Museum classic car night.

[sierraman]

How come it was on an X plate? I thought that’s Allegro 3 territory? 

[jlaldridge1988]

hi andyrew am so glad its still going ,hope she has behaved for you! I had a hunch that it had been banger race for some reason .I sold the car and instantly regretted it. am so surprised it is in Bedford, I live in Wellingborough and used it daily to commute to melchborne and back . I have photos and videos of when i bought it will try and dig them out  have also got the original tyres and some other bits and bobs. do you know any of its history , if you don't I can fill you in , its had quite an interesting past. if your ever out and about in it and fancy crossing the county boarder would love to see it again. 

[Andyrew]

  On 21/02/2023 at 19:57, jlaldridge1988 said:

hi andyrew am so glad its still going ,hope she has behaved for you! I had a hunch that it had been banger race for some reason .I sold the car and instantly regretted it. am so surprised it is in Bedford, I live in Wellingborough and used it daily to commute to melchborne and back . I have photos and videos of when i bought it will try and dig them out  have also got the original tyres and some other bits and bobs. do you know any of its history , if you don't I can fill you in , its had quite an interesting past. if your ever out and about in it and fancy crossing the county boarder would love to see it again. 

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I was told by a chap (chairman?) From the allegro club at a show that it was one of a batch that had been imported from belgium in the early 80s and converted to rhd with scrap parts. which i had figured given the carpets and wiper park position. It apparently would originally had 2 round headlights which possibly  explains the rather chopped headlight bowls. 

I did find the belgium plate behind the front plate which is a nice little bit of history. 

Theres some posts about it in my "Andys Awful Autos" thread.  Regarding some work ive done to it. 

[SunnySouth]

  On 21/02/2023 at 22:19, Andyrew said:

I was told by a chap (chairman?) From the allegro club at a show that it was one of a batch that had been imported from belgium in the early 80s and converted to rhd with scrap parts. which i had figured given the carpets and wiper park position. It apparently would originally had 2 round headlights which possibly  explains the rather chopped headlight bowls. 

I did find the belgium plate behind the front plate which is a nice little bit of history. 

Theres some posts about it in my "Andys Awful Autos" thread.  Regarding some work ive done to it. 

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They genuinely just wanged a UK number plate over the top of the original foreign one?!

[Andyrew]

  On 23/02/2023 at 10:22, SunnySouth said:

They genuinely just wanged a UK number plate over the top of the original foreign one?!

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Stick on

[Mrs6C]

According to the Belgian registration database:

The license plate is deregistered. Date of last change in our database: 07-07-1997

Numberplates with the A NNN A format were issued from 1971 to 1973.

[Andyrew]

I had posted about in somewhere on here before possibly on the grin thread i think, another member gave some more info regarding it. What i recall was the plates are issued to the owner and you keep the same plate and just swap it to each car. The plate would have been issued on a previous car then swapped onto the aggro around 75 -76 when new.  The rear plates are gov issued  the front was owners choice.  

Something alomg those lines 

[Richard_FM]

  On 23/02/2023 at 18:41, Andyrew said:

I had posted about in somewhere on here before possibly on the grin thread i think, another member gave some more info regarding it. What i recall was the plates are issued to the owner and you keep the same plate and just swap it to each car. The plate would have been issued on a previous car then swapped onto the aggro around 75 -76 when new.  The rear plates are gov issued  the front was owners choice.  

Something alomg those lines 

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My Europlate book says that's the case, at least it was in 1994 when it was published.

At one time Italy used to only supply a rear plate & owners were expected to get a front one made up.  Later on the front was officially issued but was small with the area code as a suffix so a set couldn't be split between 2 car.

I heard some RHD Allegros were sold new with LHD carpets due to a supply issue.

[wuvvum]

  On 23/02/2023 at 22:47, Richard_FM said:

I heard some RHD Allegros were sold new with LHD carpets due to being a British Leyland product.

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FTFY