jlaldridge1988 Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 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 mercedade, HillmanImp, TheIsleofShite and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 Yo! It went down south with @HMC then came back up here to live with me in bedfordshire. Black_GT, Six-cylinder, jlaldridge1988 and 27 others 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 @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. barefoot, Shite Ron, LightBulbFun and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Big cat sleeping on the bonnet. Joey spud, brownnova, LightBulbFun and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Hope that tyre doesn’t deflate lol Andyrew, AnnoyingPentium and egg 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shite Ron Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Andyrew said: Big cat sleeping on the bonnet. Is that a 615 or 621? Not many around anymore. tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 I got to take it to Milton Keynes Museum classic car night. privatewire, jlaldridge1988, AnnoyingPentium and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 How come it was on an X plate? I thought that’s Allegro 3 territory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlaldridge1988 Posted February 21, 2023 Author Share Posted February 21, 2023 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. privatewire, mercedade, TheIsleofShite and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 2 hours ago, 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. 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. Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnySouth Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 On 2/21/2023 at 10:19 PM, 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. They genuinely just wanged a UK number plate over the top of the original foreign one?! Andyrew, AnnoyingPentium, louiepj and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 7 hours ago, SunnySouth said: They genuinely just wanged a UK number plate over the top of the original foreign one?! Stick on somewhatfoolish, Timewaster, egg and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs6C Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 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. egg and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 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 Mrs6C, Richard_FM and LightBulbFun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 3 hours ago, 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 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 38 minutes ago, Richard_FM said: I heard some RHD Allegros were sold new with LHD carpets due to being a British Leyland product. FTFY MorrisItalSLX, LightBulbFun and Andyrew 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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