British Leyland Day 2019 Gaydon

British Leyland & BMC Day at the British Motor Museum, 2019. Plus a look around the best car museum in the world.

[@maxwellkaan]

What a great video, the next best thing to being there. Just loved the cut away Mgbgt, Amazing 👏 Thanks very much.

[@darrensmith6999]

Great Video thank you for making and sharing. Spent the first 10 years of my working life at an Austin Rover Dealer 1982 92.

[@BennyM_]

I quite enjoyed this. Thank you!

[@nasbat7688]

Nice to see so many TR7s still running.

[@JohnGClancy]

The TR7s day has finally arrived Nas. Actually it was the worldwide 40th anniversary celebrations in September 2014 that really kicked things off but now the model is very much in demand.

[@nasbat7688]

Going to have to get one soon then,love the video,so many awesome cars on display and the museum is a definite destination soon.

[@briancrook9445]

A great day, sadly truncated for us due to a medical emergency back at home. We missed a huge amount of the museum so will have to get back again !!!!! Great to meet up with old and new friends

[@JohnGClancy]

It was good to see you again Brian. Terribly sorry to hear about the emergency so I hope all went well and got sorted quickly.

[@anthonyroger5533]

That was great to see thanks.

[@JohnGClancy]

Thank you for taking the time to say so Anthony. John.

[@holdensv2000]

Hi John just loved the video very good like I was there seeing the car for my self this my first time watching your videos would love e you to keep it up, man some great British stuff

[@JohnGClancy]

Thank you Richard. I would have been adding many more videos over the past year but sadly this pesky virus rendered that impossible. That's going to change soon though as we've almost consigned it to the history books thanks to some great British people. John.

[@dmitripopov8570]

What an interesting documentary! I will finish it in few settings - want to enjoy it uninterupted. Thank you, John!

[@JohnGClancy]

This one was actually rather easy compared to my usual productions but it turned out rather well. You do get a rather extensive tour of the museum included within this one which I thought might entice a few car enthusiasts to come over to England from overseas. About time you visited anyway!!! John.

[@dmitripopov8570]

@@JohnGClancy You are very kind, John! I very much apreciate your invitation and will do my best to visit England soon. I always wanted to visit it. Now, knowing some good people there, I can actually learn what it means to be English and live there - which is more precious to me than a simple tourist visit. So, thank you kindly dear Englishman! We accept the invitation! ))

[@whelkboy]

I wonder how many people will look out for their car! Great video BTW!

[@JohnGClancy]

Thank you Whelkboy. Hope to have more videos up in the next few weeks.

[@gabrieloconnell3434]

great coverage was there on saturday with the 6r4 and the tr8

[@JohnGClancy]

Sorry I didn't see you Gabe. That show just gets better and better... aided by the involvement of the TR Drivers Club of course who are getting increasing numbers of Triumphs along each year.

[@JVChester]

Thanks John I really enjoyed that! Couldn't make the event this year, then again I've not managed to get anywhere since Pride of Longbridge either I've not been up to it or the weather has been against me!

[@JohnGClancy]

See you at Sherborne Castle next Sunday then for the Classic & Supercars Show. One of the best in the country in my opinion... assuming the weather is kind of course.

[@JVChester]

Would love to John but it's at least an 8 hour round trip from my neck of the woods. Probably why I've never managed to attend the show in the past, though there will be several from the Owners Club going. Hopefully I'll be going north a couple of hours to Gretna Green for the Owners Club's 28th National to blow the dust off my AX33.

[@herseem]

Well, I bought my 2002 MG ZS diesel nearly four years ago now, for only £375, and I have to say that it's not needed much maintenance, and the doors still shut with a really satisfying noise

[@JohnGClancy]

Longbridge were producing automotive quality that was second to none following the split from BMW. The R40 project had shown how to achieve the pinnacle of excellence and everything else benfitted.

[@mikehumble1120]

Lovely stuff

[@JohnGClancy]

The only great British Leyland exhibit missing was Mike Humble!

[@mikehumble1120]

@@JohnGClancy Behave John (cheque in the post)

[@jlh_cars]

Great video John

[@JohnGClancy]

And your car looked great too James... even if the old man was driving it!

[@jlh_cars]

@@JohnGClancy 😂😂, thank you was great to see you

[@Leylandman1]

I'm still driving my MG, that I bought new in 1978.

[@JohnGClancy]

Wonderful Leylandman1. I didn't purchase my TR7 new in 1977 as I was only 12 years old then but I've been driving it since 1985. I hope to be doing the same for the rest of my life. Other cars come and go but the TR7 stays with me.

[@Leylandman1]

@@JohnGClancy In 1978, I was working in new car sales at British Motors of Sacramento. Selling new Triumph's, MG's and Jaguar's. I had to show confidence in what I was selling, thus the purchase of my MG. As an employee, I got my new MG for $100 over dealer cost. This was my very first new car purchase. 42 years on still going strong.

[@JohnGClancy]

@@Leylandman1 That's a lovely story. Maybe you might have chosen a TR7 instead if the factory hadn't have been on strike so much that it was closed down!!! Then again, maybe not. My TR7 has been exceptionally good in the past ten or twenty years in terms or reliability but it had its moments in its younger days. MGBs on the other hand seem almost indestructible.

[@jeannoelsandrazie1874]

One of my neighbours had a mint MGB GT with its wire wheels. Words fail me to describe it...

[@rampantram1]

Makes me laugh when you see the jag xj220 and you see and know the rear tail lights are from a rover 200 thats been coming in all day lol

[@JohnGClancy]

Ho ho. I hadn't even noticed that so must take another look. Well spotted that man!

[@sjmcn500]

TR6 = best sports car design of that era although the 280Z was a tie...

[@JohnGClancy]

Hmmmm, now you've made me think because it was the Datsun 240Z that brought about the end of the chassis based TR and even the all-new TR7 wasn't able to usurp the Japanese interloper. Maybe if the original Lynx style had have gone on sale in 1972 then it would have been a better competitor but in the end nothing was ever really produced to compete with it. The end was nigh!

[@alisonpurdy2772]

@@JohnGClancy Totally agree, wished I could find a good one.

[@mrbigmel3]

rover mgf , had mine for 4 years , great to drive but popped head gaskets for a living even dealer maintained , build quality crap aswell

[@JohnGClancy]

They did vary Mr. Rooster and some were much better than others. We had the same thing years before with the TR7 but TR Drivers Club owners have proved that you can get a TR7 properly sorted and leave the head gasket and build quality issues behind. John.

[@andreaziz5499]

The big competion from Ford Germany-UK should have resulted BL sa;e to Renault or Talbot instead of its demise in 1982

[@JohnGClancy]

Spot on Andre. Although if you trace it all through to the present day there are still elements of the old British Leyland producing cars in England so it's not all over yet. We just need BMW to put a new sports car with a Triumph badge into production on a new track at Cowley and then we'll all feel a heck of a lot better. And for someone to wrest the MG name back from China.

[@alisonpurdy2772]

@@JohnGClancyWould still be going if we had stuck with Honda.

[@JohnGClancy]

@@alisonpurdy2772 I've long felt that Honda was the perfect partner but it seems they didn't want to get any more involved than they already were. BMW were perfect partners until the value of Sterling went up so much. A repeat of the situation when the new Conservative government in 1979 started getting our economy right and the exports to America (think TR7) were then being sold at a loss. But despite all the problems a recovering economy did cause to the British car industry at the time, it did mean we finally got over the massive problems caused by the second world war. John.

[@michaelatkinson6834]

All fantastic cars but bad management ,bad attitude by some left wing workers . Why do the British do that to themselves

[@JohnGClancy]

I have some rather good theories on all that Michael but I'd better not air them in public! Let's just hope the extreme left over here don't get any ideas from all the voting fraud in America right now.