NEC Restoration Show 2019 British Leyland Cars

[@shauncrambie2275]

Cars from my '70s childhood, wonderful nostalgia fest! Thankyou.

[@JohnGClancy]

My childhood too Shaun and that's why I love them and shoot video every opportunity.

[@shauncrambie2275]

@@JohnGClancy Brilliant m8, the Allegro's had wipers as if set up for lefthand drive leaving an unwiped patch obscuring the drivers view! These idiosyncrasies are what endure these cars to me, take care & keep up the good work.

[@aharonbabel4328]

British, British, British !!!

[@hoodwinker7932]

Nice SD1! These cars are probably better now than when they rolled off the production lines

[@Northyorkspaul]

Them maxis are great thanks for the video.

[@cebudave]

Thanks for sharing your video of these wonderful British cars.

[@JVChester]

Great video John, some fantastic cars, I have to say my favourite would have to be the Maxi.

[@Dan23_7]

Brilliant 👍🏻 I'm from and live in Leyland. I also owned a montego once. A234 UYU. Gold with beige interior It was horrendous but I loved it

[@hoodwinker7932]

My Dad had two 1.6L company cars and my Mum had the diesel estate. They seemed pretty reliable but very dull.

[@Victor-DOOM]

I will have to go one year and see all the lovely BL motors il take my ital

[@darrenmeears4667]

British layland at it's best don't care what eneny body says. I wound love a marina specially a van or estate 😆👍👌✊✋👏👊

[@sirmugman]

purple dolly is a bit crusty around the edges but seems okay, YES PLEASE MORE ON THE BLACK ALLEGRO!!!! straight outta the 70's that SD1 lovely colour, i think baby sick/poop green or cancil house green as if you moved into a cancil house that aws the colour i love it! mm lovely montegro, used to have one had the first crash in, wrote of some poor buggers flashy sports car ours? light door and wing damage and my fear of sitting behind drivers good cars until someone blew the head gasket up shame there very thristy beasts that red one 2.0 leture ouch!lovely mitreo's had three two we got rod of sold on the last one we had sob had to go to scrap when the rear wing rusted away NOT OUR FAULT STUPID DICKS IN OTHER CARS MADE THEM RUST! also montegro hearse WERE IS AND HOW MUCH I WANT ONE!! yes i'm onto hearses bloody good cars loads of boot space, loving the black princess and a very late princess as it has the later ital face grill on it, a french or foiren maxi as it has yellow lights odd, a maxi with a fait 500 roof?! very odd, ooh i'd know that froendside the old marina's, dad used to have a marina tc coupe it was rusty and he had to replace the shaft but it went great shame someone nicked it, and now the allegr's lovely brown allegro 2? as it has the looks of the 2 but not the 3, oh and a bran freash complete with pigeon poop earily allegro, oh i like that on the tr7 the oil top is in the shape of the layland logo,

[@JohnGClancy]

You're clearly a BL enthusiast sirmugman. Great post. With regards to the logo on the TR7 engine that is a 'Swift' engine more commonly known as the 'Sprint' which was a 16 valve version of the Triumph slant 4. Only 60 or 61 genuine TR7 Sprints were built but this one is a mock-up done by the present owner who wanted a Brian Culcheth 1976/77 TR7 'works' rally car lookalike.

[@rover416si8]

ROVER

[@iansutton3176]

Hi John, this is a great video, however, why are so many poorly maintained vehicles allowed to be entered?

[@JohnGClancy]

That is the main thrust of this how Ian - restoration. It's what makes it so interesting and so worthwhile. Usually on the TR Drivers Club stand we undertake major work to one or more cars but this year, owing to a change of personnel we had to take things a bit easy. Take a look at this one I did last year and you'll get an idea of the usual goings on: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4Cbi3pufb6goJI - The first thing you'll see is the TR7 in question being rolled on the Jersey Rally which we then set about repairing.

[@iansutton3176]

@@JohnGClancy Hi again John, thanks for the response, and the TR7 video is also great. It reminds me of the TR7 I was lucky enough to have as a company car many years ago when I worked for Leyland Australia, (which was a subsidiary of British Leyland International), also I was lucky enough to drive a Triumph Dolomite Sprint, (you could have any colour you liked as long as it was mustard with a black vinyl roof!), what wonderful days they were.

[@JohnGClancy]

Being an official in the TR Drivers Club means I have a lot of TR7 related videos in the back catalogue but I have another fairly major one coming out soon to coincide with a Triumph World Magazine article. This will be my own TR7 story which goes back to the early 1980s. Last video I did for Triumph World was David Parnell and his pair of Dolomites. I think you'll quite like that one Ian. What a character he is and what a fabulous pair of Dollies.

[@iansutton3176]

@@JohnGClancy Keenly awaiting this video John.

[@deathofcommonsense]

Apart from the Mini, Leyland cars were unreliable rust buckets.

[@JohnGClancy]

I can honestly and strongly refute that comment... Minis were certainly rust buckets. Quite unreliable at times too! But didn't the cars have identity, personality and distinctive styling.

[@deathofcommonsense]

Hmm, no! Plus, I wanted good value for money and reliability.... Leyland offered neither. I even worked for them for 6 months and that put me off even more once I saw how they were built! Sorry but I don't have rose coloured glasses when it comes to Leyland cars.

[@JohnGClancy]

It's the flaws and the history that forms a lot of the appeal. To save one of these cars gives a real sense of achievement. But some of them were built very well and have survived to the present day having had very little remedial work. Rare, but they do exist.

[@deathofcommonsense]

I certainly understand saving the history of the British car industry, as a 19yo in 1970 bought a dilapidated MG TD and spent every penny I had on keeping it alive for a year but would not have done that for a Morris 1100!

[@JohnGClancy]

The subframes would have been rotted out on an 1100 by then so very difficult to justify saving one of those. Very few seem to have survived despite them being everywhere during the 1970s.