Peterborough BMC Show

My pics from the day are here.......

http://s549.photobucket.com/albums/ii394/harryh733/Peterborough%20BMC/

Great pics. The red Rover SD1 had a 5-3 litre engine.......
The blue Allegro is owned by the Reverend Colin Corke, vicar of the parish of Longbridge.

great rover sd1 ,allegro ,your be talking about jags next lol

some of us got the history of rover -austin -morris -and jaguar . .but dont tell ian .dont think any one was listening after about 11 am .... But the SD1 was amazing .

ops wot happend there sorted it out for you I'll put it down to fat fingers lol

ta

sd1 was very nice but i cant stand austin agro oops i mean allegros had a mate who spent a fortune on his allegro never got it myself. each for there own i surpose .

Now that I can smurf the net again here are some of my pics.
























The BMC ADO16 1100/1300. Britains best selling car of the 1960's in all its guises and the ancestor of todays Golf/Astra/Focus class.

Full details here.
http://www.aronline.co.uk/ado16storyf.htm

And yes I did write a lot of it......

mr t wrote:sd1 was very nice but i cant stand austin agro oops i mean allegros had a mate who spent a fortune on his allegro never got it myself. each for there own i surpose .

The important thing is we must not be disparaging of other peoples tastes. Some people think we are crazy for liking Mini's, a badly built, badly designed rust bucket !
Us classic car owners have to stick together to stop politicians demonising us as pollutants and destroyers of all life on earth. Some people would like to ban pre-1992 cars from town centres.
A lot of people in this country earn a living from the classic car movement.

The Austin Maxi was Alec Issigonis's last design to reach production.
A curates egg, parts of it were brilliant and innovative for 1969. It was the worlds first front wheel drive, 5 speed, 5 door hatchback and had a cavernous load carrying capacity.
But parts of the Maxi were bloody awful. Terrible gearchange, boxy styling and initial unreliability which came with all new BMC cars.

Full details here
http://www.aronline.co.uk/ado14storyf.htm

And you can decide for yourself whether Issigonis really is Greek for genius.....

The third Issigonis FWD car was the 1800/2200 series of 1964 to 1975. It was literally a scaled up Mini.
It was a flop.
Details here.

http://www.aronline.co.uk/ado17storyf.htm

Ian Nicholls wrote:

mr t wrote:sd1 was very nice but i cant stand austin agro oops i mean allegros had a mate who spent a fortune on his allegro never got it myself. each for there own i surpose .

The important thing is we must not be disparaging of other peoples tastes. Some people think we are crazy for liking Mini's, a badly built, badly designed rust bucket !
Us classic car owners have to stick together to stop politicians demonising us as pollutants and destroyers of all life on earth. Some people would like to ban pre-1992 cars from town centres.
A lot of people in this country earn a living from the classic car movement.

As I said EACH to their own!

Ive never met anyone who said a mini was a badly designed rust bucket..........not even people who dont like minis say that......i am very upset now......... I will have to go and give Chunk, P17 and Zach a very huge hug........

I pulled up next to this Capri outside the college before and this man said that my car was an uncomfortable piece of junk???