Austin Allegro: The Car's The Star Part Two

Part two of Quentin Willson's look at the Allegro. Apologies for the poor quality 3/4 of the way through but this is due to a damaged tape. The silence mid way through is due to an ABBA song on the soundtrack that upset the copyright owner and it was blocked so I had to edit it out and upload it again. Quentin only talks about colours and trim in this section.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Austin
• Morris
• Allegro
• British Leyland

[HairyBranflake007]

Allegro VandenPlas FTW :D

want one!!!

[gilhams]

Allegro has Vroom for five! LOL

[scottishbadboytracks]

LOL!! My dad bought a shit brown vandenplas and sold it 3 weeks after he bought it.

[cley123]

"Bad things have been said" I had one and it was a load of crap. The only good thing was that the motor could be lifted out easily and you could change the clutch in situ. As for the rust.........

You also had to be careful with the rear wheel bearings or the wheels fell off. Also never jack them up with a door open or the rear window could come out. I almost forgot, they had high oil consumption past the piston rings, something to do with draining on the oil control ring.

[moochincrawdad]

Allegro VandenPlas? C'mon you're just fooling yourself!

[kernals12]

@rovamota why don't you just put in subtitles of what quentin is saying during the part without sound because I want to know what he's saying

[MrThecarebear]

Okay, bad things have been said about this car, but at least it is a talking point all these years later, and has a bit of character. Will we be talking about these modern plastic spaceship like ones on the road nowadays much later in this century? I think not............

[PGPyramid1]

Truly awful cars.

[sirmugman]

@HairyBranflake007 same!

[WAYNE1977100]

1:03 I will keep my MK3 Cortina. The Allegro was not a bad car, i would sooner have one over some ugly modern crap anyday.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

my first car a bright yellow allegro my mates would take the piss calling it the banana wasnt sorry when i wrote it off

[PeterTOrganist]

I remember this when it was on originally, in those days I would have given up driving rather than owning and Allegro. However I have recently become an Allegro owner. It is an R Reg 1300 super 4 door in Antique Gold. It does have a slightly smokey engine. Apart from that it is surprisingly roomy and comortable. It has nice light steering and handles quite well.