GrannyJen
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There could never be another Allegro - unique in so many ways
The non jinxed one would be more unusual for publication.Certainly unique.
I could write a book on my two, especially the jinxed one.
Nothing wrong with an Allegro, if jinxed properly.
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(Okay so this one has a Chevy V8 out of a Corvette).
Could live with the steering wheel, but not that bit of dash that’s been stuck on as an afterthought. You’d think the engineers would inform the designers that they need to include a display.
The non jinxed one would be more unusual for publication.
Could live with the steering wheel, but not that bit of dash that’s been stuck on as an afterthought. You’d think the engineers would inform the designers that they need to include a display.
Love the stripes on the silverA mate and I did a cut & shut with an allegro, he had driven his ordinary Allegro into a tree so we went to a scrapyard to get a new front end & cut the front end off an equip version to replace it.
We did the join at the front edge of the roof & covered it with a vinyl roof.
For those that haven't seen one the equip stood out somewhat in the late 70s Biggest go faster stripes I've ever seen.The interior was orange & black Houndstooth.
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As a child I once vomited copiously over one of these pull-down tables in a friend’s car on a long journey. A month later I went to stay with the friend again, we set off on another journey, I pulled down the table to discover…Who needs a Cali when you have an Allegro Vanden Plas View attachment 87071
So true, my first car was an Austin All-agro. Worse car purchase decision of my life. Eventually it got rear ended, then towed away by the council and crushed putting it out of its misery.The non jinxed one would be more unusual for publication.
Coincidentally I was chatting yesterday with someone who's been in motorsport for decades and who rally-prepared many different marques of British cars of the 1960s-1980s. He has a heavily modified Marina (which goes quite well actually) and he's currently working on an Allegro as a bit of fun for someone to take historic rallying. He told me one of the most lovable features of the original Allegro was that the bodyshell was so weak that if you jacked the car up in the wrong place the windscreen would fall out.
No wonder the German car makers were so daunted by the sheer quality of British engineering.
Sad to see that some trees lost their lives in the making of that.Who needs a Cali when you have an Allegro Vanden Plas View attachment 87071
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