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“Time, like an ever rolling stream, bears all its sons away.” And so we reach the subject of the first ever Trip Report on this blog and I have to try and come up with interesting way of saying exactly … Continue reading
I make no bones about being an enthusiast of British Leyland cars. Been there, done, that, literally got the T-shirt. Being a BL fan is one of those things that society at large generally treats with a certain element of … Continue reading
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Pride. Longbridge. Two words (or an emotion and a location) that are rarely associated with each other. None the less the Pride of Longbridge event is now in its eighth year and is going from strength to strength. It’s a … Continue reading
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There is an obvious problem with owning three cars but only two parking spaces (actually only one, but my neighbours and landlord are tolerant people…). This means that I generally rotate which of my cars are ‘active’ here in Peterborough … Continue reading
As should be clear by now, the main tenet of this blog is that the worst thing a car can be is boring, and that cars that are generally considered very bad can, in fact, be very interesting and worth … Continue reading
The Metro has now been on the fleet for almost exactly three months. I did a Trip Report on going to pick it up and a review of my first impressions, so I thought it would be a good idea … Continue reading
In Part One of this retrospective we left Rover in 1967 at the dawn of the British Leyland era. To get there I had to do an awful lot of ‘history’ and not a lot of ‘opinion’ and if you … Continue reading
When it was founded in 1967 British Leyland became the proud owner of approximately 35 manufacturing brands covering cars, vans, commercial vehicles, fork-lift trucks, fridges, body pressings manufacturers and carburettor makers. As of 2012 half a dozen are still in … Continue reading
If any one phrase can sum up British Leyland’s products it’s “They’re OK apart from…”. BL weren’t in the habit of making truely bad cars, what they specialised in were fundamentally good (or even excellent) cars that were let down … Continue reading
It had to happen. As an enthusiast of all things Leyland and an almost equally hopeless admirer of old French cars the time has come to combine the two. You see, I’ve long had this sneaking suspicion that British Leyland … Continue reading