Austin Allegro

[Groucho]

Disclaimer 1; Rover V8 fanboy
Disclaimer 2; I also know @Lord Buckethead was taking the mickey.

Yep sure was, they did the original 3L version. Rover bought the tooling when it was being phased out.
Apart from their Rover P6 and SD1 saloons it became the go-to kit car engine. The V8 being nearly as light as the 4cyl cast iron job it was replacing.
Models include, Morgan, MGB, Triumh TR(7) 8, Triumph Stag.
Both Triumph and Rover were at one time under British Leyland but like rival 13yr old girls olds 'didnt talk to each other' Rover had the excellent V 8 ready to go for the Stag. But Triumph made their own by cobbling together 2 of there crap 1500 4 cyls. into 1 super crap 3L V8...more British Leyland waste for you.
I've also seen the Rover V8 in Mk I & Mk III Cortinas and various japanese frames.

You’ll enjoy this site: https://www.aronline.co.uk/

 

[COYBL25]

There used to be some crap cars about in 70's that's for sure. This, the Princess/Ambassador, Marinas, yuk.

Luckily my Dad never kept his cars long, but that also meant that as quickly as he got rid of the crap, same was true of the nice looking motors like the mk3 Cortina and early Escorts and a Capri.

The MK 1 Mexico Escorts
were and still are fantastic cars and beautiful.

Same goes for the RS 2000 and the Brooklands 280 Special Capri.

 

[Chewbacca]

Disclaimer 1; Rover V8 fanboy
Disclaimer 2; I also know @Lord Buckethead was taking the mickey.

Yep sure was, they did the original 3L version. Rover bought the tooling when it was being phased out.
Apart from their Rover P6 and SD1 saloons it became the go-to kit car engine. The V8 being nearly as light as the 4cyl cast iron job it was replacing.
Models include, Morgan, MGB, Triumh TR(7) 8, Triumph Stag.
Both Triumph and Rover were at one time under British Leyland but like rival 13yr old girls olds 'didnt talk to each other' Rover had the excellent V 8 ready to go for the Stag. But Triumph made their own by cobbling together 2 of there crap 1500 4 cyls. into 1 super crap 3L V8...more British Leyland waste for you.
I've also seen the Rover V8 in Mk I & Mk III Cortinas and various japanese frames.

It was in every British hot rod of the Seventies. Tons of them in Ford Pops and Anglias. Also shoved into Transits and Bedford CF vans. A great engine.

 

[degsy]

It was in every British hot rod of the Seventies. Tons of them in Ford Pops and Anglias. Also shoved into Transits and Bedford CF vans. A great engine.

Those SU (Sodding Usless) carbs were utter crap and the devils own job to keep balanced.
I used 2 webbers I got off Arl Cortinas in the scrap yard.
Lack of funds stopped me sending off to the US for a big 'koff Holley and filter assembly...and I might have had to cut a hole in the bonnet to get it to fit though.
I did lash out on a barely legal Stainless exhaust system though
Sounded beautiful, would give a Ferrari a good run in the 'how cool do you sound going flat out through a tunnel' stakes.

Edit; My when I win the lottery dream was to put one into a De Lorean instead of the manky renault van engine they actually had
Great Scott!

 

[Methuselah]

Disclaimer 1; Rover V8 fanboy
Disclaimer 2; I also know @Lord Buckethead was taking the mickey.

Yep sure was, they did the original 3L version. Rover bought the tooling when it was being phased out.
Apart from their Rover P6 and SD1 saloons it became the go-to kit car engine. The V8 being nearly as light as the 4cyl cast iron job it was replacing.
Models include, Morgan, MGB, Triumh TR(7) 8, Triumph Stag.
Both Triumph and Rover were at one time under British Leyland but like rival 13yr old girls olds 'didnt talk to each other' Rover had the excellent V 8 ready to go for the Stag. But Triumph made their own by cobbling together 2 of there crap 1500 4 cyls. into 1 super crap 3L V8...more British Leyland waste for you.
I've also seen the Rover V8 in Mk I & Mk III Cortinas and various japanese frames.

I had a Rover P6 in 1976, got one of the last off the production line before the SD1 came in. Got an SD1 in 1983, had a lot of problems with it.

 

[degsy]

I had a Rover P6 in 1976, got one of the last off the production line before the SD1 came in. Got an SD1 in 1983, had a lot of problems with it.

You would, all the BL build quality was terrible. Once the more reliable Japanese cars started coming in that was the end for BL.

 

[Methuselah]

The best car BL built was the Austin/Morris 1800 (also available under the Wolseley marque). Brilliant family car - built like a tank.

 

[degsy]

The best car BL built was the Austin/Morris 1800 (also available under the Wolseley marque). Brilliant family car - built like a tank.

My V12 Daimler was a thing of magnificence, but you needed an hydraulic hoist and full workshop to maintain. The home mechanic (me) struggled like 'k.
Edit; British Racing Green obvs

 

[Chewbacca]

Those SU (Sodding Usless) carbs were utter crap and the devils own job to keep balanced.
I used 2 webbers I got off Arl Cortinas in the scrap yard.
Lack of funds stopped me sending off to the US for a big 'koff Holley and filter assembly...and I might have had to cut a hole in the bonnet to get it to fit though.
I did lash out on a barely legal Stainless exhaust system though
Sounded beautiful, would give a Ferrari a good run in the 'how cool do you sound going flat out through a tunnel' stakes.

I may have missed this. What car is this in?

If you are cutting a hole in the bonnet you might as well huff it

 

[degsy]

I may have missed this. What car is this in?

If you are cutting a hole in the bonnet you might as well huff it

Rover SD1 V8, never got that far ran out of cash.
I did read of a guy who put a rover V8 into to a jap saloon, found himself 2 turbos off couple of buses and just bolted them on. Got 800+hp on the rolling road
iirc, he had to put it through a celica gearbox to stop it snapping the shaft

 

[Chewbacca]

An 800 rather than an SD1 but pretty cool nonetheless

 

[Lord Buckethead]

 

[cooperman]

Almost right Groucho - THE worst car ever produced.

Surely the maestro claims that title? Certainly the early ones.

Remember they had some of the electrics right at the bottom under the engine, meaning going through a puddle would cause it to cut out.

 

[Methuselah]

Surely the maestro claims that title? Certainly the early ones.

Remember they had some of the electrics right at the bottom under the engine, meaning going through a puddle would cause it to cut out.

With the transverse engine, the distributor was just behind the radiator grill on most BL cars of the time. If it was raining heavily the distributor got wet and the engine either lost power or cut out. There was a sophisticated solution to this, we used to tie a plastic bag over the distributor. Before I learned of this solution I was once in the fast lane of the M1 in very busy traffic, pouring with rain, when my engine lost power. I was going at 50 mph max and couldn't get in the middle lane as the traffic was nose to tail. By the time I managed to get across, there was about a 2 mile queue of traffic behind me in the fast lane.

 

[degsy]

Anyway we can do...as is the fashion now...British Leyland and the various governments and unions in a class action for historical crimes against motoring and worker management relationships...given that the late 70s led to Thatcher.