Happy 40th Birthday P76

LSWCHP said :

I owe my life to the strength of the P76, and I won’t hear a bad word said against this magnificent vehicle.

I was a passenger in a mate’s V8 P76 when he pulled across in front of an oncoming 4WD equipped with a big bullbar. We were t-boned on the passenger side door at high speed, but the P76 held together under the tremendous impact, and we both survived, just.

I’m absolutely certain that I would be dead if I’d been in a less stoutly constructed vehicle.

That boot sure was butt-ugly though. 🙂

That’s because it was the first australian built car with side protrusion bars in the doors back then the only cars to have that were expensive euro trash

poetix said :

damien haas said :

Just a reminder for carlovers to come along to the Leyland P76 Concours tomorrow (Sunday) on the West Lawns of Old Parliament House!

What’s French for Concourse of Big Bootiness?

Concours de la Grand Derriere. At least in one sense of “Bootiness”. 🙂

m00nee said :

poetix said :

What’s French for Concourse of Big Bootiness?

Concours d’Uglegance?

What’s the French word for rendezvous? Oh, hang on…

poetix said :

What’s French for Concourse of Big Bootiness?

Concours d’Uglegance?

damien haas said :

Just a reminder for carlovers to come along to the Leyland P76 Concours tomorrow (Sunday) on the West Lawns of Old Parliament House!

What’s French for Concourse of Big Bootiness?

Just a reminder for carlovers to come along to the Leyland P76 Concours tomorrow (Sunday) on the West Lawns of Old Parliament House!

Leyland really didn’t know what they were doing. On one hand they were making the huge, gas guzzling P76 then they started making the very small Moke Californian, originally an Army vehicle which was modified for public sale.

Pity really. By all accounts it was a good design, let down (as all Leyland products were by then) by hopeless assembly and non-existent quality control. Ugly as the proverbial hatfull, too.

I owe my life to the strength of the P76, and I won’t hear a bad word said against this magnificent vehicle.

I was a passenger in a mate’s V8 P76 when he pulled across in front of an oncoming 4WD equipped with a big bullbar. We were t-boned on the passenger side door at high speed, but the P76 held together under the tremendous impact, and we both survived, just.

I’m absolutely certain that I would be dead if I’d been in a less stoutly constructed vehicle.

That boot sure was butt-ugly though. 🙂

Holden Caulfield said :

neanderthalsis said :

davo101 said :

That would mean the 40th anniversary of the first oil crisis must be coming up later in the year. P76 the poster child of bad timing 🙁

The oil crisis that began by irresponsible P76 drivers putting 100 gallon drums of oil in their boot?

44 gallons anyway.

I meant 200L and buggered up on all accounts…