Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7438
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Poor old, much maligned, Princess. At a time when Ford were selling huge quantities of Cortina’s and Granada’s, with running gear (and arguably, styling) that wouldn’t have looked out of place on Fred Flintstone’s car, Leyland we’re building this radically styled, space efficient, aerodynamic, hydraulically suspended, transverse engined (sometimes with OHC 6 cylinder transverse engines), runflat equipped, technical tour de force.
Okay, they were slow and shoddily built, by disgruntled and badly managed Brummies, using tooling that should have been thrown away in the 1940’s, but at least the designers were trying!
Okay, that’s my Devil’s advocacy for the day  2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: FL2 as a second car
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
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camelrock
Member Since: 11 Oct 2008
Location: north yorkshire
Posts: 446
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The B series was a dam good engine, we had little trouble from the priney’s that was reserved for the marina’s with the A series and crappy gearbox’s along with the mini`s, maxims, metro`s and allegro`s don’t get me started on the triumph`s or SD1`s etc 2018 Discovery 5 HSE lux - current
2008 G4 Range Rover Sport - current
2009 Land Rover Defender - current
1994 Dakar - current
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