I had a Marina and it was probably the most exciting car I ever owned. Some days the indicator stalk fell off and other days the gear stick came off in my hand. I finally said goodbye to this engineering marvel one cold January morning when, late for work I pushed a bit too hard down a particularly icy hill, I turned the steering wheel left and the car shot right like a scalded cat. My life literally passed before me as the car hit a low wall and cartwheeled through the air…..it never ran again which is why I am alive to tell this tale.

@revvolutions

5 ай бұрын

A Marina's like a box of chocolates, eh Forrest?

@bsmith8943

5 ай бұрын

Lmao. Glad you lived through that.

@amitsunkur8127

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha❤🔥still i love this car

My parents owned an orange marina for a time in my youth. There was an incident when another orange marina parked in a car park outside a shop and my mother mistakenly went to the wrong one. Opened the door with her key, started the engine & drove away, short distance down the road realised that it wasn't her marina & returned it to the carpark. Quality 🚙 😀

@markmitchell450

3 жыл бұрын

Done exactly the same with an sd1 rover i got in started it up and then realised this isn't my car Whoops

@paulpips2742

3 жыл бұрын

brilliant! I did the same with a gold ford fiesta circa 1988 :P

@Stu-SB

3 жыл бұрын

Done this in a customers mk2 escort estate, nipped to an auto part shop, bought a 32 mil socket, jumped into the car and drove away, noticed a noise in the back and seen three big containers of water...only realised a mile up the road I had jumped into the wrong car, turned round expecting a right kicking from some mental hard man, sure enough as I came over the brow of the hill there was another mk2 escort estate still outside the shop, quickly parked up and jumped into the correct car.. lol.. turns out the guy had left the keys in the ignition as mine were in my pocket... drove away nobody knew anything !..

@soundseeker63

3 жыл бұрын

What was it that made her eventually realise it wasn't hers? lol

@jimtaylor294

3 жыл бұрын

A reflection of how low the global car industry standard for vehicle locks was back then, which the media of the day often brought up.

"The Allegro bundled the combined expertise of the British automotive industry in the 70's. Despite this, it actually ran" - AutoBild Klassik nr.8/August 2020 German car magazine

@Chrischi4598

3 жыл бұрын

F

@Yukatoshi

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@muhammadnursyahmi9440

3 жыл бұрын

And they say Germans don't have a sense of humour

@Jeyeyeyey

3 жыл бұрын

Germans laughing at the car's ability to start Oh the fucking irony

@dpm2937

3 жыл бұрын

@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 Well the Bild are assholes. They push people to give them info about everything. A mother was suspected of killing 5 of her 6 children. The last surviving one wrote to his class that he won't come to school. Then the Bild reporters went to his friends and asked them to give them their chats with the kid who survived (which they did for some reason) and then thed published those chats into an article which you had to pay for. Uncensored. And with the kids full name, face and even adress

I drove both in the 80's. The allegro was the only car that managed to get through thick snow on the motorways to get me home from Telford to Sussex. All other cars were on the hard shoulder or abandoned. The Marina on the other hand ended up going through my neighbours front wall in the wet.

@LouishWaltz

8 ай бұрын

Back in the day if you drove an Allegro or Maxi in snow, you'd laugh at all the Escort and Cortina drivers stuck or vehicles abandoned.

Those chaps he talked to were at least very cheerful and stood their ground.

@monkeysbum999

4 жыл бұрын

There's no way they weren't nice guys

@CIMMIL

4 жыл бұрын

I was very surprised when I recognised the owner of the Allegro. He is now a vicar Birminghham, near to where the factory that produced these two models and is still a car enthusiast.

@ilya3379

3 жыл бұрын

@@CIMMIL i hope he's doing well for himself :)

@classydays43

3 жыл бұрын

They were basically the complete opposite of the cars they admired.

@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg

3 жыл бұрын

I could watch him talk to those guys about their cars for an hour straight lmao

"It's not a particularly bad car... It's just an outstandingly adequate car with mistakes made in it!" Clarkson himself couldn't describe the irony more humorously than this man explained it unironically

@tonyb9735

4 жыл бұрын

he wasn't being non-ironic.

@matthewjackman8410

4 жыл бұрын

It is strange how you somehow missed the irony in the man's comment; ironically.

@FIXTREME

3 жыл бұрын

@@karlwest437 it worked for Geo...

@classydays43

3 жыл бұрын

@@karlwest437 "the Morris Marina... It'll do."

@johnmccrossan9376

3 жыл бұрын

Its not an outstandingly illegal daycare centre its just a remarkably legally ambiguous operation with crimes commited in it!

"IT'S FOUL!" "IT'S WONDERFUL!" "IT'S HORRID!" "I LOVE IT!"

@t8polestarcyan22

3 жыл бұрын

Solution, a Ford Cortina! It's definitely NOT foul nor horrid! From Mark 1 to Mark 5! GXL or even a base model will shine over a Mini!

@llucsimon418

3 жыл бұрын

sounds like something out of a campy musical lol

@opiumtrail7032

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck off with the shouting.

@gargoyles9999

Жыл бұрын

Perfectly balanced as all things should be

2:13 Can't stop laughing at his comically huge head inside these tiny cars

@cessposter

2 жыл бұрын

PS1 graphics be like :

@jeffcharlton9660

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one lol

@bombadilian

2 жыл бұрын

The music just adds to it, lol

Moral of the story : everything is someone's beloved

@abdullaali6584

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed with you

@ShitHappensRLY

3 жыл бұрын

to be fair, every car deserves its bit of love, even if it is ugly not only by Clarkson's standards

@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760

3 жыл бұрын

Wait someone loves Hitler?

@f00koff42

3 жыл бұрын

@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 yes I do, I think he's lovely!

@SylvesterStaline.

3 жыл бұрын

@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 Uncle Adhy ! (Joking)

I expected a piano to fall on the Marina at the end.

@RastaSaiyaman

7 жыл бұрын

They both deserved that fate. Have you seen the TG Australia version of the Ashes, they had to drive the worst cars ever made in the UK, which were a Triumph TR-7, a Morris Ital (Which was the more "developed" version of the Marina) and the Allegro. They ended up bringing all three of the cars to the scrap yard where they were turned into metal blocks and one of the Aussies going "That has improved the looks so much." And later when Clarkson, Hammond and May asked to get the cars back and were shown the blocks... James: So you crushed an Austin Allegro? Well done!

@topspeed6553

7 жыл бұрын

(SeŠk)andTheOthers same

@thenomatron9358

6 жыл бұрын

(SeŠk)andTheOthers too clichè

@Tiger351

6 жыл бұрын

RastaSaiyaman We had TR-7's and Marinas in Australia (never had Allegros thankfully) and vary few have survived because we're more than glad to see those steaming piles of crap go to the blast furnace to make something actually useful like soup cans lol. If you thought BL cars were bad in the UK, they were atrocious over here with our 40 degree C + weather extremes and their inadequate cooling systems.

@garydunn3037

6 жыл бұрын

Don't you mean a giant foot just like in the Monty Python sketch.

Anyone remember an article about a Marina with a disc brake one side, and a drum on the other? It was reported in the AA drive magazine (I think) in the mid seventies but was only diagnosed after the second visit to the dealer. This apparently happened when production switched drums for discs on the production line!

I owned a Morris Marina for 27 years! Started driving it in 1982, it let me down twice in 27 years! After having it restored and showing it around the country -and at the NEC in Birmingham- I sold it to a very keen buyer- no, it wasn't a fast car, but, it had a real character and I loved driving it. I had it restored on the Isle of Wight and when i bought it back on the ferry, i had lots of people positively commenting on the car. I drove it to London a few times and had lots of positive beeps and comments wherever i went. Even at the NEC, the Morris Marina stand was very popular- I joined the Morris marinas owners club and learnt a lot more about the cars than I ever knew, also they had a thriving community and excellent parts service etc- Jeremy Clarkson can put down cars on television, but he came to our stand at the NEC and was most complementary. Sometimes what you see on TV is not always the truth......

@oakleaves8370

Жыл бұрын

The Morris Marina looks similar to the same year Toyota Corrolla and Datsun 120Y/B210. Similar engine sizes/HP/speed. Similar leaf suspension and handling too. Nothing too controversial about it really.

@odinsrensen7460

Жыл бұрын

Cool story, very nice.

I had an Allegro and loved it. Sure overtaking something had to be planned 5 miles beforehand but it was actually a comfortable car to drive. One day I put it into reverse and the front wheels went backwards but the car didn't - the front wheels buried themselves beneath the bulkhead. Rust had won!

square wheel? so that's basically an aston martin vulcan, only some 50 years earlier... so ahead of its time

@pinecity3234

4 жыл бұрын

Or the new Chevy Corvette

@BevelledSpilchNuggets

4 жыл бұрын

Austin Martin

@vincenthaller638

4 жыл бұрын

LaFerrari

@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone at Aston and Chevrolet: "**nod** square... good idea"

@doughnuts5364

3 жыл бұрын

Or laferari

"Its reliable" "No Its Not!!" "Its easy to work on."

@pearz420

2 жыл бұрын

"So is a formica work surface."

@petermc2183

2 жыл бұрын

Had to be easy to be work on cous ya always fixin the dang thing

@andrewb2475

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh I got that one as well :D

@Patrick.Weightman

2 жыл бұрын

classic beetle owners in a nutshell

Damn Myrtle, we found us our square wheel….totally changes the carrrrrr

@user-bv8wr3vw4x

2 жыл бұрын

I've read it with Jeremy's southern accent. 😂

My mum used to drive around in a morris Ital, which was remembered because it used to use more oil than petrol, but there were no leaks or smoke, the oil would magically disappear....

@grimytech

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@shaunontheinternet1452

5 жыл бұрын

Could have been leaking into the bell housing through the rear crank seal and burning off with the clutch. You likely wouldn't even notice the smell either!

@janiravy

4 жыл бұрын

my 2012 golf has same problems you mentioned.

@NymbusCumulo928

4 жыл бұрын

US ambassador here, we kinda took it sorry

@garydunn3037

4 жыл бұрын

The oil usually ended up under the car on the road, just like old british Motorbikes.

I don't know what's more depressing here, the horrible cars or the gloomy council houses in the background.

@scottsherman7069

9 жыл бұрын

There is absolutely nothing wrong with council houses. Those particular ones are a bit you know though

@hoopenhanger

9 жыл бұрын

Scott Sherman British housing is like British people, somber and dreary.

@scottsherman7069

9 жыл бұрын

Not all of them, well maybe in England but in Scotland they can actually look alright

@ilikezappa

9 жыл бұрын

hoopenhanger Only where shitty poor people live . Posh people have nice houses , where they can be somber and dreary . Clarksons house has a Lightning Fighter Jet in the front garden tho . Not bad Jezzer , for an unemployed Northerner.

@hoopenhanger

9 жыл бұрын

ilikezappa He has a jet in his front garden? I seriously doubt this does much to combat the dreariness of his neighborhood. But I'll give him points for trying.

I think the Marina is the closest they got to mass producing that one car we all drew as kids 😅

@WarCrimeGaming

3 жыл бұрын

The Morris Marina was a mass produced car.

@a3s1r1986

3 жыл бұрын

@@WarCrimeGaming I didn't say it wasn't

@gerardmontgomery280

3 жыл бұрын

@@WarCrimeGaming read it again, slowly.

@WarCrimeGaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@gerardmontgomery280 I'm just saying that the Morris Marina was mass produced. I never said that the guy? above me didn't say that it wasn't.

@ghraffydd5275

3 жыл бұрын

I thought that was a Giulia.

As an American I strongly believe that the Allegro isn’t that bad. It was surely more innovative that we were putting out state side. I mean they were at least trying to make the car not look like anything else on the road. The Allegro is kind of like the AMC Pacer in that sense.

For the entire Time I was watching this, I was eagerly waiting for the crew to drop a piano on the marina

@meetwheatpodcast9078

2 жыл бұрын

It rains pianos on the track

@Crypto2638

2 жыл бұрын

That would make the car better 🤣

Brilliant video, my Morris Marina claim to fame was in my home town of Morecambe with my mum back in about 1980 - 81'ish, like every aspiring young lad back then we had a punk band and my mum was dropping us off at a gig (seem to remember the old girl did have a big boot, thats the car not my mum 😉) as we crested West end road bridge (heading towards the promenade) theres a gentle curve, i was in the front and felt the car shudder slightly and my mum let out some expletives as the steering wheel wobbled furiously, something then caught my eye to the left and it was a wheel rolling down the road parallel to us complete with tyre and part of the axle, i realised it was our wheel (front nearside), instead of negotiating the gentle curve we went straight into this chaps garden knocking down his wall and the wheel ended up in another garden a couple of doors down, as young lads we thought this whole experience was brilliant. This wasnt the end of mums maroon Marina she got it repaired and it soldiered on for a few more years before something went terminally wrong with the engine (cant remember what) and it ended its days in the local scrap yard (Ken Allens), happy days.

@motherteresa9127

3 жыл бұрын

Best we can do is make sure the wheel never comes off again 😂🤣😂🤣

@Treviscoe

3 жыл бұрын

LOL that's a great story. I'll bet your Mum had some explaining to do to the neighbour whose garden wall she'd knocked down!

@petergerritgroen3157

3 жыл бұрын

I dri ravel with the Marina to Sout of France He make it.

@robm8809

3 жыл бұрын

Something very similar happened to my friend's VW Beetle.

@daveking2111

3 жыл бұрын

Ah! I would suggest that someone forgot to regularly grease the trunnion joints.

My Gran had an Allegro and it was actually nice for the day, granted she hardly drove the thing, but it was quiet, smooth and well furnished but I do remember sitting in the passenger seat as a very young child stopped about 5 cars from a roundabout when the windscreen exploded for no reason, so perhaps some odd structural weaknesses present in the frame.

@simonh6371

Жыл бұрын

I'd say that windscreens randomly exploding would kind of put a damper on that whole quietness, smoothness and being well furnished, personally I don't mind if a car is a bit louder, rougher and less comfortable, as long as the windscreen doesn't explode out of the blue. I'm quirky like that.

I think the Marina actually looks really damn nice

@stantheshagster1484

Жыл бұрын

That may be true but its still a horrible to drive bag of sadness made by BL

@Shambles7698

Жыл бұрын

@@stantheshagster1484 can you explain why marina is bad . And is it's bad that allegro

@jacobrumens9601

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Still shit, but has much more character than a Tesla!

@natasastanojevic

Жыл бұрын

​@@jacobrumens9601 a Soviet lawn mover is more inspired and beautiful than a Tesla.

@jacobrumens9601

Жыл бұрын

@@natasastanojevic Do you mean Ladas?

0:49 If you look closely, you'll see that Marina has two driver side mirrors. That's how much this particular Morris was stuck to the things gone by.

@VivAtreyu

4 жыл бұрын

Redundancy department of redundancy.

@outerspace9392

4 жыл бұрын

Whats the use for two driver side mirrors ? Did people do that before?

@hopkin2006

4 жыл бұрын

@@outerspace9392 I am not sure. But I do know most Japanese manufacturers put the side mirrors further up front on the front fenders instead of at the front windows. On most Japanese cars back in the 70s and the 80s. The Brits also did the same on a few of their cars during the 70s.

@keyboardwarrior327

4 жыл бұрын

The Marina was a pretty small car, and it looks like the visibility would be pretty good, and that one has 3 side view mirrors. Meanwhile in the same era, someone could buy an 18 foot Cadillac Calais and get it with only a driver's side mirror, and none on the passenger side. And those are not easy to see out of at all. Very weird.

@cpmenninga

4 жыл бұрын

Keyboard Warrior in a Cadillac you’re only ever entering, or driving in the passing lane. Even if you’re going 55 mph. You don’t need the passenger mirror.

I don't know why people say the Marina looked shit. That's a pretty sharp looking car for the 1970's. How I miss being driven around by my parents in their Marinas! I could watch the road go by through the holes that had rusted through the foot-wells!

@squarielman

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Ewer, And Fords Didn"t rust ??? Another bloody Leyland knocker ..

@jamesfrench7299

5 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Ewer Aussie made Marinas had better rust treatment and Leyland Australia products were less rust prone than Japanese cars of the same era. I have always liked the Marinas shape.

@OffGridInvestor

5 жыл бұрын

Looks like an exact copy of a 1970s ford cortina for Australia. It probably actually is under a different name/badge. Because we CERTAINLY DIDN'T HAVE a "Marina" here....

@JROD082384

5 жыл бұрын

When you had cars like the Jensen Interceptor and many others available as a choice over these cars, it does seem a bit preposterous that anyone would want to own the Marina or Allegro.

@dermot51

5 жыл бұрын

Is it any worse looking than a K20 or K30 ,no its not

"It's just an astoundingly adequate car with mistakes made in it." I detect a government employee.

4:09 "I like princesses" - random British bloke

The Marina symbolises the slow death of the British car industry, that's why I think it's ugly. It's not necessarily a bad looking car, but whenever you look at it you think of bad quality, incompetent managers, greedy and selfish workers, no care, no innovation and no respect for the customers. That's why this car is hated. These cars are British Leyland on wheels.

@jonathanewer5910

7 жыл бұрын

"bad quality, incompetent managers, greedy and selfish workers, no care, no innovation and no respect for the customers" This pretty much sums up the malaise that has afflicted Britain since the war. You could be describing any number of entities here from councils to political parties, and from large corporations to sole traders.

@jonathanewer5910

7 жыл бұрын

JUST SNIFFIN I'm focusing on Brexit negotiations in a strong and stable manner

@anonUK

6 жыл бұрын

"The British Leyland Concerto, in four movements, all of 'em slow, with a four hour tea break in between." Basil Fawlty, The Kipper and the Corpse, 1979.

@David-ud9ju

6 жыл бұрын

To be fair, that sums up the failings of capitalism in general.

@TheHorsebox2

6 жыл бұрын

I agree. Call me weird but the Marina wasn't outright ugly. In fact ok in a 70s sort of way. Like most BL motors it was woefully underdeveloped. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't it supercede the Morris Minor and even inherited some of it's underpinnings?

Had a white allegro estate which i bought in Brixton Hill garages IN 1982. if i put the heater fan on full - the windscreen wipers wouldnt work. The petrol guage packed in after two months. Then the cotta pin that held the gear stick in place wore out. I f i put in reverse gear stick came out of floor. Also had to press inner circle of ignition key housing before pushing key in and turn clockwise. To start in winter hot water over inlett mannifold . I eventuallly abandoned it at Leyton tube car park. Went back a month later and a house next to car park had collapsed on th he Allegro. Still have the keys though. ..

@ianfindlay865

9 жыл бұрын

***** That house knew exactly what it was doing.

@ilikezappa

8 жыл бұрын

+Ian Findlay Comments like that stop me despairing that I am British . We have crap weather , shitty waitresses , overpriced , overcrowded everything , Piers Morgan and Jordan BUT Sense of humour ? Best in the world .

@medicwebber3037

8 жыл бұрын

+John Rutherford HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

@pwareham61

6 жыл бұрын

John Rutherford Great Story Mate

@kennethseah758

6 жыл бұрын

John Rutherford Was the roof crushed?

Clarckson driving the Alegro his head is so big it’s hilarious 😆

My best friend’s Dad bought a Marina 1800TC new. The big thing that he loved about that car was that it had the MGBGT engine. It was certainly a status thing back then. I got to go on holiday with them in that car and remember the peculiar black vinyl seats that you stuck to on a hot day. I thought the car was a good looking piece back then, I was twelve years old.

My Dad had a Marina. He said it handled like a cow on roller skates!

@taunokekkonen5733

3 жыл бұрын

That's quite unflattering for the cow.

@Ampex196

3 жыл бұрын

@@taunokekkonen5733 They were not nearly as bad as Clarkson would have you believe. The 1.8TC sounded like an MGB and was huge fun to drive once you properly learned its handling characheristics. Treat it with any dis-respect and it would surely 'bite you back'!

@malcolmclements9254

3 жыл бұрын

Funny, or maybe a bathtub on a skateboard?

@richardnixon4345

3 жыл бұрын

No, that was his missus in the sack

@ianrepsch

3 жыл бұрын

Nonsense, my old dad also had one from new, but he loved it and was very upset when it failed its mot after 20 odd years due to rust and was scrapped. As a 12 year old I thought it was very sporty, it was the coupe version. Looking back now, it really was a pile of crap, I drove it once, it vaguely went in the direction you turned the wheel at and the brakes barely worked a frightening experience.

In their defense, the Chrysler Sebring hadn't been produced yet.

@sukhmaidickoff

3 жыл бұрын

..or the MG Maestro

@billymercury3897

2 жыл бұрын

Or a P.T. Cruiser Or a Pontiac Aztek

@Benny---

2 жыл бұрын

@@billymercury3897 At least the PT cruiser and the Aztek were reasonably reliable and practical cars, despite being horrendously ugly.

I had an Allegro from new in 1997 and found it completely perfect. Some dubbed it the "all aggro"...a tad unfair! Bob, Hove

@nathanjw2200

3 жыл бұрын

allergic.

@petermc2183

2 жыл бұрын

Na ! They just made many owners agro

@timwingham8952

Жыл бұрын

Erm....from new in 1997?? Had it been lurking unsold in a dealership for 20 plus years?

Haha, such a great video. Jeremy attacking the cars in front of the owners is just hilarious. 😂😂

those houses looked liked they belonged to an army base or coal mine

@hf3923

5 жыл бұрын

they're housing estates

@HotpointForever

5 жыл бұрын

Looks like ex army housing like you say.

@Sam-wh4of

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking army estate, I have friends who live on similar estates and the gardens are all plain as they're not allowed to modify them very much.

@paulscaife7677

4 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with a Coal Mine

@davidfletcher2162

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulscaife7677 emphysema

I love the enthusiasm of the owners

They sold the Marina in the States. My dad came home with a used Marina in 1979. "Runs like a little sewin' machine" he opined. My mother was the only person who could keep it running. She used a combination of baling wire, black electrical tape and "talking nice to it." If you insulted it it stopped running. I kid you not.

That particular Marina in that colour doesn’t look terrible in my opinion. Reminds me of an old Ford Escort that’s put a bit of weight on and hasn’t showered in a few days. In regards to the Allegro, I’m really struggling 😂

@joeogle7729

8 ай бұрын

It's a massive shame because Harris Mann who designed it got passed recently and his concept drawings for the allegro actually look quite good. And none of the Allegro's many shortcomings were actually his fault But a load of BL corporate twattery and politics ruined it into looking like the depressed blob we ended up getting.

My first car was a Marina. My second a Beetle. The Beetle made me miss the Marina.

@ericjackson9496

4 жыл бұрын

Made me laugh that

@fivish

2 жыл бұрын

The VW 'beetle' was appauling in every respect.

@michaelm2502

2 жыл бұрын

Mine too! Reliable, handled good, loads of space and the bulletproof Series A engine from the 1275 mini. Burned oil like a bugger but never, ever let me down and wouldn’t die! Perfect college car:)

@n1kobefan

2 жыл бұрын

@@fivish lol shut up WEJ

@weldedshilian6654

2 жыл бұрын

@@fivish ah yes, "Appauling" indeed

it's a very intriguing housing estate that he's driving round. There's absolutley no sign of life anywhere. no cars, no people, no TV aeriels, no dustbins, no curtains. Very odd.

@rx6180

8 жыл бұрын

It's a bit like Life On Mars. Very little superfluous traffic in most scenes in that. It would have cost too much to hire so many classic cars. Perhaps this was filmed yesterday and they gave Jezzer heavy make-up and a dark wig to make him look 35!

@arfski

8 жыл бұрын

That's so perfect that I reckon it's a military base, take a look at this point kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZYl-yMSunqu8pcY.html where you can see the block numbering halfway up the left hand side of the house.

@rx6180

8 жыл бұрын

You might be right. I haven't got knowledge of such things although in my line of work I have made the occasional delivery to contractors based on military sites so I know they are strange, almost 'The Prisoner' type places. Just using your link, letting it run on I spotted some other parked cars in the background at 2.11, when Jeremy is talking about cold steak and kidney pudding. One of the cars is a Maestro. So the area isn't completely devoid of other vehicles. There is a, or is it the (?) beige Allegro parked up there too.

@derekhallows9479

7 жыл бұрын

Didn't you see the manikins on the park bench....

@rx6180

7 жыл бұрын

No, I've just watched it through again and didn't spot them. What time index do they appear at? I spotted a yellow Firenza in that cluster of distant parked cars, when Jezzer drove by in the Allegro. The Marina is parked up back there then. They must have been production crew's cars. The only traffic and signs of life in that weird deserted toy-town.

This KZread channel of old top gear clips is the only thing keeping new top gear alive.

I had a Marina estate company car, and it was fine. Never let me down and was a good work horse. Top gear has to understand that most of us struggle to purchase any type of car. We have to be grateful for what we can get.

@khankrum1

3 жыл бұрын

I always wanted an E Type Jag. But the best I could ever afford was a second hand Marina. Clarckson is just a priveledged, childish snob that has no ides how to survive on an ordinary weekly wage!

@BlatentlyFakeName

3 жыл бұрын

There are lots of good, cheap cars around now. Most of the Audis etc have pretty terrible handling anyway. Just fashion items.

@Lamster66

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlatentlyFakeName "There are lots of good, cheap cars around now." Yeah Where exactly? I'm seeing Cars the same model as I already have going for more money than I paid for the one I bought 9 years ago. and with a lot more milage than mine had at the time when I bought it. For a car thats maybe 3 or 4 years newer than mine now but effectively 5 years older than mine was when I bought it Go Figure! My Idea of a cheap car is under £2-3K. Currently I'm Not seeing anything worth buying for under £7K and for that your getting some Dogged out BMW Audi VW or Ford with 150K on it and about 15 owners.Or a cat C,D,S, or N. Unless you look at some 6 year old 1.2l litre crapbox with 40K on it where the low milage is down to the previous owner not wanting to be seen out in it then you're shit out of luck if its a decent car your after. Maybe I'm deluded but I'd have thought for £7K You'd be able to buy a car that's under 7 years old with under 80Kmiles on it and has better performance than a milkfloat. 0-60 in 8s or less isn't a big ask? ( Thats not fast IMO) Whats with the Car Tax. Some large cars are £30 a year or even free. and a similar model a year or 2 older or even newer is £150-200 . I get why My 2 cars cost £305 and £340 to tax and my wife's car £30 I also get that some cars are £550. What I dont get is how an Identicle car with the same engine and BHP Varies across 5 years of Manufacture. From £200 for pre 2011 £30 for 2011-2014 then £150 for cars later than 2016. And meanwhile a similar size car with similar power output from another manufacturer is exempt from tax altogether?

@BlatentlyFakeName

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lamster66 Used prices have gone up over the last year because of lockdowns. Demand for new cars went off a cliff which pushed used prices up. Some of the low powered hatchbacks are loads of fun an cheap to run. Don't get hung up on BHP, some of these lightweight cars are really quick in the real world. Many of the £0 tax cars from a few years back were cheating. Especially VWs. They aren't all that reliable though especially after the "fix" was applied to remove the cheat.

@Lamster66

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlatentlyFakeName Quite agree I'm well aware of power to weight. For the Past 20 odd years I've been smoking around in SAAB Aeros my daily is a Stage1 mapped 93aero Which goes pretty well. I was considering an Audi A4 or A5 diesel or a BMW. I have to commute about 1hr each way for work so the relative comfort of a medium sized car with a well equiped interior and enough power to eat up to motorway miles without thrashing it is what I'm after. I dare say I could buy something that will get me there and back reliably every day but I do like the feeling of feeling relaxed on what is essentially a boring drive. Never really had that when I had my XR3i. But yes prices have gone silly. When lockdown started I was seeing A4s around 10 years old going for around £3k now those same cars are £6-7k I nearly bought an Insignia 6-7 years old for under £3k now the same thing is at least £5k. As for SAAB Aeros I've got 2 3 years ago I'd have been lucky to get a grand for both of them. Now you wont see an Aero less tha £1500 and a lowish milage one (under 100k)with be over £3-4k for a car 4 or 5 years newer than the one I have. And maybe 30-50k less miles. And whats with all these immaculate cars with shopping trolly dents scuffed alloys and scratches all over them?

I really love this joke: "Look it got a square steering well! And I'd love to have been at the meeting when they decided to do this. Because someone must have stood up and said "I know, let's fit a square steering wheel" and instead of throwing pens at him, everyone else must have gone "square...good idea...""

@squarielman

6 жыл бұрын

A few modern cars have square wheels !!!

@ETphonehome82

6 жыл бұрын

@Mowog Green I think he was referring to another Clarkson's video, where Jeremy mocks U.S. cars of the '70s because of their styling

@jimbopaw

6 жыл бұрын

What I imagine happened is that the boss or someone senior proposed a squared wheel, and someone stood up and said that it was a lousy idea, and everyone threw pens at him/her. 2 months later than person was fired. This is the kind of environment that produces square steering wheels, and it is commonly found in London. Maybe my story is the continuation of Jeremy's.

@jimbopaw

6 жыл бұрын

Skodaman2 reinventing the wheel is acceptable when there is a valid motivation for it like understanding something or improving it. However I cannot come up with a reason for producing a square steering wheel other than "to be different" or as an ironic statement or a joke. None of these are valid reasons.

@ThePiquedPigeon

6 жыл бұрын

It seems that the motivation for the square steering wheel was to avoid obstructing the driver's view of the dashboard's instrument cluster.

I had a neighbor who had a Marina, he was very happy with it, his previous vehicle had been a Reliant Robin.

@MetalTrabant

4 жыл бұрын

After a Reliant, people surely learn to appreciate small good things in a car, like a 4th wheel...

@patagualianmostly7437

3 жыл бұрын

My Dad bought a Reliant Regal, his previous vehicle was a bicycle. So at least he was making progress, albeit slowly.

My first car was the 1.8 liter Marina Coupé, beige with brown vinyl roof. My dad got it from a scrap yard and restored it, mainly rebuilding the supporting chassis a couple of places were it was totally rusted away. Since I didn't have any other cars to compare it to, I thought that handling was jsut fine. OK, it had a very loose back end, but a cement sidewalk tile in the boot saw to that, and a blanket over the nappa back seat prevented passengers from having the skin burnt off their legs in the summer heat. Except from the fuel gauge going bust, the Marina worked fine for the 14 months I had it. It died, however, on a very cold morning when I first rammed a Volvo that had blocked the lane on a left turn, trying first to brake on black ice, then trying to swerwe around it. The left front fender took the hit and blocked the wheel, so I had to leave it there, only to find out a couple of hours later that an old Lada had rammed my Marina on the same spot of black ice. Both cars (well, the car and the Lada) were scrapped after this. Now, for a lad of just 18 years of age, having his own car as the only one in his high school class, I didn't care that it was a Marina. It did it's job and did it more or less without incidences. Since it was the 1.8 liter model, it was quicker than my dad's 1.6 liter Mazda 626, but there was no comparing in built quality. It was also faster than my subsequent 1.6 liter 1982 Ford Taunus (Cortina). Many years later I got myself a well-worn Saab 9000, and today I drive a Saab 93 Sedan. However, I consider "downgrading" to a 9000 if I can find one in mint condition.

3:57 My petrolhead friend and I discussing about cars

I had a Marina in about 1980. It went, it stopped and it kept the rain off. That"s what I wanted it for and that"s what it did. An entirely successful car in my opinion.

@dominicanbikinibeauties6537

3 жыл бұрын

And with that approach you made it to the top 10 of worlds car engineering nations 😂

My Dad had a poo brown Marina, at the time I thought it was bloody fantastic.

@infrasleep

5 жыл бұрын

That's because the other car he could have had was the Allegro !

@scootergeorge9576

4 жыл бұрын

@@infrasleep - Was probably illegal to import the Trabant. That was probably a good thing.

@garydunn3037

4 жыл бұрын

You should have gone to Spec-Savers mate.

the Allegro looks better today than it did when it was produced. one of the prettiest cars in estate form ever made too. shame it wasn't a hatchback because the market would have come to it. the Marina was actually a very good car at the time, it was very old school British and did everything a 1970s car needed to.

@glennlingard7851

Жыл бұрын

Still registered and passed its test recently.

When I was in a band in my younger years, our guitarist had a marina with no glove compartment and half the dashboard missing. Driving to gigs on a cold winter evening was an experience. Never broke down though.

Marina is not the worst looking car ever made. The Allegro, however!

@arunparkin2552

5 жыл бұрын

winchuni22 have you seen the new Toyota C-HR? Easily one of the ugliest cars ever made!

@solangoose8372

5 жыл бұрын

@@arunparkin2552 It looks like a modern day Allegro!

@AmigaA-or2hj

5 жыл бұрын

The Allegro is not that bad . But I prefer the Vanden Plas version.

@Florian00

4 жыл бұрын

Multipla is still the worst looking car

@TimSlee1

4 жыл бұрын

It looks similar to a Toyota corolla or a Datsun 510. In fact many small cars back then looked similar.

I had a "Shit Brown" Allegro . I "customised" it by fitting an aftermarket T shifter gear lever , and could not get near it afterwards , because of all the babes pressing themselves against it . That was what Swindon was like in the 70`s . People don`t believe me.

@iSkully99

7 жыл бұрын

This says more about the general population of Swindon rather than the Allegro.

@dermot51

7 жыл бұрын

My brother had a " Cadburys galaxy chocolate brown" mark II Escort with " go slower stripes" down the side . 0 to 60 in 10 minutes. vrooooom!!!!

@SpectreoUK

6 жыл бұрын

- Swindon Nah, I could definitely believe you.

@excessbastion

6 жыл бұрын

is that a dream sequence?

@spudgunn8695

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't Swindon still like that today?

One simple improvement that could've made the Allegro at least a little more competitive is if BL had gone with a hatch instead of a boot.

1982 i was 17 years old and bought my first car. A 1975 Morris Marina 1.3 Coupe. Loved it! Rear wheel drive. No bloody grip. Sideways was VERY easily achieved, and achieved often... I keep looking back at the hug engine bay and wondering how a modern engine with around 200BHP would feel. Probably great right up until the point of impact! lol

Dammit Myrtle! They already invented a square steering wheel!

@paulfed2257

6 жыл бұрын

Clarkson motor world

@5610winston

6 жыл бұрын

Imperial....

@paulfed2257

6 жыл бұрын

what??

@5610winston

6 жыл бұрын

Sixties Imperial automobiles from Chrysler Corporation used a rectangular steering wheel.

@Chris_Troxler

4 жыл бұрын

I knew somebody would remember that.🤣

The Marina was basically a Morris Minor, even the same horrible trunnion/upright front suspension. With the 1.8 B series engine they were quite quick (for the time) but they couldn't get around corners! Also note the Marina has wipers for Left Hand Drive, on a Right Hand Drive car!

I travelled the Nullabor track in the 70s, rough unsealed track with big holes filled with bull dust. I came across a Marina broken down, with the whole right hand wheel and suspension broken off. Felt so sorry for the family, probably never got it repaired. 🇦🇺

The original concept for the Allegro was stunning.

4:09 “I like princesses” lmao, someone pls isolate that quote.

@robinhyperlord9053

5 жыл бұрын

It may be memed.

I loved my marina. I was young, my first car. It was beige and I felt like a millionaire! I dont remember it being bad it unreliable or anything and I was just proud to own a car! LOL Nostalgia

@ganeshmenoncat8072

4 жыл бұрын

How old were you then

@philgray1023

3 жыл бұрын

My cousin got one as a brand new company car. He travelled exactly 11 miles before the first breakdown. There were no bolts holding the carburettor on. Ignoring this as an anomally, I stupidly bought one. It failed its first roadworthy because the front shock absorbers weren't. I took it for its second roadworthy 12 months later and again the front shock absorbers weren't. It then took to not starting hot. Which meant you went to the shops and arrived home 6 hours later. Sometimes on the same day. Mechanics changed jobs rather than attempt any more repairs. When I took it to trade in, we drove in, then the guy asked me to park it, you guessed it. They pushed it into the parking spot.

I used to have an Austin Marina fast back in the late 70s it was dark Purple. Got it when I was 16. I think it was a 1973 model.

@williamgray697

3 жыл бұрын

Had the same one, the only gripe was it jumped out of third gear. like the Sherpa van did.

@RC-Flight

3 жыл бұрын

@William Gray mine had electrical problems with loose wire harnesses under the dash. And when it rained out the spark plug wires shorted out to the engine block LOL classic!!!

@williamgray697

3 жыл бұрын

@@RC-Flight Them were the days when you opened the bonnet and you could see the road and be able to change dynamo, starter, water pump... Realistic times. Along with a laugh a minute.

@RC-Flight

3 жыл бұрын

William Gray Yes nice and simple, you were able to fix your own car in the driveway. Mine had a problem with the steering wheel! It was on the left hand side😆🇨🇦. When I was a kid we had a Ford Cortina , another British style car. It rotted out so badly you could see the road beneath your feet if you pulled up the front or back floor mat and carpet. Ahh... the good old days. The salt that they used to put down on Canadian roads in the winter was really hard on 70-90 cars. Not so much a problem anymore. I guess they have better paints and metal protections now.

@robj9500

3 жыл бұрын

But surely the"Marina" was made by Morris?

We had a Marina pickup, it used to fly. Also they we good doners for kit cars. Grandma used to take us to school in an Allegro sometimes, terrifying. Apart from the square steering wheel, which doesn't instill confidence, she had the habit of turning the engine off every time we went downhill. Lucky we weren't aware that steering locks had been invented.

My Allegro's engine mounts kept snapping, so I ended up using Dexion. That done the trick

@guitarfoundry

6 жыл бұрын

i think they planned on using Dexion at the factory, but it was too expensive. my grandad had one..we spilt milk in the back when on a camping holiday..The constantly returned smell was utterly horrific..So bad that he actually sold it after the long, hot summer of 76...That pint of spilt milk was a blessing in disguise because even in the short time he had it, it was constant aggro..he died at the age of 68..If he'd never owned an All-aggro he'd probably made 80.

@Munkenba

6 жыл бұрын

It would have also done the trick to have never in the first place bought a car who's engine mounts are prone to periodic snapping. Might as well keep the wheelnuts on loose so you can take them off by hand.

@geespar1

5 жыл бұрын

Sids60sSounds The dexion is obviously stronger than the mounts!

@petergrantlloyd6754

3 жыл бұрын

@@guitarfoundry Oh that explains why my old man checked out at 55, some 3yrs after getting rid of he’s. I’d put it down to my 6 sisters tbh 😂😂

Ah the good old 1970s when cars like the Austin Allegro & Morris Marina came out! If my memory serves me right the Marina came out in 1971 & the Allegro came out in 1973. In some ways I agree with Jeremy Clarkson regarding these cars because both of them had design faults from the word go considering the Marina derived from the Morris Minor & had the same suspension systems front & rear as per the Minor but at least the Allegro was a completely new car. An old friend of mine once had an old Marina & it never gave him a moments trouble, it was reliable until he sold it on! An old couple who used to live next door to my parents & sadly no longer with us had an old Allegro & again it was reliable & never broke down so everyone else's opinion is different to Jeremy Clarkson!

@1100HondaCB

9 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed. The Marina came out on a K or J plate (1971) a year after the Hillman Avenger and the Allegro came out in 1973 on an L plate. The Marina wasn't a bad car at all but if the suspension had been updated, instead of using that derived from the Minor (trunions), it would have done the car far more justice. Dad had a S-reg Marina from almost new and had the car for years. He never had much trouble with it and it got us as a family all over the UK many times. Dad recently passed away and he was attached to the Marina and regretted selling it to the local garage. The Marina was the family car of my childhood, so it is kind of special to me. I really wish Clarkson would stop being so derogative to the Marina.

@riverhuntingdon6659

7 жыл бұрын

Quite right. Front coil suspension with dampers rather than the ancient Minor setup might've sold it. An old friend had a Marina, nice little reliable car. BL should've done this with the newer "ITAL" Marinas at least ! It died of what most older cars died of, corrosion. Drove the Allegro's Dad myself, in the form of an ancient Wolseley 1100, fitted with a 1275 twin-carb lump. Lovely little car, drove much like a modern one, still miss it now. The Allegro was a revamp of the ADO16 design, it should've been better ! Someone please drop a piano on Clarkson...

@davidviner4932

6 жыл бұрын

I get that, I've had a lot of new cars over the years including many Audi's Mercs and a couple of Volvo's, but we've had an SMax for the last 6 years that has done every holiday on the continent. She now has 200000 miles on her clock and I am fond of her. original DMF, clutch, gearbox, turbo, injectors etc, just servicing every 12500 miles, I have another one too, doubt it will be as good

My parents bought a new Allegro in 1982. It leaked oil onto the driveway from day one! The dealership said it was a design fault, nothing they could do. In winter the heater was so useless it was warmer in the car with it off! Demister...what demister? Wheel bearings going every five mins, new clutch after just 5 months and after a year there was more rust on the body than a North Sea wreck!

Learned to drive in a square steering wheel driving school Allegro. Car was a joke even when it was new but I passed first time with nothing but lessons I paid for (no practice at home and I had never driven before), lessons started by manoevering out of a small car park up a steep cobbled narrow side road down to Tunbridge Wells High Street. A lot of the lessons in dark in winter. A tribute to the instructor!

Marina was a very good car, had one for 15 years, just gave it oil and gas and new tires now and then. Never any problems what so ever. You dont even need to use the gearbox, set it in third and you go from 0 to legal speedlimit. Really miss her. Cheap and easy, a trip to Italy? Just change the oil and off you go. Wouldnt do that in a 15 years old BMW.

@scabbycatcat4202

7 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed , and look at what they replaced them with. I had a Rover 416 si with the infamous K series engine. Just about everything that could have possibly gone wrong with a car DID go wrong on that vehicle. Glad to see the back of it.

@ronaldderooij1774

5 жыл бұрын

Yes oil, lots of oil. Change it, refill it.... like, Always.

@captainhindsight8604

4 жыл бұрын

You would with an e39 or e38. Not a newer bmw tho

A friend of mine had an Allegro in the early 90's he decided to change the Beige colour to a much cooler Black by hand painting it with Hammerite, You could see the brush strokes. Total shitbox

My memory of the Marina is pushing my Dad's round a hospital carpark in the snow trying to bump start.

@petermc2183

2 жыл бұрын

That was normal

I drove both of these in my youth and to be honest did not know any better but was glad not to be waiting in bus stops on rainy miserable winter days ...so in that context more than happy , they did get you from A- B in reasonable comfort and that's adequate for any mode of transport in my book

The Allegro seriously looks like Matt Lucas was transformed into a car.

"21 million pounds designing the Allegro" I had to rewind and play that again to see if I heard it right and unfortunately I had. No one does a car review like J C.

He makes a big thing of the 'square' steering wheel on the Allegro (actually it was quartic - square with rounded corners), but it didn't last long. It was only fitted to the early ones. Then they fitted a conventional round one.

I don't know about the Allegro but the one time I drove a Marina it was a great straightforward drive a real surprise when compared with the prevailing front wheel drives

And to think the Ferrari LaFerrari also has a square steering wheel.

@keyboardwarrior327

4 жыл бұрын

They're basically the same thing.

@SJAutomotiveDesign

4 жыл бұрын

LaFerrari is crap compared to 1960's-1970's real Ferraris.

Can just imagine Jeremy in a business meeting throwing pens at someone 😂😂😂

@merino1869

3 жыл бұрын

There's an episode of Have I Got News For You with him as host where he throws a pen at Ian Hislop. And accidentally drew blood.

@SharpAsABricc

2 жыл бұрын

Pen Minigun. Now

One thing I can give all my credits for .. is the splendid weather !

Brilliant, my dad had the same blue Morris marina and can remember there was a hole in rear passenger side floor and our football fell through it lol. My dad's driver seat broke off from the floor while we were driving to Blackpool and had to get a bit of wood to jam it back up. This was about 38 years. 😂😂

Allegro in actuality has a smaller turning circle compared to Marina but they needed to pull some more laughs from it I guess.

@MrSilnev

4 жыл бұрын

This was from a program Clarkson did in the 90s before Top Gear.

@markmitchell450

3 жыл бұрын

Allegro had a larger turning circle purely because its a fwd car Triumph herald prob had one of the smallest turning circles

@_HAL_9001_

3 жыл бұрын

@@markmitchell450 There seems to be some misinformation about the Marina's turning circle. One place says it's 10.1m but other site states it as 31ft (Allegro 33ft) which would the make it 9.4m. OK, fine Allegro can't turn as good but all that show for a 0.6m. Really?

Those two owners were AWESOME.

Good entertaining piece of video it cheered me up with a good laugh and a smile to start the day off.

F1: uses Square steering wheels Allegro: *happy noises*

What happens when the wheel falls off an Allegro? A-leg-grows

@wickedwildwallace

4 жыл бұрын

Im ashamed of myself for finding this extremely funny

@carmenlottner297

4 жыл бұрын

Oh,dear,oh dear,oh dear!😑😑😑

@timemachine20yearsago73

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated

@davidhowlett5040

3 жыл бұрын

The same as would happen to any other car if the wheel fell off !! and sue the person that did the wheel nuts up !!

@Evan490BC

2 жыл бұрын

Nice try. Friendly advice: forget a career as a standup comedian.

Les Rishton of Faringdon did 300,000 miles in a mustard Allegro. Three-Hundred-frickken-Thousand-Miles! Jesus wept! He took me two miles down the road and it made me sick. No joke.

". . . and make sure it's cold, and lumpy."😆😆😆😆

What is the music that plays whenever the Allegro is on screen? 0:05

@KemppisenRipa

Жыл бұрын

Yes what song is it ?

@JW1_1

3 күн бұрын

Darude - Sandstorm

I got driving license at 1982 and my first “car” was Marina Coupe 1,3 1973..... well. anyway I learned how to fix mechanical faults 👍😄

I have had 3 Marina's and also used to drive my Dads square steering wheeled Allegro. All 4 were good for the time and did what they were supposed to do, get from A to B. I definately would not class them as bad cars. Ordinary, yes,bad ,no.

First car was an Allegro in the mid 80's. Always started and never broke down! Enjoyed it.

Brilliant location selection. Bravo to the producers!

I worked as a car salesman at a bl dealer in the 80s I had allegros and marinas as company cars they were spot on the problem was the useless shower that made them i just hope they all lost there jobs over the strikes. I now own a 1980 allegri 3 i love it i will never sell it

I had the Allegro Esprite 1750 twin carb half leather with an after market sunroof that leaked, it was capable of 115mph

@johnj3577

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was the Equipe? Or was that the silver one with alloys wheels?

@owenlewis8006

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t matter, it’s not true anyway. The fastest allegro would only just do a ton

@minot.8931

3 жыл бұрын

The Speedo was working within tolerance then... 😅

I bought a new Allegro. Same model and colour. It was a great car. The problem in those days there was no zinc galv. on the steel so most cars went rusty in just a few years. This car was no exception. The 'quartic' steering wheel was fine, like my new Citroen C4 .

My grandad had one of each, and his "All-aggro" was the same colour as the one in this clip, but with a vinyl roof. I learned to drive in a Marina 😃

I was looking over rally results from the 70s recently, and discovered, shockingly, that Marinas outperformed BMW 2002s all over the place. Of course they weren't winning ever, but still. This amuses me. Morris Marina: better than a BMW 2002.

@VeraTheTabbynx

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe it's better performing, but I would far sooner live with a tasteful, quirky 2002 turbo with actual personality and style than a dismal, outstandingly average marina with as much presence as a rock.

6 жыл бұрын

UGU Zach Deluded little man.

@philipgrice1026

6 жыл бұрын

From personal experience I can tell you that while the Marina was poorly made basic engineering the BMW 2002 was no better. The steel body was very thin and suffered from severe corrosion when compared to a Marina. It was impossible to find a worth while BMW mechanic in Britain but there were a few that knew their way around the BLMC products. The better ones didn't work at the dealers but were usually self employed. The result was you could always get a Marina fixed in a day, almost regardless of the problem. On the other hand it would always take a week to get anything done to the 2002, including the simplest things which somehow always turned out to be difficult things. I never understood why they removed the transmission to fix a rattle in the ashtray for example. My next door neighbour's BMW X5 is always at the shop getting something fixed. My wife's ten year old Jeep Liberty gets oil, filters and new wiper blades every 10,000 miles and that's it. And the X5 isn't a 4x4 and does not make trips to explore the mountains and deserts at weekends. Tasteful is always a matter of opinion. Quirky is a polite way of saying it can be, and usually is, a problem child.

@Justwantahover

6 жыл бұрын

Plus the BMW would be way more reliable.

@DjNikGnashers

6 жыл бұрын

I had a Marina 1300 in the late 80's. The rear axle was grinding badly, and myself and a mate wanted to go to the coast the following day, so after work on the Friday, I went to a local scrapyard, bought an axle and shoved it in the boot. After I had some tea, we set about replacing the axle, by torchlight. It took about 2 hours from start to finish, job done, with one scissor jack and some bricks. 100% true story.....Went to the coast at 9am Saturday, faultless.

0:19 Corvette C8 Design meeting 😂

Had my first ever two lessons off the missus in our Austin Allegro 1100, it was an alright car to drive and I had it at an indicated 90mph despite it been 12 years old.

Come on, admit it. You saw "Top Gear" and "Marina" in the same sentence and expect a piano to be dropped on it, didn't you? Well, sorry folks!

@WarCrimeGaming

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, I didn't because if it would have been Top Gear, there would have been James May and Hammond In it.