Right, sorted

I saw a pale-cream/brown-vinyl-roof Allegro Vanden Plas at the weekend
in concourse condition.

Sad ****.

 

Not alone either..

http://members.aol.com/acicars/acihome.htm


"Today the Allegro is rapidly gaining popularity among enthusiasts who
realise its true potential".

Ho-ho-ho....

 

Jeez. No matter how fucked up a hobby you have, there'll be a club of
like-minded ****-nuggets on the internet.

You'll be telling me there's a Talbot Sunbeam owners club next...<fx:
looks> aaaaaiiiieieeeeee!

 

Heh. I went to the Bromley Pageant of Motoring a couple of years back.
They have this special car park where you park by make so you can park
with all the other MGBs, or All-agros or whatever should you want to be
surrounded by sad gimps in rubbish cars. Rows of MGS and Triumphs and
several examples of pretty much every popular car of the last 25 years,
even Allegros. Which made the one solitary Hillman Avenger look even
sadder really.

I daren't look...

 

I bet you there is, you know.

 

I don't doubt it.

I was trying to think of the most unlikely car club (probably the
Allegro)...

At least the Marina club seem to have a sense of humour:

What given here is official data, don't try breaking the records with
your Marinas, the cars have some trouble stabilizing during/after rough
turns because of the soft suspension design which makes it turn like a
boat, and though the wheels will probably not leave the ground - asking
the passangers to lean towards the center of the turn is advisable .

 

Some sad bastard here at work has a Nissan Almera, and yes, there is,
and yes, he does. Can you imagine their parties?

 

Mmm, tweed.

Then again I went along to a Kent Ducati Owners Club meeting once.
There were two of them and one had come in his car with his photo
collection that he wanted to sort out as he didn't expect anyone else
to turn up.

Matters were not improved by Wegg Minor announcing that he hadn't
realised that the DOC met at that pub, as he was sure he would have
noticed all the RAC and AA vans going there...

 

"Results 1 - 10 of about 6,200 for Talbot Sunbeam owners club. (0.37
seconds) "

6200? Fucking hell.

 

Station-ary, was it?

 

I quite liked the Morris Ital

*Snigger*

BTW, when I were a nipper, there was a rumour going round that if you
jacked up an Allegro, the back window popped out[1]. Was this true?

[1] ISTR asking this in here about a year ago.

 

haven't you already admitted to owning a Maestro?

That reminds me, at one point, the MG Montego Turbo was the fastest
production car to bear the MG badge...

 

AndyW emerged from their own little world to say

I passed my test in my dad's M reg Maxi in 1980.

 

My mate's Dad had one and I had an idea it would be fast.

I really wanted a 2.8 SD1 but my aspirations were never fulfilled.

 

It's really quite simple. Lurking is when you're subscribed to a group
but you don't post. For instance, you could say that this afternoon, I
'lurked' on here, as I remained subscribed, read posts between chapters
of Flannery O'Connor, but didn't post.

When I unsubscribed last time, I removed UKRM from my list of groups.

If you believe that by looking at the posts of a particular group on
google is defined as 'lurking', then I reckon that I currently subscribe
and 'lurk' on fifty to sixty newsgroups.

I reality, I'm subscribed to two at the moment.

--

 

I posted this to uk.rec.cars.misc while it was still running, but the rest
of you missed your chance to own this bit of classic motoring history[1] ...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31361&item=4512440666

[1] Unless of course, by some miracle, he's still got if for sale, what
with it not reaching its reserve on e-bay.

--
AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas)
Kawasaki ZX-6R J1, Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, DS#5, COSOC# Suspended, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

I've owned a Marina, Morris Ital and Proton amongst others. I was
Queen of shit cars. I blame it on my mother's fondness for Allegros
and her purchase of an FSO.

The first car I owned at the tender age of 16 (bought with one of
those savings plans from the Co-op where the bloke comes and gets a
quid a week for years - thanks Grandy) was a beige Marina. We looked
at two, the other was a horrific shade of purple, so the beige one it
was. I drove it twice before my mother decided to 'see what we can get
out of it, give it a good run to clear it out' or 'thrashed it and
trashed it' as I prefer to call it.

Heading towards junction 32 of the M4 steam poured out from under the
bonnet and under protest it dragged itself to the hard shoulder. In
her wisdom mother sent me to climb over the fence at the side of the
motorway, through a patch of brambles, across a field and head up to
the large house we could see to ask to use the phone. So muddy jeans,
torn Tshirt and wild hair filled with twigs moments later, I walked
into what turned out to be a posh country restaurant filled with
blokes in tuxes and women in ball gowns. They were very nice about me
dripping on the floor.

The purple marina that was brought by a friend was still running
sweetly, going strong and in good condition years later.

'See if you hadn't been so fussy you'd still have a car'

'No mother if you hadn't decided to kill it, I'd still have a car'.

 

That's got me confused.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

I would've owned a Marina. I don't know why but I liked the smell of
them inside. I always quite fancied the Protons, too but not enough to
buy one

Purple! God, yes. I remember those. Didn't they do a nasty shade of blue
as well, a sort of navy blue buy not quite?

Mmm. I fantasise about being at a party and a young dusky maiden comes
in dripping with mud and twigs needing a bit of sympathy.

Heh. If it's any comfort, Allegros weren't all that either. I remember
being on Holiday in Cyprus with my parents when this bloke who my Dad
knew gave us a lift up this mountain for some reason and I remember that
overheating and blowing steam.

 

£800 fucking quid!!!

It makes what I paid for my van a lot less embarrassing and that had a
full MOT.

Thank you!