Pop ,fart and bang Exhaust.

[Omegstrat6]

I had a Marina for me first car.

The biggest pile of sh I t e on the planet.

A truly horrible car!

Great at cornering though weren't they?😃 No wonder Dave P loved handbrake turns in his! Mind you, didn't the early ones use the same suspension and chassis bits as the old Moggie Minor? Seem to remember that the coupe version was supposed to compete with the Ford Capri too lol but back in the day there seemed to be a lot of Marinas about so must have sold well despite how crap they were.

[kettering_baggie]

The best way to improve the handling of the Marina was to put a sack of spuds in the boot!

I worked for Rover-Truimph then BL Cars back in the late 60’s through to mid 70’s and the quality control of Austin Morris cars was abysmal. Remember the Austin Allegro? Awful.

[DaveP67 is back!]

I had a Marina for me first car.

The biggest pile of sh I t e on the planet.

A truly horrible car!

Honestly I am surprised I made it as far as my 18th birthday! Truly terrible handling, that said if you look at the coupe now the styling is pretty good, just everything else was bad!

[Omegstrat6]

The best way to improve the handling of the Marina was to put a sack of spuds in the boot!

I worked for Rover-Truimph then BL Cars back in the late 60’s through to mid 70’s and the quality control of Austin Morris cars was abysmal. Remember the Austin Allegro? Awful.

Austin Allegro! One of the most beautiful cars ever to Grace our roads-and in such stylish 70s colours too!😄 That said, the better half's first car was an old Allegro and she claimed it never let her down for years-well, not until the gearbox fell through the floor anyway.....

[mickd1961]

The best way to improve the handling of the Marina was to put a sack of spuds in the boot!

I worked for Rover-Truimph then BL Cars back in the late 60’s through to mid 70’s and the quality control of Austin Morris cars was abysmal. Remember the Austin Allegro? Awful.

My dad had a very early Allegro 1300 reg number LWD 175P in an orangey red colour with cream interior.

For its time it wasn’t a bad looking car, the wedge was quite futuristic at the time.

Mechanically it was awful though.

My dad was a rep for a finance company and dealt mainly with car retailers and they referred to the car as the “Austin Aggro” due to the hassle it caused them.

The Austin Maxi was a truly dismal car as was the Princess.

British Leyland was a disgrace of a company with the laziest and least talented bunch of a r s e holes throwing these vehicles together.

[SwedishBaggie]

Haven’t we all been there tho! I remember putting twin carbs and a straight through exhaust on my Marina Coupe! Must have looked like a right twozzer but at the time o thought it was the bees knees and that girls loved a handbrake skid!

😊🤣

[stripes39]

A friend of mine had an Allegro and he was driving around the roundabout in Halesowen on the A456 by the cricket club and the steering wheel came off.

Didn’t they have square hub caps or was it the steering wheel that was square? They had some really classy colours for that car if I’m correct; mustard and turquoise

[WBA1955]

When they go past a group of people sitting outside a pub and open up, do they think that anyone is actually impressed and go, wow, how about that?
Still it's no good being a numpty if you don't act like one, people would never know.

[DaveP67 is back!]

No word of a lie I upgraded the Marina for an Allegro 1750 sport! white and black with a playboy badge on the grill used to go alright as it had the maxi engine, massive under steer as I remember total opposite to the massive over steer of the marina!!!

[soulman101]

I've modified many cars when I was young, but don't just get why anyone would fit these port fart bang pipes.
They do nothing for perfomance and all they do is annoy everyone and pets.