The word random has been hijacked by the youth of today and is so overused as to be meaningless. If you mean that the content of this channel is random, (meaning it occurs without definite aim, reason, or pattern), then I'd have to disagree. It is rather an eclectic mix however.
My dad was given a harvest gold Allegro as a company car in 1977. He nicknamed it 'Allagro' due to the amount of time it subsequently spent in the garage being repaired. Having said that, I'm really excited to see the outcome of this project. It's a bit bonkers Jonny, but brilliant!
"granny bashing sleeper with dodery authenticity will be comedy gold" - Or as my favourite, Lord Blackadder said: “the colour of gold is gold. Thats why its called gold. What you have discovered if it has a name is some… Green”
Awesome, I hadn't found you when you started this project but just saw you posted part 9 so searched to start from the beginning. I learned to drive in a red/orange allegro and always wanted to do a build like this, so for now I will live vicariously through you! Thank you!
We had a new Austin Allegro estate 1.3l in 1979 , it went everywhere, across Europe, northern Italy , Switzerland , Austria, Hungary etc etc , where ever it went it got loads of attention 😎 and most memorable thing it never went wrong 🤔 Great little car 🙃👍🇬🇧 It was 2 door with a big hatch 😎🤣
I was a bit against the idea when I first started watching but your wish to keep it BL / AR / Roverish really has won me over. Those 14" wheels are exactly what I would do given the time, money, workshop space and talent. On to Part 2 in my Sunday morning bingefest! Good work.
Power to your elbow. Can’t wait to see the progress. A great example of true British ‘built in the shed’ engineering to create something which is unique and imaginative. Bloody marvellous!
When I was 17years old my friend bought a purple coloured allegro. I remember standing looking at it and saying that if he put a set of alloys on, it would still look shite. 38 years on and I'd like to own a V6 allegro sleeper. I own a jaguar xjr saloon 4 litre supercharged, a factory built sleeper. Looking forward to your progress 👍
Now when I were a lad, me and my mate Dave dreamed of a project like this, a "Q" car (so-named because during the war, there were things called "Q" ships that were merchant ships with hidden guns and stuff). My Austin A40 Devon was considered, we would use all BMC mechanicals, a Healey 3000 engine and gearbox, suspension etc. for example, but the car had 4 doors so that went nowhere. A Morris Minor with MGB or C running gear, was another idea, but sadly life interfered and none of these happened.... Good luck with this project, it is exactly what I would have done.
Everything you are doing with this car and you decisions like keeping the car looking as it does and the interior, combined with your reasons for the engine used, all is spot on, look forward to seeing the end product
What a project - I watch with interest. We've all got Allegro stories. Here's mine. When I was at college (hair ago) one of my mates parents had one. And yes, it was Brown. They weren't car people (obviously) and they didn't bother locking it - though in those days you didn't need much to bypass locks. Anyway., one night the car went missing. The police found it on the other side of town a couple of days later. Completely unmolested. They thought someone had just used it to 'get home' after a night out. The car lasted for years and gave simple trouble free motoring. It eventually met its doom in Germany - after English confusion at a German junction resulted in an accident. Luckily no-one was hurt but it was the end of the Brown Allegro. Fond memories of happy days.
Absolutely love this! My first car was a series 3 Allegro, and for a few years one of my jobs at Rover Group was fitting engines into cars that they weren't supposed to be in! Can't wait to see how this progresses👍
I broke down in a rover 820 on the m6 going to mums for Sunday lunch 3 boys on the back seat the heater valve failed,roadside bypassed it and said no heater it was winter told the kids put your school coats we are still going for lunch.it was a 3 hour drive in total. Great channel johnny
Owned a ‘78 Mk ll and ‘81Mklll estate ( because I liked the rear window styling😎)back in the eighties. Put a 1750 Maxi engine with a Princess radiator, 1500 driveshafts and engine mounts into Mklll. Later on modified it with a sharper camshaft and two custom made Double Weber carburettors ! Showed A Golf GTI Mkl saw my taillights at the stoplights, and seriously never had any troubles whith these cars!!👍👍👍. Keep up the good Work and greetings from the Netherlands.
Im soo happy i found ur channel. I used to watch u on tv when i was 8 or 9. I found my passion for classic cars and im now old enough to drive my very own 68’ vw bug. Nice to see u hving a passion for classic cars and doing cool projects!
Can't wait! My dad had a '73 mk1 4door in' Harvest gold' (slightly lighter shade of poo) We had that from about '75 to '80, first thing to go was the Quartic steering wheel, my dad was 6'3" so fitted a 10" momo instead, I learnt a lot about how cars work in that 5 years, my dad was doing running repairs monthly (if he was lucky!) and had to rig up a dodgy engine hoist from the garage rafters to pull the engine 3 times, He says the only thing he didn't swap or repair was the Hydra-gas suspension, it was floaty but worked, so he didn't want to touch it, The Hydra-gas system had a re-birth in the Rover Metro and even the MGF used it and it didn't die until 2002, when the designers of the TF heard of something called 'springs' It was a shite car but we loved it, my dad later bought a Maestro, so obviously a glutton for punishment!
@@drd6416 I had a 1978 Marina 1800 HL/TC Mk2 and it was an excellent, fast and totally reliable car and nothing ever collapsed on it and I drove that car fast and hard all the time as well. I also owned a 1980 Allegro 1750 TC Equipe and that was an excellent, fast and reliable car for its day as well. It is only the thickos that watched Top Gear that believed all of the DRIVEL about BL cars etc. The dumbest people on the planet are people who watch tv and read newspapers and listen to politicians so much so that they believe that they have to pay taxes and that our government has to borrow money and has massive debt and that their are nasty terrorists all over the place trying to kill us and that viruses are actually real and we can catch them and they cause pandemics - Google Paisley Expressions and the Jesus, Hitler and Wizard of Oz post on there just now exposing how we have always been getting lied to and wait until you see what Part 2 of that is going to expose.
Love this project. My first car was an Allegro. It was a serious pos. So much so I left it in Earls Court, unlocked, with keys in the ignition, and went off and joined the army. On my first leave, 5 weeks later, it was still waiting for me with a windscreen full of tickets and a notice to remove this by the council! I hope you have more success with this one.
I was given this very model car, in this colour, for my 18th Birthday in 1992; I ran it into the ground. It's one of my biggest regrets and I wish I still had it. So many memories just seeing it again.
Fantastic that you’re doing this Jonny and sticking it to the BL bashers. Love the fact that you’re keeping her looking pretty much standard but with a good kick of power from that V6. Can’t wait to see how she turns out. Top man!
I didn't like your personality when you first appeared in fifth gear but you grew on me Johnny , a lot . Much respect . I hope the project turns great . Love how you talk about it .
Forgot to say that perhaps the format of a show it " shows off " how knowledgeable you are because you have to appear in a certain way . Am I right , wrong who knows ?
My friend’s dad (Rowland K - RIP) had one of these. I can remember sitting in the back seat as if it were yesterday. Kudos to you Jonny for doing this.
What an epic build this is... I’m feeling all nostalgic now. My parents had a Morris Marina....a mauve/maroon Morris Marina, that forever more smelt of (us) children’s travel sick.. Ahh, memories
I used to borrow my fathers yellow 1500cc (?) estate to go to college and out with friends in the evening. My classmates would take the piss, about how uncool and slow it was. When I said that it would comfortably do 90 fully loaded no one believed me until one day I was unlucky (stupid) enough to get pulled for speeding, fully loaded, late at night, doing 93mph on the M27. I bet a couple of classmates £5 each that my grandpamobile would do over 90 and I could prove it and they took the bait. I then pulled out my speeding ticket and won the bet and helped pay my £30 fine.
I had a street sleeper Allegro Estate, although mine was still a 1300. But I modified the heck out of the engine. i had skimmed MG metro pistons, custom-made Janspeed exhaust, Rimflow valves, a Kent Cams Megadyne 266 cam, high-ratio rockers, Torque Ram with stub stack, K&N filter, modified SU according to Dave Vizard's recommendations, stage 3 rally head but with enlarged exhaust valves instead of inlet valves (for efficiency) Mini-Sport inlet manifold, compression ratio of 12:1, minispares timing belt kit, electronic ignition, and all the oscillating bits lightened and everything balanced. It went like shit off a shovel. Surprising people who were making an attempt to overtake was a special joy all of its own. The bodywork and wheels were standard so it looked normal. I soooo loved that car.
Ooooh, so awful its beautiful. I remember being in a couple of Allegros and Morris minors when I was young. I can't remember which member of my family had one but I remember those cars well.
I’ve waited ages for this - I was enthralled when you first started this project and I’m so glad it’s back on track - I love how you’ve evolved the ideas - it’s exactly what I would be doing with the car too - I think we come from the same generation and our generation’s ideas on cars are so much better than most
A true sleeper,and i love that engine,they are solid,our family had the same 2.7 rover and we towed a twin wheeled overloaded caravan at 80 to 100 miles a hour round europe on some parts faultlessly for 6 yrs and with 280,000 plus miles plus it was the gearbox repair that killed it even tho it looked like a well worn slipper,and felt like one,i cant wait for this..........
Jonny, you're such a weirdo. I love it. I've always wanted to do an Evo III running gear into a Proton Persona but try to hide the exhaust and intercooler.
I think this is going to be absolutely brilliant. Love the ethos and approach, completely agree with it. The back story, the care, the dedication and thought. Outstanding. Good luck
Oh yes, surely it will need some decent supportive seats seeing as Jonny plans on tracking it! You would slide clean off those spongy flat things in there at present!
My great uncle had one of these same colour , he was so proud of it ... thumbs up for being different and using Britain's 70s finest crap for a sleeper, its perfect 👍
I can not wait. My better half had a 1100 allegro that was a fabulous car. I did a very easy conversion and fitted a 1293 Cooper S lump in it and it was superb. Very comfortable and very quick. I did nothing to the brakes or suspension and the standard setup worked beautifully as a road car. This must have been in the mid 1980s. A mate of mine bought it for his other half. He had a 1750 Allegro HL..
Absolute DRIVEL! There is no way the headlining could just fall down from these cars or most cars that used this type of headlining from back then. Sounds like the usual my auntie or my friend etc had type of bullshit. We had two Allegros in the family at the same time and they were excellent and very reliable cars and nothing ever fell off of them and I know from the way the roof lining was put on on these cars there was no way it could fall off.
@@williamwoods8022 I can't tell if you're being serious or not. British Leyland, although the actual tech was quite impressive, certainly made some "friday afternoon" cars. The concept of hydrolastic is actually really clever, for example, but there is a reason it didn't catch on - it's not the most reliable. (I've literally just spent a year on my '92 metro GTi fiddling away with it) On the subject of head linings, I've never owned an allegro but I can only assume by that stage they were put in in a similar fashion to Range Rovers, which, at least in New Zealand, are notorious for dropping. I'm not saying Leyland cars suck, they don't.... well most. Some did actively try to kill you. But some of them certainly weren't put together quite as well, so saying as a blanket statement that nothing ever falls off is plain old wrong... happens with every older car, not just British. The exhaust fell off an old Swift I used to own one day, completely by itself.
Brilliant... Matey. I'm loving seeing the flip-side of all the EU auto stuff from the 80s and how different but the same it all is. Awesome. Keep it going. Thanks.
‘Look! It’s got a Square steering wheel! I would’ve loved to be in the meeting when one man must’ve said, “Let’s give it a square steering wheel”, and instead of throwing pens at him, the others must’ve gone, “Hmmm... square... interesting...” ‘ -- Jeremy Clarkson
Loving that 2 door shape. Can imagine driving along and this appears in the mirror and thinking " look at the state of that " next thing it blows by at full rip and puts a smile on my face. Whole point of a street sleeper for me. Good luck with it and all the best👍
Jonny , from Houston Texas , Ive followed you for most of your career . Taking an Austin all Aggro, the most despised auto of the ?70-80s? and refurbishing, nay Upgrading to a sleeper performance car it is really making you worthy of Car Pervert !!!!... I cannot wait to see the next chapter !! I had a 1.6 Capri with a Lotus Europa engine and and a turbo in the early 80s, amateur hour and blew it up on the A1 racing an XR3 , since then have loved Frankenstein cars ! PS love your e Car series but being in TX USA ... I have to be quiet on that !
@@TheLateBrakeShow I made a Capri Frankenstein in 1984 and it went BANG !! Perverse curiosity to see an All Aggro into a Sleeper. You are doing something different and special , will make TG and Clarkson weep !
YAY..my first car......I had one with a brown vinyl roof and velour upholstery! I sheared a brake disc from the hub and the gear stick came out in my hand! BEAST MODE!! 😂👍
Heh. My first car after I passed my test in 1983 was an Allegro. Blue, S reg but with the round steering wheel. Crashed it into a stone bridge after a night out, yes I was pissed, never done that again since, learned my lesson there. It was, as I recall, quite a solid car. The replacement one (same model) wasn't though, and dropped an exhaust valve half way round the Coventry ring road. Ah, the memories are flooding back 🤣
Great choice of car for a true sleeper! I had a company 1100cc 4door Allegro as a company car back in the late 70's after I had minis of my own, and it was driven in exactly the same way, as the handling was the same! With the radiator moved to the boot floor, and the engine lighter the weight distribution will be even better than before, giving it great handling to match the performance!
This is going to be on of, if not, THE best sleeper ever. Always thought about doing an allegro years ago but never did...that stance is perfect. Really can't wait to see this finished.
My father had several of those cars. I grew up in them. So this for me is delighting childhood memories. I look forward to seeing it finished. You are totally bonkers & I salute you for it.
When I used to work in the pottery industry, there was a trim colour called 'old gold' that was used when they didn't want the brightness of burnished gilt on porcelain and needed a more antique look. It was pretty much the same colour as your Allegro. Can't wait to see the next stage.
John, you sir are a legend, my boss 30 something years ago had one of these, same colour, he loved the thing, I had no idea you could fit a V6 in there. Thanks for bringing back some memories.
Man loving this completely. I have a soft spot for the Alegro due to family history. My parents and Aunt had them one time. So brilliant I love the project!!!
When I passed my test back in 88 my uncle who was a coal man found me an 'R' registration Allegro with a 1300 twin carb. It had one owner from new and had 6000 miles on the clock. He got it for £50 and when we had tidied it up and che led all the brakes etc and gave it a service it went straight through the MOT. I kept it for 2 years and it was a great little runner.
I remember this car when it was at MB motorsport . I was a student that used to help out with the rallycorss stuff at the time. Had no idea who’s it was! Great (strange) project! Love it
oh man what a flashback :) my stepdad had a bright orange allegro it used to start on its own and sometimes wouldnt turn off at the ignition, a few time he chased down the street, ohhhh the 80s lol
That's like a more extreme version of a project I had. A 1.1 K-series Metro with a KV6 engine. Had it half done but ended up selling it for another project. I've never actually seen anyone with the balls to do an Allegro though! Topstuff
That's a good looking car. I liked the Allegro and although I never owned one, I hired an Allegro on two occasions for weekends away and did my first 100mph in one of them. Downhill with the wind behind me. All the best.
Love it! My 1st car was a 1979 Allegro 1.5 that had a 1750 engine swapped in. I think I even remember the reg number ERM 656 V. It was a vivid green colour and I learnt a lot about cars with that one. I think I ended up swapping the engine 3 or 4 times because I would buy £50 engines from the scrap yard instead of getting a decent used engine 😂
Blows my mind how random this channel is. Fantastic job Jonny.
The word random has been hijacked by the youth of today and is so overused as to be meaningless.
If you mean that the content of this channel is random, (meaning it occurs without definite aim, reason, or pattern), then I'd have to disagree.
It is rather an eclectic mix however.
allegro!
Somerset lad then? Where abouts?
@@MrBenHaynes Lighten up Ben and take your meds.
My dad was given a harvest gold Allegro as a company car in 1977. He nicknamed it 'Allagro' due to the amount of time it subsequently spent in the garage being repaired. Having said that, I'm really excited to see the outcome of this project. It's a bit bonkers Jonny, but brilliant!
this sir is a true jem, the concept of a granny bashing sleeper with dodery authenticity will be comedy gold
or antique gold even.
Gem 💎
"granny bashing sleeper with dodery authenticity will be comedy gold" - Or as my favourite, Lord Blackadder said: “the colour of gold is gold. Thats why its called gold. What you have discovered if it has a name is some… Green”
8:10 Crochet-knitted seat covers on a supercharged V6 is the absolute best idea I've heard this week.
I think those wooden beaded orthopedic seat covers would be awesome.
Don't forget a nodding dog , stick on "fingers" on the boot lip and "My other car is a Porsche" sticker in the back window 😂
Crochet seat covers in the BL racing livery would deffo be a world first
Indeed, its a festival of bad taste, but all done in the best possible taste :-D
I absolutely love that you're leaving it looking like you borrowed it from your gran.
Ladies and gentlemen, this man is an evil genius. All hail.
Awesome, I hadn't found you when you started this project but just saw you posted part 9 so searched to start from the beginning. I learned to drive in a red/orange allegro and always wanted to do a build like this, so for now I will live vicariously through you! Thank you!
Yes! I love it!
That being said, I am one of those weirdos that thinks the Allegro is quite good looking, especially from that rear-quarter shot.
YOU are the car pervert, not him!
Me to !
me too
Change the super badge to “surprise” looking forward to the series
@Phil Earl * 1300
@@soundseeker63 give it to @MightyCarMods and that'll be the WHP you'd get
We had a new Austin Allegro estate 1.3l in 1979 , it went everywhere, across Europe, northern Italy , Switzerland , Austria, Hungary etc etc , where ever it went it got loads of attention 😎 and most memorable thing it never went wrong 🤔
Great little car 🙃👍🇬🇧
It was 2 door with a big hatch 😎🤣
They weren't sold in Australia. Quite a few in New Zealand at one point.
I was a bit against the idea when I first started watching but your wish to keep it BL / AR / Roverish really has won me over. Those 14" wheels are exactly what I would do given the time, money, workshop space and talent. On to Part 2 in my Sunday morning bingefest! Good work.
Hopefully when you’re finished you can have a race with Project Binky. I can’t wait to see the updates on this.
I am looking forward to seeing that in 2030 👍
@@olik136 2030 ... ish
@@richardthresh3587 or later 😂
That was my thought as soon as I’d watched it; BL classics with performance need a race! Binky versus CPs V6 Allegro
Yea but the binky boys have race experience.
With the mods to that engine I reckon at least 400 horses.
This allegro 250/70?
The build is as insane as the intro, I love it
This is what being British is all about folks. We can take our failed history , put some eccentric spin on it and call it success. Love it.
Power to your elbow. Can’t wait to see the progress. A great example of true British ‘built in the shed’ engineering to create something which is unique and imaginative. Bloody marvellous!
When I was 17years old my friend bought a purple coloured allegro. I remember standing looking at it and saying that if he put a set of alloys on, it would still look shite.
38 years on and I'd like to own a V6 allegro sleeper.
I own a jaguar xjr saloon 4 litre supercharged, a factory built sleeper. Looking forward to your progress 👍
Now when I were a lad, me and my mate Dave dreamed of a project like this, a "Q" car (so-named because during the war, there were things called "Q" ships that were merchant ships with hidden guns and stuff). My Austin A40 Devon was considered, we would use all BMC mechanicals, a Healey 3000 engine and gearbox, suspension etc. for example, but the car had 4 doors so that went nowhere. A Morris Minor with MGB or C running gear, was another idea, but sadly life interfered and none of these happened.... Good luck with this project, it is exactly what I would have done.
Everything you are doing with this car and you decisions like keeping the car looking as it does and the interior, combined with your reasons for the engine used, all is spot on, look forward to seeing the end product
What a project - I watch with interest. We've all got Allegro stories. Here's mine. When I was at college (hair ago) one of my mates parents had one. And yes, it was Brown. They weren't car people (obviously) and they didn't bother locking it - though in those days you didn't need much to bypass locks. Anyway., one night the car went missing. The police found it on the other side of town a couple of days later. Completely unmolested. They thought someone had just used it to 'get home' after a night out. The car lasted for years and gave simple trouble free motoring. It eventually met its doom in Germany - after English confusion at a German junction resulted in an accident. Luckily no-one was hurt but it was the end of the Brown Allegro. Fond memories of happy days.
Absolutely love this! My first car was a series 3 Allegro, and for a few years one of my jobs at Rover Group was fitting engines into cars that they weren't supposed to be in! Can't wait to see how this progresses👍
I broke down in a rover 820 on the m6 going to mums for Sunday lunch 3 boys on the back seat the heater valve failed,roadside bypassed it and said no heater it was winter told the kids put your school coats we are still going for lunch.it was a 3 hour drive in total. Great channel johnny
Owned a ‘78 Mk ll and ‘81Mklll estate ( because I liked the rear window styling😎)back in the eighties. Put a 1750 Maxi engine with a Princess radiator, 1500 driveshafts and engine mounts into Mklll. Later on modified it with a sharper camshaft and two custom made Double Weber carburettors ! Showed A Golf GTI Mkl saw my taillights at the stoplights, and seriously never had any troubles whith these cars!!👍👍👍. Keep up the good Work and greetings from the Netherlands.
Cracking! An Allegro resto mod, fantastic.
Agreed
That is deadly! Has the makings to be a very cool car to shock a few of the big boys. Love it!
Im soo happy i found ur channel. I used to watch u on tv when i was 8 or 9. I found my passion for classic cars and im now old enough to drive my very own 68’ vw bug. Nice to see u hving a passion for classic cars and doing cool projects!
I once owned a brown Allegro. That fact is finally in the public domain, but yay it's now cool because of this vid! Years of shame now relieved.
Always loved the shape of the Allegro
It's been said that they're more aerodynamic going backwards.
So you were the one!!🤣
We are two
Oh lord.... The one I've been waiting for!
Be prepared to go viral Mr Smith 😂👌
Can't wait! My dad had a '73 mk1 4door in' Harvest gold' (slightly lighter shade of poo)
We had that from about '75 to '80, first thing to go was the Quartic steering wheel, my dad was 6'3" so fitted a 10" momo instead,
I learnt a lot about how cars work in that 5 years, my dad was doing running repairs monthly (if he was lucky!) and had to rig up a dodgy engine hoist from the garage rafters to pull the engine 3 times,
He says the only thing he didn't swap or repair was the Hydra-gas suspension, it was floaty but worked, so he didn't want to touch it,
The Hydra-gas system had a re-birth in the Rover Metro and even the MGF used it and it didn't die until 2002, when the designers of the TF heard of something called 'springs'
It was a shite car but we loved it, my dad later bought a Maestro, so obviously a glutton for punishment!
I do love the Blank Gauge you get with Alegro & the square steering wheel with you can't feed back through you hands .. Master of British Design
Jonny, we get it! We really do. Fantastic combination with the Rover/Honda V6 💪
Absolutely love the idea of this! The performance version of the Allegro they never built, no-one wanted and made no sense whatsoever.
You mean that racy job with the 1800 I think? Same with the marina, tho the tc was a bit cheeky till the duffs collapsed!
@@drd6416 I had a 1978 Marina 1800 HL/TC Mk2 and it was an excellent, fast and totally reliable car and nothing ever collapsed on it and I drove that car fast and hard all the time as well. I also owned a 1980 Allegro 1750 TC Equipe and that was an excellent, fast and reliable car for its day as well. It is only the thickos that watched Top Gear that believed all of the DRIVEL about BL cars etc. The dumbest people on the planet are people who watch tv and read newspapers and listen to politicians so much so that they believe that they have to pay taxes and that our government has to borrow money and has massive debt and that their are nasty terrorists all over the place trying to kill us and that viruses are actually real and we can catch them and they cause pandemics - Google Paisley Expressions and the Jesus, Hitler and Wizard of Oz post on there just now exposing how we have always been getting lied to and wait until you see what Part 2 of that is going to expose.
Love this project.
My first car was an Allegro. It was a serious pos. So much so I left it in Earls Court, unlocked, with keys in the ignition, and went off and joined the army.
On my first leave, 5 weeks later, it was still waiting for me with a windscreen full of tickets and a notice to remove this by the council!
I hope you have more success with this one.
I was given this very model car, in this colour, for my 18th Birthday in 1992; I ran it into the ground. It's one of my biggest regrets and I wish I still had it. So many memories just seeing it again.
Fantastic that you’re doing this Jonny and sticking it to the BL bashers. Love the fact that you’re keeping her looking pretty much standard but with a good kick of power from that V6. Can’t wait to see how she turns out. Top man!
Can’t wait for a Smith & Sniff episode with this. Should be full of hilarity.
I didn't like your personality when you first appeared in fifth gear but you grew on me Johnny , a lot .
Much respect .
I hope the project turns great .
Love how you talk about it .
Forgot to say that perhaps the format of a show it " shows off " how knowledgeable you are because you have to appear in a certain way .
Am I right , wrong who knows ?
Absolutely fallen in love with this build so different in all the correct ways love to see this around Lincolnshire 🙏
Can't wait to see this develop. Sleepers are so much fun!
Best laugh you could ever have in a car....
Love how you blended in "which is emotional" in the editing at the end!
My friend’s dad (Rowland K - RIP) had one of these. I can remember sitting in the back seat as if it were yesterday. Kudos to you Jonny for doing this.
What an epic build this is... I’m feeling all nostalgic now. My parents had a Morris Marina....a mauve/maroon Morris Marina, that forever more smelt of (us) children’s travel sick.. Ahh, memories
I'm looking forward to seeing this finished and driven hard!
The Allegro Estate was a beautiful car and so fit for purpose.
I had an Allegro Estate for 3 years. A 1.5HLS with twin carbs. It accelerated away faster than my friends 2 litre BMW... much to his annoyance!
I used to borrow my fathers yellow 1500cc (?) estate to go to college and out with friends in the evening. My classmates would take the piss, about how uncool and slow it was. When I said that it would comfortably do 90 fully loaded no one believed me until one day I was unlucky (stupid) enough to get pulled for speeding, fully loaded, late at night, doing 93mph on the M27. I bet a couple of classmates £5 each that my grandpamobile would do over 90 and I could prove it and they took the bait. I then pulled out my speeding ticket and won the bet and helped pay my £30 fine.
I had a street sleeper Allegro Estate, although mine was still a 1300. But I modified the heck out of the engine. i had skimmed MG metro pistons, custom-made Janspeed exhaust, Rimflow valves, a Kent Cams Megadyne 266 cam, high-ratio rockers, Torque Ram with stub stack, K&N filter, modified SU according to Dave Vizard's recommendations, stage 3 rally head but with enlarged exhaust valves instead of inlet valves (for efficiency) Mini-Sport inlet manifold, compression ratio of 12:1, minispares timing belt kit, electronic ignition, and all the oscillating bits lightened and everything balanced. It went like shit off a shovel. Surprising people who were making an attempt to overtake was a special joy all of its own. The bodywork and wheels were standard so it looked normal. I soooo loved that car.
What a barkingly brilliant idea.
As a kid who grew up in the seventies, I always loved the Allegro.
Hub Nut did a lovely video on one.
Ooooh, so awful its beautiful. I remember being in a couple of Allegros and Morris minors when I was young. I can't remember which member of my family had one but I remember those cars well.
Wow that's horribly fantastic, or possibly fantastically horrible. Either way I want to see more, if only out of morbid curiosity ;)
Inspired choice. Hats off old chap, absolutely love the concept and the choices of bits and bobs. Top darts!
I’ve waited ages for this - I was enthralled when you first started this project and I’m so glad it’s back on track - I love how you’ve evolved the ideas - it’s exactly what I would be doing with the car too - I think we come from the same generation and our generation’s ideas on cars are so much better than most
I’d definitely stop toying with the idea of an LSD and get one 😂 I love this thing!
I don't think the LSD is optional, I think it's mandatory!
Yes, would like an LSD for it.
Defo
It’s going straight ahead every corner without it
Das geilste am Allegro war das Lenkrad 😀 … my father had one into the seventies. We had spend great holidays with it.
YES !!! Finally someone has nice things to say about an Allegro.
Genius plan. I love it.
A true sleeper,and i love that engine,they are solid,our family had the same 2.7 rover and we towed a twin wheeled overloaded caravan at 80 to 100 miles a hour round europe on some parts faultlessly for 6 yrs and with 280,000 plus miles plus it was the gearbox repair that killed it even tho it looked like a well worn slipper,and felt like one,i cant wait for this..........
This is about the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Also, I want one of those BL T-Shirts!
Jonny, you're such a weirdo.
I love it.
I've always wanted to do an Evo III running gear into a Proton Persona but try to hide the exhaust and intercooler.
Do it then!
@@davewilliams6172 I have no driveway, no tools, & to be honest I'd rather just have an Evo III.
An Austin Allegro is like a tea cosy knitted by your Aunty Mavis.
So what you're doing is tantamount to punching a baby ... I nearly cried.
I think this is going to be absolutely brilliant. Love the ethos and approach, completely agree with it. The back story, the care, the dedication and thought. Outstanding. Good luck
That looks cool AF. I would want some decent seats though, not just to stop you falling out of them, but in the event of a crash.
Yeah, the lack of headrests is scary…
Oh yes, surely it will need some decent supportive seats seeing as Jonny plans on tracking it! You would slide clean off those spongy flat things in there at present!
I can't think of a single BL car I'd have, apart from this. Brilliant, can't wait to see it finished.
Austin Princess?
@@sanmiguel4019 It has obscured windshield wiper spindles, don't you know.
Jag XJS, Triumph Stag, MG B?
Leyland did make good cars, they just didnt screw them together properly.
My great uncle had one of these same colour , he was so proud of it ... thumbs up for being different and using Britain's 70s finest crap for a sleeper, its perfect 👍
I can not wait. My better half had a 1100 allegro that was a fabulous car. I did a very easy conversion and fitted a 1293 Cooper S lump in it and it was superb. Very comfortable and very quick. I did nothing to the brakes or suspension and the standard setup worked beautifully as a road car. This must have been in the mid 1980s. A mate of mine bought it for his other half. He had a 1750 Allegro HL..
I never thought I'd hear myself saying these words about an Allegro - "that's cool"
I feel dirty now
You are seeing the light.
wow, I love the idea that the limit of the external pimping is to put an equipe nose.
@@TheLateBrakeShow..., and it's not just through the floor.
My auntie had one I remember us driving along and the roof lining fell down on our heads quality car lol
Absolute DRIVEL! There is no way the headlining could just fall down from these cars or most cars that used this type of headlining from back then. Sounds like the usual my auntie or my friend etc had type of bullshit. We had two Allegros in the family at the same time and they were excellent and very reliable cars and nothing ever fell off of them and I know from the way the roof lining was put on on these cars there was no way it could fall off.
@@williamwoods8022 I can't tell if you're being serious or not.
British Leyland, although the actual tech was quite impressive, certainly made some "friday afternoon" cars. The concept of hydrolastic is actually really clever, for example, but there is a reason it didn't catch on - it's not the most reliable. (I've literally just spent a year on my '92 metro GTi fiddling away with it)
On the subject of head linings, I've never owned an allegro but I can only assume by that stage they were put in in a similar fashion to Range Rovers, which, at least in New Zealand, are notorious for dropping.
I'm not saying Leyland cars suck, they don't.... well most. Some did actively try to kill you. But some of them certainly weren't put together quite as well, so saying as a blanket statement that nothing ever falls off is plain old wrong... happens with every older car, not just British. The exhaust fell off an old Swift I used to own one day, completely by itself.
Brilliant... Matey. I'm loving seeing the flip-side of all the EU auto stuff from the 80s and how different but the same it all is. Awesome. Keep it going. Thanks.
Fabulous project car , my grandfather used to own a allegro. I loved being a passenger in it.
‘Look! It’s got a Square steering wheel! I would’ve loved to be in the meeting when one man must’ve said, “Let’s give it a square steering wheel”, and instead of throwing pens at him, the others must’ve gone, “Hmmm... square... interesting...” ‘ -- Jeremy Clarkson
"Antique rancid pizza colour!" I laughed out loud when you said that Jonny!!! 🤣
I think the true name for that colour is BL "pavement pizza"
@@arielsaeth Hahaha! That'll do!!!!!!!
Loving that 2 door shape. Can imagine driving along and this appears in the mirror and thinking " look at the state of that " next thing it blows by at full rip and puts a smile on my face. Whole point of a street sleeper for me. Good luck with it and all the best👍
Jonny , from Houston Texas , Ive followed you for most of your career . Taking an Austin all Aggro, the most despised auto of the ?70-80s? and refurbishing, nay Upgrading to a sleeper performance car it is really making you worthy of Car Pervert !!!!... I cannot wait to see the next chapter !! I had a 1.6 Capri with a Lotus Europa engine and and a turbo in the early 80s, amateur hour and blew it up on the A1 racing an XR3 , since then have loved Frankenstein cars ! PS love your e Car series but being in TX USA ... I have to be quiet on that !
Thank you Eamo. Great stories of the turbo Capri. I live very close to the A1 but haven't seen an XR3 for decades.
@@TheLateBrakeShow I made a Capri Frankenstein in 1984 and it went BANG !! Perverse curiosity to see an All Aggro into a Sleeper. You are doing something different and special , will make TG and Clarkson weep !
Been waiting years for an update on this.
This short episode is like teasing a prisoner in a hot prison with a cold beer that he doesnt get to drink. WTF! 😉
YAY..my first car......I had one with a brown vinyl roof and velour upholstery! I sheared a brake disc from the hub and the gear stick came out in my hand! BEAST MODE!! 😂👍
Heh. My first car after I passed my test in 1983 was an Allegro. Blue, S reg but with the round steering wheel. Crashed it into a stone bridge after a night out, yes I was pissed, never done that again since, learned my lesson there. It was, as I recall, quite a solid car. The replacement one (same model) wasn't though, and dropped an exhaust valve half way round the Coventry ring road. Ah, the memories are flooding back 🤣
hilarious... fun! keep going Jonny, just needs a Feu Orange air freshner
John Coyle do they still make those??!!
Ah ha! Lovely stuff (heads to fridge to get beer).
Great choice of car for a true sleeper! I had a company 1100cc 4door Allegro as a company car back in the late 70's after I had minis of my own, and it was driven in exactly the same way, as the handling was the same! With the radiator moved to the boot floor, and the engine lighter the weight distribution will be even better than before, giving it great handling to match the performance!
This is going to be on of, if not, THE best sleeper ever. Always thought about doing an allegro years ago but never did...that stance is perfect. Really can't wait to see this finished.
As the great late Roger Moore would say
"Keeping the British end up"
Great project. That’s going to be one hot potato.
My father had several of those cars. I grew up in them. So this for me is delighting childhood memories. I look forward to seeing it finished. You are totally bonkers & I salute you for it.
The Honda Legend C27A1 engine. One of the best V6 motors of its time and the best looking also. I love it.
Get your auntie to drive it when it's done complete the look.
Or, dress up in drag as an old granny first track day...
I'm Italian. Allegro means 'joyful' or 'cheerful' or happy. Definitely not 'fast'
it'll be f..king joyful though! and it''' be more cheerful than tuned Rover 114i in purple pearl that I had :-D
Ah. Oh ok. Maybe that's a good thing. I will correct this for the next episode Roz. Thanks.
@@TheLateBrakeShow 😊
@@recruitmentch Allegro in this sense is taken from the musical definition meaning 'With Brisk Pace' so I think it's fitting.
When I used to work in the pottery industry, there was a trim colour called 'old gold' that was used when they didn't want the brightness of burnished gilt on porcelain and needed a more antique look. It was pretty much the same colour as your Allegro. Can't wait to see the next stage.
John, you sir are a legend, my boss 30 something years ago had one of these, same colour, he loved the thing, I had no idea you could fit a V6 in there. Thanks for bringing back some memories.
Oh Gods, another Binky!
They don’t want to finish that car...he does 👍
By the time Binky finish that car petrol won't be available
Back in the day, my granddads last car was a mustard Allegro
Harvest Gold please.. my wife called it baby pooh yellow!
This is really cool, I hated allegros until I saw this video, everything you've done so far and plan to do is perfect, well done sir.
I salute the deep depravity of this project!
Coil suspension? Rather than restoring the hydrogas. Oh well. Renovation +++
Brit insanity at its finest, nice to see Lincolnshire having its true effect
Man loving this completely. I have a soft spot for the Alegro due to family history. My parents and Aunt had them one time. So brilliant I love the project!!!
When I passed my test back in 88 my uncle who was a coal man found me an 'R' registration Allegro with a 1300 twin carb. It had one owner from new and had 6000 miles on the clock. He got it for £50 and when we had tidied it up and che led all the brakes etc and gave it a service it went straight through the MOT. I kept it for 2 years and it was a great little runner.
Antique gold you say? Looks more like “bout of unexpected diarrhoea beigey yellow” to me 😃
Tell me about it. It's not even metallic!
Dysentery beige my dad calls it 😂
Pee and ham soup colour..
I remember this car when it was at MB motorsport . I was a student that used to help out with the rallycorss stuff at the time. Had no idea who’s it was! Great (strange) project! Love it
oh man what a flashback :) my stepdad had a bright orange allegro it used to start on its own and sometimes wouldnt turn off at the ignition, a few time he chased down the street, ohhhh the 80s lol
That's like a more extreme version of a project I had. A 1.1 K-series Metro with a KV6 engine. Had it half done but ended up selling it for another project. I've never actually seen anyone with the balls to do an Allegro though! Topstuff
Great find in great spec...celebrate the ‘70’s but let’s make it even better!
GO!!!
That's a good looking car. I liked the Allegro and although I never owned one, I hired an Allegro on two occasions for weekends away and did my first 100mph in one of them. Downhill with the wind behind me. All the best.
Love it! My 1st car was a 1979 Allegro 1.5 that had a 1750 engine swapped in. I think I even remember the reg number ERM 656 V. It was a vivid green colour and I learnt a lot about cars with that one. I think I ended up swapping the engine 3 or 4 times because I would buy £50 engines from the scrap yard instead of getting a decent used engine 😂
What a nice and funky project. Definitely one of a kind!
Related comment.. that must be the sadest looking garage block I've, maybe ever, seen.