Celebrating 50 years of the Leyland P76. Some videos and photos taken over the years. Both my brother & I have owned 2 P76s each. Both my brother's cars were V8 manuals. He sold his last one in 2012.
Making me feel old for sure. LOved those P76's. Borrowed my Dad's old hotted up P76 V8 Exec to drive to the Bathurst races once and did a few laps of the course and got abused by all the fans P38 they yelled out.😂
That's a good looking car Australia and Brazil have good looking cars look American everybody else in the world drives little go-kart looking toy looking things
I have never even ridden in one but I respect them. Maybe if Ford Australia or Chrysler Australia had built them instead of a bungling and and incompetent Leyland things might have been different.
Leyland Australia was starved of cash by its parent company, the car was rushed to market too early. I went to the launch at my local dealer - they only had 1 model on display, a base model 6 cylinder 3 on the tree. You couldn’t look at any other models, there were stock shortages - a bungled launch. British Leyland did the same thing in the UK 2 years later with the SD1 Rover - no stock, bungled launch etc. By that stage Leyland was broke and collapsing. The P76 V8 was a great car to drive - excellent handling & steering, powerful light V8 engine, but unfortunately built by an ailing auto maker with little to no funds to do it justice.
@@williamgye8944 Yes, the poor thing was doomed from the start. A potentially good car ruined by it's stupid parent company. The p76 wasn't the only casualty though, it took the six cylinder Marina along with it too.
@@area51isreal71 yeah, indeed. I was drove a brand new 6cyl Marina, totally under developed - suspension, brakes, steering not capable of handling the heavier engine. Didn’t feel very safe to drive.
Great video, Happy birthday to the Leyland P76.
Making me feel old for sure. LOved those P76's. Borrowed my Dad's old hotted up P76 V8 Exec to drive to the Bathurst races once and did a few laps of the course and got abused by all the fans P38 they yelled out.😂
That's a good looking car Australia and Brazil have good looking cars look American everybody else in the world drives little go-kart looking toy looking things
I remember those cars 2 of my friends bought them I wasn't very impressed.
Great cars,
some of the non standard/aftermarket wheels on some of the cars look absolutely awful.
I have never even ridden in one but I respect them. Maybe if Ford Australia or Chrysler Australia had built them instead of a bungling and and incompetent Leyland things might have been different.
Leyland Australia was starved of cash by its parent company, the car was rushed to market too early. I went to the launch at my local dealer - they only had 1 model on display, a base model 6 cylinder 3 on the tree. You couldn’t look at any other models, there were stock shortages - a bungled launch. British Leyland did the same thing in the UK 2 years later with the SD1 Rover - no stock, bungled launch etc. By that stage Leyland was broke and collapsing. The P76 V8 was a great car to drive - excellent handling & steering, powerful light V8 engine, but unfortunately built by an ailing auto maker with little to no funds to do it justice.
@@williamgye8944 Yes, the poor thing was doomed from the start. A potentially good car ruined by it's stupid parent company. The p76 wasn't the only casualty though, it took the six cylinder Marina along with it too.
@@area51isreal71 yeah, indeed. I was drove a brand new 6cyl Marina, totally under developed - suspension, brakes, steering not capable of handling the heavier engine. Didn’t feel very safe to drive.
The tail lights of this car somehow reminds me of 1969 chevelle tail lights, they look similar