The Dark Wob

Allegro is on the list of cars to try. I have nothing against them, apart from the styling which is in-between hilarious and tragic.

Judging by this it was very compromised:

https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and ... n-allegro/

It was compromised to an extent, but you must remember this was a state-owned car manufacturer and the cars were developed and built in the midst of the early 1970's strife including the 3-day week. I cannot begin to imagine that but I bet it was a lot more fun than the non-pandemic restrictions we suffer today. At least music and fashions were good.

The Allegro scored over the old 1100/1300 in several important respects. It had a front mounted radiator with electric thermostatically-controlled fan, quite something for the time. There were no subframes. It had a Fabrostrip part wiring harness. It was one of the few cars to be fully undersealed from the factory across the range (I don't know if late model ADO 16s were). Hydrogas suspension which gives handling beyond reproach. Excellent heater and a rear screen demister as standard. And the Quartic steering wheel. The versions with the A Series engine have to be hands down the most economical and easy to maintain/repair car ever made, and a late Series 3 1.3 model would be the best to go for.

fried onions wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:25 pm It was compromised to an extent, but you must remember this was a state-owned car manufacturer and the cars were developed and built in the midst of the early 1970's strife including the 3-day week. I cannot begin to imagine that but I bet it was a lot more fun than the non-pandemic restrictions we suffer today. At least music and fashions were good.

Believe me it certainly wasn't!

We still have electricity, bodies being buried etc.etc..

For example I did my A level revision by candlelight and we had paid the electricity bill.

At least you could still go to pubs.

As we can now.

If I remember correctly the electric pumps wouldn't work for a fair bit of the week and there were fire hazards with the candles.

All real ales should be hand pulled anyway.

Agreed, there was a time though when you had to search for a pub with handpumps, at least where I was.

How did they work the credit card machines without power?

SiC wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:10 pm How did they work the credit card machines without power?

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