« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2013, 03:04:03 pm »
Did you own the P76? If you didn't own it you would of only needed one week of driving it to see what an absolute piece of shit they were. One bonus of owning one is you get plenty of exercise walking home.
Actually I did Ted...sort of. A couple of big Maori riggers I worked with had a 6 cylinder P76 as a runabout while they were here in Oz. When they went back to NZ after their rugby season had ended they left it in the car park at work with the keys in it. We all drove it whenever we felt the need and except for some electrical problem that sent the battery flat if left for more than a couple of days, it was a decent old dunger.....if painfully slow. Eventually it ran out of rego and the boys in the machine shop knocked the windows out, welded it up and drove her in a demolition derby somewhere or other. My neighbour across the road in Maroubra owned a rare as shit P76 Force 7 coupe V8 4 speed and I recall it going like a shower of shit. I also know a bloke who had a V8 4 speed model that I drove and it went and handled really well. P76's weren't as bad as the publicity would tell you, especially the V8. My cousin has a first series Range Rover with a P76 engine in it that has about 400k on the clock mainly towing his Commodore race car, and the engine keeps on keeping on. The big problem with the P76 was it being so flucking ugly..........sorry for the thread deviation.
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