Leyland P76 50 years

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.

[@theveeman]

Great video, Happy birthday to the Leyland P76.

[@JonathanBays]

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.😂

[@robert-oq9jq]

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

[@robertcameron2808]

I remember those cars 2 of my friends bought them I wasn't very impressed.

[@nkelly.9]

Great cars,
some of the non standard/aftermarket wheels on some of the cars look absolutely awful.

[@area51isreal71]

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.

[@williamgye8944]

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.

[@area51isreal71]

@@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.

[@williamgye8944]

@@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.