Leyland P76 Wagon

There’s a brown one still around in, I think from memory, Sydney. I only know that because I happened to come across a photo of it by chance on Flickr. I’ve just had a look and I can’t find the link though. Not sure if its in daily use, but it looked well looked after.

There’s another picture of a white one at this link, ironically in a scrapyard, and described as ‘the only one in existence. Lots of mysteries surrounding the P76 – was it related to the P8 or SD1, was it Michelotti’s proposal for the SD1, etc http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/2011/07/22/the-cars-leyland-p76/

I found this link on a green one that is in extremely poor condition

http://www.leylandp76.com/private/nsw/michael.html

Whatever the connections they were a total and utter failure sadly. The joke back in the day was it was easier to tell your local dealer what wasn’t wrong with your p76 than what was at service time. They were so bad that when you picked up your v8 model they came with a 4 litre pack of oil in the boot….

No, I grew up in NZ and we were shipped a few (about 1500 I think) CKD kits after Leyland Australia shut down. They are pretty rare on both sides of the Tasman though.

We also received all the Marina 6s and 1750s they couldnt sell too. NZ was bit of a dumping ground for Leyland’s stock they couldn’t sell anywhere else back in the day.

The one Leyland car I have a real hankering to get my hands on is this;

That, my friend, is an Austin Kimberly. Part of the X6 range developed from ADO17.