I emigrated to Australia in 1982 and P76s were still quite common. I was really confused because Leyland never ever made a car this huge in Europe. I was well impressed and when I had the opportunity to ride in one, I realised it was very sophisticated and well adapted to the Aussie environment.

6:50 that magnetic bowl.. mind blown..

You guys are a pair of real gems! You have got the enthusiasm for messing with old cars, like I had when I was nineteen. I have really enjoyed watching this video. Thank you so much for posting this.

You guys are my favourite Northern Territorians. What a great job and a great car. Well done to you both.

Seriously cool 😊

That was an extremely well preserved example.

These things sound amazing when they're properly tuned.

Very interesting and informative video! I couldn't wait to hear that engine start - sounded like a fuel problem though. Very good buy - a great car that was one of the most unfortunate victims of the Australian car industry (I had a friend who owned one). If only Leyland had continued to make these, it might have forced Holden and Ford to try to meet the handling capabilities of the car years before they started to improve their own. Local Leyland engineers were quite brilliant apparently, having had to re engineer the Austin 1800 when a desert test caused the engine mounts to break - and the suspension to collapse...

hey brilliant video guys - loved it! PS beautiful car too!!

Awesome work guys, and an amazing car.

Bruce - what a legend! I watched it cause I saw P76, I then realised who "Bruce" was, Legend!

This is Great.Exactly what I wanted to see.An Aussie car show.Far too many American Car programs around with their tattoos and shouting try hards.

These cars are so awsome. The engines sound so sweet.

Great video! I enjoyed this. Always wanted a P76.

Well done gents!

I noticed the dash pulled apart and starting it with a screwdriver in the switch. Not many people know to start a manual p76 you put it in reverse and with foot on clutch it will crank over. If it not in reverse it will not crank.

Need an episode 3 to see it on the highway. You have to at least put the 44 gallon drum in the boot ! Cool machine.

I think that colour is called Home on Th'Orange

I love your Scorpion shirt. Go mitsi.

My brother had one of these, in white. He got into a crash with a milk tanker on the back roads of Westland, NZ. Doctor said it was that long, wedged shaped nose that saved him from death. Nose on the car, not his wedge shaped nose.

Great videos guys

Best to replace the 2 barrel Stromberg for a 2 barrel Carter, a much better carbie & it’s a straight swap. Use one from a wrecker that’s off a 265 Chrysler Hemi 6 & the jetting will be virtually spot on.

Smokin it up on the grass as well, hahaha.

We used to call them P38s in New Zealand, you could put a 44 gallon drum in the boot!

Don’t forget the SQ-36

Would have been useful to contact a P76 Club (really easy to find) would have saved you a lot of grief on the oil pressure and some of your other bits - the fix is to take the oil pump lower housing off and stuffing it full with petroleum jelly, put it back together instant oil pressure.

@ the 6:55 mark Now thats a nifty idea put a strong magnets so that the bolts you take out will sit stuck into a bowl. :)

Btw it’s not hard to swap over Falcon XF rear discs. From memory 2 little spacers need to be made to mount the axles & a new proportioning valve is needed

The ignition light and oil lights are a bit lazy and doesn't normally go off till the engine has started and going.

No Part 3?

And now - Pt 2! :)

I had the privilege of owning 2 P76's Super V8's in the early 80's, a manual and an automatic. Both great cars with their responsive handeling and alloy V8, however my first, the manual with the 4sp Borg Warner single rail and back yard 500 Holley carburetor upgrade, is the car that evokes my nostalgia! In spite of its 'bulbous' rear end styling, the major downside for this model was the known common rust points and the poor quality interior trim! They just fell to bits over time!

in 1980 i nearly brought one of those, it was a V8 4 speed. the only thing that i didn't like about it was the color.

Fugly....but they were a pretty impressive ride and comfort in their day ..

Great car, sometimes the starter motor is not enough to bring oil pressure up

Is there more work to be done on "Bluey", or is that it? :)

Hey guys, my father had a P76 the same colour in Temnant Creek. Do you know who owned this one?

That's a lot of oil smoke belching out the back. Hopefully it's just sticky rings and will clear up with a bit of use. Can't imagine it being a worn out donk, given the low mileage - but I do remember Leyland build quality in the day. :-P

Ryco filters, the filters that almost destroyed many engines. Saying that what a beautiful car.

What i would like to know is this most mechanics use a lot of air tools and power tools these days yet they still charge like a wounded bull, its should be cheaper, due to the less time it takes to do a job, compared to the old days of using just your normal rachchet tools etc. :)

That was a great donk, the aluminium 4.4, but the borg warner gear shift lever and top loading mechanism was poorly designed.

just looking at layland never seen one before not in scotland anay way

I noticed there was no mention of the condition of the brakes, yet happily doing a skid,,,,, tch tch tch

The V8 model had the rover engine

Nobody does this sort of thing in the U.K. any more. We're all driving front-wheel-drive cars now, with everything electronically-controlled. The number of people who know how to clean-up and get a car going like this is getting less and less. I hope that the Australians can continue to enjoy motoring for a while longer. In the U.k. automobiles have become soulless, cossetted, tame, street-cruisers; good for 100+ mph in a straight line, with only low-profile, stiffened-suspension, power-steered, negative-scrub-offset, cornering ability, no real handling characteristics to speak-of and viciously unforgiving break-away once the limit of adhesion is reached. U.K. drivers are more interested in the auxiliary driving lights and the sound system than they are in the cars' capabilities and the engineering. Some of us still remember (and a very few of us have seen) the Holden HSV, the car that could see-off a Mercedes V8. It wasn't just the power that made that car great, it was the handling and braking, too.

One of the big problems with car was it's looks, it was butt ugly with totally wrong golden ratio.

They were right, this thing is ugly.