>According to Damien Haas:
>> Personally, because Leyland
>> > had such a bad track record, I believe that if Ford, Chrysler or the
>>General
>> > had built the P76 and developed it properly, it could have been a good
>>car.
>> > Unfortunately, it was an absolute disaster.
Back in 86 when I was still employable and employed, I took charge of a new
Falcon XF wagon as my company car. To get at the spare one had to lift out
a pressed steel panel with the centre core being a +/- 18 inch piece of
irregular, unmachined plywood stapled to the steel. I suppose the idea was
to save a bob or two on a part of the car one never saw, unless one had a
flat tyre and then one would have other thimgs to think about. Because it
was easy to get locked out I got into the habit of carrying a short piece
of coathanger in my pocket at all times. Getting into the locked car wih
this primitive implement could not have been easier. Another example I
think, of good old "she'l be right" Aussie workmanship, This is not to say
that the P38 was anything but a sow's ear but it was not alone in failing
to be the silk purse it could and should have been.
Mike
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