ANYTHING BUT AVERAGE
MIKE ROTCHBURNS
LEYLAND P76
“AN ACQUIRED taste is this 1974 Leyland P76. It took me a year of staring into the abyss of its single-headlight grille in my backyard, but the abyss finally looked back, and like day-drinking a warm VB from under the back seat, I finally understood it! Getting hooked into its yeasty broth, I finally pushed it into my carport for repairs and cracked a warm one. It’s got MacPherson strut front suspension, the first large-car application of variable rack-and pinion steering, and an ultra-lightweight aluminium Rover 4.4 V8 that’s not only lighter than its six-cylinder counterpart, but also boasts
