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Leyland P76

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Cars That Made Australia

Australians have a long-standing love affair with the automobile and when, in 1948, the first Holden came off the production line, our cars also becam 
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It's the colossal, designed-and-made-in-Australia family sedan with a boot big enough to hold a 44-gallon drum. Revolutionary in design, it won the coveted Wheels Car Of The Year award in 1973.

It's also Australia's most infamous lemon, a badly built butt of many jokes, a victim of bad timing on top of its own ambition.

Despite its status as one of the most maligned cars we've ever made, there are scores of loyal fans who defend the Leyland P76 and its legacy, warts and all. 

In this episode, hear how the P76 came to life, came apart, and came to be endearingly remembered as a loveable lemon, a car that lives up to its claim of being anything but average...

And hey, if it really was as bad as they said it was, why did Merrick and Rosso buy two of them? 

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