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The Intercooler

Richard Bremner on the British Leyland cars he has owned #196

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8868 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined once more by car journalist and British Leyland historian Richard Bremner. A former BL employee, Richard has owned more than two dozen British Leyland cars. Which ones were surprisingly good to own? Which ones did he regret buying? Richard shares the highs and lows in this episode.


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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

0:08.3

slide by on track to your

0:15.0

there,

0:20.0

the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

0:21.0

This is how travels should feel, on our trains it does a vante west coast feel good travel

0:32.1

Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.

0:39.0

Welcome to episode 196 of the Intercooler Podcast.

0:40.0

We're 196 of the Intercola Podcast with me Dan Prosser Andrew Frank on my co-host and a returning guest this week

0:48.6

Mr Richard Bremer Richard thank you for joining us Now, we're getting you back on the

0:54.8

podcast because a few weeks ago it was episode 191 for anyone who wants to go

1:00.6

back. You came on and we discussed British Motor Corporation or British Leyland,

1:06.3

Rover and we sort of did a bit of a deep dive into that whole saga. It was a reasonably lengthy episode but there

1:15.7

there's only so much you can say even in an hour and 20 minutes we wanted to get you

1:20.6

back on in part to cover a little bit of ground that we didn't get

1:25.0

on to last time but actually the bulk of this episode is going to be talking about your cars

1:29.9

not least because you've got a handful of British Leyland stuff that you can tell us about

1:35.8

in all its grizzy detail.

1:38.1

But I mean we had a really good response to the first episode that we did with you people it seems really enjoyed

1:44.8

listening to the tale of B.L. I don't think we really covered the sort of

1:50.6

demise the final few years.

1:53.0

What do we need to say about that?

1:56.5

I mean, how spectacularly wrong did it all go and why?

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