This model is on my shortlist for possible purchase late this year or early next year. Had a mk2 Sceptre years ago and loved it but the extra practicality of an estate car appeals now. I love cars like these. When they break you can fix them by the roadside using a pair of Molegrips and a big hammer!
That is so true...last year the clutch went on my way to London (hose disconnected at slave cylinder), and within a couple of hours, and with a bottle of hydraulic fluid and a jubilee clip I was able to get the car back home. Now, I am not saying it is good to have the problem in the first place....but given a nearly 50 year old car developed a fault, it is quite something to fix it for about £1.40, and be on your way. I doubt there is any modern car whose clutch system could fail completely, and be fixed for the cost of 2.0ltr bottle of coke from Tescos today!
I liked the boxy styling and the precise gear change of the Arrow cars. In the day it felt thoroughly modern unless you tried to corner fast, when it keeled over a bit too much.
Rode in the back of 72 Hunter as a kid. For some reason seeing excess factory glue on the headliner sticks in me memory. The 180 later 2.0 Litre were the luxo barges back then. No estate. They are rare.
In 1975, I don't think that this car was any less sophisticated than a Cortina Ghia. The Hunter was available with the twin carb, single carb 1725 engine and the Holbay in the GLS as well as the 1500. My dad had a '69/'70 Hillman GT (it wasn't a Hunter then !) and followed that with a '76 Hunter Super estate.
Estate cars in the Rootes Arrow range were initially the Hillman Hunter and Minx, there were far fewer Singer Vogues but no Gazelles. It was only in 1974 when the Humber Sceptre was available as an estate.
Thank you for that heads up...I had never seen that car before (the GLS avenger estate), but it is quite something...and with a few bling bits from the Hunter Estate I see. God...another car I think I should get despite being two garages short of a collection!
