Thanks for posting this one, John.  It's both interesting and one that I'm not at all familiar with.  Good pictures, too!

 (later) Out of curiosity, I found pictures and descriptions of this one:

Trax Australia 1/43 Top Gear 1973 Leyland P76 Super Originals Diecast Model Car $64.50

I also found similar Trax models, with some different colors and number of doors, on eBay (United States) at a large variety of prices and mailing fees.   Happy Hunting!

John, are you sure that is by Oxford Diecast? Looks very like the Australian Trax model to me. The general body detailing, colour, the Leyland badge on the rear, the "chrome" highlighting on the sills and wheel openings, and the  wheels all point that way.

I can't find any evidence of Oxford doing a Leyland P76 in any scale, although they did do a Rover P6 (but that is an entirely different animal).

One of us must be going mad.

By the way. for anyone unfamiliar with the real car, maybe I can expand the story a little.

To quote from Wikipedia:

The Leyland P76 was a large car that was produced by Leyland Australia, the Australian subsidiary of British Leyland. Featuring what was described at the time as the "standard Australian wheelbase of 111 inches", it was intended to provide the company with a genuine rival to large local models like the Ford Falcon, the Holden Kingswood, and the Chrysler Valiant. But, due to the first real fuel crisis and demand far exceeding the supply, Leyland rushed the assembly process with the first of the P76s to come off the assembly line, resulting in poor build quality and some reliability problems. The combination of the rushed assembly, fuel crisis and strikes at the component manufacturers' factories, resulted in the Leyland P76 being labelled a lemon, despite receiving the Wheels magazine Car of the Year in 1973. By 1974, sales of the P76 had slumped and BMC decided to end the production of the P76. Although the P76 has been labelled a lemon in Australian motoring history, it is viewed by some as an iconic Australian car and has a loyal following.

Trax did a pretty good model of the basic car, in authentic colours, although it was done to their old fairly simple diecast standard, so not to the same level of detail as their more recent resin offerings.

They also modelled the de luxe Targa Florio version, which Leyland Australia produced to celebrate a class win in the 1976 World Cup Rally.

A coupé version of the car called the Force 7 was also produced but only 30 or 40 were built before the whole P76 project was scrapped, and most of the coupés built went to the crusher, so it is a rare beast, nicely modelled by Trax as a limitied-edition resin model. Here's mine:

Oh, and if you want a REAL rarity, there was also a P76 station wagon in preparation when it was abandoned in favour of spending the money on the coupé. Reportedly only 3 prototypes were completed and only one survives.

Style-wise it wasn't exactly exciting enough to make one lament its passing, but with the expansive rear end of the basic P76 design - for some bizarre reason Leyland Australia apparently believed that a boot (trunk) capable of holding a 44 gallon oil drum (!) would be a great selling point - it would have been a good load carrier.

Naturally I felt obliged to attack a Trax model to make my own wagon:

And that's more than you ever wanted to know about the ill-fated P76.

Graeme,

You are absolutely right, it is a Trax not Oxford diecast.  I must be loosing my mind.   The blue Targo Florio one you show is shown here in 1:1

Great work on the station wagon conversion by the way.