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Post by **bigginger** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:22 pm

bloodyank wrote: a Marina or Ital over here.. as rare as rocking horse poop in USA.

Here too - they were very disposable cars in the 80s, and not many survived

Post by **bmcecosse** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:47 pm

This will give you some idea - - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Morris-Marina-197 ... dZViewItem

Hard to agree with the 'beauty'!

And here's an Ital for you!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUPERB-1983-MORRI ... dZViewItem

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:27 pm

Oh, I dunno - I owned (and scrapped, to my regret) enough of them, and I'm still fond of them...

Post by **jonathon** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:44 pm

Hey Bg, I might be getting a TC soon. have a look at
www morrismarina.org and 'a rose amongst thorns'. Not it, but similar

Kule ehh

Post by **Kevin** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:45 pm

Hard to agree with the 'beauty'!

The same could apply with these offerings from our favorite car manufacturing group as well.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Morris-1800-Princ ... dZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vanden-Plas-Alleg ... dZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1981-TRIUMPH-TR7- ... dZViewItem

Still its all in the eyes of the beholder I suppose.
And Andrew I hate to admit it but I might have to agree with you.......

Hey Jonathon is it going to be a saloon or a coupe as I prefer the saloon

Post by **jonathon** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:51 pm

Coupe, with a slight difference

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:56 pm

Well done, JLH! From memory, all the TCs were coupés, btw:)

Post by **Kevin** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:12 pm

Ok so what was the original saloon with the 1800 engine and twin carbs then a GT perhaps.

Post by **Matt** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:39 pm

TC stands for Twin Carb as far as im aware... and were around 100hp (the same as the 1800 MGB) whereas the "cooking" 1800s were single carb and had around 80hp

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:48 pm

Kevin wrote:Ok so what was the original saloon with the 1800 engine and twin carbs then a GT perhaps.

Sorry, I dunno - only ever had single carb ones

Good to see your link to and Allegro - only ever drove one once, borrowed from girlfriend's mother. It caught fire...

Post by **alex_holden** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:54 pm

bigginger wrote:Good to see your link to and Allegro - only ever drove one once, borrowed from girlfriend's mother. It caught fire...

After you 'accidentally' spilled a can of petrol on it?

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:30 pm

'fraid not - a short under the bonnet on a V busy road in the middle of Bristol. Wrote the thing off (not hard, given the value of the car) IIRC, Quartic steering wheel and all

*now thinking 'does that mean it wasn't an Allegro?

*

Post by **Kevin** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:18 am

Had a look on the Marina site and they have a couple of members with MK1 1800TC saloons so my memory has not gone totally yet.

Post by **Orkney** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:45 am

Ironic really that Allegro means 'brisk or rapid in tempo'

Post by **bigginger** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:14 pm

Kevin wrote:Had a look on the Marina site and they have a couple of members with MK1 1800TC saloons so my memory has not gone totally yet.

But mine has...

Post by **dalebrignall** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:04 pm

i had an allegro it should have been called agro worse car i had,the funny thing is the diff went so i went to the scrap yard and put a mini 1000 one under a 1275 it gave it loads more tourque,it was quite fast in the end i used to burn up xr3is in it.