Tomorrow's Morris 1000...

Post by **shellgrotto** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:42 pm

Having owned one of these beasts myself, I had to laugh:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CLASSIC-COLLECTOR ... .m14.l1318

A Maestro that 'turns heads wherever it goes'...I bet. Mine used to talk to me, warning me that the petrol was low in faintly Thatcheresque tones. Which was disconcerting. Mind you, I do remember it with a certain wry fondness, so maybe the description isn't so far wide of the mark.

Post by **bigginger** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:50 pm

I've only ever owned one for long enough to rob it of its engine, so aboiut three hours and then straight to the scrappy

Post by **jonathon** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:01 pm

Go for it BG

Post by **bigginger** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:07 pm

Sad but true

Post by **Kevin** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:42 pm

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Post by **dalebrignall** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:25 pm

nice almost as good as the agro i had,i hated it and thrashed it everywere.i put a mini 1000 diff in when mine went bang i got 120 out of it well thats what the speedo read happy days

Post by **8009STEVE** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:27 pm

My speedo goes the other way. Max speed so far is 42 MPH. That was on the M1, lane 3, going past Audi, Merc and Bmw.

Post by **paulhumphries** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:51 pm

I had an early 1.3 Montego and quite liked it but thought the Maestro front end looked slightly neater.
Fast forward to around 5 years ago and I bought a late model Maestro diesel as an engine donor for a LDV Cityvan.
High spec, low mileage etc and I was impressed enough to look around for a mint 1.3 auto for my wife only to find they didn't make one - just 1.6 & 2.0 were auto's

The other year I looked at a 1.3 van but total heap so reckon that will be the rare model in the future as if often in that the commercial variants seem to dissapear first.

Paul Humphries