Can you link numbers 1-24 with interesting cars?

[citronut]

Maestros weren't a bad car. Shame a lot of them were saddled by ancient engines.

plus they used the antiquated suspenders form the likes of the moggy 1000, ( just a moggy in discuise, or should that be Judy in de sky's

[Northern_Mike]

No, your thinking of the Marina and Ital Malcolm. The Maestro had hydrolastic suspenders. A nice car, spectacularly badly made.

Jim - my brother had Montwontgo 2 litre Turbo diesel estate. It was both a great car and a total pile of s**t all in one!

[CitroJim]

Maestros weren't a bad car. Shame a lot of them were saddled by ancient engines.

plus they used the antiquated suspenders form the likes of the moggy 1000, ( just a moggy in discuise, or should that be Judy in de sky's

No, the Maestro was a bit better suspend than that Malcolm. On fact it was quite conventional as I recall. McPherson struts at the front and a torsion beam at the back al-la VW Golf...

It was the Marina and Ital that had the Moggy ( Soggy?) Minor suspension set-up...

[CitroJim]

No, neither the Maestro or Montego had Hydragas unfortunately... Both very conventional. It was eschewed on cost grounds. As per normal for BL in those dark days.

Jim - my brother had Montwontgo 2 litre Turbo diesel estate. It was both a great car and a total pile of (-expletive removed-) all in one!

A bit like the K-series engined Metro I had Such a shame as it was a brilliant car let down by atrocious quality control.

[Northern_Mike]

No, neither the Maestro or Montego had Hydragas unfortunately... Both very conventional. It was eschewed on cost grounds. As per normal for BL in those dark

Yes you're right Jim..Apologies.

The wiki for the Maestro says they even used VW Golf suspension bits for testing prototypes with. If only they'd kept them.

[CitroJim]

The wiki for the Maestro says they even used VW Golf suspension bits for testing prototypes with. If only they'd kept them.

Gosh

Didn't some models have a Golf gearbox? Or was it a PSA gearbox? I do recall they saw some sense and didn't use one of their own or go down the old gearbox in sump route...

[daviemck2006]

There were different gearboxes. I had a C reg maestro 1.6L followed by a montego 1.6 clubman. Both were 5 speed but reverse was in totally opposite places. They were good cars to drive but quality control and paint were utter rubbish. Holes in the bottom of the doors on the maestro at 5 years old! The montego was an ex demo and I sold it at 3 years old due to rust in the seams on the windscreen pillars, which had been twice by the dealer under warranty. Never any problems mechanically though.

[Stickyfinger]

maestro, every time you opened the door the Frame could flex so much the windscreen broke, normally it just flexed till the door frame rusted....about 4 years >>>LOL....piece of @@@T
On the basis of those BL Cars of the time, boy did we deserve a good kicking !

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Renault 14 still has time to make an appearance. Its a slightly more interesting shape. This is from an official brochure, maybe used a nice pear as a design inspiration...





regards Neil

[Stickyfinger]

Because its 15 types of crap in one car ?

[citronut]

maestro, every time you opened the door the Frame could flex so much the windscreen broke,

we used to find back in the 80's citroens were more or less the only car you could put up on the two poster and still open and shut the doors smoothly,

even the likes of the Rolly pollys and big pussies if you opened a door whilst it was off the ground, you could not shut it till it was back on its wheels

[CitroJim]

maestro, every time you opened the door the Frame could flex so much the windscreen broke,

we used to find back in the 80's Citroëns were more or less the only car you could put up on the two poster and still open and shut the doors smoothly,

even the likes of the Rolly pollys and big pussies if you opened a door whilst it was off the ground, you could not shut it till it was back on its wheels

The Austin Allaggro was also said to have this affliction... But perhaps rather worse than most...

[Stickyfinger]

What do you get when BL mixed the Austin Allegro and Range Rover production Lines

The Austin LegOver

BOOM Boom

[CitroJim]

What do you get when BL mixed the Austin Allegro and Range Rover production Lines

The Austin LegOver

BOOM Boom

Tish...

[Hell Razor5543]

I heard that BL and Mothercare planned on doing a joint product, but they found they were making cars with built in rattles.