awoo
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saw a gold C reg one today! we used to have these when i was a kid. we had three, a blue one and two red ones. my dad would get them 2 years old with about 4000miles on them for couple grand off an old dude he knew who bought a new car ever couple years to go to tescos in once a week.
i remember the rectangular plastic door locks and the child lock on the back doors most. they rotted like a corpse on a hot day too and mother hated it i think. sure are a rare sight now
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hitman
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 why do montego's get over looked on the retro scene, i think they have bags of potential. if i had spare cash id bag myself one. make it into a lowrider what about this seen it last week at standlake  |
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montegos?????BenzBoy
@benzboy
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Blimey! They made a Montego Limo?! ;D ;D
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Last Edit: Oct 3, 2006 12:21:49 GMT by BenzBoy
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There was a limo Monty the other side of Chester are few years ago, don`t know if it`s still about though.
Odin, if you get a van chuck a Perkins TD in it and you`ll suprise just about everyone in it, seriously quick for a diesel.
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Corsa Apology Champion 2014.
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montegos?????DarrenW
@darrenw
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 Was it ever going to look bad? Someone get off your ass and get it built!!! NNNNNG! That's COOL. Wonder how achievable that actually is? |
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of course its achievable, anything is acheivable with cars IMO, just depends on the effort/cash ur willing to spend
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for some reason I can't help but not hate these horrible cars. Perhpas because they were the last ditch attempt by Austin-Rover before they started rebadging Hondas.
A mat e of mine used to be well into the Turbos ones, he had about 6 or 7 of them and a few 2.0HL and regular MG 2.0 ones as well (not all at the same time, he'd buy them for like £60 run them until they failed the MOT or broke down - usually about a few months - and then scrap it and buy another)
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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i think the only reason i like is that my dad had one and my mates dad had a countryman, it was ace for birthday parties, everyone fought to sit in the back back seats facing out of the back windows. great memories
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I'd have a Maestro van, but only if it had the stance of the 'shopped Countryman and was in psuedo BT livery (yellow avec a picture of Busby obviously)
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you're right. they are just disappearing. especially the saloons, i cant remember the last time i saw one. there is an estate round here, but apart from that you hardly see them now.
i always used to like the Countryman estates. Dunno why...they just look 'english'... ;D
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bstardchild
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montegos?????bstardchild
@bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member 71
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Drove a Montego 1.3 HLS Auto from Kings Lynn to Market harborough once every time you kicked down to a lower gear the glove box flew open and the bonnet catch let go..... Was only three years old too
Drove a Montego 2.0 MG Turbo once - sheesh I could talk for a while about
- poor gearing choice
- clutch smell
- Torque steer
But when it was in the "zone" it wasn't half quick
Both were enough for me to steer well clear - haven't seen one for years in saloon format
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montegos?????arthurbrown
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Drove a Montego 1.3 HLS Auto from Kings Lynn to Market harborough once That must have been a pretty grim experience. 1300 Auto? Surely walking would be quicker? |
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Lying down would be quicker! Jeezus wept.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT! |
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bstardchild
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montegos?????bstardchild
@bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member 71
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Drove a Montego 1.3 HLS Auto from Kings Lynn to Market harborough once That must have been a pretty grim experience. 1300 Auto? Surely walking would be quicker? I had to take it everyone else had been avoiding it but there was a 928 manual to bring back  |
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My abiding of having Montego hire cars was the ability of engine torque to overcome steering castor. Hence, if you pulled out at a T junction at anything more than about 1/8 throttle, the steering wouldn't "self-centre" and you had to manually "unwind" the steering. More than a couple of my colleagues ended up doing 180's into the kerb :-)
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montegos?????Robinxr4i
@robinxr4i
Club Retro Rides Member 143
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Was it ever going to look bad? Someone get off your ass and get it built!!! Thats the mother load right there! Thats awesome pleas someone build it  |
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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there was a montego owners club day in huddersfiled a while back, i wanted to go but never did
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 I feel obliged to post this picture here, No offence to twigzy it was his car, he paid for it, it was going to get crushed if he hadn't bought and raced it. Why not save cool cars like this rather than old toss, Such as Montegos?  |
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slater
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montegos?????slater
@slater
Club Retro Rides Member 78
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It could be built quite easly imo. It would take quite a bit of work to get it to look exactly like the pic but it would be curse word easy to get some split rim wheels, stretched rubber and slam it on its ass that woudl be pretty much there. with a little arch massaging and some suspension mods you could induce some camber as well I'm sure.
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I feel obliged to post this picture here, No offence to twigzy it was his car, he paid for it, it was going to get crushed if he hadn't bought and raced it. Why not save cool cars like this rather than old toss, Such as Montegos? Fair comment to a certain extent, but if people want to buy a standard Monty, Rover 213, Marina, etc as their retro then fair play, if they want to propperly mod it then things get interesting. Setting out to buy 70's cars I have opted to buy 80's cars as the price will only go up too in the future when there are less of them. It does seem crazy really old quality RWD (even 'classic', or 'rare' perhaps) stuff gets junked or raced though.  |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts  |
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