Was doing a delivery today and spotted this. Got chatting to the guy on the forklift who told me the owner of the company bought it in 2002 and it has just sat there, also said he has too much money. It is a left hand drive with a GENUINE 140 miles on the clock. I was gobsmacked at the condition of it and immediately thought of Bryan on here who has the retro metro. He thinks the guy will sell if theres any interest.
Probably sat there as he's too embarrased to drive it. Also a car laid up outside for that long is going to need work to make it right.
What a heap of dung. Maestro Turbo perhaps, but that is an old banger there, despite how tidy it may be! He should contact Union Street Garage in Ballymoney - he trades in that sort of stuff. http://www.usedcarsni.com/search_results.php?search_type=1&dealer=31942274
Could she be the non-turbo diesel? A perkins iirc - yup wikipedia confirms my fears, it was a 60 hp boat anchor. My father, an owner of rs2000s, sunbeam ti's among others, bought one new in 1990! Imagine my shame as an 11 year old. Still, now i kind of look on them fondly.
First car i ever owned was a Maestro, I took it rallying through the fields and burned the box/clutch out of her and some really weird collectors came and "saved" it.... over joyed by its condition lol
Guarantee if this was up for sale on jon44 some tosser would buy it and absolutely slam it on the floor
im starting to have very naughty thoughts... http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/austin-maestro/95306551
I'd do that too hah. On a nice set of BBS RS or something, with the blacks painted black, etc. But then, I just want a car sitting like that
Were these the ones that the plastic used to crack in the bumpers due to bad plastics in the severe cold?
I had a maestro as a first car myself. My dads friend gave me it. Front end was tied up with baler twine. Then a man came 1 day and bought it for parts to restore his maestro. £80 for it... I was the richest 10 year old about! I was 10 and I thought the man was crazy for buyin it.lol
I like my obscure snotters more than most but even I'd draw the line at a poverty spec Maestro. MG one could be a different story though.
Exactly Coog - poverty spec is right, and Colin who on earth would want that heap of crap taking up valuable space in a museum! Maestro turbo - that's a different story. Mate of mine from uni was left a poverty spec red Maestro when his Grandad died, he brought it over to uni in Edinburgh with him and the thing gave him nothing but bother. On one trip home for the Xmas holidays the heater packed in and the headlights failed, he had to hold the full beam on the entire time!