I don't normally read the sun (was waiting at the hairdressers - no really!)

but spotted this article about half way through, the same article was also in today's star (don't normally read that either)

but of 1.07m mk iv/v cortina's produced only 2010 remaining apparantly!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006400372,,00.html

Spooky! I saw that article in the Sun today. I don't normally read it and I too was waiting at the hairdressers.

the 2010 Cortinas left was the good news... somehow there are still 740 (from memory) Marinas left! Can't we get that number down?

Nothing wrong with a marina in 1960's .......... shame it was only introduced in the 1970's

hey as it happens i read the article but i dont need the hairdressers anymore
marina was my first car so fond memories
1.8 twin carb , lovely wallow in and out of bends

i read somewhere at the launch of the marina they understeered so much that most were written off by the jurno,s.
understeer city personified

LOL I to read the article in a paper I don't usually read (the sun). I only look at it for the pictures
My old man had a Marina. It was poo on a windy day. I fact it was poo full stop.
I was surprised by the amount of maestros/montegos left on the road.
Who remembers the triumph acclaim?? with twin carbs I seem to remember it pulled like a train for a production car in them days.

Nostalgia... I wasn't at the hairdressers today but did have 3 MG Maestros as firms cars.
Despite the pasting they took in the press they all did 100k in a shortspace of time except one which I pranged on a bad bend with a banked verge on a greasy morning. Write off, I kept the service book showing about 76k and was rather surprised when same car appeared in a local garage a few weeks later having had a dodgey respray and the boy racer treatment, displaying only 39,000miles!!!!!!
Naturally being a good citizen I phoned the garage and explained thatI had been the only former driver and had the servicebook, car disappeared very sharpish, I'm waiting for it to come thrrough as a mint Barn find in Practical Classics one day........

That's a coincidence, I've been to look at a TC marina for a mate today.

Quite tidy actually.

I want a Mk 2.3 ghia Cortina, or a 2.0 at a push, if you see one.

Cheers

Chris

I have a Mk1 Fiat 128 1100 2 door, how many left of these?

My mum had a meastro. Vanden plas that spoke to you. Right heap.

A bloke i work with has an E reg metro with 16k on the clock. Nice condition aswell.

The Marina was probabley one of the best fleet cars ever made, shame none of the fleet operators ever bought them. Ray

I saw a Marina over here yesterday - lovely tan colour. Rare spotting in Canada.

I had an Allegro Estate in the finest baby poop brown, it was used as a van for a couple of years and performed admirably. My mate George hired a Marina once and it was the first car we got over the ton on a run down the M1.

Aye! them were the days weren't they - Great British motors built with character and the finest materials and workmanship available.

All before my time as a driver, but I do have very fond memories of being taken to school by my Dad in his (hand painted) British Racing Green Marina pick-up

I wonder what the criteria was for compiling that list.

Only reason for wonder is that my eldest drives around in a restored 1972 Austin 1300 Countryman.

The owners club only has 26 on record for the world.

Cheers,
Syd.

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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
I have a Mk1 Fiat 128 1100 2 door, how many left of these?

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