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| posted on 31/8/06 at 05:24 PM |
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Rust in peace
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
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Humbug
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 05:31 PM |
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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?
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MikeR
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 05:40 PM |
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Nothing wrong with a marina in 1960's .......... shame it was only introduced in the 1970's
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nige
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 06:03 PM |
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marinas
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
when you start this journey
you think it will be done in " no " time but then " no " turns into a " bloody " long time
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 06:35 PM |
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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
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 07:57 PM |
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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.
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trextr7monkey
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 08:50 PM |
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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........
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14016102@N00/ (cut and paste this dodgey link)
Our most recent pics are here:
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/trextr7monkey/
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chrisg
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 09:12 PM |
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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
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 09:52 PM |
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I have a Mk1 Fiat 128 1100 2 door, how many left of these?
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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Danozeman
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 10:46 PM |
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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.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk
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Chippy
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| posted on 31/8/06 at 11:01 PM |
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The Marina was probabley one of the best fleet cars ever made, shame none of the fleet operators ever bought them. Ray
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Arthur Dent
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| posted on 1/9/06 at 05:46 AM |
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I saw a Marina over here yesterday - lovely tan colour. Rare spotting in Canada.
'The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go
wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.' Douglas Adams
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Peteff
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| posted on 1/9/06 at 08:13 AM |
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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.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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nick205
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| posted on 1/9/06 at 08:22 AM |
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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 
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Syd Bridge
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| posted on 1/9/06 at 08:27 AM |
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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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MikeRJ
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| posted on 1/9/06 at 08:48 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
I have a Mk1 Fiat 128 1100 2 door, how many left of these?
Very, very few I suspect. Came from the factory with tin worm already installed
As a nipper I can remember being very impressed with the 128 Rally that my uncle owned.
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