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Introduction: I am an idiot. I buy lots of crap. Keep it for about 6 months and then sell it for another project that most people would consider scrap. Join me on my ramblings as I keep old cars going that most people would sooner turn into washing machines or bean tins. Index: Page 1 - Austin Montego Estate 1.3L Base Initial Assessment. Many years of slumber and many rusts Page 12 - Lands End to John O Groats in a Montego. What could possibly go wrong...? Spoiler alert: It went wrong Page 17-18 - Bonus Mini content x2 Page 19 - LEJOG part Deux. The return of the Montenogo Page 24 - Goodbye to the Montego/Mini engine build/Arrival of an Impreza/Departure of my daily/Collection caper of a Volvo 240 - Busy page that one! Page 26 - Scooby departure & Arrival of a new modern-ish daily/track car Page 27 - NC500 2022/Headgasket on the roadside Page 28-30 - A wild Cavalier mk1 appears! A wild MGF appears! Plus bonus Montego content! Departure of the Cavalier. Acquisition of a Rover 414 and a 1979 Mini. I need to stop buying cars... Page 30 - Mexican Beetle Page 34 - Rover 25 GTI arrives Thread: What do you get after 16 hours and 800 miles of driving on a Sunday to collect two cars? Well @sharley17194 picks up a 1997 Citreon AX from the depths of the Lakes on the North West coast past Keswick. However, we actually started the day by driving to just near Cromer on the East coast to pick up this! An Austin Montego poverty spec estate with a 1.3L A-series engine! Yes you did read that bit right! Yes I know the DVLA lists the model as 1.6... Yes its correctly registered as 1.3L. No I dont know if its a factory 1.3L! 😂 My favourite part of all this??? (Apart from the doom blue colour and the absolutely terrible interior!) 281,000 miles on the clock! Collection went really well and the below posts follows my initial assessment of what is quite frankly the best car I have ever purchased.

Fackin oops. My goal was not to buy any more cars but with the Lanchester out of action while we work through it and make it safe to use, and the Princess out of action and needing the engine to be removed (a job I am procrastinating about, and when I'm motivated am thwarted by schedule and weather conflicts) it was getting more obvious that I needed some personal transport. Something basic and reliable that I know my way around, that's going to be cheap to buy and run. This is an ideal candidate, on paper. Whether I really can just use it as An Car or will end up getting all finicky about making it nice remains to be seen. I just want some hasslefree pootling for a few months and normally Maestros are just that.