My new toy.

[mattblack]

Picked up my latest ebay purchase this morning...

 

 

 

 

1275 Marina POWAH!!!!

 

 

O/H doing her 'Nurse Gladys' bit...

 

 

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

Nice. Please remove the headlamp peaks and flatten them with a big hammer. Oddly, I quite like the painted rear bumper.

[Cavcraft]

Fab cars. That back bumper look absolutely hateful though (sorry!) please unpaint it.

[vulgalour]

Sometimes I like moggies and sometimes I don't, but this one is of the appealing variety.

[Faker]

Superb. Health to enjoy.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Minors are probably the only cliche classic that I would love to own... It would have to be nicely patina'd example, though, just like yours !

 

As the fellow shitters have already said, the peaks must go on ebay and the rear bumper needs to be introduced to nitromors. Otherwise just enjoy it, not forgetting to liberally coat the underside with waxoyl a couple of times a year.

[purplebargeken]

I used to have one and I think I might have a proper workshop manual and a resto manual if you'd be interested. Both are brand new.

[Jim Bell]

I like the way they look. But every time I hear one, I shudder. They sound like a baby tractor full of wasps, shouting into an echo chamber, under the sea, in a biscuit tin.

[406V6]

These are in my Autoshite Room 101, especially any example with headlamp peaks.

[Angrydicky]

Fab cars. That back bumper look absolutely hateful though (sorry!) please unpaint it.

 

I don't think it's painted, that's the valance! The rear bumper blade is missing.

[Pillock]

Looks suitably used, hence acceptable.... I do like the shape, I don't mind the sound and in fact I have a bit of an attachment to them since my gran had one. What I do object to, and this also applies to pretty much any MG as well, is the overly enthusiastic enthusiasts who show them with every screw head perfectly aligned and the brake bleed nipples polished.

 

They were designed to be affordable motoring, to be repaired with bits of corned beef tin and baling twine, and to look scruffy. Most of them left the factory looking exactly like yours

 

(with the exception of the headlamp peaks. Please kill them with fire)

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

LOVE IT.

 

Don't even mind the kidney scoopers. 

[M'coli]

Tip-top stuff!  I like a Moggie with a bit of patina.  Any chance you can post up a picture of the air fliter? It looks quite interesting.

[Junkman]

Nice.

Please remove the bumpers and bin them.

[trigger]

Nice! I agree with the rear bumper though...

[dollywobbler]

I like the way they look. But every time I hear one, I shudder. They sound like a baby tractor full of wasps, shouting into an echo chamber, under the sea, in a biscuit tin.

 

While that made me laugh, I can't agree. I love the transmission and fan whine backed up by the farting exhaust. Not a sporty sounding car I must concede.

[garethj]

My brother had a E-reg 2 door just like that.  He fitted a radio so he'd have something to listen to whilst waiting for the AA.

 

I never really got on with it, I think it had the 1098cc engine by 1967 but the farting trombone exhaust noise wasn't nice and the fact it sounded strained at 35mph in top gear was a bit poor.  Aside from that, it wasn't a bad old thing to punt around.

 

Some wag had replaced the indicator warning light on the end of the switch with an approximately 40W bulb so when you indicated in the dark the whole inside of the car lit up green.

[jonny69]

Good purchase - they are rubbish. Always wanted to try one at some point, with a few sympathetic upgrades from other BL marques to make it more useable day-to-day but still looking standard. I just had to look it up, but it's amazing they made these up until 1971!

[Junkman]

...to make it more useless day-to-day...

EFA

[jonny69]

Lol, depends whether using parts from other BL cars is actually likley to make it better or not

[mattblack]

Had a better look round the old girl (and then went to the garage to look at the car) BOOM BOOM!

 

Has had plenty of patches over the years but seems solid enough. Front wings are 'glass, as is that rear bumper valence sans bumper. Marina discs on front, and 8" drums (Wolseley/Riley?) on the back. Seller wasn't sure if anything else had been done to the engine apart from the carb and LCB exhaust manifold. Despite the 11 months MOT the pads were seized solid in the caliper one side and the shoes are covered in oil one side. Paintwork is shite. 

 

Not sure if I should mention it but plans are a 'kustom' job with a roof chop, dechroming ect over the winter.

 

I await the OMG UR GOIN 2 RUIN THAT WELL RARE CLASSIC M8 comments with interest...

[Pillock]

Meh, your car - do what you want. It's not like they're rare, in fact I did a double-loop of Fosse Park Sainsburys yesterday because there was a moggy in that colour parked up but it was shinier than yours, and had a back bumper.