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Maxi wasn't part of the 'Landcrab' family, but used the same doors. Funny how it is lampooned for that, but the Peugeot 604 hardly ever gets mentioned for using the doors from the 504.Landcrab family then - Austin and Morris 1800 and 2200, Wolseley 18/85 and Six. Oh, and Austin 3-Litre as well - which used the same centre section but was completely re-engineered to accept a longitudinal C-series 3-litre straight six and RWD. They sold 9,000 which can hardly have covered the development costs! 35 years later, history repeats itself with the MG ZT 260... :lol:

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Well it's defined exactly as Rich Welf has described. Austin / Morris 1800 and derivatives thereof. NOTHING ELSE.Yes the shape is 'similar'. But the 1800 etc was a large saloon, wheras the Maxi was a medium sized hatchback.From the same pen, many similar design features but very different aminals.

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austin-rover.co.uk sez: This 1974 model demonstrates perfectly the odd proportions of the car, with its long wheelbase, truncated front and rear ends and huge width. It is for this, the ADO17 earned the nickname, “Land Crabâ€Â.

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My dad tells me that my great-uncle had one, and an average size driver struggled to lean across to open the passenger door, from the inside. His was a shite-beige 1800 L-reg, I think. He chopped it in a for a Maestro 1.6HLS in 1986, drove it about 50 miles, then died (unrelated events I hope). My dad was executor to his will, but STUPIDLY decided not to replace my mum's Lada Riva with the 'stro which would have been supercheap. Thanks, Dad.

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I have also read that the Landcrab moniker was coined on the London-Sydney Marathon of 1970, due it's tendency, under hard driving, to go round corners sideways and on 3 wheels.....crabbing - thus Landcrab. :lol: Could be balls though.

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I have also read that the Landcrab moniker was coined on the London-Sydney Marathon of 1970, due it's tendency, under hard driving, to go round corners sideways and on 3 wheels.....crabbing - thus Landcrab. :lol: Could be balls though.

Now THAT seems to make sense!!
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Sorry, not quite enough info. What was the derivative that had the thin strip rear light clusters that crept around the corners? I know the Wolseley had the corner mounted oblong clusters, and the austins and morris' had the vertical cluster with the reflector in the middle. I remember from my youth a mean looking black landcrab with those lights. Riley and VdP never did a derivative of this, so maybe it was an early 1800?

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Early 1800s had pencil-slim rear lights, horizontally mounted, that crept round the corners. Think they lost 'em in the first facelift of '68, when they became more like 1100/MGB rear lights.

Those early cars looked so right - much better than post-facelift. I love 'em! :D

 

In typically daft fashion, those horizontal rear lights on the Morris tapered and wrapped around more than the Austin, whose clusters had more 'angular' outer edges. Can't see how that makes the Austin look any more up-market, which I think was the general plan in the badge-engineering hierarchy.

 

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Think this is the only one I've seen in the last year that wasn't on a banger track, this Wolseley last month, the house it's parked outside is now on the market - described as requiring modernisation, oh the irony :lol:

 

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Heres a few other Blandcrab pics from my archives, this Wolseley was seen about 12 months ago looking rather sorry for itself behind a Garage premises in southeast Cornwall....

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any resemblance here.. I think so....

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I had a few hours to kill in Littlehampton last week so what better way to spend it than go shite spotting.Here`s what i found.For me the Subara XT was the best spot.

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I had to use maximum zoom on this Fiat on the other side of the harbour

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Twingo

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Tidy Escort mk3 5dr

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Espace

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Stretched Granada

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Corsa convertible

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Maestro VP

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Early Metro

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Subaru XT

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Cortina

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Golf

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Rover 2dr Coupe

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Peugeot 309

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Quality spottage as always....Nice to see a Subaru XT again, and have a giggle at the truly repugnant hood fitted to the Corsa! :shock: Very envious of the spotting opportunities that You southern chaps seem to find....I'm in Bournemouth Thursday to Sunday this week: Anyone know if there's any good stuff to be snapped down there? :)

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Nice selection AJ, that gold Maestro is worryingly attractive and that bilious green Metro is a long lost sight in most parts of the nation, I'm loving the random red MG belts fitted to it. However what most floats my boat is the timewarp Golf;

 

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Time was practically every new VW on the road had number plates to this common style, even in Jersey!

Was there an edict from Dub UK that a uniform appearance was required, achtung, sieg heil?

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