forddeliveryboy Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Either that, or his real name is Basharat. http://www.austinmaxiclub.org/features/blpakistan/bm3.htm Or bought the car from him while on holiday* in Pakistan. Suspension conversion to coils on page one of that series of pics. http://www.austinmaxiclub.org/features/blpakistan/bm0.htm Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Can we please let this shit thread die now? And yes, I realise I just resurrected it. Partridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 My Yugo 45 diesel does 74MPG at 74kmh. privatewire and John F 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 My Yugo 45 diesel does 74MPG at 74kmh.I don't remember Joe Walsh singing that Richard, Banger Kenny, trigger and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Im waiting for someone to drop the Bosch question...no its rotodiesel Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 no its rotodieselBasharat's probably has a Zexel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Torana Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Can we please let this shit thread die now? Uncle Jimmy, cros, Cavcraft and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cros Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 In the spirit of not letting this thread die I'd just like to say that I've never owned a Maxi. They seemed to have no appeal in the same way that most people carriers fail to excite. I drove one recently and it was not too bad, years ahead of its time in fulfilling a need that no one wants to have. inconsistant, dugong, LC Torana and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 How did I miss this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 cros, on 28 Oct 2015 - 11:25 AM, said:In the spirit of not letting this thread die I'd just like to say that I've never owned a Maxi. They seemed to have no appeal in the same way that most people carriers fail to excite. I drove one recently and it was not too bad, years ahead of its time in fulfilling a need that no one wants to have. I have fond memories of a dark green Maxi 1500 that one of my mates used to own. Its top speed was 50 mph and it consumed equally large amounts of oil and petrol. On a trip up to London once to collect a motorbike for another friend, I remember seeing the word SCANIA loom into view in massive letters through the fog of oil smoke behind the car... the car never actually made it back from that trip, and after a few half-arsed attempts at getting it going again it was eventally returned to Reclamet scrapyard (used to be on Sturry Road in Canterbury, near the Asda) from which my mate bought it. Actually, now I think about it, it was a shit car really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 My auntie had a MaxE. However, I always preferred her Renault 12 with its wafflicious dashboard. Renner MaxE Even if the MaxE had the lesser spotted derv v12 lump fitted, I would still have preferred the 12. Because dashboard. chaseracer, cros, Uncle Jimmy and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Maxi's are ok shite, in a failed Landcrab / failed Renault 16 sort of way. A proper Maxi thread might be good. Does any one here have one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Youz are all tossers. My dad had a 1750HL in blue KPH269P And a Renault12 Uncle Jimmy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Bloke Next Door Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I ran an R reg. 1750HL for about a year back in 1983, a very good car apart from breaking down three times. By the way, I have no connection with Old Fart. scruff and Uncle Jimmy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Spares & Tyres Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I had a diesel one, it was superb I bought it with as full tank of fuel and ran it for a couple of hundred miles Refuelled it with diesel and it only lasted a few minutes more. Shame, it was way better than the petrol ones.... Craig the Princess, theorganist, flat4alfa and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I ran an J reg. 1750 for a whole year back in 2011, a very good car and never broke down ever. Even better than that, it was in Limeflower and folks would gawp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I had a Maxi in 1986 and hated it. I can safely say it's an experience I won't be repeating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 When I was 16, I had a Puch Maxi moped. It was suitably shit. dugong and cros 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I ran an J reg. 1750 for a whole year back in 2011, a very good car and never broke down ever. Even better than that, it was in Limeflower and folks would gawp.You didn't sell it to a bloke called Chamberpot did you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cros Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 No car has ever had a finer dash than that Renault 12. Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Spares & Tyres Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 My early Renault 25 had my favourite dash ever. It even won a design award doobietoo and mouseflakes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 No car has ever had a finer dash than that Renault 12. Well... groovylee, forddeliveryboy, Vince70 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Jimmy Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Used to go to school in a Maxi. Looked lousy to drive but as a rear seat passenger it was a very pleasant place to be. Seemed very quiet I recall, perhaps it never moved very fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 you gotta love the renner logic on the r12 dash "lets put the heater knob where the passenger cannot reach" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseflakes Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 R12 steering wheel boss was modeled on the panini. D Spares & Tyres, Partridge, Lacquer Peel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Honda Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Well I had a 1980 1750HL Badermatic. Then I got some cheap tyres, attached to these rimz: Maxi 007.jpg by E Honda, on Flickr Motor was sound ropey as fook 17k miles later, probably didn't like it's diet of 95UL (plus the rare tank of 98UL, so I dropped the lot out and robbed the lump out of my other one and made it manual as I didn't have time or inclination to swap boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauserplenty Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 No I'm only kidding. I'm not 'im. I was only 'aving you on. PUT ME BACK!! Bloody Romans--can't take a JOKE! &c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Citroen steering wheels give me the creeps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 ^ That's quite strange... John F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cros Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 No car has ever had a finer dash than that Renault 12. Alright maybe they have alf892 and mouseflakes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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