Austin Maxi 1750

[LC Torana]

I was always a fan of the MG Maxi XPower 350 which had the 346bhp interior fan and green XPower graphics which really complemented the russet brown or harvest gold paint options.

Yes, the RWD version. Didn't Jensen help out with that one?

[Skizzer]

^ Especially in estate form.  Faster to 60 than a Porsche 911, and room in the boot for a troll with a whole load of baggage.

[Lacquer Peel]

My Maserati Quattroporte III fitted with a VM modular 7 cylinder diesel tows well.

[HH-R]

My Horsey Horseless Sports Executive estate CDTI had excellent toes.

[I_am_Diesel]

I have a diesel MGF. It's called Spartacus.

No, I'm Spartacus.

[MarvinsMom]

No, I'm Spartacus.

no, i'm sparticus, and so is my wife.

[purplebargeken]

No, no , no. You cannot be Spartacus. I have a gerbil who is so named and there can after all be only one. I may be getting my films confused. 

[Grundig]

 The diesel Maxi suffered  DMF & DPF issues which affected sales, so this version was killed off early on - shame really.   oh what could have been etc 

[Craig the Princess]

The new Hinckley Point nuclear reactor will use a 1750cc diesel engine based on the Maxi. This is why the Chinese bought MG, to gain access to the Longbridge drawing office.

 

Red Robbo was actually a Chinese secret agent.

[Ghosty]

No! I bought Spartacus new as D701SWL in 1896, and I've had it for the past century. My great grandad wanted to PX it for a Horsey Horseless but I wouldn't let him as the Horseless won't run on veg.

[RoadworkUK]

Mornington Crescent!

[Christine]

 The diesel Maxi suffered  DMF & DPF issues which affected sales, so this version was killed off early on - shame really.   oh what could have been etc 

 

After BMW bought BL and discovered all the surplus bosch ECU's left over from diesel Maxi  project, they realised they were shit , so flogged them off cheap to Volkswagen

[primin2015]

Old Fart? Could it be Ronnie Pickering, as he seems to think we should all know him!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

If any of you need a DPF for your Maxi derv, this place sells them.

http://car-parts.mister-auto.co.uk/en/diesel-particulate-filter-austin-maxi_lg1256_ls267/

[CHRIS1980]

Has the automotive bullshit thread formed a splinter group? The judean peoples autoshite page?

[Taff]

I have long had a sneaky desite to pro-street a Maxi. Cut the body off the floor pan and space-frame it, small block chevy, 350 transmission, narrowed Volvo rear axle, you get the picture.

 

Leave it looking fairly stock on the outside (big rear tyres not withstanding) and then smoke about in it laughing at the flat cappers. I suspect the 5.7l engine would lend itself to towing duties quite well although obvs the fuel consumption would suffer

[Jim Bell]

How well would it go up a 1 in 3 hill?

[primin2015]

Funnily enough, I have recently attended a couple of drift meetings at the Ty Croes circuit here on Anglesey.

 

This has given me the idea of building an Austin Maxi for drifting purposes. I may have to go as far as to completely swap the chassis for the Nissan S specification one, once that's done, it would be a simple matter of removing items such as the wood dashboard to save weight. Then I'll be the new Vin Diesel (with the emphasis on the Diesel!)

 

Then, the new film would follow; "The Fast and the Furious, Longbridge Drift"

[MrDuke]

Don't forget the Nawss tanks.

[garbaldy]

I remember a grumpy old fart from my childhood with a maxi disiesel fook knows what engine he had shoe horned in but it sounded shit, he was a proper roadside bodger, this same old fart painted it on the side of the road in some shite navy blue colour, I always remember a group of us sitting on the wall watching him masking it up with a huge tin of grease then going wild covering everything with a blue haze, those where the days whats health and safety.

[flat4alfa]

 

 

[flat4alfa]

More on that TD Maxi in Pakistan

 

http://www.austinmaxiclub.org/features/blpakistan/bm3.htm

 

 

 

[CHRIS1980]

Sits nice and square in that Maxi does that.

[Honey Badger]

The Deltic deisel Maxi sounds like an excellent idea, turn the fuel pump up and leave a line of clag upto 25 miles long when you pull off.

 

it may leave the caravan looking slightly manky though.

[Paul Dupart]

...and leave a line of clag upto 25 miles long when you pull off.

 

 

Blimey, I can only just about manage half a thimble full these days....

[Junkman]

What ever happened to the automotive bullshit facts thread?

[John F]

Perhaps it's the...

 

SPASTO-MAXI?

 

 

[Norbert]

Mornington Crescent!

Sorry Mr. Roadwork, you can't do that - Biggun's Amendment to the Arkwright Alteration (named after its proposer, trailer magnate Ifor Biggun) has, since the 1986 convention, prohibited movement to Mornington Crescent when there are Leyland Influences present. Since the entire Underground stock (both tube and cut-and-cover) had been powered by the BL E-series in 1750cc dilithium crystal powered form since well before 1863, Biggun's Amendment applies in this case, therefore your move is illegal.

[explosive-cabbage]

Im waiting for someone to drop the Bosch question...

[explosive-cabbage]

I remember a grumpy old fart from my childhood with a maxi disiesel fook knows what engine he had shoe horned in but it sounded shit, he was a proper roadside bodger, this same old fart painted it on the side of the road in some shite navy blue colour, I always remember a group of us sitting on the wall watching him masking it up with a huge tin of grease then going wild covering everything with a blue haze, those where the days whats health and safety.

 

We have found Old Fart!