Marina Shite (Fleet changes- beige-r than ever)

[holbeck]

 

Apologies for the tenuous nature of this post, but here's my brother's 1.8TC in the background behind my ADO16 circa 1986.

 

Edit. 3 of the cars in that pic are mine. Always a shitter!

[MarinaJosh]

Great pic, single digit plate too!

 

According to my books there is a Marina 1.8 saloon UUX 995J that survives, Presumably from the same dealership around the same time!

[holbeck]

Great pic, single digit plate too!

 

According to my books there is a Marina 1.8 saloon UUX 995J that survives, Presumably from the same dealership around the same time!

 

I reckon so. It's a Shropshire reg, I bought the 1300 off a farm near Ross-on-Wye so it didn't travel far.

 

The 1.8TC is FK from Worcestershire so that was similarly local, ISTR that came from a small ad in the Gloucester Citizen. My Bro ran it until the MOT ran out, and that was it. Sadly. By god you could smoke it away from the lights and give the Ford Escort boys a shock!

[captain_70s]

I keep telling myself I need a Rover P6 next, before they get expensive but this thread is making me want a Marina estate. Probably a 1.3 for maximum misery...

 

There was a Coupe for sale on Gumtree locally a few months back for something like £600 but it had been off the road and stored for ages, put me off although it looked half decent in the photos.

[richardmorris]

I won't pretend to be a fan of la Marina, but I am very happy that there are others who are. It takes all sorts as they say

[MarinaJosh]

I know the coupe you mean cap'n. Looked pretty sound in the photos, the guy was trying to sell it for ages but there aren't any Marina fetishists up that way to take it on.

 

That's a rather refreshing comment. Too often on the internet it's people slagging others' cars off. At the end of the day I am a car enthusiast, there are some cars I don't like but I can understand that others might like them. I have to say though 2CVs are definitely a car I do like! Somebody I work with has one in their garage which has been sitting for a while, I'd love to get my hands on it...

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well I can't add much that hasn't already been said by everyone else.

 

Own stories are we had a Marina coupe in a burgundy colour for a bit when a child and and about 15 years ago I won an estate one on ebay that the owner said was tax exempt, then admitted it wasn't so never went for it. Think it was about £50 or so.

[bramz7]

Great first thread. I've seen a fair few interesting Marinas about but I imagine you know of them already?

Heres some photo evidence:

 

1979 Morris Marina 1700 L. by Sam Osbon, on Flickr

 

This one lives/lived near Bromley. I remember a house next to it had loads of Rover R8s outside, like 5?!

 

1980 Morris Marina 1300 HL. by Sam Osbon, on Flickr

 

This one always turns up at Bromley Pageant, I think the OAP owners have had it for like 30+ years?

 

1972 Morris Marina Coupe. by Sam Osbon, on Flickr

 

Another London Marina, one of the various reg websites said this one had had the same owner since the 80s...

 

1972 Morris Marina 1.8 DL. by Sam Osbon, on Flickr

 

Saw that one at Enfield a few years back..

 

1978 Morris Marina SDL. by Sam Osbon, on Flickr

 

Another long term owner Marina, in what looks like mint condition.

 

Marina & Montrose. by Sam Osbon, on Flickr

 

This one had been on a driveway since 1988, don't hold me to this but I think said driveway has since been cleared.

 

1980 MORRIS MARINA 1700 by Sam Osbon, on Flickr

 

This is a proper old photo, I remember this being someones daily runner in 2008/09, then it got parked halfway in this hedge, and then it vanished.

[captain_70s]

I know the coupe you mean cap'n. Looked pretty sound in the photos, the guy was trying to sell it for ages but there aren't any Marina fetishists up that way to take it on.

I know a bloke locally who has a pair of Marina autos, he was actually the maintenance guy for the farm that surrounds the factory where I work as maintenance guy! The only other I've seen up here was the police replica which has gone down south now.

 

I was going to send a message about the Coupe after I got paid one month but it had vanished by the time the money came in!  I don't really need another car and the coupe is my least favourite Marina but it was there and I'm having baaaaad shite withdrawal now all the Dolomites have been dead for years... Obviously the cure for having too many broken crap cars is to buy more crap cars.

[Asimo]

There's usually a Diesel Marina or two for sale in Portugal.

http://www.custojusto.pt/porto/ligeiros-passageiros/austin-morris-marina-1-5-diesel-15520609

 

If I can't have an OZ market 6 cylinder Marina, I'd have a 2 litre Ital-o-matic.

Van, obviously.

[ayrshirelad]

Michael Young who used to frequent these parts (can't remember his username) had six or seven Itals and Marinas, likewise a bloke I know who works for Abellio Scotrail has about half a dozen Itals too.

 

I have no Marina stories of my own sadly, but my 4ft 8in tall mother-in-law's first car was an orange 1.8TC saloon.

 

Top introduction though fella, 112%/10 would read again.

 

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He still does frequent these parts try Ayrshirelad, and he does still have his Mainas/itals Mk2/ 2xmk3 3 itals. Currently only Mk2 going by name of Bumble Bee on the road. According to Josh i own the Second Oldest Ital registered on the first of August 1980. Currently this car is trying to Bankrupt me. Replaced the roof as it was rotten around the sunroof. Severe amount of welding done to the front and all the doors. Once said car is nearly ready will post pics. I also have a Montego maestro and a rover 600 and the chopped roof Ital that i got for spares.Bolly the ital and Bumble Bee the Mk2 hopefully added.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Apart from the front and interior how different is the Ital from the Marina?

[barrett]

Well, now I really want an early Marina.

 

These are the only ones I've seen in recent years

 

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

These are really horrible to drive - FACT. I still love em though and take my hat off to you!!! Now I prefer looking at them to driving them.

[garethj]

When I was 17, back in 1988, a mate had a 1.3 Ital.  The seats were horribly uncomfortable and despite being the typical shed owned by kids doing A Levels it never really broke down.

 

Those early ones look pretty smart, I'd be happy to see some of them at a classic car show.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

My daily drivers throughout the 80's, cheap to buy and fix, very economical. Owned a 1.3 Marina saloon, 1.7 saloon, 1.8 estate, 1.8 Coupe GT and two 1.3 Ital Saloon's.

A picture of my last taken shortly before I sold it. 

 

 

Parked at the outlaws behind the Jag that would be replacing it.

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Christ, that Jag is as rough as a bears arse.

[Guest Hooli]

My dad used to have half of a Marina TC, it was bolted to the body of a NG TF kit car. Went quite well from memory.

[anonymous user]

This was mine, a 1.8 Special Automatic, owned around 2000. It had been owned from new by a couple, passing from the husband to wife , it was low mileage but had been the victim of poor aim by its drivers. A friend bought it off the old lady and fitted new front wings to replace the battered/rusty ones before I bought it off him and had it resprayed.

 

 

An automatic can be a bit interesting with a manual choke. I never really used it and so stuck it on ebay, it went to Ireland. I did see it for sale a while later (in a Doctor style advert, original time-warp condition, etc.) where inexplicably its low mileage was now several thousand less than when I sold it.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Christ, that Jag is as rough as a bears arse.

Not as bad as depicted in the photo. It was an early 4.2 auto G reg, one owner, low miles. Been standing in a field over the previous winter and someone had broken the drivers door quarter light and nicked the radio.

The interior was mint, albeit a little damp, all the chrome was good, hub caps in the boot, a bit of surface rust on the rear archs, the sills had been painted with tar.

I paid £50 for it, fitted a new battery and four tyres for a mot, then ran it for two years.

I then bought my second house and couldn't keep pace with Jags the fuel consumption, so sold it for £100.

[worldofceri]

I have no personal Marina anecdotes, so have a few spotz from my archives.

 

Daily driven Ital spotted a few years ago in High Wycombe.

 

 

Posh ice cream vendor's chariot.

 

 

Suntor camper living the life of Riley here in Coventry.

 

 

Also in Coventry, this driveway ornament keeps house prices reasonable.

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

This thread is TEH SEX.

 

Ital Van for sale on shitebay -

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/252694299544?clk_rvr_id=1144883436514&vectorid=229508&lgeo=1&item=252694299544&rmvSB=true

 

 

[Parky]

It's BV! Good to hear from you old chap, hope all is well!

 

Our Cousins in France have an interesting offering on Leboncoin - is this a converted van or an available model in Europe only?

 

https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1061498130.htm?ca=4_s

[richardthestag]

I have no personal Marina anecdotes, so have a few spotz from my archives.

 

Daily driven Ital spotted a few years ago in High Wycombe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hazlemere!

 

The couple owned this for absolutely yonks, They replaced it with chod of similar qualitay

[worldofceri]

Haven't been down that way for a good while.  Internet sez the Ital is sorn and mot-less now.  Glad they're keeping up the chod work still.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Wow that French marina van is literally the yak's clackers

[Felly Magic]

Welcome josh, you aren't a million miles from me, I'm just down the '14' in Felixstowe

[Guest Breadvan72]

I think this is nicked from the AS pic archives, I found it today in a file of some of my random saved pics and it maybe fits in here.

 

 

Everything about that photo is totes 70s (the internet says the photo dates from 1980, but decades always hang on for a bit). The vehicles, the terrible shopping centre, the crimplene frocks in the window.

 

By the 90s, the shopping centre had changed, and 90s shite was on the road:-

 

[dollywobbler]

Howdy Josh. Pretty sure we've spoken (years ago!) when I was writing a Marina buying guide for one of the classic rags.

 

All these posts, and NO-ONE has remarked on the very early wiper layout. Why on Earth did BL ditch it and move to LHD wipers? Why did the arm shape change too? Those early ones look amazingly weird. I remember being fascinated by one that lived in our road when I was a (very young) child (a very young child with some serious priority issues).

[anonymous user]

Mr Wobbler if you look at the LHD van thing you'll see it has rhd wipers