New Shite Incoming - Horriblish MG Maestro Purchased

[Sir Snipes]

It was practically the secret hot hatch! Everyone went nuts for the Ford, Vauxhall and VW competitors, but the MG was criminally overlooked, even after the addition of the Turbo.

 

I still miss mine.

Not by the thieves, it wasn't! An old workmate of mine told me once got snaired by a MG Maestro that had been planted by the fuzz to tempt the local joyriders.

[RobT]

Zircon blue + wob = WIN.

 

Does it have the early digi dash?  

[cort16]

Zircon blue + wob = WIN.

 

Does it have the early digi dash?  

 

Unfortunately not just standard dials. MrC has had to go out so I'm on babysitting duties so I've still not driven it!

 

£86 a year to insure. Can't complain at that unfortunately the car tax isn't as easy going.

[The Moog]

Track weapon?

[RobT]

Just checked out the eBay ad.  It's got the later Montego one-piece with obligatory dash lift!

 

[John F]

Hideous and utterly undesirable, so well done!

[inconsistant]

Thatcher also approves btw.

 

"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there is Autoshite"

[406V6]

Has anyone else noticed the striking resemblance between the alloys on this car and that other pinnacle of automotive shite - Tagora SX ?

[eddyramrod]

4, 16 and 59 when the time comes please.

[Royale80]

1,5, 56

[overrun]

I think you've actually won the keys to Autoshite.

 

To go with ths keys to Nyphur's filing cabinet?

[Felly Magic]

Those wheels are a twat to keep clean, mine was a very early EFi with standard gauges, I believe they were optional on early 2.0s, but quickly dropped. Got an indicated 130 out of mine, how the feck I kept my licence I will never know. Replaced the utterly shite AM Motorola radio cassette (factory fit) with a Sparkomatic that I pop riveted over the removal key holes to prevent some cunt pinching it, car got nicked, but was found a few hours later with fucked locks and no petrol, and bald front tyres, had to get a lockset from Rover. Very roomy inside, and mine had a towbar, and one of the p/o s used it to tow a horsebox, my boss at the time for a YTS I was doing had an F reg one in red, and used it to tow an ex MOD trailer which was often full of a tonne pack of bricks, bags of cement, sand, timber etc. Every now and again we'd use mine to do the same, was surreal seeing 2 EFi Maestros together, the boss laughed the first day I turned up on site in it. Mine also had the steel tilt and slide sunroof, and being black, did look the nuts, red seatbelts and carpet FTW, annoyed me the fag lighter was on the passenger side as I was a smoker back then. Would love another, for the memories, my mates all drove shite with tiny engines, I had that beast with 115 bhp, it was my uncle's before me, he got offered feck all against an XR2i trade in, so my dad bought it for me and insured it in his name, barring the Fiesta that followed it, even though it rusted for shits and giggles, it had to be my fave motor. All it really could have done with is power steering

[Felly Magic]

Oh and 6, 12, 31 & 44

[andy18s]

It was practically the secret hot hatch! Everyone went nuts for the Ford, Vauxhall and VW competitors, but the MG was criminally overlooked, even after the addition of the Turbo.

 

I still miss mine.

Loved my 2.0i,used to rip the Ford boys up a treat.......

[scruff]

This is brilliant, well bought, not only a great/shit car but the potential for amusing posts is massive. Approved!!

[FakeConcern]

Looking at this now, what a really nice looking car!

 

As for the wheels, the MG Metro I had had very similar and I hated them! (look good on the Maestro though!)

[Guest Lord Sward]

This is one lottery I'll be buying a ticket for (assuming it has PAS).

[cort16]

I finally managed to get this out for a drive tonight. It's flippin brilliant. In the world of 16v engines and vvt you forget how much punch old school 8v 2 litre engines have. It reminds me of my mates old 8v 2.0 Astra GTE, you don't need to wind it up to get any performance you could be in 4th at 40 and floor it and wallop, it's off.

It's obviously relatively not that quick by modern performance standards but it's not slow either.   The gear change is really nice, the PAS isn't over assisted and because the heaviest part of it other than me and the engine is all the isopan in the rear arches it corners really well. If you're used lardy modern cars like me the lack of weigh is immediately obvious.

The front tyres are horribly cracked so I don't want to push it too hard until I can get a couple of happy joy roads tyres on it. 

 

It runs really well, the engine is quiet and there's no real funny noises or anything from the suspension.  The noises it make, the feel of the controls and smells all take me back to when my hair was longer and my waste line was smaller.

 

I took some more pictures. Mostly of silicon seal.

 

If you've got the sealant loaded into the gun you might as well keep going until it's finished

 

 

 

 

Being used to compact little 16v engines this thing is surprisingly big. Multi point injection.

Fancy

 

 

Dunno what's going on here with all that foam and hose pipe. There's a little wire connecting the oil filter to a vac hose. I don't want to undo it incase it makes all the doors lock or makes the tyres deflate.

 

 

Worrying

 

I took the arch spat off because it was, yes you guess it held on with silicon seal and ready to fall off.

It's glued on because theres air were the mounting point is supposed to go into the arch. Amazingly the sill is still solid and has the original spat mounting points.

 

 

 

night night. I walked the 1 1/2 miles home, really regretted drinking a coffee before leaving my house and nearly pissed myself. That's not related to the Maestro though.

[alf892]

Nice.....that foam around the oil filler will be to try and stop mayo......o series in montego suffered same. At the time there was an official mod to fit a stub for the breather take off lower on the filler tube and then fit a cap without a stub.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

That extra keyhole will be for a (probably long dead) alarm.

 

 

You'll have to hope it is one of those stick on pretend keyholes you could buy at Halfords. They came along with a pair of 'My car is alarmed' stickers. Most cars with the fake alarm keyholes glued to them were probably more embarrassed than alarmed I should think.

 

 

These were very highly regarded by the press. I have a few old magazines with MG Maestro tests in them. The Maestro generally won them, which isn't remembered today.

[greengartside]

Farkin hell, that's a bloody belter. Always had the horn for a Maestro and the MG variant. Those wheels are proper nice, I'd say in my top ten of all time ever.

 

1 to 59 when the Roffle occurs please!

[scdan4]

 

night night. I walked the 1 1/2 miles home, really regretted drinking a coffee before leaving my house and nearly pissed myself. That's not related to the Maestro though.

 

 

You're a man. The whole world is your potential toilet.

[Lord Sterling]

Cort man, what a purchase!

 

I love these Meastros. Though with those alloys I remember seeing a few parked up in gardens with grass growing around/through them.

 

I remember a chap who lived a few doors down from my school having one of these in his garden accompanied by a Mini, it looked liked Corts one, probably the same colour and definitely the same type of alloys. He eventually got the Maestro going one day as I was passing on my way to school, I offered to help him push start it which it eventually did.

[Lacquer Peel]

It's the eighties, do a lot of coke and vote for Margaret Thatcher, incorporate grid patterns in your instrument cluster.

 

CLASS.

[Kiltox]

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[cort16]

Do they sell it in 10gallon barrels?

[oldcars]

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Should be ok. Think cort is in Glasgow area, and i guess he is as 21 have been collected in Possilpark today, 27 in Kinning park and 20 in Parkhead

[BorniteIdentity]

Have always loved those cheese grater wheels.

 

Have always loved Maestros.

 

Winning.

[nigel bickle]

Scrummy.

 

But you garaged it the wrong way round.

How you going to get to the battery with a jump pack next time you need it?

 

Amateur...

[fordperv]

Looks utterly lovely, I have a soft spot for an mg maestro but it would have to be black, something about a black car with a red stripe

 

Here's one I saw at the weekend