ETCHY Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 15 minutes ago, keef said: Nice, I do like automatic cars ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 2 hours ago, bunglebus said: Isn't that a landcrab rather than a Maxi? I've not seen that one before. It does look far too much like a slightly shrunken Landcrab so if it was launched in that form it would have flopped even more than the production Maxi. The other one above it appears to have a conventional bootlid so the hatchback must have been added later in its development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 2 hours ago, keef said: Rimmer are an endangered species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 7 hours ago, JeeExEll said: These remind me of the Australian ADO16 facelift. Sudsprint, JeeExEll, egg and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: MGX975W (HLS) https://web.archive.org/web/20160601084717/http://www.austinmaxiclub.org/gallery/gallery093.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Thanks to @retro80sboy grizgut, spartacus, Sudsprint and 7 others 4 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETCHY Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 16 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said: These remind me of the Australian ADO16 facelift. Something along those lines might have been a better idea than the Allegro. Interesting tailgate, it's not off a Maxi but looks very similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: NDD96W (L) https://web.archive.org/web/20160601082748/http://www.austinmaxiclub.org/gallery/gallery049.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: ORA745W (L) https://web.archive.org/web/20140208123435/http://www.austinmaxiclub.org/gallery/gallery030.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Thanks Remspoor from 'eyecatching black and whites'. All this makes me want to drive one of these sometime. A usable mot and tax exempt hatchback. Cavcraft, JeeExEll and chodweaver 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 1 hour ago, lesapandre said: Thanks Remspoor from 'eyecatching black and whites'. Looking for that, I found this :- PVP 744M ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 31 October 1986 Incorrect tax status? MOT No results returned Incorrect MOT status? Cavcraft and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: UAH392W (L Auto) Cavcraft and Sudsprint 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerzy Woking Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 My parents lived opposite a house with a steep drive, and the owner of the house had a Maxi (TOL 954H) . In early 1978 it rolled off of the drive and smacked into the side of my brothers newly acquired Renault 8. Wrote the 8 off (it folded like a crisp bag). Maxi last taxed up to 1984. Cavcraft and keef 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 43 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said: My parents lived opposite a house with a steep drive, and the owner of the house had a Maxi (TOL 954H) . In early 1978 it rolled off of the drive and smacked into the side of my brothers newly acquired Renault 8. Wrote the 8 off (it folded like a crisp bag). Maxi last taxed up to 1984. That would have been a cable changer. I fancy one of those. All of mine are the later wood-dashed rod changers. As you say, that one lasted till Feb 84. :- TOL 954H ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 23 February 1984 Incorrect tax status? MOT No results returned Incorrect MOT status? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: FTR909X (HL) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203694006416395&set=gm.10154127619365655&type=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Ok, the quality of this is shockingly poor, apologies for that, but it's better than nothing at all. If you zoom in it's readable. It's a 1973 road test of a Downton Engineering Stage 2 1750. keef and Sudsprint 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retr0naut Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 JeeExEll, Sudsprint and stonedagain 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, Retr0naut said: Cable changer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: LOJ921X (L, ex Patrick Collection) http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201406265318446?atmobcid=soc3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Not on DVLA, so assume long gone, but my dad had OFO 9M (an orange 1750) as a company car for two years when it was new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 48 minutes ago, Cavcraft said: Not on DVLA, so assume long gone, but my dad had OFO 9M (an orange 1750) as a company car for two years when it was new. Very similar reg on a white one. :- OPP 9M ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 1 September 1983 Incorrect tax status? MOT No results returned Incorrect MOT status? Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 1 hour ago, JeeExEll said: Ok, the quality of this is shockingly poor, apologies for that, but it's better than nothing at all. If you zoom in it's readable. It's a 1973 road test of a Downton Engineering Stage 2 1750. 0-60 similar to Golf GTI Mk1 - economy similar too. Top speed 13mph slower - but with a 'longer top' would it have gone up? Golf 810kg - Maxi 976kg - but it is a bigger car than the Mk1 Golf. Remember the Golf GTI was 1975 so a newer design. I have not crunched the numbers but would have been significantly more than Maxi in '75. VW hot a hatchback and create a new 'sector'. Meanwhile BLMC ignores Maxi... egg, ETCHY and JeeExEll 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: LRL45X (L) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206583744849474&set=gm.693374320789782&type=1&theater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: VNG613X (HLS) lesapandre and Sudsprint 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 I’ll throw in these couple of Maxi 2’s that were acquired by my local scrapyard in the past couple of years. JeeExEll, Sudsprint and Dick Longbridge 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETCHY Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 2 hours ago, JeeExEll said: Ok, the quality of this is shockingly poor, apologies for that, but it's better than nothing at all. If you zoom in it's readable. It's a 1973 road test of a Downton Engineering Stage 2 1750. Really does illustrate how easy it would have been for BL to produce a performance version. Something that would have done it's image the world of good. It really is a shame. When you read contemporary road tests the main thing that crops up is that the car was falling behind the times mainly in easy to fix areas such as noise & switch-gear, not that it was bad. It was a good car & an advanced car but BL just didn't update it enough, a few upgrades & a GT model would have kept it fresh. It took them years to even put a wash wipe column stalk on it when bizarrely they had ones in their own parts bin they could use ! It was almost as if they deliberately ignored the poor bloody thing. Crazy when BL needed money & had a car capable of competing head on with it's competitors. The Maxi had serious potential, it's just a pity the management at BL didn't capitalise on it. lesapandre, JeeExEll, egg and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: MCE7G (cable change - Puff, Bron Burrell's World Cup Rally car) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: RUR732M (1750, one my dad almost bought before getting YDU) https://www.facebook.com/groups/394639097251042/permalink/1113851178663160/r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said: LOV476X (2 L - last Maxi built, on loan from BMIHT to Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum) https://web.archive.org/web/20140107085007/http://www.austinmaxiclub.org/gallery/gallery083.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 So for about 6 years a direct competitor for the Mk1 Golf - the Mk1 that sold over 6 million units overall... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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