Austin Maxi

[ETCHY]

15 minutes ago, keef said:

 

Nice, I do like automatic cars ?

[quicksilver]

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.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, keef said:

 

Rimmer are an endangered species.

[MorrisItalSLX]

7 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

These remind me of the Australian ADO16 facelift.

[keef]

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 

[Cavcraft]

 

 

Thanks to @retro80sboy

[ETCHY]

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.

[keef]

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 

[keef]

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 

[lesapandre]

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.

[keef]

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?

[keef]

On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said:

UAH392W (L Auto)

 

[Jerzy Woking]

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.

[keef]

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?

 

[keef]

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

[JeeExEll]

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.

 

[Retr0naut]

[keef]

2 minutes ago, Retr0naut said:

Cable changer.

[keef]

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 

[Cavcraft]

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.

[keef]

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?

[lesapandre]

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...

[keef]

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 

[keef]

On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said:

VNG613X (HLS)

 

[greengartside]

I’ll throw in these couple of Maxi 2’s that were acquired by my local scrapyard in the past couple of years.

 

 

[ETCHY]

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.

 

[keef]

On 25 March 2019 at 10:53 PM, quicksilver said:

MCE7G (cable change - Puff, Bron Burrell's World Cup Rally car)

 

[keef]

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 

[keef]

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 

[lesapandre]

So for about 6 years a direct competitor for the Mk1 Golf - the Mk1 that sold over 6 million units overall...