JimH Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 On 9/14/2021 at 1:29 PM, Peter C said: Forgive me if this has already been said, however according to period (1986) What Car? magazines, a 1.3 Estate Montego did not exist. The only Montego in 1.3 flavour was a sedan. Go on - what does the price include? I can't work out what a single one of those letters means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs6C Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 37 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said: We have made the first leg! Huzzah!!! Low Horatio gearbox, Tommyboy12 and LightBulbFun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 respec Low Horatio gearbox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low Horatio gearbox Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Outstanding shitting. Country wracked by common sense fuel shortages, in a base spec minus car. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBen Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 12 minutes ago, JimH said: Go on - what does the price include? I can't work out what a single one of those letters means. Oooh there's a good memory test from 80's schoolboy reading of WhatCar when I should have been doing homework. I'm sure r1,2,3,4 were different types of radio- think r2 was just a radio, r4 was a radio cassette, not sure what 1 and 3 were? c was probably central locking? Others power steering, electric windows and something else? Who's got the key?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 3 minutes ago, MrBen said: Who's got the key?! Talbot, Leyland Worldmaster, MrBen and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimH Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 R2 and R4 must refer to the number of speakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter C Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 28 minutes ago, JimH said: R2 and R4 must refer to the number of speakers. I’m about a thousand miles from home but from memory I think that R2 means it had a radio fitted. R3 was radio cassette, can’t remember what R4 was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 I wondered if the 'c' was for the talking computer, but it's only shown for the Mayfair saloon and not the Mayfair Estate. R4 possibly a more expensive version of R3? However, 'b' obviously stand for boot, so the letters could refer to absolutely anything, knowing AR at the time. Interesting question though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 From recollection there were 2 types of plain radio available in 1986 - my own Metro came with a MW & LW (AM) radio - the next step up was a 3 band radio with no tape player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 3 hours ago, Tommyboy12 said: We have made the first leg! Chodspeed with your adventure. I fancy doing LEJOG myself at some point, though I would probably buy some old chod to do it in for the LOLs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 did you have to pay to park there??? last time I went it was £5 iirc... robbing gits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy12 Posted September 29, 2021 Author Share Posted September 29, 2021 18 minutes ago, bezzabsa said: did you have to pay to park there??? last time I went it was £5 iirc... robbing gits Yeah £5 to park for all of ten minutes. Good run today overall. Just short of 500 miles and no issues. Managed to find fuel when we needed it. It's burning a bit of oil but it's running well. LightBulbFun, Datsuncog, Mrs6C and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 5 hours ago, JimH said: Go on - what does the price include? I can't work out what a single one of those letters means. a: air conditioning b: central locking c : sunroof d: electric windows e: rear seat belts f: headlamp cleaning g: split / fold rear seat r1: pre-radio kit r2: mono radio r3: stereo radio r4: mono radio / stereo cassette r5: stereo radio / cassette r6: four channel radio / cassette Eyersey1234, JimH, HarmonicCheeseburger and 9 others 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Also, this thread is fucking fantastic. I mean it was already good, but it's now heading towards the rank of one of the all-time great AS threads. Tommyboy12, timolloyd, Isopon and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 It certainly appears to be shaping up as an AS legend, unfolding in real time... all the more respect from this corner, since I once test drove a baggy Montego Countryman diesel and found it to be literally the most dismal thing I've ever piloted. Bonus points if you end up lodged in a funeral cortege with no selectable gears, like I did. No, I didn't buy it. But I deeply appreciate the opportunity to experience such a feat vicariously. May flights of slightly sooty, oil-stained angels sing you north. mat_the_cat, Three Speed, tooSavvy and 9 others 9 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 10 hours ago, wuvvum said: a: air conditioning So only the 'a' and the 'r' bore any connection with the name of the corresponding feature - seems about right for the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 16 hours ago, MrBen said: Oooh there's a good memory test from 80's schoolboy reading of WhatCar when I should have been doing homework. I'm sure r1,2,3,4 were different types of radio- think r2 was just a radio, r4 was a radio cassette, not sure what 1 and 3 were? c was probably central locking? Others power steering, electric windows and something else? Who's got the key?! Bloody hell, I forgot all about that! I used to have my nose in the data section of What Car? magazines in the late 80s-90s. r1 was "pre radio kit". d was elec front windows and e was 4 electric windows. a was air conditioning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 11 hours ago, wuvvum said: a: air conditioning b: central locking c : sunroof d: electric windows e: rear seat belts f: headlamp cleaning g: split / fold rear seat r1: pre-radio kit r2: mono radio r3: stereo radio r4: mono radio / stereo cassette r5: stereo radio / cassette r6: four channel radio / cassette Sorry for my ignorance but what's a pre radio kit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Basically the wiring loom. I think you used to get that in low end German stuff so that they looked slightly less overpriced, thanks to unhelpful £ vs Deutschmark exchange rate in the eighties. Eyersey1234, tooSavvy and BorniteIdentity 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy12 Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 Day two and we have made it to Cheshire for our overnight stop! 820 miles in. Only inconvenience is that the exhaust blew on the downpipe outside Barnstaple and I drove all the way to Cheshire listening to it! I'm averaging 40mpg which isn't too bad for the size of the old girl. We took the coast road along north Devon through Boscastle, Barnstaple, Combe Martin before heading up the M5/M6. BorniteIdentity, neil1971, Dave_Q and 32 others 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Have a pint or 3, you've bloody deserved it. Tommyboy12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy12 Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 15 minutes ago, High Jetter said: Have a pint or 3, you've bloody deserved it. Got the Cornish cider we picked up yesterday! Shite Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 29 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said: The mighty TG Toyota Hilux pales into insignificance after seeing the heroic 'I'm back from the dead and I'm going to teach you all a lesson' Montego going to such lengths to be an outright 11/10 hero. I'm assuming the previous owner who was responsible for the engine conversion/interior/long lay-up is no longer with us. However, if they are still living and breathing, someone should must send them a couple of paps of the old girl's exploits. Having said that, they may keel over from the shock, so maybe not. Who's currently got the dusty key to the Autoshite awards cabinet? Edit: Also impressed that you popped to the Amazon enroute. Edit Edit: @Tommyboy12 could you also buy the sad looking blue 309 currently for sale on here and turn that old girl into a battle-scarred warrior too?! Tommyboy12, Eyersey1234, Datsuncog and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 The fact that a '96 AX is being used as a support car speaks volumes about the state of the vehicle needing to be supported. A superb venture! I hope there will be an in-depth write-up. MrGTI6, Essex V6, Shite Ron and 11 others 6 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Talbot said: The fact that a '96 AX is being used as a support car speaks volumes about the state of the vehicle needing to be supported. A superb venture! I hope there will be an in-depth write-up. Normally you'd say that someone driving an AX all that way was an absolute hero but doing it alongside that Montego makes them look like a fucking casual. horriblemercedes, CaptainBoom, Tommyboy12 and 7 others 6 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyboy12 Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 19 minutes ago, HillmanImp said: Normally you'd say that someone driving an AX all that way was an absolute hero but doing it alongside that Montego makes them look like a fucking casual. @sharley17194 is a dirty casual but he drives it on the absolute limit 😂 HillmanImp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxWomble Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 41 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said: @sharley17194 is a dirty casual but he drives it on the absolute limit 😂 Anything above 70 sounds on the limit in a 4 speed AX, in my experience, even though they’ve got a bit more to give! 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGTI6 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Just wanted to say that I'm absolutely loving this thread. Thanks for sharing and keep the updates coming! Tommyboy12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Thread of the year material without a doubt! Coprolalia, Longbridge Apologist and Tommyboy12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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