I can haz apple / Ne moga da Haz yabulka

[254575]

Popped into the breakers yesterday as i was driving past and spotted this beauty for sale out front.

 

 

for those who dont know, what an apple or ledbury maestro is, here is a clip from the MMOC below....

 

With thanks to an ex-Rover executive, it is now known that after production was finished at Cowley in 1994, a purpose built production facility was built in Varna on the edge of the Black Sea to house the Maestro production line. It was planned that production would start and the car would be introduced to the Bulgarian market. However the arrival of Daewoo and Skoda, and their subsequent manufacture of cheap cars for this market ultimately caused the venture to fail. Subsequently some of these Maestros were returned to the UK when production stopped at Varna in the summer of 1996. These cars would surface a few years later and become what we now know as ‘Ledbury’ and ‘Apple 2000’ Maestros.

very happy with my find, drives well, didnt pay anywhere the near the advertised price, 46k on the clock and has an MOT til december!

 

[ashmicro]

As they say on RR - "OOOOOOFFFFF!"

 

Good find, that looks in pretty good nick.

[Milford Cubicle]

Nice buy, I often see an R-reg Maestro van around here, winking at me. In fact... why should a Maestro van be on an R-reg, were the vans sent over in 'CKD' form too?

 

Oh and could you downsize the photos a touch?

[RedSparrow]

WINNAR!

 

Nice buy mate!

[254575]

here are some more pics post cleaning and bumper-painting skillzorz

 

 

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[Mr_Bo11ox]

excellent!!

 

I R feeling the maestro love in a big way.

[Angrydicky]

Well done! Looks great

[Lord Sterling]

Wow, nice buy there. Looks almost new.

 

Never driven one of these, but hopefully one day.....

[Mr_Bo11ox]

If I get one of these we'll have to have a race, see whose is the fastest. Winner gets a leafy garland thing, bottle of pop and some sort of imaginary supa hot pit lane totty.

[Angrydicky]

If I get one of these we'll have to have a race, see whose is the fastest. Winner gets a leafy garland thing, bottle of pop and some sort of imaginary supa hot pit lane totty.

Yes! That beige C reg one on RR has your name on it Mr B

[Father Ted]

Lucky bugger.

 

There sure is a lot of Maestro Love around here right now.

[pogweasel]

No Maestro love from me, if it helps bring things back to equilibrium.

[Pete-M]

I'm with Pog on this, but hey, it looks tidy.

 

And it's definately solid gold shite.

[Father Ted]

As mentioned on tother thread I have a pdf Haynes BOL if you need one.

[Negative Creep]

Blimey, where are they all coming from?