...for those who grew up in the 80's and 90's

I seem to remember that the only parts shared by the MG Metro and the 6R4 was the door handle and the lock!
 
I must confess to owning a metro turbo when i was 19. At the time I thought it was the D's B's :) obviously it wasnt but i still look back with very fond memories right up until the time it self combusted on me on the m62 requiring a rapid detour to the hard shoulder and bailing out to watch it smoulder its loom into oblivion :)
 
widdyst said:
I must confess to owning a metro turbo when i was 19. At the time I thought it was the D's B's :) obviously it wasnt but i still look back with very fond memories right up until the time it self combusted on me on the m62 requiring a rapid detour to the hard shoulder and bailing out to watch it smoulder its loom into oblivion :)
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I seem to remember the turbo lump was a popular upgrade for mini's :)
 
DiamondMark said:
Ahhhh the Ambassodor, another weapon of a car, it used to be called a Princess till it got the ITAL design revamp :)

Them were the days, it looked like a door wedge.
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There a name of a car I've not heard in a long time. :p

I had a Metro as my first car when I passed my test A660 CSC. It was in that crappy brown colour they came in, and it didn't even have a stereo!
 
Will Gill said:
budget spec vanden :p

From 1980 the Vanden Plas name was added to the most expensive luxury versions of the Austin Metro, Maestro, Montego and Ambassador

like mini rolls royces
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Vanden Plas was a proper coachbuilder at one point, they were based in Kingsbury and had been making 'Luxury' Austins from the 40's onwards. I know this as my Dad worked there and he's bored with the story about 50 times :p The 80's Vanden Plas cars were built at Longbridge AFAIK.
 
my mum had one in white on a 'Y' plate. 1.3 litres of pure power.

All I remember about it was that the back window collapsed one day when it was all frosted over and my mum tried scraping the frost off and it just fell into the boot! That and the lovely fabric on the back seats that gave them the same sensation as running your fingers down a blackboard, don't know what it was, but it was horrible stuff!
 
My first car was a Metro, A361LVF

On the plus side it was a 1.3, on the down side it was brown.

Ended up wrapping it around the back of some rep's Audi on the M6 the first time I ever drove on a motorway! Still got the key somewhere I should think.
 
I had a Rover Metro GTi - 1.4 litres of pure fun - no really, it was actually really good to drive, in a go-kart sort of way.
 
Will Gill said:
my metro was black and had a batman sticker from the dealer in it, there was a promotion at the time linking metros to batman on the telly IIRC, we called it the batmobile, it was a city X model so had nitros, turbos and a veyron engine......
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Mine was nicknamed "The Force" 1l of brute power.

I don't know how I used to handle all that power, I must've been some sort of driving god back in the day.
 
My first car was a white MG Metro non turbo handed down to me by my mum.

It had red seatbelts and quite frankly it was a bit rubbish but at the time I was dead pleased with it :)

MB
 
TomO said:
my mum had one in white on a 'Y' plate. 1.3 litres of pure power.

All I remember about it was that the back window collapsed one day when it was all frosted over and my mum tried scraping the frost off and it just fell into the boot! That and the lovely fabric on the back seats that gave them the same sensation as running your fingers down a blackboard, don't know what it was, but it was horrible stuff!
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LOL - That's funny!
 
My mate had an MG Metro Turbo. He drained a load of fluid out of the hydro units to lower it and stuck a bleed valve on it and wound the boost up to stupid levels. It was fun for about 5 minutes until it blew up.
 
Will Gill said:
the turbo was awesome, however not as awesome as the utterly bonkers maestro turbo, now that thing shifted!
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A mate at school had a Maestro turbo. It was indeed bonkers and used to leave everything for dust, especially round roundabouts.
 
Me and the neighbours had loads till they moved on to Fiat 127s, even had the suspension pump, 4x4 one day gangster scraping the next hot rod on saturdays, easy fixes we used to buy all the scrappers for parts, had 10 sitting around in various states of repair.

The hydraulic clutches went so we made a little side line changing the plates over the pedals and swapping back to cable clutches
 
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