Oh dear,I think I may have lost the plot..

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I've just bought a beige 1.3 Maestro.

;D


But,but,but (he says desperatly trying to justify himself) it is possibly the only one of it's type/colour combo left.The P.O subjected it to a restoration costing ££££,it's in superb condition,it has 5-doors and rear belts so perfect for the kids,it is coming to me with a years ticket,it cost £600...plus I rather like it! It's so Grandaddy!

What do you think ?






























Trouble is I haven't told the missus yet.

[eisdielenbiker]

Looks great fun....but I would have preferred the MG-badged one. What engine specs?
Did you consider Waxoyl or sim.?
Mark

[glennr]

Spooky. I mentioned I had the MG version then this turns up. I must say it does look excellent. Whatever you may think of the Maestro it's another vehicle from a bygone age that you have managed to preserve,and a superb job too on the resto.

[Phil Nottingham]

Takes all sorts - they are probably rarer than P5's now?

I think this was also the last car that P5 designer David Bache was involved in too and like the last P5B's the last Maestro Clubman models of 1990 approx were hand assembled by a small team rather than mass prododuced on an assembly line

[Deleted]

Thanks folks,maybe we're all bananas then?

The previous owner had the restoration done,not me ,he is a Maestro fanatic!
Truth be told,I sometimes prefer to see base or lowly spec cars at shows ,as the top ones always get preserved,it's nice to see a lowly model preserved and not turned in to a clone of a sporty version.

[glennr]

Oct 10, 2009 8:44:34 GMT Phil Nottingham said:

Takes all sorts - they are probably rarer than P5's now?

You are so right Phil. I only see the MG versions from time to time, I can't recall the last time I saw a base model.

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Oct 10, 2009 8:44:34 GMT Phil Nottingham said:

I think this was also the last car that P5 designer David Bache was involved in

That's correct. So 02Man will have an example of first and last

I'm hopefully going to pick this up for Martin later this month, but wil spend time on the Popular Classics forum ,battling the Dolomite invasion, first

[stig]

There are 2 Maestros in Derby knocking about, one in Light Blue Metallic on an 'L', 2 old woman use that one and it's a minter, the other one is Lipari Blue on a 'P', yes I do mean 97 'P' as in 1997, cound be one of those Mexican I suppose, but it's right hand drive

Rob

[Colin McA]

There was a load of diesel maestro made in the early 90's most definatley up to 94. I think I might have seen the odd M-N reg but these were all diesels and ended up as taxi's around Glasgow.

The kit form was 1995-2000 I think that the Ledbury buit kits was after 200 so you find some wierd registration dates.

We used to walk to the local Austin-Rover dealer on a Sunday and would hire out (typicallly Mexico brown) 1.1 and go to the sea side for the day. There was some sunday drinking laws so we had to be day trippers.

it was a always great to get a Red maestro for the day as I never liked the brown ones.

We eventually owned a zircon blue 1.3L A196TDS. If this ever gets restored someone will find a keep Glasgow tidy sticker that slide down the glass and inside the door. I was upset and mother wasn't much help.

Colin

[Multi-Tech]

Different and not really my thing but very nice all the same and is nice to see that peopel do care about all the other classics out there, keep up the good work o2man ;D