1982 Morris Ital 1.7 HL - £425 - Peterborough

[xbo11ox]

Morris Ital 1.7HL

This is a very healthy old Morris Ital, 'champagne' beige with a reddy-orange interior. For sale as I have got far too many projects on the go and somethings gotta go before Ms_Bo##ox finds out about the latest one

Its got 12 months MOT, a new cambelt and a fresh sumpful of oil. Mileage is 42k, (cant show proof of this but forum member 'Viscount Basingstoke' will testify that its right, as he owned it previously and bought it off its elderly long-term owner!!) and it still has its dealer plates and sticker in the rear window. Rust wise this car is in pretty damn good order. I had to do some welding on the front footwells for the MOT, I have done this to a good standard, but an outcome of that is some grey primer on the bottom corners of the front wings which could do with beautifying. It drives as well as any Marina I have ever been in, and feels really 'all of a piece'. Ready to use daily, I would not hesitate to go to Scotland in this thing tomorrow if I had to. The O-series engine in it is a honey!

I will put some decent pics up later on today, in the meantime here is a shot of it being worked on in my garage! The price is not open to any offers at all, this is such a straight healthy old bus that I think at £425 there could even be a profit in it for someone who was good at beautifying. Its currenlty in peterborough but could be collected from Crewe if necessary.



For more blather PM me or call O78OO 9O2396. Cheers, Richard

[xbo11ox]

Hey I've just thought, I said 'no offers' but I am on the lookout for some sort of pick-up truck so maybe a deal could be done if you have a spare one. NO TATA LOADBETAS mind you.

[simonrs7]

thats cool as shame ive just sold my p100 would of oferd a deal with that oh well

[0ppm]

It's clearly retro, but brings out bad memories of the metal work teacher at school, who bought a new one just like that. If you find one with green hammerite underneath. It was his. His first job when it was less than 100 miles on the clock was to bring it into the school work shop and steal the green hammerite and 'rust proof' it.

[dungbug]

Haven't seen one of those for years, my dad brought a 1.7 HL estate brand new in '81 in blue.......Bringing back distant memories now! Seems cheap for one on the road, best of luck with the sale.

[Lankytim]

Is that the one Torsten/Viscount Basingstoke repaired a while back?

[dollywobbler]

Yes (says so in the text )

[xbo11ox]

CHECK YO' BAD SELF:









If that is not better than you expected for £425 i'll eat my hat.

[Lankytim]

Mar 11, 2009 17:54:56 GMT dollywobbler said:

Yes (says so in the text )

The text only said he owned it, he could have had more than one.

I just wanted to confirm it was one and the same as it looked amazing when Torsten had it, mint infact. I think its a steal for £425!

[Hirst]

I would buy this if I had the money - and I don't mean in a "yeah nice car but I'm not actually going to buy it" way. If it is still for sale by the time I've sold one of my motors, you'll be getting a call. I've wanted an Ital for yonks and this one is BEIGE.

In the meantime, if anyone wants to save me from myself, please purchase this fine automobile.

[slater]

Sublime!

[Viscount Basingstoke]

I can confirm that this was indeed mine, that I had a side full of damage repaired at great expense but then it went to live in Hastings! A really bloody lovely car that is dead clean and sorted! I'd recommend this to anyone!

[xbo11ox]

here is the damage, in case anyone finds that off-putting!!! An extraordinarly neat repair has been done.

[reanimation]

Lush, I can almost smell it. Ahh

I almost suggested reserving it for Hirst this arvo,good to see the king of beige modest retro saloons is on the case

[briandamaged]

There's an M of the P persuasion in your inbox, Mr. plums.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Glad this car has become such an RR / AS stablemate. You could say I was responsible for bringing it into our conciousness as I posted the original advert (from Classic Car Weekly I think) where it was stated to have a death warrant hanging over it & was shortly to be scrapped unless someone took it on. Torsten followed it up & the rest they say is history. To think now that it nearly met a premature sticky end is unthinkable!

[xbo11ox]

Its certainly done the rounds a bit this car, various AS/RR folk have 'had a go' on it! Sometimes though, if you're in the right mood, that can have a kind of appeal all of its own cant it. Not that one would publically admit it of course. Also, I am certainly not saying this car is a slag.

[Hirst]

Mar 12, 2009 14:54:21 GMT xbo11ox said:

Its certainly done the rounds a bit this car, various AS/RR folk have 'had a go' on it! Sometimes though, if you're in the right mood, that can have a kind of appeal all of its own cant it. Not that one would publically admit it of course. Also, I am certainly not saying this car is a slag.

That Ital is more of a slag than my Galant and that's saying something, bet if you open the boot there's half a dozen 1:43 scale Itals inside and no one knows who their dad is.

[Lankytim]

If I gave you £25, could I take it round the block a few times? Just don't tell my allegro...

[xbo11ox]

I'm giving this car a wallop to the top. Not had a single phone call or even any 'whats ur best price 4 cash m8' cretinous texts! It can't be overpriced.... I guess there must not be anyone around who wants an ital at the moment. Roll up roll up!