1984 MG "Aston Martin Tickford" Turbo

[dikki]

;D One of my old girls , shes had a cleen up for the metros 30th this year

[qwerty]

I was reading about these somewhere.......can't for the life of me remember where but they are very funny little specials.

[chess]

Looks good, I have heard of such a thing but have never seen one.
Did they increase performance, my first 'hot hatch' was MG Metro Turbo, taught me loads about turbocharging, but also boost and standard 3 bearing cranks are not good.

[dollywobbler]

Blimey - that's ace!

[Brian Damaged]

I don't think I've ever seen one in the flesh. That's awesome!

[goldenwonder]

I've never even heard of such a thing-I LOVE that!
What's the story behind them?

[trigger]

Great stuff! I don't think I've ever seen Metro Tickford other then in magazines, that is the nuts!
I've just noticed the stereo as well! I love to see more photos, especially the interior.

[surprisingskoda]

Eat your heart out Zender. That thing is Wiiiiide.

[PatrickIngham]

OMG thats sooo cool! never even heard of that special edition

[dikki]

This Tickford Turbo is one of 2 that is known to have survived , the other is back to a shell and is going to be restored ;D, there are 2 MG Tickford Metros that have made it this far but again both are full restoration jobs then there is the Full Frazer cars of witch there are 7 known of 1 in Ireland (x Patrick motors car) and 6 in the uk. The Turbo cars were stock engine wise , however if your pockets were deep enough you could have had what ever you wanted , the pre turbo cars were upgraded with re-profiled camshaft,larger in/out valves ,a dmtl 32/34 Webber and sports exhorts.

[David]

Looks brilliant. Bottom pic reminds me of:

[apbellamy]

Looks rubbish Dikki, needs to be multi coloured

Get some pic's of the rest of your fleet up

[jonnyf]

That's stunning!

[Waxoyling Lyrical]

Interesting. The dash almost looks like an A-M Lagonda's! Is that a trip computer to the left of the stack stereo system?

However, you need some new pedal rubbers, as those worn ones seriously let the ambience of the well-heeled Gentleman's Club interior down somewhat, what, what?

[tali]

I remember when Metro was launched there loads of mega crazy conversion
What was list price new of that Tickford ?(it must have been probably double the list price)

[dikki]

"APB" ;D ;D ;D


Dikki’s Ticky’s ,
For 18 years these Aston Martin Tickford Metros have made there way to me, it started with the Aston Martin sales (Slone street South West London) show car in 1992 build N.o. 017.



Then I acquired the Green MG Tickford Turbo, there is no build N.o. To this car (the only one I have with no number trace).


Then I acquired Terry Wells Silver A.M.T. build N.o. 002. (the fist R.H.D. car)


Then I came across the remains of a M G Tickford Turbo on e-bay it turned out to be the show car of 1983(build No. 089) and the parts are going to be used to recreate the car on a mk2 turbo with a very rare mk2 Tickford kit.







This was followed by a A.M.F.T. build N.o. 018. For full restoration.



Cost of these cars depended on what you wanted or were willing to pay , the first run of Metros (pre MG) were all based on 13.S cars and started at £12K although there were enough extras to push this up more then a bit ! .
The next run of cars (MG and MG Turbo) needed no work to the engine so started out as a base kit for around £1K , this would get your MG the body kit ,leather dash and uher hi-fi and e/windows, again from there it depended on how deep your pockets were with things like full leather interior , e/roof, e/door mirrors,air con, e.c.t. could take the price beyond the 1.3s cars .
Very expensive for there day ,but not the most expensive Metro conversion , that belonged to 'Wood and Pickett'

[chrisf]

this is really cool I like it a lot!

[MrSpeedy]

That's a bit special is that !

[useless inc]

This is what I love about retro rides. Another car I didn't know existed.
I really like it. Perfect colour as well.

Any idea what the other things on the transporter are? The top one looks like a Capri and the bottom one looks like 2 door Aston Martin Lagonda.

[mclellanmac]

Top of the Transporter is a Tickford Capri, and the bottom looks to be a Tickford Lagonda, one of my persional favourate cars ever, to take an already outragious car and make it just insane!

Thats a fantastic collection there, ive only ever sen one tickford Metro, its on my ultimate wish list! that Green car is beautiful!