montegos?????

[awoo]

saw a gold C reg one today! we used to have these when i was a kid. we had three, a blue one and two red ones. my dad would get them 2 years old with about 4000miles on them for couple grand off an old dude he knew who bought a new car ever couple years to go to tescos in once a week.

i remember the rectangular plastic door locks and the child lock on the back doors most. they rotted like a corpse on a hot day too and mother hated it i think. sure are a rare sight now

[hitman]

trg1984 said:

why do montego's get over looked on the retro scene, i think they have bags of potential. if i had spare cash id bag myself one. make it into a lowrider

what about this seen it last week at standlake

[BenzBoy]

Blimey! They made a Montego Limo?! ;D ;D

[Harold Ramp Bumface Fandango]

There was a limo Monty the other side of Chester are few years ago, don`t know if it`s still about though.
Odin, if you get a van chuck a Perkins TD in it and you`ll suprise just about everyone in it, seriously quick for a diesel.

[DarrenW]

slater said:

Was it ever going to look bad? Someone get off your ass and get it built!!!

NNNNNG! That's COOL.

Wonder how achievable that actually is?

[trg1984]

of course its achievable, anything is acheivable with cars IMO, just depends on the effort/cash ur willing to spend

[akku]

for some reason I can't help but not hate these horrible cars. Perhpas because they were the last ditch attempt by Austin-Rover before they started rebadging Hondas.

A mat e of mine used to be well into the Turbos ones, he had about 6 or 7 of them and a few 2.0HL and regular MG 2.0 ones as well (not all at the same time, he'd buy them for like £60 run them until they failed the MOT or broke down - usually about a few months - and then scrap it and buy another)

[trg1984]

i think the only reason i like is that my dad had one and my mates dad had a countryman, it was ace for birthday parties, everyone fought to sit in the back back seats facing out of the back windows. great memories

[autohausdolby]

I'd have a Maestro van, but only if it had the stance of the 'shopped Countryman and was in psuedo BT livery (yellow avec a picture of Busby obviously)

[skoda_norman]

you're right. they are just disappearing. especially the saloons, i cant remember the last time i saw one. there is an estate round here, but apart from that you hardly see them now.
i always used to like the Countryman estates. Dunno why...they just look 'english'... ;D

[bstardchild]

Drove a Montego 1.3 HLS Auto from Kings Lynn to Market harborough once every time you kicked down to a lower gear the glove box flew open and the bonnet catch let go..... Was only three years old too

Drove a Montego 2.0 MG Turbo once - sheesh I could talk for a while about

- poor gearing choice
- clutch smell
- Torque steer

But when it was in the "zone" it wasn't half quick

Both were enough for me to steer well clear - haven't seen one for years in saloon format

[arthurbrown]

bstardchild said:

Drove a Montego 1.3 HLS Auto from Kings Lynn to Market harborough once

That must have been a pretty grim experience. 1300 Auto? Surely walking would be quicker?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Lying down would be quicker! Jeezus wept.

[bstardchild]

arthurbrown said:

bstardchild said:

Drove a Montego 1.3 HLS Auto from Kings Lynn to Market harborough once

That must have been a pretty grim experience. 1300 Auto? Surely walking would be quicker?

I had to take it everyone else had been avoiding it but there was a 928 manual to bring back

[Dorset_Clive]

My abiding of having Montego hire cars was the ability of engine torque to overcome steering castor. Hence, if you pulled out at a T junction at anything more than about 1/8 throttle, the steering wouldn't "self-centre" and you had to manually "unwind" the steering. More than a couple of my colleagues ended up doing 180's into the kerb :-)

[Robinxr4i]

slater said:

Was it ever going to look bad? Someone get off your ass and get it built!!!

Thats the mother load right there! Thats awesome pleas someone build it

[trg1984]

there was a montego owners club day in huddersfiled a while back, i wanted to go but never did

[Jack]

I feel obliged to post this picture here, No offence to twigzy it was his car, he paid for it, it was going to get crushed if he hadn't bought and raced it. Why not save cool cars like this rather than old toss, Such as Montegos?

[slater]

It could be built quite easly imo. It would take quite a bit of work to get it to look exactly like the pic but it would be curse word easy to get some split rim wheels, stretched rubber and slam it on its ass that woudl be pretty much there. with a little arch massaging and some suspension mods you could induce some camber as well I'm sure.

[reanimation]

muppetgti said:

I feel obliged to post this picture here, No offence to twigzy it was his car, he paid for it, it was going to get crushed if he hadn't bought and raced it. Why not save cool cars like this rather than old toss, Such as Montegos?

Fair comment to a certain extent, but if people want to buy a standard Monty, Rover 213, Marina, etc as their retro then fair play, if they want to propperly mod it then things get interesting. Setting out to buy 70's cars I have opted to buy 80's cars as the price will only go up too in the future when there are less of them. It does seem crazy really old quality RWD (even 'classic', or 'rare' perhaps) stuff gets junked or raced though.