Spotted - D813YBB

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Brown Maestro D813YBB - doesn't that belong to Martin? Seen near Gosforth Civic Hall by Regent Centre yesterday about 5.30pm - my Maestro was parked in the Civic Hall car park whilst I was helping to set up for their beer festival that is currently on!

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Brown Maestro D813YBB - doesn't that belong to Martin? Seen near Gosforth Civic Hall by Regent Centre yesterday about 5.30pm - my Maestro was parked in the Civic Hall car park whilst I was helping to set up for their beer festival that is currently on!

You do surprise me

But yes, that would appear to be his car. Was it just driving past..?

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MMMM Beer

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Yes that would be mine, parked outside the garage having unbelievably gone straight through its MOT and passed.

I knew the burgundy paint had faded but I didn't realise it had changed to brown!

I was expecting a call from the mechanic telling me it would need hundreds of pounds of welding where upon I was ready to call it a day, but no, it did very well. It now gets another year of life.

Not bad for a 22 year old car with almost 150,000 miles on the clock, 20,000 of which were done in the previous 12 months.

Its been a stange week, with the car unexpectedly passing, together with me actually finding a maestro van in a local scrapyard on my first visit to one in months.

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I was expecting a call from the mechanic telling me it would need hundreds of pounds of welding where upon I was ready to call it a day, but no, it did very well. It now gets another year of life.

Not bad for a 22 year old car with almost 150,000 miles on the clock, 20,000 of which were done in the previous 12 months.

Its been a stange week, with the car unexpectedly passing, together with me actually finding a maestro van in a local scrapyard on my first visit to one in months.

If it ever needs welding I will help you out it would be great to see her a 200.000 prbably be the highest milage 1600 maestro left in existance I am a top welder I have to be working on mini's for a living. I will weld maestro's for less as most mini owners just work to crazy budgets I have had to put my prices up for them as I was scaring them by being to cheap lol. Cheers for the tip off with the van will be chasing that up on monday.

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Congrats on the MOT! Is it a garage that only does MOTs or do they do work as well? I'm on the lookout for some recommendations up here for my next test and somewhere to go if it needs work...

Also - which scrap yard(s)!?

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my next test and somewhere to go if it needs work...

Also - which scrap yard(s)!?

If you need work doing or bits give me a shout chris I will see you alrite I will charge less to work on maestro's than mini's. As I know the value of the maestro's is less pluss just the enjoyment of keeping another on the road. As for scrap yards You do not get many maestro's at all in them round these parts as they seem to rust faster up in thse parts. There is always loads of salt on the roads in the winter so any bare metal open edges gets eaten at an alarming rate. So most maestro's and monty's were there about ten years ago so none in them now. I go looking round them all about once a month and was suprised to know that there was a van in one of them. Going to see what I can salvage for mine tomorow as I have just fixed my maestro turbo today. Next project turbo diesel ford ST orange maestro van for the old MG van. It needs a bit work and the shell just dont cut it for another monty turbo engine so I am breaking a montego countryman and a 1.3 LX countryman is well shot LX should be saved but need the roof skin sun roof head lining boddy panels etc. It could do with rear arches and some welding on the sills so unviable to do when you cant get any spares from the scrapys these days.