Show us your Maestro/Montego...

[Guest]

F170 GGT-I had a lovely pic of my diamond white maestro next to a diamond white R200. To my eyes, they do look rather similar...and in my mind the 200 is pretty much "Maestro Generation 2".

I have to be honest and say that if I ever need another car, the 200 series will be on the top of my list. Still not 110% confident in the long term longetivity of the CVT Autobox, but the car itself is none too bad!

I was left mildly surprised by my mother the other day..driving down the motorway, we were paralelled by a BRG 600 series. Mum looked at me and said "you should get one of those.."..when I asked why, she said "Because they're NICE!"..:laugh:

The missus and I (and mother, yes) are quite taken with the MGZR though...in my case it's the deep metallic blue, and in the missus' case, she drools over the "Custard Yellow"..:laugh:

[matthewsemple]

Originally posted by Wonko_The_Sane
The missus and I (and mother, yes) are quite taken with the MGZR though...in my case it's the deep metallic blue, and in the missus' case, she drools over the "Custard Yellow"..:laugh:

For some reason they are called Trophy Yellow and Trophy Blue - not that I have ever seen any trophies in those colours!

[matthewsemple]

Problem choosing colours?

Get two cars if you can't choose the colour - a sort of his and hers MGs

[CyrixDes]

Finally borrowed my mates digital camera so here goes:

[CyrixDes]

And again

[E_T_V]

*Drool*

[tony]

nice maestro,what is the other car tr7?

[D87SMW]

Wait, very very very very very nice Maestro!

[matthewsemple]

Originally posted by tony
nice maestro,what is the other car tr7?

It's a Triumph TR7 which has the same stud pattern as the Maestro/Montego which means you can fit lattice alloys to it. I saw a Triumph TR7 at Powderham yesterday which had Montego 6 inch lattice wheels fitted and it looked good.

Here's a question - is the 2.0 litre engine fitted to the TR7 an O-Series?

And another - Can I post a picture of your Maestro on my EFi Gallery on my webpage.

[MGTurbo]

Here's a question - is the 2.0 litre engine fitted to the TR7 an O-Series

No it's not. It's the famous slant-4 Triumph engine which was later used in Saab's albeit redesigned.

Gareth

[e692wtt]

And the Saab engine was much better for it, sadly. Can't fault the Triumph engineers getting 130-ish bhp from a 16 valve engine driven by just one overhead cam, using the same Triumph slant-4 block, in 1972 though... you can make a silk purse from a sow's ear!

The other other Rich.

[CyrixDes]

Thankyou very much for your comments. Its amazing what a touch of fibreglass here and a pinch of filler there can do. Luckily I know someone who sprays cars hence I got a decent deal on a respray. Didn't set out for that in depth a restoration but it just progressed that way. After all a body in various shades of black and a Zircon blue bonnet doesn't really create the desired effect!!:laugh:

"Here's a question - is the 2.0 litre engine fitted to the TR7 an O-Series?"

As stated before I had chance to reply, Gareths correct that its a version of the slant 4 used in the Dolomite but stretched to 2 Litres. This has twin SU carbs, not sure whether the Dolly did or not? They were planning on using the O Series the year that it got axed which is a shame because that extra power in that light body would have made the already spritely performance into a real mover.

"And another - Can I post a picture of your Maestro on my EFi Gallery on my webpage"

Feel free Matt no probs at all.

Cheers
Dale

[Guest]

here's mine!!!!

finally, here's mollie.........

[D87SMW]

Very nice!

[Guest]

Originally posted by F170 GGT
Very nice!

cheers steve,not bad considering i had it from a salvage yard