I've an updated and uprated Wolseley Landcrab and a Triumph Vitesse overdrive convertible. So very simple although the cretins who got hold of the Vitesse need to be hung drawn and quartered for incompetence.

Fuaaaaa no te cansaste de escribir 😅😅

They rusted just like the rest of that time

There was talk about these been scrapped while still in production, they were that bad for it, montego was the same sadly.

@@procta2343 same with cars of today... being scrapped whilst still in production

@@lucyellenroe6029 Please do the motoring word a great favour, and tow it to the nearest crusher, thank you!

My great grandad had one and I also had one but I had the mg turbo version car flew I remember as kids when the family car broke down we would take my great grandads one was great never broke down

Underrated cars

Very much loved mine

I own a 1983 Maestro

I’m in the UK and I love this!

@@howard81 fucking marvelous fellow!!

@@howard81 same here 😊

I’m from the UK, and I’m ashamed of this car

@@ttbdrummer You should be ashamed of yourself making a statement like this. You have never driven a maestro , kadett , R 14 , VW Golf of that era! Maestro could meet with his competitors , look on how this car handles with the Hydragas suspension , the visibility . It was a modern car . Flexi must learn about the SU carburetor because he forgot to check the needle was stuck or to check the oil in it and that's why it ran too rich .

Good cars I'm looking around for one as I do still like them! As even running rough they still run a piece of plastic tin can modern trash of todays cars wouldn't even start never mind run+,drive

89 rover or 89 vw hmm

I had one of these about 25 years ago, owned it for 8 years and covered over 100 thousand miles with no problems, only time it was in the garage was twice for a cambelt change and once for the clutch, probably one of the most reliable cars I owned.

I had a 1989 model, 1.3 litre. probably the best car I've ever had, along with my Avensis. Very easy to work on, spacious and practical. Wish they still made them. The only issue i had was the clutch cable snapping every 18months. In the end i just got a spare one from the scrapyard for £3 and kept it in the boot for a quick change

British Leyland are hated for the sake of being hated

weak link was low hanging oil filter - easily snapped off. one came in dealership for running rough and iol leak. conrod poking out of the block and no oil filter on - but still drove to dealership...

Perkins Prima..... a "Diesel-ised" O- series engine. Very strong and efficient engine 👍👍

Great engine, a bugger to work on.

@@sthompson1000 still got the scar when the snapon socket shattered [ on the really tight clearance, - so use a 3/8 drive socket]on the head bolts doing a headgasket 33 yrs ago

@@sthompson1000 these are quite simple when you know what you're doing

Used in pretty much everything

Still fairly common as far as cars from this era go in the UK, not many 2.0efis though

I lived in Italy for 31 years and i May have see only One or two in my whole Life when i was a kid, propably owned by British tourist, here i wonder if they were available to buy at all, super rare car getting used parts for it must be a nightmare!

@@gillespriod5509 they were definitely sold new in Italy but just very unpopular, why would you buy this when you can buy a Fiat Ritmo or VW Golf for the same price?

I am! Great stuff.

@@HubNut confirmed

@@HubNut lol

@@HubNut lol wasn't expecting that

It's MUCH happier now! Nice job.

😚👍

Where they are kept drier?

It had to be turned 180 degrees to use the end-on gearbox as opposed to the gearbox in sump with the intermediate drive used on older BL vehicles.

@@philtowle4683 No, they stopped as soon as it rained.

@@sthompson1000 don't talk rubbish, they run what ever the weather

Like the rest of the cars of that time then...

Maestro/Montego were dreadful rustbuckets even back in the day. Note the plant growing through the floor at the start. Respect for the effort to get it running again.

Not really any worse than Ford's or Japanese cars the same age. We had an Escort and a Fiesta and they both started rusting before my friends Maestro did. Maestro felt a nicer car in some ways too as much as I loved the Ford's.

@@MrFlazz99 again, the rest of the cars of that era were the SAME. Not just Austin Rover

They were no better or worse for rusting than anything else of the time.

I see Rovers & a FIAT Coupe, I spot some vintage computer equipment.. Instantly subscribed!

@@savagesam205 cheers Sam appreciate ya :)

That needs the ed chiner treatment

Roadworthiness tests are v strict so render cars uneconomical to repair

That could be down to spare parts too, getting hold of bits in Europe might not be as easy as it is in the uk. But then again i have bought bits for a metro that i couldn't get hold of in the uk, from the netherlands.

To me it sounds like its running rough. However, i'm only up to 8:43 in the video, so perhaps it smoothens out from there, or i'm just none the wiser about old diesels.

@@adelaideautowashes plot twist, it’s a petrol 😂

@@mcmcolm Ohhhh... my bad bro. Sounded like a diesel to me.

yea with less maintenance lol

Same engine as a mini

Yes, the O series was a retrograde step as far as refinement, reliability,& power output from the earlier A ,B & even the E series Maxi unit! It seems it was designed more for economy & emmisons reasons. The early MG Maestro with the R series & it twin Weber DCNF's are a rare beast😳

I don't recall anything wrong with the O series. Since my Countryman estate has one with carb and stepper motor, the punch and refinement I get is tops compared to my A series Maestro. They didn't ruined it at all

I see the one in Czech Republich recently.

Last time i saw a maestro in person, was at a MG live, and it was an MG version, which are even rarer. it was the only one that turned up for MG live and it was the maestros 30 birthday, MG live though never gave the Maestro a lickings of a dog at all, or even a mention, which was very poor, on MG lives part. The bloke entered it in light your MG, and it won, but that was only due to the fact it was the only maestro there, and they took pity. The owner had put the hazards on and some glow sticks. Still a winner in my eyes still, as it was the only one that turned up. The owner said that he did ask other owners, but there were only a spit full. This was going back in 2013, and facebook was still very young at the time and owners groups were not even thought about back then. One easy car to work on though compared to the modern shite now.

@@procta2343 I've see a black MG Maestro from time to time as it's local to me.

I brought one for £30 in 2005 lol

@@yassarali8274 you were robbed

F reg

Couldn't of been when these were made on Bulgaria in the late 1990's and Rover stopped producing these in 1994 but they didn't ship any as LHD

Clubman spec. These were made in Varna

and sand it and just brush paint it with a thick coat of red paint...cars like this are great as long as u dont spend lots of money and time on them

I have an early HLE. 1983 in Rattan beige

Not strictly true. All cars of that era used very similar metal, again these get something but shit yet a Ford never does but they also rotted. If you think that's the cleanest one you've even seen then you haven't seen my pristine 4

Unfortunately it was very erratic. The car would rev up for no reason when idling, or when restarted with the engine warm it would cut out altogether after about 200 metres. The later models ditched the electronic management systems and were quite reliable but the first series were released before a lot of problems had been sorted properly.

@@gibb253 The issue was the automatic choke. It used an electronically controlled stepper motor. Very advanced for the time. Many cars were retrofitted with a manual choke because a lot of garages had no clue about electronics.... Just like now!

@@colintinker7778 It’s a pity I didn’t know that at the time! Having your motor cut out as you were accelerating in heavy traffic was not a fun experience, as you can imagine. Unfortunately, when the leading German car magazine tested the Maestro it performed exactly the same trick, and I remember they said ironically that the British engineers were proud of the fact that their electronically controlled carburettor could match a fuel injection system for efficiency, but in fact it took its fuel saving task so seriously that it cut off the fuel supply completely. I was one of the first European customers for the car, having been convinced by the wildly enthusiastic British motoring press that it was a match for the Golf. If they’d done another year’s development, it would have been. It was stylish, comfortable and spacious, but the list of woes did not stop with the carb. The voice synth would randomly deliver alarm messages telling you to stop the engine, the bumpers were made of brittle plastic that shattered when a Fiat Panda nudged me, causing no damage at all to itself, and the plastic hub caps clipped onto the wheel nuts, so if you braked repeatedly going down a twisty road, they would soften with the heat and fall off. There were also problems with the mounting of the VW gearbox to the A series, causing oil to leak onto the clutch plates. I know these things were sorted after a couple of years of production, but they stopped the car from being the Europe-wide success it could have been

@@gibb253 Not exactly a glowing report for the Maestro! There's no way a carburettor could match a fuel injection system. Even with added gizmos it couldn't respond as quickly and as accurately as a fuel injector. I can add to the list of Maestro issues... They were also recalled due to catching fire! A wiring harness would chafe through to bare wires where it rubbed on the gearbox. I remember an exploding bumper incident. I was along side a Maestro when it hit the back of a lorry at a roundabout. The sky was raining bits of front bumper. Tiny pieces of plastic everywhere.

@@colintinker7778 I've never know the Maesteo because recalled for fire issues let alone one spontaneous catching fire. The carb with stepper is actually quite responsive as I've got one in my Montego and HLE

Not strictly true

Roof lining needs attention 😆

Who needs roofs bro? Just cut the thing and make a convertible

@@SummonerArthur Lol yeah there's a little question of structural integrity of the car and handling though.

@@SummonerArthur if you cut the roof off you can weaken the cars structure and cause the car to band in half. No joke-

There is also a diesel version of the A series, the 950D. BMC at the time tasked Riccardo Bros with developing a small diesel for the mini van and pick up back in the 60's and they based it on the A series engine but BMC being BMC didn't think diesels would catch on in cars and vans so they shelved it. Nuffield then used them in the Nuffield BMC mini tractor and G & M Powerplants used them in a small generator set 6 or 8 Kva I think. It was at the time the smallest inline 4 cylinder water cooled diesel engine in production the world at 948cc and produces a whopping 16hp. I have both the tractor and generator and it's amazing how many mini, leyland, BMC etc etc experts out there don't even know it exists.

I had the montego turbo fast as fook. 150mph no problem it was 1987 .

had an old maestro back in the early 90s, chugged between London and Newcastle for years.... need a part go to the scrapyard. happy days

@@SuperJ8son And the spec for that car lists a *very* optimistic 126MPH. Unless you meant the top speed when dropped off a cliff?

What happened you went to go to work and found four wheels and a pile of rust and paint and thought that's where I parked my car Love it !!!

No they're really not. Mine was left for 6 months, started right on the nose. An a series never lets you down

Not strictly when the gear box is I the sump and the GT/turbo a series has different parts in the carb compared to standard even though they were still 1275 cc

Never known a Maestro sun roof leak before

@@lucyellenroe6029 piddled all down my crisp shirt back in the day!