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Still in the experimental stages

I stopped for a hitchhiker last night. He was pleased, but a bit surprised I was prepared to give him a lift.

"Why did you pick me up?" He said. "I'm very grateful, but you've never met me. I could be a crazed serial killer for all you know".

"Oh, no" I replied. "The chance of there being two in the same car is astronomically small."

Remind me not to accept a lift

Trade descriptions !! These really were a sack of ----.

Amongst others there was one at Defford Air Day. And a Viva (the later slightly more rounded version)!
Friend of mine managed to park his Marina TC on top of a Cotswold stone wall one night.

If I remember rightly, the suspension was made of jelly. The gear box was a big long stick attached to a tin of golden syrup. The TC did have a raspy sound though. That was a short lived affair.

They really were awful. IIRC they only came into being because BL bottled out of making the Maxi their sole effort in that size and diverted development funding to a quick re-work of the Minor 1000. Any one else seen that?

There was a Bugatti replica in the For Sale park at Silverstone on Sunday with a £49k price tag (or thereabouts). A quick look at the front end revealed Marina derived torsion bar front suspension.

That's interesting Paul I hadn't realised that was how it evolved, the thought of a Bugatti lookalike with a Marina front under pinings makes me shudder.

A friend of mine from Uni then girlfriend later his wife had one.
If you slammed the door it dropped a car shape outline of rust. A bit like how they mark up where the dead body was.

I have a clear picture of that in my mind now John .