You don’t see many of these on the roads any more, largely because few of us ever liked them enough to keep them from the scrap yard. The Morris Ital
by pufballcat
You don’t see many of these on the roads any more, largely because few of us ever liked them enough to keep them from the scrap yard. The Morris Ital
by pufballcat
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Nice car!
I once referred to these, along with the Austin Allegro, as “much maligned” in a conversation with my dad.
My dad replied: “they didn’t have to be maligned; they were shit!”
This was my first car
I paid £200 for it.
The paint oxidised and it went a dull orange.
Just check for airborne pianos occasionally…
Here’s a summary of some of the problems concerning the Marina, which was basically the same:
>Rather than develop a new suspension set-up, the Marina used the obsolete chassis components from the ancient Morris Minor, while a switch to a different set of BL engines meant the car’s design had to be tweaked to make room for them, resulting in a bloated look for the car.
A poor suspension set-up and live rear axle meant the Marina handled pretty poorly, with the rear end liable to bump steer on rough roads, while early examples, especially ones with the larger, heavier 1.7-litre engine, had chronic understeer due to the wrong front suspension being fitted on the production line. Another ‘quirk’ was that windscreen wipers were fitted the wrong way around, because engineers reported that they lifted from the windscreen when vertical, which was thought to be distracting to drivers. Rather than remedy the problem, simply switching them around was thought to be a good enough fix.
I thought they only ever came in beige! Took us to a lot of 4th division football matches in the early 90s! Aldershot away, anyone?