What did you do to your Marina today?
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
Nice turnout.
Bryan
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1972 Morris Marina 1750 TC Coupe "Ozzy"
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1972 Morris Marina 1750 TC Coupe "Ozzy"
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
Nice pics Tony, of what was a thoroughly enjoyable day. It was really nice to make your aquaintance, see some familiar faces and cars and new ones too.
Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
Good pictures- thanks for posting.
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A very nice show.
Thank you for photos Tony.
Renzo
Thank you for photos Tony.
Renzo
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
Took the old gal to a local meet at Moira furnace
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
nice evening for it Ben!
me on another road test and a stop for a piccy in the country whilst the sun was shinning! baz
me on another road test and a stop for a piccy in the country whilst the sun was shinning! baz
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
ClaytonSpeed wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:30 pm Took the old gal to a local meet at Moira furnace
Wow great place for a car show Ben. Never seen that place before, looks very interesting. Good comparison between the Oldsmobile and the Zephyr.
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
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me on another road test and a stop for a piccy in the country whilst the sun was shinning!
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baz
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Nice pic Barry. Potential brochure shot!
me on another road test and a stop for a piccy in the country whilst the sun was shinning!
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baz
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Nice pic Barry. Potential brochure shot!
Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
looks like a good day, nice piccys Gil...
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
Popped to my local Homebase today and parked up near this Allegro VDP! What are the chances of that eh?
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
nice bl stable mate's
I had an allegro hated the boot space compared to the marina but still a good car!
nice one Tony
baz
I had an allegro hated the boot space compared to the marina but still a good car!
nice one Tony
baz
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
Where I live not much chance, all the local branches of HOMEBASE have closed down.ScreamingLordStokes wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:05 pm Popped to my local Homebase today and parked up near this Allegro VDP! What are the chances of that eh?
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
Where I live not much chance, all the local branches of HOMEBASE have closed down.marina1300coupe wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:55 am [quote=ScreamingLordStokes post_id=105540 time=<a href="tel:1600113905">1600113905</a> user_id=1727]
Popped to my local Homebase today and parked up near this Allegro VDP! What are the chances of that eh?
Ian
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I'm not surprised, it is a pretty horrible place, well overpriced in my view. I only go under protest when the Missus wants some plants!
Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
Today I removed the incredibly heavy rear axle and springs from my Leyland coupe shell.
It has the Leyland 6 setup with twin leading links to stabilise impending gobs of torque, and the link arms are made of light alloy, but the rest is massively heavy compared to the UK rear axles that I am used to.
So its all going and I will use UK suspension instead.
But here is the cool bit.
Even though this coupe is from 1976, it appears that the mounting points for the link arms are in the same place as the mountings points for the late type rear ASB's are.
They are visible in this photo..
These have an outer bracket with a captive thread welded through the outer wall of the chassis section, but the bracket wraps right around the inner side as well, so I figure I can drill through the captive thread and through the inner plates and then anchor the late type ASB from the inside out to the captive thread.
This is a great discovery and it has made my day.
Until proven wrong maybe, but I think not...
It has the Leyland 6 setup with twin leading links to stabilise impending gobs of torque, and the link arms are made of light alloy, but the rest is massively heavy compared to the UK rear axles that I am used to.
So its all going and I will use UK suspension instead.
But here is the cool bit.
Even though this coupe is from 1976, it appears that the mounting points for the link arms are in the same place as the mountings points for the late type rear ASB's are.
They are visible in this photo..
These have an outer bracket with a captive thread welded through the outer wall of the chassis section, but the bracket wraps right around the inner side as well, so I figure I can drill through the captive thread and through the inner plates and then anchor the late type ASB from the inside out to the captive thread.
This is a great discovery and it has made my day.
Until proven wrong maybe, but I think not...
Re: What did you do to your Marina today?
Also today I am fitting my unwanted Leyland 6 suspension into a rotted out UK Mk3 sedan body so that I can fit the Cheviot Turbo mag wheels to it and sell it as a rolling body.
Mainly I want the whole lot to disappear without me having to cut it up for scrap.
However, the mags feature Yokohama A049 road/track rubber and a Ford stud pattern, so I figure they do have some value.
After I strip the interior to furnish my coupe it will hit the market.
So that's nice...
Mainly I want the whole lot to disappear without me having to cut it up for scrap.
However, the mags feature Yokohama A049 road/track rubber and a Ford stud pattern, so I figure they do have some value.
After I strip the interior to furnish my coupe it will hit the market.
So that's nice...