Australian Marina's

[bigcarle]

photo taken in October at the 2004 Brisbane Southside Morris Minor Car Club display day
i own the 2 on the left

[MarinaCoupe]

Looks good.

I like the Dolly engine, on a technical question, I notice that the rad top hose runs the opposite way to a Marina, was it specially made up or was it off another car?

[bigcarle]

yep right on both counts,
had to recore the radiator and got the openings swapped at the same time and then had to pick a hose similar in shape and cut it
Toyota AFAIR and the bottom one was a AFAIR a Holden Sunbird.
after doing the exercise i proved that you could fit a Sprint motor in there or in fact a Stag motor

[MarinaCoupe]

A V8 Stag motor would be fun!

[ScreamingLordStokes]

If only BL had used the Dolly slant four in the Marina! The Dolomite was launched in October 1971 so it could have been feasable. We could've had a Marina TC Sprint with Dolly box and rear axle. I remember reading Brian Culcheth saying that the Marina two door bodyshell would have been a far better prospect than the four door Dolly for the slant four in Saloon car racing.

[bigcarle]

Leyland Australia was developing an aluminum 3.3 litre V6 for the Marian based on the
4.4 litre V8 from the P76
Aussie Marina's have as standard the Triumph Spitfire gearbox and a Borg Warner home grown diff
both of these could take a bit of punishment