Cut up by a Maxi!!!!
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Driving back from work an old get decided to overtake me, despite the on coming traffic, then swerved in front causing me to brake like no tomorrow( thank God for Ferodo's)
I know loads of people trying to have a go because you're in a Scooby, but an AUSTIN MAXI!!! Burnt him off afterwards with lots of jesticulating included.
I know loads of people trying to have a go because you're in a Scooby, but an AUSTIN MAXI!!! Burnt him off afterwards with lots of jesticulating included.
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>Hasnt popeye got a maxi, havent seen him post for a while though.
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Mine is a Harvest Gold Austin Maxi 1750 HL with twin SU Carburetters. Theres nothing finer
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Drivind along Yarmouth Sea Front at the weekend 3 young doods in a nova thaught they could nip in front..... WRONG a car pulled out from a parking space and guess what happened as they were all looking at my bus? Thats right a pretty shower of glass and crumpled metal. Didn't laugh much. At least no one was hurt.
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My Dad used to drive a Maxi, I thought it was terrible but he was a handy driver and used to get around pretty fast in it. It wasn't him you saw though,unless it was his ghost, in which case I would not put it past him!
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Don't mess with a Maxi. They're built like tanks! Remember being in one when I was a wee nipper. Ran into the back of a Cortina and totalled the back of it. Hardly a scratch on the Maxi.
It deserves Reeeespect!!!
It deserves Reeeespect!!!
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Wouldn't go as far as saying it deserves respect...
But a box of matches and a gallon of petrol wouldn't go amiss with one !
Gotta be the worst car ever ! Well...apart from an Austin Ambassador !
But a box of matches and a gallon of petrol wouldn't go amiss with one !
Gotta be the worst car ever ! Well...apart from an Austin Ambassador !
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Wash your mouth out there [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] The Maxi is THE car of the century. It has a large folding bench seat, makes a great bed. And yes, the plastic seats are painful in Summer if you wear shorts
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No I think you are referring to the "Russet Brown" models. They were also available in "Blaze" a natty orange/red and "Harvest Gold" like my fine example
Mine is totally mint with not a spot of rust. Even the chrome plated wheel trims are free of corrosion. As for performance, it gives those young whipper snappers in their pumped up Vauxhall Novas a run for their money especially when I drop down from fifth.....Blutes
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The Austin Maxi will go down in history. Its the first car to get five gears
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Maxi: The legend lives on
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Maxi: The legend lives on
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I clearly remember when the Maxi first appeared. Well experienced car types of the day questioned why anyone would need as many as five gears and all that rear leg room. Remember, that was when your average Ford or Vauxhall often had three speed gearboxes so who needs five for crissakes was the attitude of the day (My MGB then had SIX forward ratios - the usual 4 H with ever so smooth electrically controlled overdrive on third and fourth. IMHO, a set-up unmatched even with todays fine six speeders). My how things have changed. The Germans were at least a little impressed with the Maxi concept ... so much so that a few years later, they created their own clone: the VW Rabbit ( sur la continent ...
or Golf as we came to know it in the UK.
The Maxi, like so many fine Brit efforts was greatly underestinated. Yes, I liked 'em and so did my better half. She, like many girlies, needs to take the kitchen sink whenever we go anywhere so it suited her travel needs extremely well by 1960-70s standards.. It's carrying capacity rarely matched even today except by 4x4s etc of Monster Truck proportions which now thicken the jams which infest our roads everywhere. Hey, did I really say that ...
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The Maxi, like so many fine Brit efforts was greatly underestinated. Yes, I liked 'em and so did my better half. She, like many girlies, needs to take the kitchen sink whenever we go anywhere so it suited her travel needs extremely well by 1960-70s standards.. It's carrying capacity rarely matched even today except by 4x4s etc of Monster Truck proportions which now thicken the jams which infest our roads everywhere. Hey, did I really say that ...
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I learned how to be carsick in one, I thought it was the vinyl seats that stank but I now believe it was generally the stale fumes of leaded petrol. Reg plate (thinks for 3 seconds) OTU 994H; my god, what a memory, we sold it in about 1981!, olive green, don't think it was a 1750 though. Oh boy, can I testify to frying your skin on the seats when left in the sun. It's the first car of my parents that I can remember, I have no memories of the VW camper or Renault 4 thank heavens! We went on all our summer holidays from London to Lake District, Wales etc. I think one year we got to the North Downs on our way to Hastings and had to turn back as the clutch was slipping so badly we couldn't get up the hills.
My parents have enjoyed load-carriers and used the bed capability on the Maxi and later. Their next cars were a Mk 4 Cortina estate and (via a Pug 205), a Mondeo estate. Both estates were chosen specifically because the rear squab did not pull up before the seatback folded forward, thus allowing as much load as you can get up to the back of the front seat. For the Mondeo, he wanted to get a 2m-plus load in, and it was the only one, apart from something truly tank-like.
My parents have enjoyed load-carriers and used the bed capability on the Maxi and later. Their next cars were a Mk 4 Cortina estate and (via a Pug 205), a Mondeo estate. Both estates were chosen specifically because the rear squab did not pull up before the seatback folded forward, thus allowing as much load as you can get up to the back of the front seat. For the Mondeo, he wanted to get a 2m-plus load in, and it was the only one, apart from something truly tank-like.
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