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ahight ◊ 2006-10-17 18:39
Sunbar ◊ 2006-10-17 18:42	Austin Maxi - to be confirmed.
Alexander ◊ 2006-10-17 18:55	It is an Austin Maxi [ADO14]. If I am not mistaken this is the 1750 model.
carobserver ◊ 2006-10-22 07:18	It resist the mistakes of Clark Grisswall
RalphTheParkie ◊ 2007-02-20 22:15	Date of Liability 01 12 1984 Date of First Registration 13 11 1973 Year of Manufacture Not Available Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1748CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Unlicensed Vehicle Colour RED Looks like a Wolverhampton '_HA' prefix too.
lightspout ◊ 2007-03-23 17:08	Originally red then, but looks like it got resprayed Inca Yellow at some point!
Kazimann ◊ 2007-08-09 20:57	Talk about a shit rental car!
Richard Davies ◊ 2007-09-29 23:10	It was 11-2 years old when this was made, much older than most hire cars.
HAVERTON HILL 1 ◊ 2008-07-17 19:37	Don't knock Austin Maxi's very roomy and not that unreliable. Over 400,000 built 1969-1981.
dsl ◊ 2010-09-17 20:53	Mk2.
Lateef ◊ 2011-04-12 19:25	So do I. I'm thinking about importing one of these if I can't get hold of an Allegro or a Maestro.
Sandie ◊ 2011-04-12 19:30	I can't really dislike these old British Leyland cars. They have a nice kind of nostalgia about them. Ask many people who were children of the seventies and eighties and they will get all misty eyed about family trips spent in the lay-by.
cl82 ◊ 2011-04-12 19:32	@Lateef: And I've always thought you were a rational person. Still, a Maxi is still probably a better choice than an Allegro or a Maestro. Main problem will certainly be finding a proper one.
Ingo ◊ 2011-04-12 19:36	The Maxi was indeed one of the more popular Austins on the German market (o.k., nearly the only other besided the Mini in the early 70ies), and some customers were indeed satisfied with them. As the brother of a K 70-friend. He really loved the Maxi, he had owned. Spacy interior, a not lame 1.8 liter-engine and, as he told, reliable technic. So toally different as the common German view on British cars.
Lateef ◊ 2011-04-12 19:40	I'm just kidding, cl82 I'm sticking with what I can find for now. However, if there was a neat looking original LHD Allegro Equipe for sale nearby, I'd purchase it, no matter how much it cost ... well, for less than 50.000 NOK, I'd hope.
cl82 ◊ 2011-04-12 22:37	It really should be possible for less than the amount you mentioned. Google says 50.000 NOK is 6 371,43946 Euro, so that should actually buy you a barn full off Allegros. I really don't want to interfere, but you really should know that for 6 371,43946 Euro or even less, you could also get a "real" car instead that won't cause you as much trouble. 3.900, for example, would buy you a real Porsche: Link to "suchen.mobile.de" Wasn't it you who used to be an admirer of the Ford Scorpio? Again, your 50,000 NOK would be enough to buy more than a dozen of them: Link to "suchen.mobile.de" Among all offers I've seen, this is the absolute bargain: Link to "suchen.mobile.de" Just needs a new exhaust manifold.
Ingo ◊ 2011-04-12 22:44	Hey Lateef, something more freaky - Police-Scorpios : Link to "www.vebeg.de" They are auctions, but without seeing the other bids. Normally these cars are cheap to get. Unpopular models in unpopular colours. And if you read the details, you see, that all are fairly damaged. -- Last edit: 2011-04-12 22:47:08
Lateef ◊ 2011-04-12 22:45	The asking price for cars in the rest of Europe is generally ridiculously low compared to how it is in Norway. Some time ago, I calculated how much it'd cost to register a 1988 Opel Senator 4.0 in Norway originally costing 1.500 Euro, and it all went up to 56.000 NOK however with a vintage car (30 years+ old) you don't have to pay this "little" extra fee when importing your car. It's these kind of things that makes me want to emigrate from here.
Lateef ◊ 2011-04-12 22:46	@ingo: many thanks for the link! I'm sure I'd find it to good use
Ingo ◊ 2011-04-12 22:52	Lateef wrote The asking price for cars in the rest of Europe is generally ridiculously low compared to how it is in Norway I've never been to Norway personally, but it's universally known, that in Norway EVERYTHING is incredible more expensive than in the rest of Europe. And it's not an EU-member, any personal import/export-deals (which is more than one bottle of alcohol) are totally unattractive But you must admit, that the Norwegian wages are also much higher than anywhere else. So a hard reason for many people to emigrate there for work - also several Germans are doing that. Germany became indeed an emigration-country in the last few years. For getting well-paid jobs abroad, Norway is one of the favourites.
Sandie ◊ 2011-04-12 22:55	I'd heard about the ridiculous alcohol prices. My uncle works out in Norway.
Ingo ◊ 2011-04-12 22:58	@fsebus: Link to "www.vebeg.de" As written at the bottom, on request available in a bunch of 11 together!
Ingo ◊ 2011-04-12 23:07	Slightly off-topic, but this is the German "Air Force One" (in its first life the "DDR Air Force One", overtaken in 1990 from the West) Link to "www.vebeg.de" In fact a slightly rotten old clunker with a plenty of damages.
Ingo ◊ 2011-04-12 23:21	Sandie wrote I'd heard about the ridiculous alcohol prices. My uncle works out in Norway. I've heard that from my uncle too, who had worked in Tromsö in 1989/90. And from a colleague really astonishing things about the drinking behaviour of Norwegian guys on a German wedding party Not even the extensive trained countryside-blokes couldn't hold pace with them
chicomarx ◊ 2012-03-22 20:48	Lateef wrote I'm thinking about importing one of these if I can't get hold of an Allegro or a Maestro. LOL! That's a good one.
Lateef ◊ 2012-03-27 20:35	Yup. I probably have better chances finding one of these than a SAAB-Lancia 600 (that's my dream SAAB - mainly because of its rarity)
Q-Ball ◊ 2012-07-17 22:01	I've actually seen an old purple Austin Maxi driving the country roads in Vermont when I was driving to college. Was the Maxi ever imported to the USA?
dsl ◊ 2012-07-17 22:21	No - but a slight chance that they might have tried selling some in CDN - some BMC/BL cars were available into mid-70s for a few years after US sales ceased when emissions and safety regulations came in 68-70 onwards.
blue_thunder ◊ 2017-05-29 23:20	You can see a Ford Sierra in the background at the roundabout scene. For most non-british and -irish, that's going to be a challange...
Baube ◊ 2017-05-29 23:30	tell me about it.. there is one in my local Walmart's parking lot... i might not doing that great but at least i didn't took it on the wrong way or stopped in the middle of it to play with my stupid phone like some other drivers...
Sputnik Motors ◊ 2020-07-14 21:43	i cant believe an american didnt know that the steering wheel is on the other side
jpts ◊ 2022-01-07 11:46	ralphtheparkie wrote Date of Liability 01 12 1984 Date of First Registration 13 11 1973 Year of Manufacture Not Available Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1748CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Unlicensed Vehicle Colour RED Looks like a Wolverhampton '_HA' prefix too. From 1907 to 1974, "HA" was the prefix for Smethwick and from 1974 to 1996, "HA" became the prefix for Dudley. -- Last edit: 2022-01-07 11:46:50
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2022-01-07 11:59	^ Not quite. In the 1974 local government reorganisation, smaller local offices like Smethwick, HA, and Dudley FD, were amalgamated into larger areas and indices redistributed. Wolverhampton’s letters, DA, JW & UK, were reallocated to Birmingham, as was HA later. The whole thing is fiendishly complicated and generalisation cannot be assumed, as they changed from year to year. This Maxi is M year letter, and as the date will be 1973/4, will have been Warley, which was the new name for Smethwick plus some surrounds from 1966. In 1974, the Warley registration letters HA were reallocated to Dudley, but it seems that this would not have happened until 1st August 1974, so from that date the year letter would have been N. By the way, we had two Maxi 1750s in my family, Dad had PRF321L and I had RAC897R. Mine was automatic and not a nice car as the automatic box didn’t suit the engine, Dad’s was manual and Mum couldn’t handle the five speed box, so he swapped it for a Morris 1800, which mother did not have so much trouble with as she had bought an automatic Dolomite for herself by then. -- Last edit: 2022-01-07 12:36:27

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