Rovertech 2.0

Once our roads had thousands of these cars on them. Not now of course. Alive, well and in good shape in Cheltenham yesterday :~



Good to see.

Looks minty fresh

Considering it's well over 30 years old it's looking good.

young lad probably couldn't get insurance in any thing else looks good condition to be fair not seen one for years

My little brother owns 2 of them and its going to be his first car on the road as the insurance is fairer altho still expensive......

But that one does look clean.

Nice example that

Does anyone else get a little excited when they see these rarer AR cars on the road now?

I keep seeing a red MG Maestro with the turbo bodykit. I've waved and flashed my lights at it before but no response. Probably thinks I'm a nutter.

I've seen an old Austin Metro in the car park at work a few times, but that's nothing compared to this - regularly at my work car park so clearly being used to commute in!

There's a guy locally here who has a 7 too, I'll stop and get a pic when I remember. His is a fully restored job, very nice

i can remember the days as a child seeing every supermarket car park with quite a few on

I've just seen an M reg 2.0 mg maestro in mint condition on the m5 whilst driving from Ashton Keynes to Halifax. Couldn't get a pic though as the traffic was moving for a change lol

harkins77 wrote:I've just seen an M reg 2.0 mg maestro in mint condition on the m5 whilst driving from Ashton Keynes to Halifax. Couldn't get a pic though as the traffic was moving for a change lol

M reg

Must have been a late registered example. The latest I've seen was a J-reg.

WonderSheep wrote:

harkins77 wrote:I've just seen an M reg 2.0 mg maestro in mint condition on the m5 whilst driving from Ashton Keynes to Halifax. Couldn't get a pic though as the traffic was moving for a change lol

M reg

Must have been a late registered example. The latest I've seen was a J-reg.

J is last ones 1991

I so want a austin metro!! I had two when impasses my test, they were magic the turbo was a flipping beauty.

charliecosworth wrote:

WonderSheep wrote:

harkins77 wrote:I've just seen an M reg 2.0 mg maestro in mint condition on the m5 whilst driving from Ashton Keynes to Halifax. Couldn't get a pic though as the traffic was moving for a change lol

M reg

Must have been a late registered example. The latest I've seen was a J-reg.

J is last ones 1991

I'm pretty sure it was M reg, mind you it was early and I might not have been fully awake. I was just amazed at how clean it was for its age.

M-Reg.

Maybe someone MG-ised a Ledbury

pengy_666 wrote:I so want a austin metro!! I had two when impasses my test, they were magic the turbo was a flipping beauty.

There is still a few about if you know where to look

My son Martin has just returned from a three week break in Brasil. He runs the Metropower web site. Showed him my picture of the Cheltenham Metro and he knows the owner who is 22 years of age apparently. Twelve years younger than his little car.

My son also has a 1982 MG Metro which I gave him when he was not old enough to drive. That car is two years older than he is..

Had a new MG Metro delivered on 1.1.83. Cinnabar Red. My son's first car journey was in that MG when he was just six days old. Also in 1982 a 1.0L in Champagne and 1.1C Rover version in 1993 all from new. Never had any of the numerous problems outlined in this thread with any of them. The Cinnabar MG Metro had a hard driven life. Latterly used as a third car family hack and most of my sons' friends learned to drive in it in their early teenage years.... Mind you, it did start to fall to pieces eventually. Fifteen years and 100,000+ hard miles later..

My son has a number of other cars including an Elise S2, a Porsche and a Rover 620ti which is his workhorse hack now showing 207,000 miles. Any excuse to get in the Metro and away he goes. He gets more favourable reactions in that car when out and about than any of his various other cars. Except maybe his Rover Metro with the 1.8 VVC engine on account of the way it goes ... .

stefaclese wrote:

Like it.

Never really liked the metros. I guess I'm not a "small car" person generally.

Beautiful a piece of iconic British history.

My son attended the NEC meet today ... in his 1982 MG Metro 1300. Went very well he tells me.

He enjoys driving the little car. So do I. Makes a change from his 620ti, Lotus Elise S2 and his various other Metros/Rovers including a Rover Metro which he has fitted a VVC 1.8 K-Series. That car left the factory with a 1.1 Carb engine. We bought it new in 1993.

Carbs ... anyone remember them?

puddlejumper wrote:

pengy_666 wrote:I so want a austin metro!! I had two when impasses my test, they were magic the turbo was a flipping beauty.

There is still a few about if you know where to look

That's like the metro version of me

puddlejumper wrote:

pengy_666 wrote:I so want a austin metro!! I had two when impasses my test, they were magic the turbo was a flipping beauty.

There is still a few about if you know where to look

So this is where all the Austin metros are hiding! Some collection

puddlejumper wrote:

pengy_666 wrote:I so want a austin metro!! I had two when impasses my test, they were magic the turbo was a flipping beauty.

There is still a few about if you know where to look

nice collection,

Here is a few I have MOT'ed

MGJohn wrote:My son attended the NEC meet today ... in his 1982 MG Metro 1300. Went very well he tells me.

He enjoys driving the little car. So do I. Makes a change from his 620ti, Lotus Elise S2 and his various other Metros/Rovers including a Rover Metro which he has fitted a VVC 1.8 K-Series. That car left the factory with a 1.1 Carb engine. We bought it new in 1993.

Carbs ... anyone remember them?

Yes worked on a lot of carbs mainly the 32/36 DGAV for racing use and the solex dis 32 that had 3 stage enrichment as found on the Renault 5 GT Turbo's.

Most nowerdays won't have a clue what emulsion tubes ,venturies, air corrections jets ect are.

Setting fueling up on a modern petrol a darn sight easier I remember tuning a R5 turbo on the rollers every little fueling tweek required top of carb and jet out and drill going up in 0.1 increments using a set of circuit board drill bits they where the days haha as they had the basic enrichment screw but that only adjusted baseline fueling on boost required jet change/drilling

I used to have a pair of Dellorto 40 dhla on a 1700 fezzer, much fun with main jets, emulsion tubes, and air correctors, happy days

Not forgetting balancing them haha

Marty wrote:Not forgetting balancing them haha

lol, all the cool kidz used to use a tube and listen to them sucking, I was crap at doing it like that so got a flow meter