I think my dad had a Montego.
My mum had a black MG Metro with pepper pot alloys and rally lights.

Thinking back, it was like putting racing stripes on a camel.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:19, archived)

whoa, the montego.
now THERE was a car.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:21, archived)

did you even read my thread?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:23, archived)

look, we had a maxi and then a datsun cherry.
nobody is coming out of this thread alive.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:27, archived)

lol
My Grandad worked at the Rover Plant, so we ended up getting a string of rovers, as the company started to fall apart. I think I can chart the downfall of rover in cars we had when I was young.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:28, archived)

Doesn't surprise me.
When I was at college I worked as a potwash with an ex-leyland worker who was at the plant pretty much for the duration of the metro. He said night shifts usually belted out the quota in about 2 hours and slept for the other 5.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:30, archived)

we had the montego estate in burgundy,
and then a Maestro. The maestro died half way up shotover hill in oxford. If I remember rightly we just left it there and walked home.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:24, archived)

My grandad(s) had a maestro.
I think every granddad did at some point.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:25, archived)

The Hyundai Accent seems to be the grandad car of choice at the moment

( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:51, archived)

The MG Metro was a proper car
made of tinfoil but with a 1275cc engine that may or may not have been twin-carbed. They had a pretty good power-to-weight setup back then.

They were just allergic to cornering.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:25, archived)

i had the 16v 1.4 rover metro at one point.
the manifold rotted and the local rover dealer wanted £600 for the part alone. how i laughed as i drove around in my shitty little car sounding like a harrier jump jet.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:49, archived)

Rover engines were wonderfully reliable
in the sense that as soon as the clocks went from 69,999 to 70,000 the head gasket went.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 13:03, archived)