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    Still don't believe it. We're talking Americans here, wildly optimistic doctored dyno results on marketing engine. What the customers get and how ineptly it is set up would be telling. I've spent a fair bit of time operating a dyno to be cynical. Ok 1800cc is pretty big. But it will ne crude as fuck and thermally unstable.
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    The power would most likely only be a hinderance on that frame. It would be a fucking handful most of the time. Prob why it is for sale...
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Still don't believe it. We're talking Americans here, wildly optimistic doctored dyno results on marketing engine. What the customers get and how ineptly it is set up would be telling. I've spent a fair bit of time operating a dyno to be cynical. Ok 1800cc is pretty big. But it will ne crude as fuck and thermally unstable.
    I wasn't referencing their own marketing dyno results, rather that of results from individual owners. Seems there must be a lot of wildly inaccurate dynos in America judging by the results I've found online.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Owl View Post
    Try 1.85 litres.
    At least the Maxi was 5 speed and OHC both just as ugly the Austin at least was made 50 years ago so its okay to be ugly and slow........
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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    At least the Maxi was 5 speed and OHC both just as ugly the Austin at least was made 50 years ago so its okay to be ugly and slow........
    They're a bloody good car, stop hating on them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    They're a bloody good car, stop hating on them.
    No they're not. They are total shit boxes like most other pommy shitters of the day.
    Lets go Brandon

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    Quote Originally Posted by jasonu View Post
    No they're not. They are total shit boxes like most other pommy shitters of the day.
    Beg to differ. Ugly as sin and more embarrassing than being seen getting out of a sheep, but the one we had went like stink and was a tardis inside.

    BMC actually did half reasonable with that motor the for the time. I recall using it as a tow car in the late 80's going racing and was Dad's work hack. It may have been spun at the BayPark Hairpin off the back straight in the wet....never mind the speed at which I was able to hustle it to Hamilton one Monday morning for work that would get me locked up now, even with the two laning most of the way.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    At least the Maxi was 5 speed and OHC both just as ugly the Austin at least was made 50 years ago so its okay to be ugly and slow........
    I had a Maxi for 4 years when the kids were small. When there were traffic lights at the top of the Bombay Hills, the connecting pin between the gear stick and shift rod under the car fell out just as we were approaching the lights on red. Managed to pull to one side, find out what the problem was and jury rig it with a 1/4" bolt. A real bloody hassle as the car was full of kids and camping gear. I think that was the only problem until my wife drove it for a decent distance with a split hose and boiled it dry. Used rather a lot of oil after that.

    They were charmless old puddings but plenty of room for a young family. That's about the best that could be said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackbird View Post
    I had a Maxi for 4 years when the kids were small. When there were traffic lights at the top of the Bombay Hills, the connecting pin between the gear stick and shift rod under the car fell out just as we were approaching the lights on red. Managed to pull to one side, find out what the problem was and jury rig it with a 1/4" bolt. A real bloody hassle as the car was full of kids and camping gear. I think that was the only problem until my wife drove it for a decent distance with a split hose and boiled it dry. Used rather a lot of oil after that.

    They were charmless old puddings but plenty of room for a young family. That's about the best that could be said.
    I had a google about them ns they wee Alec Issigonis last design
    As per normal with the poms management knew better
    they decided to alter the design to save money by using the same doors as an Austin 1800/Kimberly
    Thus lengthening the design making it look out of proportion.
    All the ones i remember were the same colour
    Lime green


    Pretty sure the gearbox linkage was an issue for many
    Same stupid pom management would put hatchbacks into princess and allegros. Despite them being designed for them as they were afraid they would steal sales from Maxis

    Supposedly the Aussies wouldst retool to build the maxi so they built a Austin 1300 with the Big Block 1750 and 45 speed i have never seen on but there were suposed to have been sold here as the nomad along with the maxi


    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    They're a bloody good car, stop hating on them.
    Drew they could be the greatest car in the word but that wouldn't stop them being ugly.
    They are Ugly and they were not great or even bloody good. They were room and ahead of there time in spec, but they were rusty and unreliable and staid.
    Remember the 50 and 60 years of Mini i celebration, no one celebrated the 50 years of the Maxi
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    Many years ago when I bought my Norbar torque wrench it was advertised as being the brand used by the British car industry. I was never sure if that counted as a plus or a minus, but it would seem Norbar survived whereas the British car industry didn't.
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    Quote Originally Posted by malcy25 View Post
    Beg to differ. Ugly as sin and more embarrassing than being seen getting out of a sheep,


    Actually late 80's sheep (all) farmers were on their knees and i recall visiting my brother to see sitting amongst about 500 perendales the most ugly thing ever - the aussie version - the six cylinder kimberly which he'd proudly bought at a clearing sale... i told him he must have no personal pride any more and he should hide it behind the woolshed. a week later he had found two more (a manual and an auto?) way down the taupo napier road and drove one while towing wife in the other back home. Then a few weeks later i was riding my XR500 home from a trail ride and met him in his "favourite" one (duck egg blue) which he had been out jetting on the backroads... any way he says give you a race and off we go me thinking i dont want to shower him in rocks (gravel road) so i'll back of once i get past the bonnet. turns out its now turboed running over 20psi and on methonol and i got well smoked and showered in rocks as well. He had done a lot of work swapping gears between them and all sorts (water injection after 7psi) and it was frightingly fast on the open highway.It shows what can be done if you have no self respect...
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    Lorde you guys are sick.

    Back into bikes.

    Yeh nah.https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...ee213df10f-002
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Lorde you guys are sick.

    Back into bikes.
    https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...2493156367.htm
    try this link
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Yeh nah.
    Then don't buy it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    Dave likely never realised that thew engine was the size of a Hillman Hunter or Austin Maxi.
    To be fair if its 125 HP and 1.75 liters its hardly more higher tuned than a 1979 1300 Escort Sport.
    Of course the escort sport is a lot higher tech

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