Oh dear, what on earth have I done?

2 imfamous people..

 

On the plus side there’s no scene tax on parts

 

Oh, noooo...

 

Presumably Ivan the Terrible is one, and is the other!!

 

Haven't worked on a Ital for 35 plus years but if I remember correctly the clutches were difficult to bleed and sometimes this will sound really odd but we bled them via the braking system . How are you for the imperial spanners and sockets ?

 

One left Bangers and cash,
the other one left TLB..

 

Indeed they did .

 

My first car was a 1.3L Morris Ital. personally I thought it was great.

I’ve recently been watching this bunch of fellas restoring a Marina GT




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I'm surprised Marinas aren't all Whitworth...

 

Somebody was always going to post that video

 

And it was me

Waste of a good piano IMHO

 

I think the old Morris 1000 'Moggy' were the last Whitworth.

 

Possibly. Think Marinas must have been UNC/UNF. Or whatever old woodscrews BL had sitting around.

 

I gave all my Marina fitting Imperial spanners to @scrooge95 a while back, but I kept the foot pump and the compression tester I bought almost 40 years ago. Somewhere there is still a Halfords socket set..

 

Did you keep the tartan Thermos?

 

Didn’t they also come with a lay-by picnic table?

 

In beige, to match the beige interior and beige dash?

 

Believe later Marinas were sold with a free subscription to Incontinence Weekly

 

My mistake. Just checked, and it was Dodgy Tiddler World.

 

My first car was a bright yellow Marina 1.7 HL, black vinyl roof and almost shag pile carpet. Cruising around Orpington with Bananarama blasting out of one small speaker. It would have been Hawkwind, but it didn't have a tape player and only really picked up Radio 1. I can still smell it... happy days. A blue Ital just seems a little more reserved, almost conservative (with a small c) by comparison.