Jeez you wouldn't want one of todays cars getting hit by a Montego Although like most cars of its time, an absolute rust bucket.
The Montego was the last in a long list of cars that was going to save British Leyland. Gave everyone a good laugh anyway. Flooded the second hand market within weeks of being launched, and basically halved in value every week. @Hoddle is a god , you bought one brand new off the production line didn’t you?
Nope, never owned one. My first car was a Mk 4 Cortina 1.6, followed by a Cortina Mk 5 2.0 in metallic gold.
I had a Mark IV. Bronze, with a brown vinyl roof. 1.8 iirc. A real gas guzzler anyway, and the petrol gauge was a crude instrument, so the thing had a tendency to empty out unexpectedly and leave me stranded in some odd places.
Back in the day, when getting any car to start in winter was a challenge, and breaking down unexpectedly was par for the course. Hitting starting motors with hammers, heating spark plugs in the oven, spraying WD40 over electrical connections, parking on a downhill slope, so you can roll it then lift your foot off the clutch in 2nd; All part of the fun today's motorist will never experience, unless they're into running vintage clunkers.
