They were both rust buckets! Although the Montego seemed a slightly better and more powerful car and better looking than the Maestro, whether that was the case mechanically or otherwise I don't have a scooby. I once had an old Capri Mk1, although I killed it pretty quick, the back ends were no good on ice.....and telegraph poles hurt.
there was a time a had a renault 5 gt turbo, a little french unreliable piece of **** dinky toy, it cost me a fortune, was off the road more than it was on it. But when it was working it really was ****ing great, a proper buzz.. Anyway back to your Capri point, when i had the little french tarts car, i headed down to Bognor Regis for a kickboxing training camp with some mates, anyway i ended up swapping my tarts car for a Capri 2.8i for a few days..****, one scary car, even more a heap off **** than my hairdryer on wheels. We both felt he same same way, and were both glad to have our heaps of **** back.
Problem with the Capri was we were very young drivers with little if no driving experience, when I wrote mine off it was tearing through narrow country roads, and once it lost it's grip there was no where to go other than to hit the nearest object. I look back now at some of my crazy shhite and consider myself lucky to be alive. As for the Renault 5 GT Turbo I remember them well, imho they were the better of the Renault vehicles ie than the larger models. Now I'm not mechanically minded enough to know why, but with the exception of the 5 the gearboxes always seemed clonky in their vehicles back in them days, that's if you could actually find the gear you wanted. I think the GT Turbo was the first car I remember driving that had the lift button for reverse...not sure why my brain just told me that! From memory though they couldn't half shift from a standing position, probably nothing compared to todays cars, just seemed quick all them years back. I remember them having a bigger car, without me looking it up was it something like a 25, could be wrong but maybe the higher end of market. To me the worst vehicle I ever remember them making, not sure if there are still any round today, was the Espace, back then it was the biggest lump of shhite EVER!
Done the Bathroom ceiling and undercoated the walls yesterday, all dry and looking fresh, got some work at 12 for my hotel guy,m so will have to pop out for a few hours, got some dark blue for the walls might cut that in ready for when I come back. All very interesting.
Left the house to do some work and it was sunny Half way there the heavens opened up. Now I'm back home
Sitting in a bar on the seafront at Wimeraux about 20 miles south of Calais ... got a couple of hours to waste ... back at work tomorrow but at least I can choose what time I go in
My old man had a Montego MG back in the day. The one that had the talking dash with the digital display. Felt like something out of the 25th Century had landed back when we had that in 1986
I'm trying to think if they had power steering back then, not sure they did and would have been like driving a tank. Imagine a vehicle today got hit by one of those old lumps. I used have mate all those years ago that used to buy up old Zephyr's (and Zodiac's I think) along with a few others I can't remember now, appeared the biggest car(s) on the road even all those years on, column change and bench seats. I think they were exempt from the seat-belt legislation that came in. Zephyr; please log in to view this image Zodiac MK3; please log in to view this image
Forgot to say, looking at those pics, the ole chrome bumpers, and I think most the models didn't come under 3 Litres, I'm sure my mate used to get about 7 miles to the gallon
