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#16 Klevdo2202

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Posted 29 May 2011 - 11:04 AM

Cheers for letting me know Guessworks, I read a review somewhere that the VW gearbox was pretty pants even when new?


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Posted 29 May 2011 - 11:15 AM

It may be an ex bt van, not sure exactly when they changed the colour from yellow to grey.

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Posted 29 May 2011 - 11:17 AM

It may be an ex bt van, not sure exactly when they changed the colour from yellow to grey.


Sounds interesting!
I will say however, that it is a darker shade of yellow for the bottom quarter and a much brighter yellow for the top, it's quite tricky to see the difference from looking at the pictures.

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Posted 29 May 2011 - 01:57 PM

I cant believe how original it is-someone has obviously cared for it over the years. Even the interior looks great-you would be hard pressed to find a 5 year old van looking so good!

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Posted 29 May 2011 - 02:14 PM

I cant believe how original it is-someone has obviously cared for it over the years. Even the interior looks great-you would be hard pressed to find a 5 year old van looking so good!


I agree

The previous owner did not really want to get rid of it, even though lots of people told him to scrap it. He said it had been good to him.

It's not perfect, the interior dash is quite dirty (will attack that later on) and some of the plastic bits are falling out.

The engine loves the choke, more than the mini.


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Posted 29 May 2011 - 02:37 PM

always liked the maestro van underated little van

I had a grey 1.3 tatty one (possibly BT with roof rack???) when i first passed my test,
never let me down and brother in law had its about 6 years before me.

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Posted 29 May 2011 - 05:12 PM

always liked the maestro van underated little van

I had a grey 1.3 tatty one (possibly BT with roof rack???) when i first passed my test,
never let me down and brother in law had its about 6 years before me.


I agree, it's the comfiest car I've driven, I have driven a few!

Can't wait to get it back on the road, it needs a good run as the previous owner didn't drive it far.

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Posted 30 May 2011 - 11:06 AM

10 points to Shifty,


After receiving the documents I can confirm that the 1st owner was in fact British Telecom!!


Regards, Kelvin

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Posted 30 May 2011 - 11:20 AM

10 points to Shifty,


After receiving the documents I can confirm that the 1st owner was in fact British Telecom!!


Regards, Kelvin


LOL's. I fail!

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Posted 30 May 2011 - 11:29 AM

To be fair, I had no idea it could have been BT, as I've always known AA to be yellow. I wasn't born early enough!

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Posted 01 June 2011 - 09:37 PM

Brilliantly cool! I say modify it and keep all the original parts so it can be put back easily and no one will know.

Yellow and black theme would be great, so find another grille on ebay and spray it up. Lowered springs, stiff shocks and some nice period alloys and it's perfect! :( If you're not on retrorides, get on there now!

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Posted 02 June 2011 - 06:51 PM

I've been meaning to sign up to Retrorides for a while, I will do this weekend.


Not sure about modifying, would like some nice alloys though, not sure if 13" minilites would fit? x 7 would look really smart I think!


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Posted 02 June 2011 - 11:42 PM

It's fantastic without modification and definitely has a charm about it being standard, I just have a disease where I can't leave things untouched, but it seems acceptable in my eyes to do any mods as long as they can be taken off without any sign of it having been there. E.g. suspension coils and shocks can just be swapped back to original, grille can be swapped back to original, and wheels obviously can too. Run it as it is, and if you get bored of it you know what to do if you feel like it :D

Not sure about the Minilites, think they'd have to have chunky tyres and have the car lowered too. A google search shows the Maestro and Montego had 4x3.75" PCD, same as MGF and TR7, but the vans were 4x100mm, giving you just about the biggest range of wheels going, lucky!

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Posted 05 June 2011 - 08:00 PM

My dad worked for BT for 13 years, he drove most makes/models of vans they had in their fleet up to 1992 when he left, the Maestro was one of the best. When he went full time self employed he bought an ex BT Maestro on a 1989 F reg. Exactly the same as yours, even down to the lin-bin racking in the back. His had 30k as was only used by one of the managers to go between the different telephone exchanges so was as clean as yours is inside and out.

I have fond memories of him thrashing the knackers off it with me rolling round in the back. >_< After a few years though, it was looking a bit rough, the doors had both rotted so bad at the point where the window frame/surround meets the main part of the door just above the exterior door handles, you could lift the frame away from the door itself. I'm sure it was the glass holding it all together when it was wound up :goaway:

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 10:27 PM

this is all kinds of cool!!

love it!

i agree that if you want to mod it, only do things that can be changed back, 4x100 pcd really is the biggest range of wheels ever!!

ill keep watching this it really is ace!!

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