She was built at Cowley on 25th May 1983 and registered on 16th June 1983. She is a 1.3L, but for the eagled eyed, yes she does have 1.6 wheels so I am currently on the look out for the correct slotted wheels. The only other non-original parts on her are the dealer fitted decals and the grill badge. The first owner had a small front end prang and when she was repaired, the wrong grill badge was fitted and the dealer fitted the decals from new, I assume as a way to jazz up a base model (or second to base model) which is what she is.
The Maestro was launched on 1st March 1983 so Milly is quite an early one. We covered over 260 miles today and she behaved very well, only having a slight grumble on the M40 and that was in a 15 minute jam, and even then, once I had talked to her and we had both done our deep breathing exercises, she was fine. She is a great example of a Cowley built car and will be perfect for next year which is Cowley's Centenary.
She has had two owners from new, I'm her third. The first owned her for 25 years (he passed away) and the second sold her to the dealer I bought her from. I met the second owner last weekend at the NEC so I now know most of her story and he is going to give me the trophy that she won in 2010
and also any other paperwork that he can fine. He is going to put me in touch with the family of her first owner as they were fond of her and would like to know what has happened to her. Her mileage is approaching 36,000.Are there any other Maestro owners on TMF?
Needless to say, I love her to bits and will now stop prattling on and post some pics of her
Photos from her eBay ad
Her somewhat unfortunate sticker! Her first owner worked for the BBC in London, so maybe he got it from there. We think this was but on in the 1980s and is how part of her and that era, so it will be staying and we think it might damage the dash if we tried to remove it. My husband is trying to call her Jimmy - I don't think so!
A photo of the dealer, Dave Fox with her. He was great, very helpful and a pleasure to buy a car from. We exchanged some great car stories - how he and his mates are still alive after some of their antics - I don't know!
He's going to try and make it down to The Pride of Longbridge as he has a genuine interest in Longbridge/BL. 
We stopped off at her birthplace
Me with Milly
Then down to Somerford to collect one of the Minis
Then back to MINI Plant Oxford on our way home
And finally for Shifty, a photo of another of Dave's cars, Gary the Manta!
Edited by Tanya, 23 November 2012 - 08:50 PM.
