MG Metro memories with Paul Woodford at the Great British Car Journey

[@DanLTjoe]

Love this!😍
I grew up with my dad owning a Metro VDP auto on an E reg from 1997-2010…
A big part of my childhood, have always wanted to re live those Metro memories so Nov last year I have bought myself a metallic grey 19,000 mile Metro 1300 L also on an E reg! ❤️😁
My father was very pleased to see it

[@simoncarney9944]

We had one in that colour, it was our 3rd MG Metro! Loved them.

[@stevenbeattie1137]

Compact and bijou Mostyn, compact and bijou! 😉😂❤

[@TurboTimsWorld]

Delivery millage LOL, when I started work as a mechanic for Skoda in 1990 delivery millage was driven without the speedo connected, coming up to August1st we had car swaps all over the country, we did a 8hrs on the spanners and then drive 5hrs over night swapping cars with dealers and PDIs in the morning half asleep, when VW came on board with all the new electronics we had a setting for 'deliver vehicle" .
One time we did a dealer swap but at a third dealer site in order to get the 3 cars swapped but the 3rd dealer had the set of wheels for one of the vehicles so 2 of us managed at night to swap the wheels on 3 cars at night in the rain and only get 1 of the wheels wrong that ended in Newcastle area and the other 3 in Oxford area at least we got the 3 cars in the correct places just not all of the wheels.

[@malcsco]

Great to see you again Sarah, keep up the good work.
Never saw you with Jody in a while, hope you are well. ATB fur noo

[@Sarah-CrabbersCrabtree]

Thank you x

[@Rayfaedundee]

That’s the engine that should have been fitted to the Ital 1300 models. Imagine a Morris Ital 1300 MG Turbo under the bonnet. .. just what Ivan needs Sarah Crabtree lol My 1981 Morris Ital 1300 (As you saw it for yourself at Glamis Extravaganza back in 2022) has just 950 miles from new at present time

[@gaz11h]

A favorite in the collection at GBCJ nice to see it being driven had one to with the same body graphics but mine was red one of the most fun cars I have ever owned 😊

[@brianjohnson5789]

fantastic handling around twisty roads, not much grunt in a straight line, but around twisty stuff they were great

[@brianjohnson5789]

they did come with alloys for most of their production run. but they were TD wheels and tyres, and those tyres are no longer available, so any left on the road have either had a later Rover 100 alloys, earlier pre TD metro alloys, or steel wheels with trims from those metro production runs. back in the day the vast majority had TD allows and tyres.

[@chrisblay]

Good old MG Metro.

[@45libs]

The little flap IS a wind deflector. The sunroof is removable. Slide a little switch on the handle and it disconnects, you can then remove it and the wind detector does its thing 😊

[@brianjohnson5789]

yes and they came new with a special bag to store the glass sunroof in

[@45libs]

@@brianjohnson5789 i never knew that! :) mine was 10 years old (and already quite rusty) when i got it

[@brianjohnson5789]

@@45libs I worked for Rover, drove a lot of them as company cars, and had one myself. back in the day.

[@davidwright1605]

My first new car was an 84 A reg MG Metro. It was heavily discounted so good value. Lots of character but the gearbox failed after 30k miles and I went back to Fords.

[@shauncorless8965]

E up me duck the lovely sarah ,s on utube ,,❤she could turn boy george straight just by smiling at him 😅

[@brianjohnson5789]

the turbos were a lot less reliable in practise

[@BeasleyStreet]

A friend had the turbo...stop ,I'm getting out, scary...too fast for my liking...

[@grahamschofield4555]

If you had been in the car with me Sarah it would have been a fart that you would have smelled , im always getting shouted at about it.

[@Snoopy-eg7uc]

Changing the exhaust at the twin manifold end was always interesting,. Usually set solid and had to use oxy-acetylene burner with a mate holding a shovel up against the carburettor 🥵. Kwik-fit days 😊, worked in an area loaded with older gentry 👨‍🦯👨‍🦯,…. Every second car was a metro 😂

[@CathodeRayNipplez]

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