Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

My cav

You must be new. I think you’ll find that’s are cav on here.

The Maestro guy's tail of woe hits right in the feels

Imagine being me. My dad bought a new Maestro Clubman in 89/90. I desperately tried to convince him to get something else, but he wanted to buy British. So I begged to at least get the LX with electric front windows, but no.

He at least got silver rather than the gold metallic of his previous Maestro.

Have you discussed this with your therapist?

I had a Maestro briefly. Complete shit.

IIRC Maestros were (possibly briefly) allowed to pass emissions testing where other cars would fail, in order to support British Leyland.

Bringing the thread back on track. Is the ioniq 5 a homage to the Maestro?

The turbo really is bonkersly crap..

That’s exactly what I’m doing right now. Lufguss is my therapist.

Weirdly childhood nostalgia means I quite fancy an MG Maestro Turbo. It looked so much hawter than the basic ones in dad’s glossy brochure. See also the Raleigh Dune Dancer when I was restricted to an Amazon.

Mid-'80s. Company leased Cavalier in for crash repair, (a distracted RMC regional manager ploughed into a line of stationary cars in the A404, before it was dualled). Back up car?
A Maestro Van Dem Plas!
It had an early voice warning system.
No memory of the engine size, just recall it did not have the power to cruise over the inclines of the M62 in fifth.

IIRC wasn't 80s rep boasting about the number of letters in your car name? Eg you weren't anyone unless you had a Vauxhall Bastard EFi DOHC 16v Fuel Injection Limited Edition Signature badge on your tailgate.

a homage

you'll never get a golf club membership with that sort of accent ;-)

I killed mine by having an alarm fitted and moving to London where it wasn't used enough. After that when I did want to drive it it was always flat so I eventually scrapped it in about 2004.

You think that’s suffering?
Beige Talbot Tagora, beige velour interior was my old man’s transport choice du jour
I think it must have been the only one ever sold
Pretty sure I could hear the salesmen celebrating from about 10 miles away

I got a large panettone from a garden centre yesterday

I drove a pale blue Maestro 1.6HLS for a couple of years as a teenager. It ended up getting nicked in Cambridge, and got torched upside down in a field.

It ended up getting nicked in Cambridge, and got torched upside down in a field

Happy ending then

It's what it would have wanted. Unfortunately it had quite a lot of my stuff in at the time, as I'd gone off for a few days surfing at the end of term, leaving all the stuff I didn't need for surfing in the car. Hey ho.

If you owned a car as a Cambridge student it might have been the porters that torched it. Or was it permitted BITD?

I had a car nicked in Cambridge. A loved but very shit Astra estate.

The police rang to tell me that it had been written off in a "medium speed chase". Bless.

It was technically out of term time so the rules didn't apply. And anyway, I was only using it to shift my stuff at the end of term, really.

Harry?!

them spokey chaps

Not sure about Cambridge Uni rules chat in the golf club. Maybe take it to the rugger / rowing club thread. ;)

I got a large panettone from a garden centre yesterday

Now now, editing the post is cheating (unless the poster edited it after seeing it here...)

My dad bought two consecutive Montegos. The latter when I was 17-ish and the first big car I occasionally drove, usually only insured for my mum's Fiesta.

It's taken a while but I've finally got that joke.