allergro read allaggro lol,i prefer a austin maxi meself as the big car comfort shines through with one of them council estate chariots,i did once own own one of these when i was 16,i bought it from chester motor auctions and sold it in the local paper and made a nice few quid,happy days and the thing actually felt quite nice and was a 1700cc,mine was creamy white with a brown dralon trim ooh nice


Austin-Morris Managing Director, Ray Horrocks, knew that the Marina would need a showroom fillip in order to maintain sales impetus until the release of its replacement, the LM10 and LM11. The Longbridge drawing office headed by Harris Mann soon completed a neat facelift, which changed the look of the frontal aspect of the car (without any front panel changes) and transformed the rear view of the car, incorporating a higher boot-line and large Euro-standard wrap around lights. Despite the long-held belief that Ital Design was responsible for the revised styling of the new car, it was somewhat less involved in the process – simply handling its productionisation. Of course, the story soon go out that the Morris Ital was actually the work of Giorgetto Giugiaro and, as one insider has subsequently said: "...why spoil the story with facts, we thought!"
Being limited to a £5 million budget, BL's facelift went tits up,