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sad i know, but i kinda like it, bit of old-skool cool

i like rare turbo stuff

wasnt always rare, but all the rest have gone to the scrappers, havent seen a montego turbo in fucking years and years and years!

 

I had one fookin yearsssss ago that i bought cheap to sell on & tbh it was quite quick as standard

 

the maestro turbo was even quicker wasnt it?

 

I Had a new one back in 1987.......

Went like fook but handled like a haunted shithouse.....


Used to have cracking races with my mate in his brand new S2 Rst...

 

I remember when a mate came round mine and brought one of his friends round in their Montego Turbo. I was working on my S2 in the garage. The bloke then started taking the piss about how much faster his Montego was than my std ERST. I told the bloke his car may be faster but its still a fukkin Montego, told him to get out my garage and fukc right off.

 

......

 

Exactley what i was thinking!!!

 

That one looks like it`s got the Rover 820 Turbo lump in it,they where pretty quick,despite weighing about the same as my house,so it is probably quick as fook(well for a montego anyways)...

 

yup, looking at that tiny engine bay pic, its almost deffo got the 2litre 16v turbo engine from the 220/420/620/820 turbos.

the standard engine is the 2litre 8v carb fed turbo engine, which can be made to be fookin fast too actually.

 

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Nightdavva "Went like fook but handled like a haunted shithouse....."

PMSL! Nice one!

 

Mostly the press ones

 

that is i love maestros an motego t's how much is it ŁŁŁ?

 

LMAO what a stunner it is too

 

I think they are cool and maestro turbos too.
Not a fan of those particular alloys but it looks well kept

 

It's not quite as special as the Tickford Maestro Turbo as Rover only made 500 of them whereas the Monty Turbo was produced throughout it's life, but it would have had 150bhp std same as the Maestro, but with the T16 Turbo, 200bhp std to play with, don't know why they are claiming that this one is special maybe was one of the very last to be made, either way, you don't see many like that now.

 

Didn't they have a talking computer?? I'm sure they did

When I was little there were 2 cars that talked, and I loved them both One was Knightrider and one was my uncles Montego. We called him Turbo Terry

 

That talking ones are now aparrently extremely rare as they were only built into the very early MG models, along with the digi dashboards

 

I've had one - good car, once I fixed the sunroof drain and stopped getting wet seats when I parked facing downhill

It had some different suspension/brakes and the boost upped a bit - went really well.

How much is it for sale for?

 

Turbo Terry

 

i used to have a 420 Gsi and wa on the forum ages ago.

The car is just famous as it was the 1st monty to have the T16 conversion IIRC

 

used to love the montego and maestro, my brother had both as company cars back in the day.. now i think they look shit

and they were built in typical rover methods.. ie very badly

oh and the talking ones were the vandem pla (sp?) Digi dash was as funny as fuck as you could be stationery and it would still be saying your moving as it took time to count up n down

 

I had a monti Turbo, Front wheel bearing would go if you farted into the wind, the standard tires cost the fookin price of the car. but fook me did they go, I had a bleed valve on mine and I found nothing could touch me in a striaght line. The main problem was torque steer you had to hold onto all the time on boost the handling was a fookin mess, but great fun though

 

NOPE, it was 10000% an MG Turbo Montego mate.

 

As Porkie - the digi dash's were on the MG's - the one i had had a talking digi dahboard was well funny if you ever went through a deepish puddle of water in the rain. 'please check your engine, the door is open, please check your battery, please put on your seatbelt' etc etc etc

 

the Vanden plas may have had them as well, but 'Turbo Terrys' was deffo an MG

 

Looks like you're right Andy, this ones registering 70mph, with the handbrake on!!!!



Yes the VP also had the digi dash, but think it was optional, so even rarer on this model, was std on MG's

 

look at that steering wheel, seen smaller on an artic lorry

 

Nope, both the Montego's we had were ordinary dash. Both F plate IIRC.

 

'Fordfans' has already said it was only on Early MG's and is now very rare... come on guys! keep up

 

Cheers Porkie yes keep up people

The digi dash was fitted to all Maestro 1600 MG's, very very few 2.0i MG's as it was phased out with the voice synthesis by 85' just after the introduction of the 2.0, and was not fitted nor an option after this year, was also optional on the early VP 1600 to 85'

Was also fitted to the MG Montego's only from launch in 83' although the digi dash was a different design in the Montego, again phased out by 85', now extremely rare.

 

Like I know what's early or late (not that you said that in the bit I've quoted - thought you were on about the talking bit)

Does it always have the talking bit if it's the digi dash?

Anyway, thanks for the info.

Would like someone to let me know how much that one is going for though, just out of interest.

 

Ł1800

 

Yes the voice synthesiser was part of the digi dash feature, and interstingly enough it broadcasted it's messages through the driver side door speaker only!!

 

Montego digi dash

 

'Fordfans' Please change your username to MGgeek

 

Damn, I knew someone would say that eventually

 

Cool. I guess the drivers speaker only kind of makes sense - not really any need for the passenger to hear it?

 

Unless the passenger was not wearing their seatbelt as well, or did it find that irrelevant?