Modified Rover Maestro Van Review - The Backbone of Britain
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The Maestro and Montego always drove very well. Theres so much crap written about these based on untruths and hearsay - normally by millenials who have neither driven one or looked in to the history of their development and take their views only from the self publicist likes of Clarkson. Other than a tendancy to wear out front wheel bearings prematurely, door handles getting brittle with age and cosmetic rust on the rear arches and seams the Maestro/Montego was pretty tough reliability wise. The van had the largest payload capacity in its class for nearly a decade, and those n/a Perkins prima engines were nigh on indestructible. The Maestros only crime was its styling was signed off in 1978 nigh on 5years before launch and looked rather more old hat than it should have. This Van looks fine enough as it is. In fact I sack off those alloys for a set of powder coated silver banded deep dish steelies.
It's a good looking van. I had an MG maestro turbo as a company car and it was pretty slick. Better than Ford's offerings at the time.
I really liked them too.
I owned a petrol Montego estate, that after cleaning and adjusting the carb gave very good mpg.
A diesel Monty saloon, diesel van (ex British Gas), and two diesel Maestro cars, the second being a turbo. To be honest I preferred the naturally aspirated version, the turbo had slight turbo lag, not as economic and the performance increase was negligible.
Nope, highly underrated cars.
Two of my friends had the MG versions, and still talk fondly about them.
Bang on. And Clarkson isn't a nice man either.
@@glenjarnold very true. Clarkson with his continuing disparaging of the British car industry certainly contributed to it's failure. Reason, too many people hanging on his every word and regarding him as the definitive automotive guru when in fact he's nothing more than a self opinionated gobshite. I've owned many cars, including those from British Leyland, and had no real issues.
@@neilcrawford8303 70bhp for a mastro is not bad to be honest. in japon te mastro van engine range woul in par with 63bhp as kei cars. it still rescpetable no offence. if coffect did the mastro ahead of it time before the ford escort mk2 version?
Reminds me of being an apprentice in the early nineties at a Rover dealership.
Great to see such a clean example.
More of these kinda videos please 😀😀😀
From the mid-80s until the late-90s, Austin-Rover stuff was generally much better than the equivalent Ford. The Maestro vans were much preferred to Escort Mk5 vans in the early 90s, hence their popularity.
People forget that Rover were working with Honda in the 80s, i'm sure they learned something about quality control and reliability in the process.
Arrrbol so much that Honda allowed Rover to build their cars for them at Longbridge
That door rubber is playing with my emotions... please, even if i never see it ever again, pop it on a bit straighter lol. Beautiful van tho without question
I had several Montegos and Maestros, both diesel and petrol. I even had an ex British Gas van, another big user of the Maestro van. People knocked them, but in all the years I had them, and I knocked up plenty of miles driving to building sites in them, they rarely let me down.
They had panels in the wheel arches you could remove to access parts on the engine, so changing a starter motor or alternator wasn't that hard.
Had a belt fail on the A13, RAC man had me going in 90minutes from call to repair. He said if it had been a modern car it would be a recovery and workshop job as modern belts can take hours to fit and there are so many variants of belts.
The van performed much better than the early naturally aspirated 1.6ltr diesel escort van I had once. Couldn't even get to 70.
Still, that's all in the past now, due to health reasons it's now the bus for me, which is as sxxt as it sounds.
You should ditch the bus and buy a turbo montego
Nice, really nice! That van is *perfect* in its' current iteration. The alloys are an excellent choice from the MG Turbo too.
My advice is, unless they upgrade the engine to the turbo Maestro, to leave the bumpers off. I think that would ruin the honesty and vibe of the car, but with that said if they want to then DO IT. It's theirs, not ours, and it should please them first and foremost.
Well, this is simply wonderful!!
Every thing in the world is good when you have a Maestro Van!!
It would appear this particular example of a BL automobile has done over 187000 miles, which tends to indicate that BL were capable of producing extremely robust workhorses. In fact, considering the paucity of the resources available to them, BL's design and development engineers were nothing short of bloody geniuses.
The Maestro is a much maligned vehicle. In reality, and in all its guises, it is a cracking motor. Its ride, roadholding and handling are wonderful. The fuel economy of its naturally aspirated 2 litre diesel is amazing, and the room it provides is akin to the Tardis.
I would strongly advise the owner to leave the van alone. He's done a marvellous job of renovation, and to do any more would be just painting the lily, or, even, over-egging the pudding.
On a far less joyful note, Cletus, those sunglasses you have perched on you noggin are eye-wateringly bad, even by your standards.
A great video, you decrepit old relic. These slightly-off-the-wall videos you've started doing are extremely enjoyable, let's have some more of them.
MrKeyboardCommando the only reason it has 187,000 miles is the engine it’s a Perkins diesel lump,
@@mattvaughan180 I quite agree with you. But don't forget, the rest (or most) of it has also done 187,000 miles.
I'd really love to have a drive in this van.
My first car was a Y reg Austin maestro, but the interior of the van reminds me more of the rover montego LX I had from 1996 to 1998. Very underrated and people were really surprised at how nice it was to drive, ride in and how well equipped it was for the time.
I swapped it for a Ford Sierra 1.8 GLX. Another fantastic old car, and it was the headlamp washers and wipers that persuaded me to buy it.
Thanks for sharing this video.
The Maestro was well thought of in our fleet back in the 80s early 90s. I would have one over a Escort, especially the Mk5 which was mechanically horrendous to run. Standard body-drop T16 in.
The Perkins Prima turbo engine in this car was rated at a whopping 81hp new, vs the stock NA with 62hp. Really like it, charming !
Worked for Perkins for over 15 years in Peterborough, and there was a picture of the Montego with the diesel engine in it parked in Red Square proudly displayed in the main lobby! They were very proud of that engine. Of course Perkins don't do on highway engines anymore, but they played a significant part in car diesel engine history and still do with design consultancy for the main car manufacturers. It will hit them hard to have diesel car engines discontinued.
I'm old enough to remember these as BT vans, great to see some hard work going into one. It needn't matter how objectively good or bad it is, or what others think when it comes to vehicles like this, sentimental value overrules it all.
Back in the heady days when BT used to turn a profit!
@@mattridgley9095 in 1994, was BT even a for-profit private company? I thought it was still state-owned then.
I did my window cleaning rounds in a Maestro van in the 90's. Good solid car, never had any issues with it.
Wow, this is one of my favourite videos I have ever seen on the channel! My family had a string of Maestros growing up (although none of them were diesels or vans), and it is never the sort of car I expected to see here, but I am ever so glad that you decided to show this. There's probably not enough Maestro content on CZcams at the moment!
Is there such a thing as enough Maestro?
Probably not!
I remember driving a maestro diesel van back in the day and it was amazing after having the awful marina van rust bucket that was truly terrible in every way. Love this example, looks great. Like the wheels from the car version too .
There is still love out there for the old Maestro. There is a guy just down the road from me that has a white MG Maestro. Hes had it since I was a wee kid, and it still looks in great condition.
My personal feeling is keep it as is, it is a piece of english automotive history, weather you think that is good or bad. My work experience was at a Austin Rover dealership in Shirley in the midlands when i was first saw Metro, Maestro, along with Jaguar XJS and Range Rovers. So for me as an old git it brings back memories of my early career in the Automotive industry, and later on worked at the Flight Shed R&D centre at Longbridge, which now is a housing estate. The MG Maestro Turbo was a reasonable car of the time but did not really compete with the Ford competition at the time in many peoples eyes.
Leave as is. It's perfect.
I seem to remember a maestro van that had all the MG bits, engine, badges, interior etc.. in Max Power or Revs many year's ago.
I bet you cringed when you typed this?? Wasn't it a green van??Yes I cringe when typing about max power and revs!!!!!! Moto build van was it????
@@michaelmatthews8171 No, not really, it is what it is. Max Power and Revs were of their time, though, I always prefered subtle modification to the bright green and orange monsters that were the staples of those magazines, perhaps thats why the Rover (yes it was green) MG Van caught my eye... Long time ago now.
Oh and a friend of mines dad had a MG 1600 Maestro with the talking dash in the 80's and i absolutely loved it. Ive always had a soft spot for the Maestro since.
Brilliant video, and what a great van, I used to drive one of these for a car parts delivery service and they drive really well, more videos like this in the future please 👍
Thank you for a wonderful video. Always thought these were underrated vehicles. More videos like this please. Love odd cars/vans.
Thanks Geoffrey, I will always try to feature the weird and wonderful!
In the 90s in Bulgaria there was a factory that was assembling Rover Maestro's.
Jimmy yeah it didn’t work out and a company brought all the unfinished cars back to Britain and built them
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Yeah, the factory was located in Varna and they made around 2000 cars.
The good thing is the cars are saved, not scraped, but the bad thing is not so many Maestros left in Britain.
Jimmy yeah British cars have a bad reputation in Britain so they had high depreciation
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117
I've still got a little Rover 25, had it since it was 3 years old. 2000 model and still going strong, cracking little motor 😊
Ahh those Bulgarian returns! Assembled here and known as 'Ledbury' Maestros. I had to Google it as couldn't remember and also found a reference to other Maestros recovered from Bulgaria known as 'Apple 2000' Maestros, I didn't know that! I love finding out little snippets that.
Looks nicely done, good to see someone giving one of these tough old workhorses the love it deserves.
I’m old enough to remember the yellow BT vans. Great vehicle and brilliant Perkins Diesel engine. BT then went over to grey coloured Fiesta and Escort vans. All these vehicles were back in the days when diesel was used properly in smaller cars and vans for working vehicles.
I read somewhere that BT's yellow vans had a far lower accident rate than the later wishy-washy grey ones, no doubt owing to the massive drop in visibility and general road presence. It could be that drivers of bright yellow vans were also a tad more careful, knowing that any naughty driving behaviour in an instantly recognisable vehicle would instantly be reported, with any attempts at an alibi shot to pieces!
There is only about 75 Maestro vans left now. People may have slated these but they did it's job and didn't rust any worse than it's rivals back then like the Escort and Astramax van. The Perkins Prima engine was so loud but very economical.
i'd leave it as is, nice to see one still knocking about. i've had my transit connect 15 years now and has been so reliable, it might get a little tidy up one day !
It looks perfect the way it is. Aggressive bodywork would just look like someone is trying too hard. The alloy wheel upgrade was a good choice. This would. Be the ultimate hipster vehicle in the USA. We never had anything like this over here
Well, technically the last ones were made in 1995 and this is a 'L' registered 1994 vehicle. I believe this qualifies for the "25 year rule" of your country, if you wanted one. However, not many are left because they were commercial vehicles (same with estate 'station wagon' cars) and as the narrator says - a load of them were used by British Telecom in the UK.
I would leave it as standard including putting the proper van headlights back on (the van is running the car ones).Although Rover produced the last Maestro cars/vans they were never badged as Rovers
My mate had two of these then went to escorts.He could get loads more in the old Maestros,same as the old Marina vans I had.Well done for keeping these old workhorses going.
Enjoyed the review. Dad used to own two Austin Maestros and he loved them.
Had a diesel maestro van for a year or so back in 1990...that van was great on fuel and unbreakable,it never let me down.
If the owner fits a petrol turbo engine in (either the original 8v or later T16) then yes it needs those bumpers.
Outstanding sir , thank you for making an ex BT engineer very happy would love the Perkins diesel in my van back in the late 80s that engine alone is worth a video all of it's own, instead had the 1.3 petrol which could hardly move the van and all my tool's and ladders
I seem to remember that the engines in the vans were one of the first Direct Injection diesels when most cars were running around with (less fuel-efficient) Indirect Injection. (Made by Perkins as someone else has mentioned earlier.)
So for their time they were probably class-leading in terms of fuel economy.
When my Subaru Brat is finished I'll have to offer it to you for review, I think it'll be right up your street.
Worked for GEC Avery Service in the early 90s, started with a red clapped out E plate petrol Maestro van then I must have done something good as they later let me have a brand new red L plate diesel Maestro van not long before leaving. Although I preferred using my colleague red Metro van when he was on holiday, very nippy.
When I was 18 I had and Anglia van. loved it, so simple and versatile.
I used to own a 1986 Maestro MG, bought in Germany after a collision. Besides replacing the windscreen, bonnet, fenders and bumpers, the only thing I ended up replacing was the headgasket.
It was reliable and one of my favorite cars altogether. The only complaints I had with it was that the previous owner had the suspension lowered, so that the oil pan would scrape over bumps.
The second complaint was inherent to design: The fuel injection was a grab bag of bits from varying manufacturers which included General Motors. It worked fine, except for that one round General Motors bit of which I forget what it served (I think, it had to do with idling), given that I bought the car in 1990.
The next complaint was that there was absolutely no diagnostic socket wired into the vehicle, so that the injection system could get diagnosed. Mine gave me trouble, only after I had carelessly washed the engine, without taking precautions to keep its electronics dry. The Austin/Rover dealer in Saarbrücken, Germany didn't have the equipment for servicing it (neither did he bother purchasing special tools for servicing other components), so he ended up sending it to a Bosch garage.
Unlike what you're driving, mine had a Honda gearbox of which seemed to shift precisely and without balk.
Theoretically, your turbo-Diesel should be quite powerfull. The ones I have driven can keep up with turbocharged petrol engines
Wow felt like I was watching old top gear fantastic job keep up the good work
Are these not a car derived van based on the estate car - the interior looks to be one from an estate as the vans where very basic the Bt ones where homeless guy spec (below poverty spec)
I am not expert enough to know, but homeless guy spec made me laugh
There was no maestro estate. There was a montego estate but that had a different front end but was essentially the same car.
Love these vans. Great video
I would definitely say keep it as stock as possible. Great video nice to see something hones and not a flash motor. Full marks to the owners for keeping it going!
With Dad being a Servowarm engineer, I spent many an hour bouncing around in the back being taken to school. Avoiding blowtorches, saws, big spanner’s and trying to stay sat on top of the wooden wheel well box. The 1980’s ❤️❤️❤️
I absolutely love it - rarer than pretty much anything on the roads today. Will always have a soft spot for anything BL
Are you heading through fleggburgh / scratby in this?
Not seen one in ages , nice to see nostalgia of our cars !
these were great lil vans, i remember my dad's first working place when we moved into our new house in 94' was one of these, when his car was off the road or he didn't have one, my mum would be in the back so that i was safely in the front with seat belt, great lil vans they were as common as the mk3 transit van on the roads.
most commonly used for AA for the quick call out carrying a basic kit, if the person couldn't fix it then the transit with more kit and parts and towing would come along, they were also the replacement BT used after the morris ital van ended yep these were BT vans until they were no longer needed as more internet or phones got more easier to use so they needed bigger vans the transit, it was also used by small company, mostly window washers painters and the odd diy guys, but sadly when they started to rust out or there parts stopped ppl moved over to the transit, or the bedford rascal or the volkwagen or something else from other car makers, the lil maestro van sadly ran along until scraped or parked up and used for storage, most are easy to find but like every van it wil need rust repair and the odd bit of weilding and some gear box fixing,
Thanks for the review, JayEmm. The Austin Maestro was my favourite UK car when launched back in 1983 :)
I was looking for an Escort Turbo when they cost around £5k and ended up buying an MG Montego Turbo because it was in great condition and the guy only wanted £800. Such was the effect of their reputation on values. It was good for me though because it was a great car to drive. No ABS, an iffy chassis, but great fun on the limit.
What a intresting car, and intresting video AGAIN! Thank you JayEmm.
Always a pleasure
Loved mine so much I bought at auction for 400 quid
Loved the frugal prima engine
I was chased for miles one day by the previous owner whom wanted to buy it back for a small profit
Sold it for a citroen bx
The good old days
I owned one in 1994 for a year or 2 . Same colour with what looked like a golf 1 gearbox coupled to a BMC 1295 engine ? . Drove from London to all over Europe including Greece. Great camper van for couple . Completely reliable just tires . Still can remember the reg: D144R00 great video brings back great memories.
I had a BT company car Montego estate, back in the day. It had that same 2L BL/Perkins Prima engine which was 80 bhp as I recall; the gearbox came from VW so you might expect a decent gearchange.
I had the same van same colour ex AA. It was a superb van and drove really nice. Believe it or not it was great in the snow and would get where many so called 4x4 couldn't
Great video :D
Great to see something as quirky as this, keep them coming....Would love to see you have a go in a Maestro turbo or Metro Turbo... I had a Metro Turbo (in black) in the day, because I couldn't afford an R5 Turbo.... Was fun but nowhere near as good as my mates R5 Turbo
Yeah it's hard to find these things, let alone be offered a go!
Brings back memories as I drove my Post office yellow van for a year or so. Brand new it had a very noticeable problem when applying the brakes hard it steered hard to the left but the worst experience was when the bonnet catch failed and at 60 mph the bonnet wrapped itself around my ladder. Felt very modern after my Morris 1000 van. Due to work duties my next vehicle was a Chrysler Commer van and that’s another story. Great video.
My first car was an A reg Mg maestro 2.0 turbo. Bought it from my grandad in 2003 when i was 17, he had it from showroom. I would still own it now if it hadnt been stolen. Always love seeing a maestro still on the road
Are these the same people who made the Montego? I remember my uncle had an estate one in sky blue styling looks the same as this
Basically, yes.
Well.. Did they put the bumpers on the car? Or did they leave it standard?
We left it standard
I had a M reg Montego TD which I used as a Taxi I bought it with 187k and was still running well
Weird and wonderful, more please!
I had a Ford Escort 55 1.8l Diesel Van Mk. 4 version. It had a quirky feel on the taking up the clutch, you had to feel the 'take up point' before you can change gear. If you couldn't, you've overrode it and the van would conk out. There was only a very small 'take up point' to it. It was crude and difficult at first to drive. I also had two further Ford Escort's 55 1.8l diesels Mk. 6 's and they drove like a car would and these weren't as crude as the mk4, but with heavier steering.
I was lent one of these when my car was off the road. I was told it was the only small van that could carry one ton. The garage would use it for carrying engines.
1980s to mid 1990s AA breakdown vans, remember seeing those vans on the M6 motorway in lancashire .was it that long ago ,
It's good that the cockpit is separate to the load area. So much modern stuff it all one space and noisy as hell.
I'd fit a bull bar... I reckon it'd improve the utilitarian looks. And prevent front end damage in the event of whatever.
Seen them rims brings back memories.
I bought a Maestro auto as a banger but found it as solid as a rock and a really endearing car. It eventually wound up in France and is still doing service with a French guy who converted it into pick up.
I owned a Maestro van which I bought in '86, a very good vehicle. It was identical to the one in the video but painted red. The only mod I made to it was to fit a Hella spotlight in grille which I had painted red to match the body.
I always and still do want a mastro 2.0 turbo, they were far quicker than any of the hot hatches around in the late 80's early 90s... I love their boxey looks. The fact that a british company dared to stick a 2.0 turbo into a hatch..
Not finished the video yet, I was born in the early 80’s & I didn’t even realise N/A diesel’s were a thing! I like the turbo wheels but I wouldn’t put the bumpers on.
love vans, ! started with the 1961 atlas major By[Standard ]became the leyland 15cwt, and imported a 69 Ford escort panel van[all ours had windows in NZ] and followed with transits mk 4,5,,6. Love the Maestro size and shape.
I had a rusty red Meastro van as my first "car". This was after my Dad had worn it out for years in the building trade. Mine only had the 1.4 petrol and 4-speed gearbox. It would cut out if driven over 70mph, and every MOT required welding!
Needed a 4 door car quick back in the 90's when wor lass had the bairn , I was driving a 1983 South African ford Bakki 1/2 ton pickup (MK3 Escort) , a mate said he had a 1300 Maestro cheap trade in , bit the bullet and bought it went from thinking they were a pile of poo too loving it , was told that they tuned the engine because of extra weight and favourite engine for the mini kit builder car , had it for 2 years then sold to a mate he liked it to .
I was in Yarmouth last summer 😱and an old couple started having a full on domestic on the sea front in front of many family holidaymakers 😑Then the guy assaulted the woman 😦the children witnessed this and I have to say we’re very upset 😢. A policeman came and began to arrest the guy much to the protest of his wife 🤷🏽♂️and then a crocodile 🐊 came out of nowhere and ate the sausages
Probably entirely penguin 😎
That's the way to do it, though....
Glen Arnold 🤣👍🏽
Maestros and Montegos had quite a following, particularly the top of the range Montego Estates with turbo diesels. I am sure that my father-in-law had a 5+2 seater, with the rearmost seats in reverse. They echoed some estate cars from the past. Not sure that they would be allowed now.
Ford Escort was the default choice, but the Maestro was better, bigger, and better to drive. 2.0L Perkins was a little noisy, although I actually liked the agricultural sound it made. In the 80's and 90's I drove both vans extensively.
At the start of this video I put it on to have a laugh at an old Rover product from my youth but by the end of it I find myself being like you and actually liking it. I AM REALLY SHOCKED!!!! It looks like they've put a metallic in the paintwork which looks really well. I'm in agreement on the Turbo bumper idea though, at present it looks subtle in the upgrades and right, Turbo bumpers would look too much and ludicrous IMO. Thanks for proving my initial expectation wrong lol. A channel well worth subscribing to
The paint is Renault Liquid Yellow
JayEmm on Cars Cheers for that JayEmm, definitely the best most tasteful Maestro van I've ever seen, the guys did a great job
Excellent review of a good looking , charming and almost extinct vehicle, well worth saving as it is so useful to have such a vehicle that is physically small unlike the obese modern vans but so large inside and fast appreciating.As an ex BT engineer I remember these well and even the Metro version , many of which served their drivers very well.I currently own an Escort 55 owned since 2005, which although requires planning permission to overtake with its 1.8 non-turbo diesel , has given faultless service for over 50,000 miles and cost next to nothing in servicing.Known since new in 2001 , copious amounts of Waxoyl underneath and motorcycle chain lube in the sills . has maintained its rust free as-new appearance, every MOT is a breeze.Constantly being asked if it is for sale .Commercial vans of this type are so well worth seeking out if you want cheap, useful and reliable motoring if your not desperate to get to your destination that quickly !
Stunning gorgeous outstanding please leave as standard this would be my dream van best one I've seen in a long time 😍👌👍👏🇬🇧
Lovely old van, very rare too see one og these nowadays 👍🏻
In Australia we called these, panel vans. Ours were larger with straight 6 or V8 engines, although we did have the Escort van as well. At the end of their popularity for tradies and alike, a lot of them were re-birthed as shaggin wagons. When I say re-birthed I just mean a mattress was thrown in the back.
I have a 2lt perkins diesel maestro van for years, it was bigger than the escort and i loved it, mine was same colour, comfy as old boots, used drive it Scotland and back with a caravan on the back, i think that van is mint
Very nice van
Nice review. Had a Maestro and Montego 2.0 petrol Turbo cars :) Bumpers? I'd leave as is .
My dad used to have a shurper BT van instead of the maestro van. That was replaced by the Grey Escorts they had.
I think it is crying out for the MG bumpers. Would stand out even more then too.
They may have rotted but so did the escort van , the diesel is also a simple ultra strong reliable engine and box always got people to work, the interior is hard wearing , if you want it sporty you can fit mg turbo engine with 0-60 about 8ish seconds and seats too. The only people who hated where people who hadn't owned one, and looked no deeper than a bit of arch rot,
That’s a lovely old van. Nice to see it’s been restored.
Please leave it as it is as big bumpers etc will ruin it.
I owned a montego once, gold with beige interior 🤢
A234 UYU. Horrendously cool car
Also I used to hire a maestro 2.0 td off a guy who had ex fire service cars. I used it to travel to slough every week then back at weekend. I always got the same car. It was really quick too
There's a couple of editing issues, dropped frames where a red tinted shot of a road taken from the ground with telegraph poles is shown momentarily. Around 4:22 is one, but there are others. Might be the title sequence poking through an editing cut.
That is very strange indeed. I just checked the file I uploaded to YT, and no such glitch exists, but I looked at the video and yeah it's there. This is not the first time YT has introduced errors into a video (it actually cut one of my videos in half 12 hours after upload once)
Remember mine like it was yesterday
I had a maestro diesel british gas van in the early 90's . G99 TYM . It was bloody noisy but did brilliant MPG even being thrashed everywhere, me & some of the other blokes would play bumper cars if we saw each other at traffic lights or road junctions !!
I'm currently doing up a petrol mk2 transit van.
I'm sure they could find some shag carpet to match the exterior carpet, it's a pretty cool ride🇺🇸👍
i'd leave it as is myself, its a good sleeper van as most people wont expect any kind of speed out of it.
Fancy car bumpers always look naff on a van. Keep it bog standard on the outside 👍🏼
The maestro definitely was not a 'heap of shit'? It was quite an underated car!
maestro turbo anybody?
@@clipshark1 a very quick piece of shit, to be sure, but a piece of shit nonetheless. The ordinary Maestros were just utter, unadulterated shit.
Cool van. Well done lads.
Back in the day, A pal had a standard-ish Montego Turbo, It was quicker and handled better and was much more refined than most Escort RS Turbo's around the area. Them were the days.
The Maestro car was fabulous; especially the MG Turbo version. I don't know why you thought the inside looked like a seventies car - you probably just wanted to say something needlessly critical to pander to the general crap spoken about these cars. Cars looked like that in the early to mid 90s unless you were spending big money. And of course it had a five speed gearbox - all cars had five speed gearboxes by then - except maybe the 750cc Pandas and the Minis. I worked for a company that had exclusively Austin Rover cars on their fleet and I enjoyed driving all of them.
As for the bumpers, only the front MG Turbo bumper would fit on the van and I wouldn't bother - it looks great as it is.
its not a good idea to lie a fridge / freezer down so its a no from me for that idea. As for the plasma TV, I got a 55inch one in the back seat of my car. Otherwise, yes, I di like these vans, I had one at BT and also owned my own. Not as good as the Morris Ital 1800 van though, they were quick from the lights.