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What's the issue with Q plates?

Yes you can sue the local council for the damage caused to your vehicle due to pot hole. Write a letter with photo including rule showing for of pot hole. They will fob you off, but persist. I know they'll pay eventually, I used to work in the department that dealt with such claims..

Great video mate and a very interesting project.

Nice colour marina.. I had 1.3 coupe in burgundy back in the day..1983. I had issues with my Vectra estate last week I just mot it.. cost me a bit too much..Its one of the last estate Vectra made its SRI/CDTI 1.9.. Bought a 58 plate back 6 years to get my courier work started. Brilliant car ex mini cab around Walsall took me nearly everywhere.. Do you own your own trailer..? I want to buy one a double wheel type Hence my Vectra estate.. but I then bought a 3.0 litre Range Rover Vogue 55 plate lush car.

Loved my 1800 TC. Great car. Far too much oil. Sump bigger than the fuel tank just about

I’d bin the glass filter. Notorious for coming loose and leaking. Get Bosch inline filters from ecp, search 1.0 mk2 fiesta 👍

Great work Ben!

Great video, good to see you back here again. Thats an excellent looking car, I do love a Black Tulip coupe.

As it is MOT (road fund) exempt, you could have asked the MOT garage to do a MOT type inspection, then taxed it and done them at your leisure. 😀

Make sure the screw together filter stays screwed together, saw more than one engine fire with those, use good quality throw away filter, keep it as far away from the exhaust manifold as possible, my late uncle had a four door TC I did some welding and blowing in, Green Mallard, later he had an Italian estate, I put two new wings on it and did the paint to make it look nice

Don’t use the glass filter they always end up leaking. It nice to see a old Marina still in one piece😎👍

Hi Ben, enjoyed your content as usual, thought id ask what is the update with the tribute car and are you going to the NEC next month. look forward to your next video.

Lovely car. 😊

What a great looking honest car. What a beaut.

I love these. My first road-legal car was a Morris Ital 1.7 SLX saloon that my dad gave me because it was right at the end of its useful life. Nautilus blue with a cream vinyl roof.

Great to see you back with another interesting video Ben. I love Marinas

Great video Geoff looked good

Those 5 1/2" steel wheels are they from a Triumph Spitfire?

Don't put in E10. It will cause all sorts of problems. It's a man made menu of a potion called friggin crap.

Hey mate is your spot welder single phase ? If so what brand is it Been looking for a decent single phase machine

Awful clutch to bleed we used to put a piece of heater hose on the master cylinder and blow the fluid through.

Great to see another one driving again.. Great video and nice to see you back.

Derbyshire near Lullington by the look of it. Yes you can claim against Derbyshire CC but they will only pay if somebody has reported the pothole over a week ago I think. You’ll only know that if people on a local FB group tell you I guess.

That engine looks so small Ben....pinto's fit nicely

A coupe...in black tulip 😍

nice to see you back 👍 I love all these old builds. I've always wanted to know if you buy a barn find that's tax and mot exempt do you have to get an mot before using it or can you just make it road worthy and use it straight away?

we had those things in Australia , with an e series 2.6 6cylinder fitted , the Marina Red Six ! , couple of the local lads uprated them of course , porting the head fitting triple SU's and tuned exhaust power went from 90 kw to about 140 , a must was to fit a Pedders suspension kit on the front which meant the car would now go and handle like it should have from the factory , but it came in too late to save BL Australia , shame about that

How's the TR7 front end swap coming on ?.

Damn nice coupe, Ben! Is the left rear wheel buckled or loose? Looked like it coming off the trailer! Looking forward to seeing more of this one. Cheers. Leigh.

Gorgeous. Dream car. Crying out for a 2500 or V8 swap.

Nice looking Marina, love that colour. Are those Triumph wheels?

Hi can you take a standard number plate not a private one and put it on another car?

Cool

TVR engine?

Given that you're modifying just about everything under the sun , might it not have been simpler to 'resto-mod' the Marina body onto a ( maybe stretched ) TR7/8 floorpan and mechanicals ?? Depends how close they are to begin with....

You obviously dont have much faith in your own work if you need an idiot MOT tester to look over it.

It looks really cool what you are doing!!

I had a mk 11 marina 1300 i miss it! It was a good video that,

How about a more heavy duty anti-roll bar?

Excellent work, however, if your work is too precise it will no longer look like something that rolled off the BL production line.😂😂😂

The cost of buying a classic car keeps me away from them i would love to own one but rediculas pricing keeps the average Joe like myself in the modern car crap trap

Register them in the Isle of Man then transfer it to the UK.

The DVLA should get rid of that Q plate, and maybe request something like an identification plate that sits next to, or alongside the original VIN plate. I have suspicions that the agency use this to make money, and to retain the original registration number.

So.... Companies like retro power. Will have to put Q plates on .. their clients won't like that..

TR7 5 speed axle, with 308:1 diff, you then keep the same pcd front and rear, and can fit a lot of British wheels

Putting the ruining of cars with e conversions aside... What you described is already the case.. modify the chassis you need an sva. Make mods in last 30yrs you need a MOT. The problem is that the DVLA don't have a clue. I have a kit car that has retained the original plate, yet is re registered with a newer date making it not tax exempt. Yet I know of other cars built exactly the same way with the same parts which retained the original construction date. It's down to luck of the draw..

I heard somewhere tho..That IF U Inform your Ins With MODS. ThatU SHOULD ALSO Inform DVLA Aswell?

So what would a Marina Coup'e 1.8TC BE? When Suspension UPGRADED n Lowered. Brakes UPGRADED. Exhaust Upgraded WITH A Catalytic converter Added. With Electronic Ignition. And Performance Airfilter. BUT CHASSIE/BODY LEFT Standard..

Q for quality..