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Talking of trips. How about doing a video on what you need to travel in Europe (tolls, emission zones, insurance etc.)?

I need to get a shot of one of these - it looks like a lot of fun (on a cycle path, that is...) Fun video, plus a small dose of peak HubNuttery when he spotted that Corolla!

That rotates quick for a big plane

My mum got her entire Brownie pack in our VW type 3 fastback. And no, zero girls ended up in the boot or frunk. 😂

How does JayEmm do so well out of youtube not to worry about 20mpg?

Thanks for the visit! I’m always up for some waffle. 😊 It’s the people that make the classic hobby so special.

Ah, holiday family car memories.... Some time back in the '80s, my parents found the funds to rent a cottage in SW Wales for a week and all four of us went away (which was rare - usual summer holiday trip was to stay with Dad's mother in N Wales, but Mum didn't get along with her mother-in-law, so she never came along...). The cottage was lovely, the weather was lovely, but we were a few miles inland, so getting to the seaside required the car...and one day Dad dropped his keys on a beach. We got a helpful passer-by to break into the car (how useful...) so we could get our stuff out of it and it was ferried off to a Renault dealer many miles away to get new locks and keys. We had to get a taxi back to the cottage and for half of the week we couldn't go anywhere, while waiting for the car to come back. Can't imagine why so much of that week sticks in my mind forty years later!

My uncle bought a brand new B reg 2Litre HL saloon in gold with the same brown interior as the one you tested. In 1991/2 I worked for small family run transport firm that had an E reg 1.3L (1275 A series) 4 speed saloon that was their express delivery vehicle . 😂

This would be a good car for you and for towing Bob

Should make a remake of that classic 1980s film call it Ian Carly and Bob too but leave the moors scene out 😄

The excitement of the annual family holiday crammed into my dads latest old banger sitting on all the bedding! It was just great. The worst year was having to fit 5 of us plus tent and equipment and the family dog into a Datsun violet 160 j sss coupe! Snug wasnt the word!

Avoiding news at the moment. Good for mental health. Also worth trying Positive News for the Good news in the world. Enjoy some down time!

Wise words Miss HubNut - Sat Nav makes me take longer alternative routes due to the scare factor from Google Maps - I shoulodn't feel like that due to my driving carrer but I'm at an age where I am becoming more 'limp' You are many, many years younger than me so great advice for the newer drivers - if in doubt lean on the horn and give em the finger regardless!

Very nice video about history from your trip to NZ as I wathed all your videos from the trip. I used to subscribe to Itchy Boots but She was a bit too full on for my limited stamina! a word to the wise - I have been a subscriber to your HubNut channel for many years and as of 11/8/2024 only just become aware of your HubNotes channel with 105k subscribers. Hmm maybe if you could somehow migrate this channel to the other channel you might up the subscriber count - I get the difference between the two channels so easy for me to suggest

The fact that both your parents used to have a Montego, that energy brought you together.

My dad had a Mini Clubman Estate in the 70s, does that count as an early baby Montego ancestor?

Still making memories In my t series turbo montego but really like this one you reviewed

Have a good Hubnut week ahead & all the best 👍👍👍

In the 70s My father had a Granada ghia coupe 3l. I loved it and would jump at another, very rare now. The interior felt very upmarket with it's velour sky blue seats.

Mum used to have a mini van, we used to get a lift to primary school occasionally, three of us kids in the back unsecured on a pile of scatter cushions. Would have been early 70's.

Ian & Carly, I set you a HubNut challenge! The next time you are camping in Bob, film one of these videos whilst cooking Waffles.....no point just talking about it 😊

Thanks for sharing the fond memories guys. My late Dad taught me to drive in his 1986 Montego 1.6L (C553ETH) and when I passed my test in March 1989 he was good enough to lend it to me every now and then to drive to school and back! I was only 17 so he must have really trusted me. And in winter, with him behind the wheel, it was unstoppable in the snow. It wasn’t unusual for our Montego to be the only car parked in the street with all the neighbours cars abandoned in the snowdrifts at the bottom of the hill lol. Good times 😀

Ooh, one other memory popped into my head, not of one my dad had, but a sadly scrapped Monty, rootling about for bits in the good old scrapyards of old, I happened upon a sad Monty, and on opening the door I was met with the most glorious blue interior, which was as blue as that estate you drove was brown, which compared to the grey of all the Montegos & the I think beige or tan Maestro my dad had was such a big difference and I liked it a lot, and I'm sure at one point I happened upon a digital dash setup, not sure if it was Maestro or Montego, seeing that "futuristic" looking binnacle with the membrane keypads where switches would have been, all in a car laid up in the scrapheap, very early 90s too...

This is a long comment, but, the Monty memories for me aren't quite that entertaining, just that my dad had at least four Montegos (and a Maestro, which was green & gold but he resprayed red!) that I remember, only one was the estate, the other three were a trio of saloons; one a pre-facelift in silver that I was too young to remember the details of aside from the looks; a post-facelift also in silver was badged 1.6 but upgraded to a 2L EFI (drivetrain from a rear-ended estate apparently, thoughts of that plus those optional rear seats is scary!) which leaked like a seive and was often as mouldy as a barn find in only a few days after raining; and a Countryman in their dark green with the 2L Perkins (that ended up with a failed turbo that smoked like it was fuelled with wet coal in the mornings!!) which I rather loved the sound of as other diesels didn't sound the same! I forget what spec the estate was though, but I think it must have been a 2L as it was "expensive to run" (and yet, my dad bought a cello at the time........), but of all of them the memory I find most amusing is the not-a-1.6 which had a dead clock & lighter socket, which my dad couldn't figure out, and one day he was tinkering on the Maestro, and I was in the Monty poking about in the fusebox, found a blown fuse, replaced it, clock and ligher socket came back to life, which left my dad bemused as he was sure he'd checked them, but conceded he may have been thinking of the Maestro which had also previously had a couple fuses gone, and as they were virtually identical (bar the Maestro having fewer fuses as lower spec!) interior-wise, it was understandable, though, the Maestro had the older VFD clock, versus the later LCD clock in the Monty... :P

Love the waffle, it adds seasoning.

Lovely memories guys, & it triggered a family holiday memory of mine. We were in south east France in 1984 when our beige Ford Sierra 1.6L ground to a halt. Cam belt failure, which very luckily didn’t destroy the engine. The local garage in the village of Vance fixed our car in 48 hours & didn’t charge a fortune, but the hire car they gave us was a battered old Renault 4 that was truly terrifying to drive! The funny thing is, my father was an engineer at Rolls Royce, Crewe. A man of few words as well, he only admitted on our return home that “I was going to change that belt but it still should have lasted bloody ages”.

Well done Monty for passing to 82.000 My Volvo named Oz passed over to 199.000 today another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍

I wish I had such memories but I don’t. We grew up without any cars. Mum wouldn’t make a driver’s license because she wouldn’t. Basta! Daddy began driving school but his eyes were too bad because of Malaria in World War 2. Our daddy’s dream car was a Simca 1100 because hatchback and practicability… But we raised up on a street with heavy traffic and a lot of lorries. So we hadn’t one car, we had thousands! 😊

Looks like the head liner has been in a drive by shooting

It's amazing how cars can evoke memories of us growing up, our family was Fords when I was growing up, my first memory of a Ford was going on holiday in my Late Grandfathers 3 Door Sierra 1.6L my dad borrowed for two weeks as the Fiat 127 proved rather small for a family of 4 which included my brother who was only about 4 months old. I remember even getting a Ford Cap that holiday as well.

Love the memories. My memories from the early 90s growing up was my Dads 1986 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 L, in a non metallic white and steels! Even used to pull an Eldis caravan adorned with a brown stripe all the way down the side. Much, much simpler times.

The wife and I had 6 kids between us, trying to squeeze all of us into one car was a nightmare and a source of near riots. Using 2 cars also caused arguments. Had to get a Land Rover 12. seat station wagon in the end, the wife said no to a minibus. "I'm of Romany descent but not a Gypsy" was her reason. Having 4 vehicles at home meant a lot of early morning car shunting around, my Taxi always ended up blocked in.

We had a dark blue 2.0 Mayfair 1987 saloon. I was allowed to drive it at 18 having passed my test you would never get insurance now. Went like stink. Windscreen wipers were a pain often would stall and one time sheared in the blades (on the M25) the motor ran but the wipers did not move. the engine would cut out when it was hot after a long run when you slowed for the first roundabout and the revs dropped back to idle. But it did restart.

My first solo drive after passing my test in 87 was my dads montego saloon 1-6l red b reg

We had a viva van, 5 of us and 2 seats, it rarely started without walloping the starter with a hammer 😂👍🇮🇪

Great video I thought it was going to be the on screen proposal video.... he proposed in a brown Montego... LOL love the vids xxx

Great memories. Thanks for sharing. 👍😁

When my (then future) wife and I moved out of our first flat, we managed to pack our entire possessions into a hired Montego estate, with a divan bed strapped on the top! Couldn't do that now!

Hired an MG Montego to pick up my wife to be, we were both serving in the army in Germany, different leave dates so wanted to splash out when she returned to UK from Germany. Picked it up in London and collected her from Luton. Happy days!

My dad had a Montego estate in white 1.6L reg was E72 CJO in 1990, traded in for a new 1992 Ford serria estate 1.8 in wedgewood blue reg J607 RDH.

Such a feel good video. Thanks for sharing your memories with us!

Been busy for a while....what has happened to the mini 4x4 last time i saw it it was having brakes rebild by ian????

I love cassoulet!

Fantastic memories, so glad they were happy memories and thank you for sharing with us, got me thinking about when I was young and the holidays and cars we went in.

Don't think we got the montego in south Africa. My father worked for SAMCOR (ford factory in SA) in late 80s early 90s and had a Sierra then went over to Renault when the original Laguna came out and we had a couple of those then a couple mark 2 Lagunas and after that he had scenics and even now in Ireland I have a scenic as the family car

i remember going swimming for my twin sisters and mine birthday with 2 adults and 10 children crammed in a ford Orion sedan

Memories were consigned to the Austin showroom, Dad wanted the Montego estate, but this was 1987 and they couldn't put a date on the diesel, do the pendulum swung to an equally good BX 19RD estate, with optional rear headrests to emulate the Montego,

Thanks Ian & Carly

I do remember 5 of us squeezed into my Mum's (very early) Mini Countryman all the way from Edinburgh to London, luckily it was replaced not too long after with a VW split screen camper although even that was a bit of a squeeze when it came to sleeping arrangements !

Brilliant !! More waffle please.....