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I love my Chester👍

Had one from new 1986 Moonraker Blue Metallic C596 GJA . Lookers of Rochdale ripped me off on my first service with additional charges later refunded by a West German Dealer who noticed it when the rear window problems came up, metric tyres complete expensive nightmare, hydragas suspension sagging causing tyre scrub/tracking out constantly. Hinged rear windows leaked from new when you washed the car and had to be replaced under warranty in Germany see above. Main gearbox (4 speed) shaft double race bearing plastic inserts failed at 26000 Miles oil drain plug magnetic like a punk rockers hairstyle gearbox living on Engine oil. Front wings rotted from inside out Austin Rover did not want to know. Headlights held in with 8mm nuts add a bit of corrosion and heh ho they are not coming undone. Gear selector shaft seal needed replacing regular. AP lockheed front calipers 4 pot corroded pistons and sheared bleed screws after 3 years calipers replaced Outer Sills welded at 8 years for MOT ditto rear subframe. Dropped a valve at 80000 miles I then rebuilt the engine the damage was to two cylinders due to siamesed inlet ports. 120000 miles in total and when stolen for the second time it was scrapped in 1995 at nine years old. + point MG seats very comfortable. I made the mistake of buying a new British Car and supporting a lame duck industry, I without any doubt would of been tons better off with a Spanish built Vauxhall Nova 1300 SR. Nostalgic clap trap they were absolutely outdated rubbish!

I’m horribly offended by those sideburns

2 keys - long one for door and ignition, small one for gl9vebox and boot. T-BAR zip is only for fitting the vinyl cover. Now go drive a manual. Very very different and more enjoyable experience when out of town. Car comes alive.

I had an early Mk11 Auto Stag which we owned for 15 years! Bought it for 7k and got the same amount back when I sold it in 2003. Never let us down or overheated in all that time because the engine was rebuilt under warranty at just 2000 miles from new. All the casting sand and swarf was cleared from the block (terrible quality control back then ⚠️) I see the values have shot up since then. Happy memories. I would have another one but would go for manual transmission 2nd time around.❤

She says she's 'never hankered' after a Stag. Not surprising considering (1) she has an image of a Mini on her T-shirt (that says it all) and (2) Stag was mainly bought by men. It's a man's car. And the dude likes to keep using the word 'British' as if we need to be reminded where there is by the leaden skies. Let's be honest: neither of these two are typical Stag owners.

And what did you say at the end?

One question...why don't you like convertibles?

And I have sometimes the same problems with the seatbelts 😂

I have a yellow one like this 😀👍 I love to ride with it.

I had a white one FUB 284K, unfortunately in 1978 I took a fast bend on a country road in Somerset chasing Tom Alexander (he of Virgin Mobile fame) in his mum's RS 2000. I slid off on a load of liquid cow shit, took out 20 metres of privet hedge, hit the raised driveway, spun slightly, drivers door hit a telegraph pole hard and ended up with the door touching the gearstick inside,. I'm still around today because I left the hard top in my sister's garden earlier and me and my mate burst out through the soft top and landed in a field. Just gathering my senses and calling for my mate (it was dark) and the house owner came out and started bollocking me for ruining his hedge. Called a taxi and met Tom in Mr B's night club we were heading for (he was somewhat puzzled why my white John Travolta style jacket was hanging off my back with one sleeve missing, and me and Paul Barton were both covered in shit). Years later I bought the house opposite the accident scene and started dating Julie next door (now my daughters mum) and when I first met her she told me about finding a white Triumph Stag in the ditch opposite one morning (she noticed it because the smashed door light was still on) and she said that it must have slid off the road on the shit from her mother's cows ! NB the day after the incident I towed the car out of the ditch with my XJ6 (Stag viewed from the top was banana shaped). My mate Paul Barton sat in and steered it with the roof flapping open and getting covered in broken windsreen glass, and we took it back to Del Lines at Weston-super-Mare where he gave me £750 for it (because he had only recently rebuilt the engine) and he salvaged that. When he gave me the cheque he said 'you're a bit wild , aren't you' ! I actually liked the car because it had an extra switch by the window switches that turned on the two lights inside the roll bar when we were posing around Weston at night !

Great car and one of my all-time favourites. Note; that seatbelt hasn't been working since the MOT of September 2019! :-)

Did,nt enjoy this poor review don,t give up the day job

Aggravating presenters .

Nice Car. 😃👍.

For anyone one got a better mini than Sarah's is disgraceful. I bet Sarah got a beautiful mini. Seeing her in a thong I'm sure I would love her mini.

Shouldn’t really be putting it in first gear while moving. 🤫🤫🤫

A well maintained Triumph Stag is an absolute pleasure to drive, I know this because I drove my last Pimento Red 1977 model triumph stag for 25 years, still kicking myself for selling it !!.😢😢😠 and yes it was my daily driver !!.

Love this!😍 I grew up with my dad owning a Metro VDP auto on an E reg from 1997-2010… A big part of my childhood, have always wanted to re live those Metro memories so Nov last year I have bought myself a metallic grey 19,000 mile Metro 1300 L also on an E reg! ❤️😁 My father was very pleased to see it

Compact and bijou Mostyn, compact and bijou! 😉😂❤

Delivery millage LOL, when I started work as a mechanic for Skoda in 1990 delivery millage was driven without the speedo connected, coming up to August1st we had car swaps all over the country, we did a 8hrs on the spanners and then drive 5hrs over night swapping cars with dealers and PDIs in the morning half asleep, when VW came on board with all the new electronics we had a setting for 'deliver vehicle" . One time we did a dealer swap but at a third dealer site in order to get the 3 cars swapped but the 3rd dealer had the set of wheels for one of the vehicles so 2 of us managed at night to swap the wheels on 3 cars at night in the rain and only get 1 of the wheels wrong that ended in Newcastle area and the other 3 in Oxford area at least we got the 3 cars in the correct places just not all of the wheels.

That’s the engine that should have been fitted to the Ital 1300 models. Imagine a Morris Ital 1300 MG Turbo under the bonnet. .. just what Ivan needs Sarah Crabtree lol My 1981 Morris Ital 1300 (As you saw it for yourself at Glamis Extravaganza back in 2022) has just 950 miles from new at present time

If you had been in the car with me Sarah it would have been a fart that you would have smelled , im always getting shouted at about it.

We had one in that colour, it was our 3rd MG Metro! Loved them.

Good old MG Metro.

the turbos were a lot less reliable in practise

My first new car was an 84 A reg MG Metro. It was heavily discounted so good value. Lots of character but the gearbox failed after 30k miles and I went back to Fords.

they did come with alloys for most of their production run. but they were TD wheels and tyres, and those tyres are no longer available, so any left on the road have either had a later Rover 100 alloys, earlier pre TD metro alloys, or steel wheels with trims from those metro production runs. back in the day the vast majority had TD allows and tyres.

E up me duck the lovely sarah ,s on utube ,,❤she could turn boy george straight just by smiling at him 😅

Changing the exhaust at the twin manifold end was always interesting,. Usually set solid and had to use oxy-acetylene burner with a mate holding a shovel up against the carburettor 🥵. Kwik-fit days 😊, worked in an area loaded with older gentry 👨‍🦯👨‍🦯,…. Every second car was a metro 😂

God she's hot.

A favorite in the collection at GBCJ nice to see it being driven had one to with the same body graphics but mine was red one of the most fun cars I have ever owned 😊

The little flap IS a wind deflector. The sunroof is removable. Slide a little switch on the handle and it disconnects, you can then remove it and the wind detector does its thing 😊

Great to see you again Sarah, keep up the good work. Never saw you with Jody in a while, hope you are well. ATB fur noo

A friend had the turbo...stop ,I'm getting out, scary...too fast for my liking...

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Sorry but the Stag is without doubt the best looking car BL made.. Actually one of the best looking cars ever made.

I’ve had two stags money pits but great cars got a Porsche Boxster now 👌

My late dad had a Marina 1.3LE coupe, very rare limited edition with orange stripey seats and full sunroof that was so large almost made car feel like a convertible when fully rolled back, he brought it brand new from Marshalls of Cambridge in 1979 Lovely motor.

Marina is better x

Heralds were great at going around bends when the rear suspension turned in and flipped it over. The slowest accelerating car of its era but now, some people like them. Back in the 60s no one wanted one hence quite rare now

That is a true cad's convertible. One of the best looking convertibles ever. Giovanni Michelotti was a great designer.

Shame it's auto,the manual was a different beast. The 2500S was similar with the 2 gearboxes.Manual only for both cars.

There is nothing like the exhaust note of a Triumph Stag. I can't put my finger on it but if one comes or goes down the road it's a Stag & nothing less. Length of exhaust,bore of exhaust,placement of silencer ? Don't know but .......I love it ! The other car is the MGB..,.,.different note but same one-off identity.

Amazing. Leyland is incredibly underrated.

Bring them back with restomod

Oh how I miss my Marina 😢.

4.5 litres with the Oil Filter & 4.0 without. Uni Part filter number would have been GFE 148. Why do I remember this pointless stuff ? 😮😅

The Stagg was for the big boys who thought Spitfires were too girly. But the Staggs weren't weren't developed enough before going to market, As Usual. 😢

Waaaaay too much manic conversation by the driver. I couldn't watch most of it. It would have been better with less of the animated "Look at me everyone" antics of the driver and more about the sound of the car.