ford maestro

[tony]

as seen on the bbs
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2439787214&indexURL=2&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting

[Elstro]

That is MAESTRO ABUSE!! no wonder there are so few Turbos left!!! HOW COUDL THEY:censored:

[G51 NAV]

Total lack of bids shows just how unpopular this sacrilegious conversion was. Even if this cross-breed 'thing' was made from a wreck seemingly beyond economical repair, they would still have got more of their money back if they'd done a proper restoration and advertised it in classic car magazines/ebay as a fully-restored MG Maestro Turbo for about £2,500.

I tried to insure myself to drive it with Direct Line, because they offer the facility to punch in the car's reg number and it will tell you what the car is (I wanted to check it was a real Maestro Turbo) but interestingly G915 SVJ doesn't exist...hmmm...rebuilt write-off, perhaps? Wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole!!! Apparently neither would anyone else.

[D87 SMW]

It has Maestro clocks, stalks, and handbrake lever too! :o

[malcsmaesty]

that must be the worst thing than going to the tat yard,becoming a donor for a f**d,what an indignity:rage:

[Simon]

Apparently the closest car dimensionally to a Ford RS200 is in actual fact a Maestro, so someone had the idea to make a kit car using the Maestro (any vatiant not just an MG Turbo) as a basis. A real and genuine RS200 would be extremely expensive indeed.

Isn't the interior horrible?

[wyevalet]

It's a Paul Banham kit-car, http://banmoco.co.uk/200/
Banham build fibreglass bodies to fit the'chassis' of the donor vehicle, despite the Maestro being a monocoque construction.
(apparently, you get to keep the original vehicle identification by using the complete chassis (floorpan!)) They also do a nice Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite lookalike, based on the Mini floorpan.