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I've just joined, and am on a quest!
Back around 1984, I built a SWB Roadster, using mainly Marina GT parts, with the 1800 TC engine, but used a Dolomite gearbox and higher ratio rear axle, because the gearing turned out to be a bit too low with the original Marina gearbox, especially the very low ratio 1st and 2nd gear. The car was built in a tent at the end of my garden, and sadly I had to sell it only a year or so after I completed it.
The registration was Q252UGL, and the car was yellow ("Post Office van yellow" according to the motor factor that sold me the paint!) with a brown cord interior. I built the car whilst I was living in Helston, Cornwall, and sold it to an RAF chap at Chivenor in Devon in 1985, very reluctantly, as my then girlfriend hated the car, and resented the time I'd spent building it, so ran off with another bloke.
I've recently come across some old photos I took back in 1985, that I took for the advert I placed in Autotrader when selling it, and then went digging around on the web and was completely gobsmacked to find that the car still existed three years ago, and is in the gallery here: http://www.marlinownersclub.com/wppg...&image_id=3911 , looking very similar to the way she looked when I built her, but with the addition of a couple of spot lights and different wheels (being a cheapskate, I just painted up the Rostyles that cam from the Marina GT).
If this Roadster is still around, and if someone here knows of her whereabouts, then I would love to be able to see her again. She was the first kit car I'd ever built, and started me on a path of building boats, aeroplanes, another car and finally designing and building a house, so in many ways Marlin, and in particular, Paul Moorhouse, is to blame for all the projects my long suffering wife has had to put up with for the past 30 years..........
Back around 1984, I built a SWB Roadster, using mainly Marina GT parts, with the 1800 TC engine, but used a Dolomite gearbox and higher ratio rear axle, because the gearing turned out to be a bit too low with the original Marina gearbox, especially the very low ratio 1st and 2nd gear. The car was built in a tent at the end of my garden, and sadly I had to sell it only a year or so after I completed it.
The registration was Q252UGL, and the car was yellow ("Post Office van yellow" according to the motor factor that sold me the paint!) with a brown cord interior. I built the car whilst I was living in Helston, Cornwall, and sold it to an RAF chap at Chivenor in Devon in 1985, very reluctantly, as my then girlfriend hated the car, and resented the time I'd spent building it, so ran off with another bloke.
I've recently come across some old photos I took back in 1985, that I took for the advert I placed in Autotrader when selling it, and then went digging around on the web and was completely gobsmacked to find that the car still existed three years ago, and is in the gallery here: http://www.marlinownersclub.com/wppg...&image_id=3911 , looking very similar to the way she looked when I built her, but with the addition of a couple of spot lights and different wheels (being a cheapskate, I just painted up the Rostyles that cam from the Marina GT).
If this Roadster is still around, and if someone here knows of her whereabouts, then I would love to be able to see her again. She was the first kit car I'd ever built, and started me on a path of building boats, aeroplanes, another car and finally designing and building a house, so in many ways Marlin, and in particular, Paul Moorhouse, is to blame for all the projects my long suffering wife has had to put up with for the past 30 years..........
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