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I'm a lucky owner of a beautiful Marlin Roadster in Italy.
But it's time for me to change project with classic car.
I've not a big garage to store another car, so I need to sell the Marlin and I'm not happy to do this.
Here you can find some information about the car.
I get this info from the club:
· The original registration plate KJD111K (that I have) seems to indicate the donor car was built around 1972 but the Marlin constructed from its parts may not have been till much later.
· The 1798cc engine is a Morris Marina B series engine - this is the same engine as the MGB GT 1.8 engine so all parts are easily available.
· Kit chassis number 2519 left the Marlin factory in February 1984, sold to Mr T G Pearce, and we believe he still owned the car until at least July 1996. The next information we have is that it was owned by a Mr R Jackson, dates unknown, and then as written on your V5 document Mr B Mays owned it from 25 05 2007.
The car was imported in italy from Mr. Davide Lo Porto in june 2010.
In september the 13th 2010 the car was sold to Mr. Aldo Fasoli and just one month later in october the 19th, the car was passed to the company of his son that is called 3A Communication. This company rented the car for marriage.
I bought the car in november the 16th 2015 from 3A Communication.
This is the italian history of the car until now.
Work done: I have some documentation of work done in England from previous owner.
In Italy I know from the previous owner that he has changed the front suspension, the clutch master cylinder and he tuned the engine to work well with no lead gasoline.
From November 2015 I did this works on the car:
· Complete review of the starter engine
· Complete rebuild of the electrical system of the car (now all is working good)
· New Battery installed
· New tyres installed in december 2015
· New wooden steering wheel and gear knob (the originals were awful)
Total spent 1.000 euros
In september 2017 I've done these other works:
· New brake master cylinder installed
· New clutch slave cylinder installed
· Original Radiator restoration (I have one new ready to install if needed)
· Liquid cooling changed
· Engine Oil changed
· Brake fluid changed
· Air filter regeneration
· New gear seal installed
Total spent 500 euros
Now the car works well.
I bought an Honda Civic Radiator to replace the original one, and this is included in the price of the car, but now after the restoration of the original one seems that the overheating problem is quite solved.
The only thing that is not working is the Smiths speedometer due to the fact that I didn’t find the right combination of gauge and tacho gear equipment.
People of the club suggested me to change the tacho and install a GPS one, but I’ve preferred to maintain the original instruments.
So the car is a beautiful car ready to go, but it’s not a perfect car, especially if you look at the body.
There are some signs and details to repaint if you want but it has a vintage look now..
I think the only one thing to do, if you want to have a perfect car is to repair the speedometer and repaint the body.
I have some spare parts included in the price:
· Starter solenoid
· Full set of engine gasket
· Full set of gear gasket
· New Radiator
· Kit to repair brake master cylinder
· Tachometer cable
· A couple of new body parts for coverage front suspension (in white fiberglass to paint in red)
I have 3 keys with Marlin keyring and several technical documentation, book, cd that I get from the club.
I have also 2 t-shirt and 2 hats from the club, never used.
To see some detailed photos you can look at:
https://www.autoscout24.it/annunci/m...3-e350040a933c
Price is 13.500 euro.
You can contact me here or via mail to: [email protected]
That’s all.
Regards
Simone
I'm a lucky owner of a beautiful Marlin Roadster in Italy.
But it's time for me to change project with classic car.
I've not a big garage to store another car, so I need to sell the Marlin and I'm not happy to do this.
Here you can find some information about the car.
I get this info from the club:
· The original registration plate KJD111K (that I have) seems to indicate the donor car was built around 1972 but the Marlin constructed from its parts may not have been till much later.
· The 1798cc engine is a Morris Marina B series engine - this is the same engine as the MGB GT 1.8 engine so all parts are easily available.
· Kit chassis number 2519 left the Marlin factory in February 1984, sold to Mr T G Pearce, and we believe he still owned the car until at least July 1996. The next information we have is that it was owned by a Mr R Jackson, dates unknown, and then as written on your V5 document Mr B Mays owned it from 25 05 2007.
The car was imported in italy from Mr. Davide Lo Porto in june 2010.
In september the 13th 2010 the car was sold to Mr. Aldo Fasoli and just one month later in october the 19th, the car was passed to the company of his son that is called 3A Communication. This company rented the car for marriage.
I bought the car in november the 16th 2015 from 3A Communication.
This is the italian history of the car until now.
Work done: I have some documentation of work done in England from previous owner.
In Italy I know from the previous owner that he has changed the front suspension, the clutch master cylinder and he tuned the engine to work well with no lead gasoline.
From November 2015 I did this works on the car:
· Complete review of the starter engine
· Complete rebuild of the electrical system of the car (now all is working good)
· New Battery installed
· New tyres installed in december 2015
· New wooden steering wheel and gear knob (the originals were awful)
Total spent 1.000 euros
In september 2017 I've done these other works:
· New brake master cylinder installed
· New clutch slave cylinder installed
· Original Radiator restoration (I have one new ready to install if needed)
· Liquid cooling changed
· Engine Oil changed
· Brake fluid changed
· Air filter regeneration
· New gear seal installed
Total spent 500 euros
Now the car works well.
I bought an Honda Civic Radiator to replace the original one, and this is included in the price of the car, but now after the restoration of the original one seems that the overheating problem is quite solved.
The only thing that is not working is the Smiths speedometer due to the fact that I didn’t find the right combination of gauge and tacho gear equipment.
People of the club suggested me to change the tacho and install a GPS one, but I’ve preferred to maintain the original instruments.
So the car is a beautiful car ready to go, but it’s not a perfect car, especially if you look at the body.
There are some signs and details to repaint if you want but it has a vintage look now..
I think the only one thing to do, if you want to have a perfect car is to repair the speedometer and repaint the body.
I have some spare parts included in the price:
· Starter solenoid
· Full set of engine gasket
· Full set of gear gasket
· New Radiator
· Kit to repair brake master cylinder
· Tachometer cable
· A couple of new body parts for coverage front suspension (in white fiberglass to paint in red)
I have 3 keys with Marlin keyring and several technical documentation, book, cd that I get from the club.
I have also 2 t-shirt and 2 hats from the club, never used.
To see some detailed photos you can look at:
https://www.autoscout24.it/annunci/m...3-e350040a933c
Price is 13.500 euro.
You can contact me here or via mail to: [email protected]
That’s all.
Regards
Simone
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