Flash Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 Well done on the WOF. What an amazing result. I've been following your Marina journey from the start and must compliment you on the way that you have phased this restoration. From a motivational point of view it's way easier to tackle the beautification phase on a vehcile that is already running and road legal. Too many folk dive straight into the paintwork and bling and then run out of steam when they realise that on top of this time consuming and financially draining bit they still have all the mechanical work to face. I'm looking forward to the next phase of your journey. Happy motoring. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbeam Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 Well done. It’s a good feeling getting an old car back on the road. Mine was only off the road for 17 years but when it clean sheeted its first wof I nearly passed out. I’m now finding lots of little things I want to fix… 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locost_bryan Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 Congratulations! That steering wheel isn't too dissimilar to the optional factory leather wheel 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreatestben Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 Hard work always pays off in the end! Well done mate. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 Good news. Sounds like the new WOF shop is happy to look at an older vehicle and not judge a book by it's cover. It's nice to get something back on the road, I managed it with the Morris Oxford Traveller and it was quite satisfying. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westy Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 Nice work fella! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuel Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 must be an amazing feeling to finally get it road worthy after all these years 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kws Posted November 9 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 9 18 hours ago, Flash said: Well done on the WOF. What an amazing result. I've been following your Marina journey from the start and must compliment you on the way that you have phased this restoration. From a motivational point of view it's way easier to tackle the beautification phase on a vehcile that is already running and road legal. Too many folk dive straight into the paintwork and bling and then run out of steam when they realise that on top of this time consuming and financially draining bit they still have all the mechanical work to face. I'm looking forward to the next phase of your journey. Happy motoring. Thanks everyone, it does feel good to finally have gotten over that massive hurdle that's been so daunting for years. The closer I got to it being ready for a WOF check, the more scary it got. I think you might be giving me a little too much credit there @Flash. The order i've phased the work really comes down to the fact that I enjoy mechanical work and utterly loathe bodywork There is definitely something to be said for having an ugly, but drivable "rolling project" as you say. I'd be even further behind schedule had I decided to tackle more of the bodywork; the work I had to do set me back way more than expected as it was but was necessary to move forward. I've only driven it for one "for the fun of it" drive so far, since insurance isn't sorted yet, but I wanted to take my wife for a quick spin (she won't go in any of my cars until they're road legal). Starting to hear and feel things I haven't noticed before, but I'm sure there'll be plenty of small things that pop up. As we parked up for photos a mum and her kids walked by, and I heard the little boy exclaim "look at that it's so cool!" and that made me real proud. Looking forward to bolstering/being the Morris Marina showing at British Car Day, and hopefully the MGCC runs their grasskhana at Threntham again next year as I'm real keen to throw this around it 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted November 10 Share Posted November 10 Do you know what the story is behind the plates on it? Carjam doesn't show any earlier plates, but it seems strange someone would put new ones on just as it got taken off the road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted November 10 Author Share Posted November 10 59 minutes ago, ajg193 said: Do you know what the story is behind the plates on it? Carjam doesn't show any earlier plates, but it seems strange someone would put new ones on just as it got taken off the road Sadly not. I asked the seller/son about it and he wasnt sure and with his dad gone the story was lost to time. I have the original re-rego paperwork for it, but no reason why it was dereg in the first place. The son has the original black plates, and im trying to get hold of them from him for histories sake but he's older and a bit hard to get hold of. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted November 10 Share Posted November 10 I reckon those white plates suit it, especially with how they still have the old white plate font. Would be a shame to get modern black plates on it (I'm assuming your posts in the plates thread referred to this car) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted November 24 Share Posted November 24 No added value from me, but those are Chrysler key blanks. They're a facsimile of a factory pentastar key. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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