Practically Classics Forum

GHT wrote: Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:57 am
There's not enough room on the internet to list the problems that I had with mine. And that, like your father's, was a 1978 on a T plate.
Maxi.jpg

This looks more like an earlier than T plated Maxi with hydrolastic displacers in the boot and vinyd rather than velour seat finish.

Earlpart no longer in business. The stock was brought out by an ADO16 guy, so might try him: thanks.

I believe you can fit adaptors to allow you to fit hydrolastic displacers in an hydragas subframe.

http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab168/3500P5/11032012416.jpg
Our little Maxi gathering was then joined by the lovely Damask red example.


I think that one was for sale on the Maxi Club website a couple of years ago, but I've not seen it since. :(

Here's my latest find, at a local meet ...

Murray wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:27 pm This week I have seen not one but two Austin Maxi's in Bury one in brown and the second in a fetching shade of orange.

Here's my 1980 russet brown one. :-

image by keef, on Flickr

Young Farmer wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:09 am I have just bought an Austin Maxi, cant be many of them left now.

They are getting rare, but I have a few.

Here's the LHD HL I imported from Belgium. :-

image by keef, on Flickr

JPB wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:54 am Maxi pics please!

Here you go. One I saved fairly recently. :-

image by keef, on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5538/11918651316_6074a7f894_z_d.jpg

I've just remembered the old Maxi!


Still on DVLA records!
FAO 179K

✗ Untaxed
Tax due:
01 November 1989

Incorrect tax status?
MOT
No results returned

Incorrect MOT status?

Here's one of our old ones. :-

https://farm4 ...

I bought a towbar for my Maxi a few weeks ago and the car the hitch came off had a gaping hole in the roof.


You still got the Maxi?

The towbar I got for Julie doesn't seem as easy to fit as previous ones. Do you know what make yours is/was?

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4884/45852572054 ...

what about the hardboard that BL used on the Maxi (and others)? Most of the ones I saw were starting to rot after two or three years.


On that subject I'm missing the os boot trim in my '74. :(

Anyone have one in the back of their garage? ;)

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1865/42976859010 ...