December 2019

leftfield lenny

My youngest brother had one, he hated it. However, my other brothers and I loved to borrow it. My youngest brother said that to borrow it and hand it back after a burn up or to ferry things in the back was great for us. To maintain it was a different matter for him. It had a appetite for wheel bearings, very poor ergonomics, inaccessible serviceable parts, squeaks and rattles like musicians in full flow playing a song and tracking that drifted out at random. But most spectacular of all, was that he took it back down to bare metal, treated all the rust areas and totally resprayed it. Only for the rust to come back 6 months later! Still, we all loved its hard wearing interior, pace and space. When the rust came back, he sold it to a plumber who used MG Maestro EFI 2.0's as fleet vehicles because he told my brother, they were the only vehicles that could haul all of the plumbers kit that he and his employees carried. He ran it into the ground. R.I.P. C115 JAM. Read more