October 2022

Forum Morris Marina 1800, 1971 - How Much is this car worth

biggins and beagle on 8 October 2022

I was out bided on this car by what looks like a total time wasting tyre kicker

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Morris-/155187255940?mk...

The car had been on bid for £1,380.00 for quite a while. Then I can and placed my bid of £1,550 five minutes before the auction ended
Then the £1,380.00 went upto £1,400.00 and then up a little bit more and a bit more and so on until it went to £1,550 and then finally £1,600

The original bidder of £1,380.00 had high feed back, but this latest bidder who was out bidding me only had a feed back score of 2

https://www.ebay.co.uk/bfl/viewbids/155187255940?i...

Again it looks to me like a total time waster. but if that time waster had not of bided then I would of won the auction for £1,420.00 not £1,550.00. So if the wining bidder dose not turn up to buy then the seller may offer it to me at my highest rate. But have I over paid for this?

Look at this site

https://www.hagerty.co.uk/valuation/tool/results/?...

it values the car at £1,600.00 for fair condition

Question, from the add do you think the car is in fair condition and do you think the evaluation is right?

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Stanleysteamer on 1 June 2025

I have a Marina Roadster (Kit Car) whose donor vehicle was largely a Morris Marina 1800 TC.
But the kit got rid of the awful front lever arm suspension by replacing it with a top wishbone from a Mini and a separate shock absorber.

At the rear the mounting plates for the rear shocks were turned over and swopped sides so that the shockers helped keep the rear end on the road.

I also bought a MM 1800 single carb to eventually use as spares. I careful vicar owner (Really!).

BUT the massive problem with these cars was their habit of busting the reverse idler shaft, or gears.
I had my box rebuilt once by a cowboy company, then it went again, so this time I did it myself at great expense because the spares were eye-watering, and it went AGAIN. I then bought a recon box which had a reinforced reverse and it still runs fine!
TBH most 70s cars were rot boxes.
I once took a new rep to pick up his new Ford Cortina back in about 1976.
At the garage it wouldn't start so we and the dealer's bloke lifted the bonnet to look at the battery. To our shock the whole of the underside of the bonnet was cobvered in rust! It was one of the last of the coke bottle shaped mk 3s. There was an overlap between them and the mk4s. We guessed it had been parked up i8n a field in Germany or soemwhere, for months!