Fast Marina Magazine

Plenty of Marina/ BL interest in this weeks classic press. Firstly Richard Gunn's buyers guide/profile is mostly cribbed from the old Practical Classics buyers guide. However, he goes on to say that "the Marina suffered from poor reliability" - What a load of codswallop! Whatever the Marina suffered from it was not poor reliability. In fact reliability was one of the cars strong points! No long term test or comparison test i have ever read has mentioned this, in fact the opposite is true and most praise the reliability:

"The Marina was launched as a replacement for both the Minor 1000 and
the Austin A60/Morris Oxford...As far as we can tell from our experience
the Marina is every bit as reliable and robust and is being welcomed by fleet
managers and garages for its lack of headaches and troubles."

Autocar Long Term (25000 mile) Test, Feb 73

Peter Simpson's article in Classic Car Buyer on BL cars gives the Marina a much better and more considered write up and is well worth checking out.

Lazy bloody journalism again......

Hi tony i have also read the articles on the morris marina in this weeks classic car weekly and classic car buyer
none of these articles mention any upgrades for running and improving a marina for a useable car ie,superflex bushes,different wheels,green stuff pads,k+n filters,5 speed box etc etc list could go on and on and on.
Both papers use the same mk1 saloon car with one of them changing the colour of the car from blue to green with photoshop.
ive read the articles for free,thank god because i wouldn't have bought them,its the same old stuff they keep saying and nothing new.
Best regards
Barry

Well spotted Barry, i didn't notice they'd both used the same car.
The trouble is people will read Richard Gunn's comment about reliability and start quoting it to us at shows: "Oh yeah, Marinas were unreliable weren't they? It said so in Classic Cars Weekly..." etc. Its amazing how many people take what they read in these publications as gospel.

The article in Clasic Car Weekly is just a re-run of the same article that appeared about 18 months ago, only they have tried to make it look different by changing the colour of the car. I havn't seen the other one yet.

Just trying to fill pages as they scratch around for work by the sounds of it