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Could any of our mainland Europe friends / members give me any photos of differences that got shipped with the EU cars?

This will be mine very soon and I would like to write some articles about euro cars.

Ben

Can't say I have seen a single Marina in Spain, but I am primarily on the med, east coast.
Will be doing some travelling westwards this year, perhaps to Portugal.
Where was the Marina assembly factory there, it might be a region to start with.

Apparently the French received a blonde dolly bird on the bonnet. . . .

I think all Marinas in Europe (aside from Malta) were built in Cowley. They would have been shipped through Belgium at the Seneffe distribution plant. There were P.D.I'd here and made more euro friendly. http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/around- ... n-seneffe/

There's one on the Greek island of Kefakonia. Seen with my own eyes

Thanks .. Looks unloved !

My Dutch 1800 TC is from Cowley.

Is that a stone under the wheel instead of a handbrake.


Chris

MarinaCoupe wrote:Is that a stone under the wheel instead of a handbrake.


Chris

And it has opening quarterlights and mk3 mirrors

So where did I get the idea that some Marinas were assembled in Portugal?
The UK had consistently good relations with them and were hated by the Franco regime in Spain.

jiversteve wrote:So where did I get the idea that some Marinas were assembled in Portugal?
The UK had consistently good relations with them and were hated by the Franco regime in Spain.

Wiki claims diesel Marina were assembled by BL Portugal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Ital

Even has it's own Facebook page with photos https://m.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a ... 496&type=3

jiversteve wrote:So where did I get the idea that some Marinas were assembled in Portugal?
The UK had consistently good relations with them and were hated by the Franco regime in Spain.

Yes, my apologies. Both the Marina and Ital were assembled in Portugal, both labelled "Marina". They would have been assembled their in CKD form like Maltese cars.