Seeing a Morris Marina in person was pretty amusing.

"Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise" (raveymayveysurprise)
08/14/2013 at 19:29 • Filed to: None

Of all the cars I thought I'd see in Toronto, that was pretty low on the list. Although to be fair, it was badged as an Austin Marina.

DISCUSSION (7)

PanchoVilleneuve ST > Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise
08/14/2013 at 19:31

Did you drop a piano on it.

Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise > PanchoVilleneuve ST
08/14/2013 at 19:32

Sadly, I didn't have a piano with me. The driver probably also avoided the campus music department.

Corey CC97, MAZDA DPI IS STILL BAE JOESTACTIV JOESTACTIV JOESTACTIV JOESTACTIV VISIT FLORIDA RACING LIVES FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS > Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise
08/14/2013 at 19:37

Telumektar > Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise
08/14/2013 at 19:38

Those are incredi-rare.

I read not too long ago that the Morris/Austin Marina was one of the most endangered cars in the UK. There were 809.612 built, with 674 still-registered in the UK (0.0832%)

Not the article I read, but this one is more detailed.
http://classics.honestjohn.co.uk/top-10s/top-20…

Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise > Telumektar
08/14/2013 at 19:47

It wasn't a British market Marina though. That being said, that might make it rarer. Having just looked it up, it seems like a lot of the Canadian market Marinas (yes, they sold them here) rusted away in the first winter they saw.

Telumektar > Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise
08/14/2013 at 19:58

It seems that almost every car from that list succumbed to oxidation.

Every single Austin Maestro I've ever seen mas rusted to bits, I remember when sometime around 1998 some sonofabitch imported something like 550 Maestros (checked it on Wikipedia, they were Bulgarian-made from parts surplus/kits), they looked ok but not two years afterwards you couldn't find one that wasn't super-rusted, rubber and plastic bits cracked.

Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise > Telumektar
08/14/2013 at 20:17

I'm now curious if such a list can exist for the USA or Canada.