I owned a bottom spec W reg Metro which I bought myself in 1991 for my 40th birthday present to myself. It cost me a whole £400. One of the many cars I've had where I was the final owner before the scrapyard. Love your nerdyness. Wear it as a badge of honour
People forget how basic cars were in the 80's. My 1988 Renault 5 TL that I had as my first car was one up from base so included decedent luxury such as a passenger side door pocket, analogue clock and rear.waah wipe but still no intermittent eipe of glovebox cover. People really take all these things for granted these days. Congratulations on your win Siion, the attention to detail really shows and thanks again for the interview.
very lovely metro, mine definetly hasn't gone the standard or original route but it's great that you've restored it to original and it's better for it, oh and i was that commenter for the side repeater blanks so im glad to have helped you :)
I aways a soft spot for the metro. I have had a few in my time. My second car was a Wreg mini metro 1.3 S (first car a 1979 mini clubman estate) it was my pride and joy when I was 17 in 1992. But I always loved the base model metros. Well done on your prize.
Absolutely marvellous. My first car was a 1.0 City A954OCK in that colour. Can’t remember what the City spec was but I don’t remember headrests, it had non standard rectangular fog lights fitted, Audioline stereo and speakers,and some natty pinstripes 😂
Great work congrats. I remember back in ‘96 a mate in school who I am still friends with now his grandfather had a well specced Metro he was breaking and on request he brought in 2 brown headrests and an ignition switch for my mums City. I didn’t have a locker and had to carry it around all day. I remember my French teacher asking why there were headrests on my desk! So funny, different times. Also going into a Metro breakers as a 12 year old and asking the local breakers for a passenger sun visor and two end caps for the bumper.
Love this car and the fact it came from Harris Brothers my local Austin Rover dealer that had a 6R4 in their showroom for many years now Star Garage is a housing estate, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Well, your Metro is a fantastic little car, and I admire all the time and effort you have put into it, making it exactly as it was supposed to be. Many congratulations. All the best.
Well done. I totally agree about the specs showing how successful we thought we were. That makes the base models more special somehow! Superb channel. Keep it up!
Well done Sion. Once i found out your Metro was entered i had everything crossed you'd get a trophy as it's an excellent little car. Definately a keeper!
Congratulations 🎉 My very first car at 17 when I passed my test was a 1982 mini metro 1.3 HLE, it was actually badged minimetro, wasn't I living the high life 😂 It was exactly the same colour as yours but had a beige interior, how I miss that little car 😢
Well done to you. Top marks for originality. I flashed back to being 1984 in a new metro. Loved it at that age, and we hired a brand new mk1 fiesta as our car broke down last minute.. I was enamoured. Had a mk 1 since in 1993, nearly got a metro a couple of times, but finances dictated at the time. Enjoy your channel.
Hats off to you! 2 years to gather all the needed blanking plates...wow painstaking is most definitely an euphemism, you really should get these scanned for 3d printing if it wasn't already done
Thank you! The idea for the cigarette packet came from watching early episodes of The Bill, where everybody had a cigarette in their hand at almost all occasions!
I love your attention to detail and the parcel shelf display absolutely nailed it on the day. I'm off to find a Metro City now so I can be even more impoverished than you
I have to say, I have a soft spot for the Mini-Metro, and yes, I'm old enough to remember the launch of it. Suggestion for a future video. I seem to remember that a saloon sister version was planned and did make it to the prototype stage, bit like the Maxi's Morris 1500 twin. What happened to the prototype and why wasn't it put into production, unlike the Vauxhall Nova?
Well deserved. I do like a base model. You also got quite a lot of love on the Autocar podcast from Matt Prior and Steve Cropley who described you as a 'magnificent bloke' or something similar! Don't know if you caught that.
Congratulations & extremely well deserved, your Metro looks stunning, brilliant idea labelling all the none standard items. In the 70’s / 80’s Some well off people had Victorian values & had come through the war, so still drove base spec, as it was just a car. City / Popular / Merit, were probably the biggest sellers, white goods of the day
@@MorselsAndMotors yes my Gran was the same, she had a mk1 Polo N, no carpet just rubber, single speed wipers, she replaced it with my my mk2 Ranger in 1992 & thought it was too posh, gave up driving in 2004, which is how It survived & I still own it, wish I had her Polo N though
I passed my test in 1986 , my first car was a mini, the a metro a year later. At the time I thought it very mean of them to make a wing mirror an extra! I made sure I purchased one with both mirrors 😂.
Great news you came second. Just how I like my men... But I'm really confused. How big is this driveway? I'm seeing two Fiestas, plus one at the back and the Metro. Where are the Volvos?? The news of those seems to have gone really quiet recently 🤷
Wow, amazing my Mums first Metro was a city, but had city written on the sides rather than the back????? said mini-metro on the back and plastic seats!!! no passenger sunvisor, but all the citys i can see have houndstooth and seem much better specification, i think it was vermillion???? orange basically, as a new 18 year old driver i old found a VP scrapper and added T shelf rubber mat thingy, passenger door mirror(held in place with fishing wire and duck tape) arm that held the door mirror was sculpted rather than a stubby bit so didnt fit, passenger velour sunvisor i had to glue as the screws didnt screw into the holes..... i guess there wasnt the capture bit in the holes to screw it in to...... i felt well posh.....oh and a glove box....that sort of didnt fit, wow those were the days. Always drove it with the air cleaner box off, sounded sportier then. Shit how things have changed. love your videos
It all depends on model year. The original City in 1982 had the vinyl seats Love the mods you did to your car! The opposite of what I have done to mine 🤣
i had a 1983 Metro standard i add lot bit to it ,my came with head rests add door bin update steering wheel ,radio ,add sec fog lamp. In 1990 i had 1.1s then a 1.4 Gta in 1992 good car at the time.
Keep on top of the rustproofing, as these cars were notorious for that, even when it became a Rover Metro, they would still rust if not quite as pronounced.
The carburettor mods seem like a really weird thing to have been done. Maybe it did leave the factory with the wrong ones because they happened to be what they had lying around on the day?
The whole carb was the HLE spec (and the identity tag confirmed it), so I’d say the entire unit was just swapped in at some point. Thankfully it’s easy to convert the HLE back to normal spec with a new needle, dashpot and plugging an extra vacuum line
@@MorselsAndMotors But who replaces a carb? Those SU carbs are basically 100% reliable. They just plain work. I still suspect this happened at Longbridge before the car went out. Are the tamper-proof seals still untampered with? Not dispositive evidence but if it had been replaced maybe it's more likely it would have been adjusted.
I owned a bottom spec W reg Metro which I bought myself in 1991 for my 40th birthday present to myself. It cost me a whole £400. One of the many cars I've had where I was the final owner before the scrapyard. Love your nerdyness. Wear it as a badge of honour
Had greatest trips to Margate in one of those , legendary . Thanks Jean. 😃
Congratuations! What a fantastic Metro this is. Still quite decadent with the cloth upholstery. 😁
Congratulations Sion! 👏 Very well deserved. Love that you're accompanied by the Swedish Applause and the Dutch Justy.
People forget how basic cars were in the 80's. My 1988 Renault 5 TL that I had as my first car was one up from base so included decedent luxury such as a passenger side door pocket, analogue clock and rear.waah wipe but still no intermittent eipe of glovebox cover. People really take all these things for granted these days.
Congratulations on your win Siion, the attention to detail really shows and thanks again for the interview.
Congratulations, all your hard work sourcing parts paid off. 👍
Great pains taken to decontent a car…I love it!
very lovely metro, mine definetly hasn't gone the standard or original route but it's great that you've restored it to original and it's better for it, oh and i was that commenter for the side repeater blanks so im glad to have helped you :)
Well done on a great win. A brilliant looking car
For me this is what car passion is all about, congratulations.
Hope to get something like this one day with my 309 Graffic.
I aways a soft spot for the metro.
I have had a few in my time.
My second car was a Wreg mini metro 1.3 S (first car a 1979 mini clubman estate) it was my pride and joy when I was 17 in 1992.
But I always loved the base model metros. Well done on your prize.
Well done! 🎉 A good job done. 😊
Congratulations Sion, well deserved! 😁
Congratulations! ❤
Absolutely marvellous. My first car was a 1.0 City A954OCK in that colour. Can’t remember what the City spec was but I don’t remember headrests, it had non standard rectangular fog lights fitted, Audioline stereo and speakers,and some natty pinstripes 😂
Great work congrats.
I remember back in ‘96 a mate in school who I am still friends with now his grandfather had a well specced Metro he was breaking and on request he brought in 2 brown headrests and an ignition switch for my mums City. I didn’t have a locker and had to carry it around all day. I remember my French teacher asking why there were headrests on my desk!
So funny, different times.
Also going into a Metro breakers as a 12 year old and asking the local breakers for a passenger sun visor and two end caps for the bumper.
Well done, great attention to detail
I love the forensic evidence tagging. It’s mad for sure, but it’s Awesome.
Brilliant 🤩 congratulations you lunatic 🎉
Love this car and the fact it came from Harris Brothers my local Austin Rover dealer that had a 6R4 in their showroom for many years now Star Garage is a housing estate, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Yes, it's very sad. I've seen a couple of photos of it, but shame it's long gone
Great stuff, Siôn! Congratulations!
Well, your Metro is a fantastic little car, and I admire all the time and effort you have put into it, making it exactly as it was supposed to be. Many congratulations. All the best.
Always enjoy your vids. Future FOTU contenders could be the last Suzuki Baleno and the Nissan Pulsar.
Fantastic, well done Sion!
Well done. I totally agree about the specs showing how successful we thought we were. That makes the base models more special somehow! Superb channel. Keep it up!
Exactly what I think - people will more easily preserve a sporty or plush model
Great job on winning second place at FOTU! Your Metro is beautiful! Love how you've brought it back to original spec👍
fantastic ........especially returning to original spec
Well done Sion. Once i found out your Metro was entered i had everything crossed you'd get a trophy as it's an excellent little car. Definately a keeper!
Well done Sion your metro is amazing and well worth your hard work to make it back to original and this is much deserved many congratulations Daniel
Siôn "Lunatic Hero" Hudson has a nice ring to it! 🏆
Hahahaha, I might alter my twitter name...
Excellent, well done, brilliant.
Many thanks!
Congratulations 🎉 My very first car at 17 when I passed my test was a 1982 mini metro 1.3 HLE, it was actually badged minimetro, wasn't I living the high life 😂 It was exactly the same colour as yours but had a beige interior, how I miss that little car 😢
Congratulations on a well deserved 2nd place. I'm glad I'm not the only lunatic that's obsessed with base trim loveliness.
Well done to you. Top marks for originality. I flashed back to being 1984 in a new metro. Loved it at that age, and we hired a brand new mk1 fiesta as our car broke down last minute.. I was enamoured. Had a mk 1 since in 1993, nearly got a metro a couple of times, but finances dictated at the time. Enjoy your channel.
Love this! Congratulations, I’m glad the passion and effort you’ve put into this got the recognition it deserved
Thank you Matteo 😀
I adore your Metro. Congratulations on the achievement at the show.
It's such a sweet and happy little car
Well deserved, Congratulations
It paid off to be a lunatic 😁 congratulations mate good job.
gorgeous car
Hats off to you! 2 years to gather all the needed blanking plates...wow painstaking is most definitely an euphemism, you really should get these scanned for 3d printing if it wasn't already done
A well deserved trophy! The Metro is in fantastic condition and the period touches like the cigarette packet were wonderful!
Thank you! The idea for the cigarette packet came from watching early episodes of The Bill, where everybody had a cigarette in their hand at almost all occasions!
@@MorselsAndMotors Ah, the 80's!! I love the little period touches like that
Many congratulations! It was a wonderful day and great to see so many people at the event.
I love your attention to detail and the parcel shelf display absolutely nailed it on the day. I'm off to find a Metro City now so I can be even more impoverished than you
Noooo, I want to be the most povvo!
I have to say, I have a soft spot for the Mini-Metro, and yes, I'm old enough to remember the launch of it. Suggestion for a future video. I seem to remember that a saloon sister version was planned and did make it to the prototype stage, bit like the Maxi's Morris 1500 twin. What happened to the prototype and why wasn't it put into production, unlike the Vauxhall Nova?
Learned to drive with BSM in that model year.
Well deserved. I do like a base model. You also got quite a lot of love on the Autocar podcast from Matt Prior and Steve Cropley who described you as a 'magnificent bloke' or something similar! Don't know if you caught that.
Yes, I did indeed. They said some very kind things 😊
congrats!
Congratulations & extremely well deserved, your Metro looks stunning, brilliant idea labelling all the none standard items. In the 70’s / 80’s Some well off people had Victorian values & had come through the war, so still drove base spec, as it was just a car. City / Popular / Merit, were probably the biggest sellers, white goods of the day
Yeah, absolutely. My grandmother always drove base model Fiestas, as all she needed was the car to take her places
@@MorselsAndMotors yes my Gran was the same, she had a mk1 Polo N, no carpet just rubber, single speed wipers, she replaced it with my my mk2 Ranger in 1992 & thought it was too posh, gave up driving in 2004, which is how It survived & I still own it, wish I had her Polo N though
I passed my test in 1986 , my first car was a mini, the a metro a year later. At the time I thought it very mean of them to make a wing mirror an extra! I made sure I purchased one with both mirrors 😂.
It’s really quite ridiculous when you look back on it!
Excellent! I'd love a little Metro myself before they get mad expensive like a classic Mini.
Love that
Such amazing attention to detail and what us purists love so much. And how befitting to win the less exceptional award. The pinnacle of mediocrity.
Congratulations! 🥳
I don’t even know what those other two winners are. 😬
(P.S. No “e” in “concours” monsieur!)
Great news you came second. Just how I like my men...
But I'm really confused. How big is this driveway? I'm seeing two Fiestas, plus one at the back and the Metro. Where are the Volvos?? The news of those seems to have gone really quiet recently 🤷
Wow, amazing my Mums first Metro was a city, but had city written on the sides rather than the back????? said mini-metro on the back and plastic seats!!! no passenger sunvisor, but all the citys i can see have houndstooth and seem much better specification, i think it was vermillion???? orange basically, as a new 18 year old driver i old found a VP scrapper and added T shelf rubber mat thingy, passenger door mirror(held in place with fishing wire and duck tape) arm that held the door mirror was sculpted rather than a stubby bit so didnt fit, passenger velour sunvisor i had to glue as the screws didnt screw into the holes..... i guess there wasnt the capture bit in the holes to screw it in to...... i felt well posh.....oh and a glove box....that sort of didnt fit, wow those were the days. Always drove it with the air cleaner box off, sounded sportier then. Shit how things have changed. love your videos
It all depends on model year. The original City in 1982 had the vinyl seats
Love the mods you did to your car! The opposite of what I have done to mine 🤣
My first car was a C reg red Mini Metro
Congratulations for being the geekiest of them all! 😂
i had a 1983 Metro standard i add lot bit to it ,my came with head rests add door bin update steering wheel ,radio ,add sec fog lamp.
In 1990 i had 1.1s then a 1.4 Gta in 1992 good car at the time.
To be honest, if it was your actual car that makes complete sense!
Beautiful car and its lovely to see old classics on the road, did you have the car fully restored, or was it just a full body re-spray..??
It has never had a respray! It is on its original 40-year-old paint 😀
Keep on top of the rustproofing, as these cars were notorious for that, even when it became a Rover Metro, they would still rust if not quite as pronounced.
👋👋👋
The carburettor mods seem like a really weird thing to have been done. Maybe it did leave the factory with the wrong ones because they happened to be what they had lying around on the day?
The whole carb was the HLE spec (and the identity tag confirmed it), so I’d say the entire unit was just swapped in at some point. Thankfully it’s easy to convert the HLE back to normal spec with a new needle, dashpot and plugging an extra vacuum line
@@MorselsAndMotors But who replaces a carb? Those SU carbs are basically 100% reliable. They just plain work. I still suspect this happened at Longbridge before the car went out. Are the tamper-proof seals still untampered with? Not dispositive evidence but if it had been replaced maybe it's more likely it would have been adjusted.
actually now watching all the way through 'City' was on the back, not the sides.........and no reversing bulbs
At some point the City badge did move to the side I think
Hurray for blanking plate lunatism
Why bother with such a boring car?