1983 Talbot-Matra Murena 2.2 S

[anonymous-user]

Not off topic at all! Au contraire, it's, er, bang on.

[Sway]

Glad it's still running well G, lovely beast and I thoroughly enjoyed the little run you gave me to the station. ASBO exhaust my arse, sounds lovely!

Is it cc exempt as you hoped?

Vive la Murena.

[anonymous-user]

The car is invisible to the congestion charge for some reason. This may be to do with DVLA not accepting that it exists. It is, sadly, not invisible to speed cameras. Wife! Come over here, and bring a pen.

[Sway]

Breadvan72 said:

The car is invisible to the congestion charge for some reason. This may be to do with DVLA not accepting that it exists. It is, sadly, not invisible to speed cameras. Wife! Come over here, and bring a pen.

Silver linings can be found everywhere...

[brinkie]

Breadvan72 said:

Is your Murena behaving itself?

Well the Murena does behave most of the time, but be careful of lift-off oversteer, i.e. suddenly lifting your foot off the accelerator when you're taking a steep turn.

I have some work to do on the car, though. It needs a new radiator, new coolant pipes (the ones that run underneath the car) and new brake lines. They look very tatty and seem to be original from the factory, so they're on the car for over 32 years now and it's a ticking time bomb. Less pressing, but still necessary: the pins in the driver door hinges are worn out and the power windows go very slow.

[CDP]

brinkie said:

the power windows go very slow.

They stopped working completely on my brother's 84 VW Santana but it was quite easy to dismantle the motors and clean the brushes. After doing so they worked perfectly.

[anonymous-user]

Alas, I may have to sell this fine machine. I may try a French website.

[Fat Albert]

That is a shame G, always nice to own something rare and left-field that no-one can pigeonhole

[anonymous-user]

It depends on which cars I sell first . Fleet reduction is the objective.

[roy4matra]

LongQ said:

This one was very much a dark brown so far as I could tell. May not be original of course.

Hello, just joined the forum as I had been directed to this particular thread and there was an error which required correction.

The dark brown colour probably was original. In 1983 they added three colours to the Murena range, yellow, dark blue and bronze. The dark brown you saw was probably the bronze. It's the same colour as used on the Rancho and other Talbot models and is called Cannelle. All the colours throughout the short life of the Murena are detailed on my web FAQ pages.

Also the single exhaust silencer across the back with one tailpipe on the left is basically the same on either 1.6 or 2.2 models if standard, so this is not the way to distinguish between the two.

Hope this answers those questions.

Roy

[GreatGranny]

Saw a red one of these last weekend when we down at Legoland.
Driven by an oldish guy, he was pressing on in pretty terrible weather ie. heavy rain.
I could hear it on acceleration a few lanes away.

[anonymous-user]

Hi Roy, welcome, and hope all is well. Apols for getting the bit about brown wrong. I must have mistranslated the relevant section of the book.


GreatGranny, re:for pressing on in wet weather, you can do this more than you can in, say, a Lotus Europa. The Murena is pleasantly grippy even in the wet, although you do of course have to exercise the usual cautions as with any fast mid engined RWD car.

[V8RX7]

Hi I've tried to email you but PH says there's an "Internal Error"

If this is still for sale please could you PM me a price.

Thanks

[anonymous-user]

Thanks, will do - PH emails seem very wonky these days.

[anonymous-user]

Alors, c'est vendue!

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 20th May 18:19

[gforceg]

Un bon résultat!!

Howzat?

[gaz1234]

3x seats ! cool

[odyssey2200]

RIP the Murena, Killed off in it's prime by the Renault Espace.

[anonymous-user]

... which was actually a Matra.

[odyssey2200]

IIRC The Murena was outselling the Renault Alpine by a significant margin in France.

Matra designed the Espace as a Talbot but Talbot were having none of it.

Renault said that they would have the Espace IF Matra stopped building the Murena.