Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi,
I just spotted this on eBay, link below picture if anyone's interested.
I think it's a lovely picture, if nothing else.
It looks like it was done by someone who is very competent when it comes to reproducing the shape of a curvaceous car, like the Minor, in a drawing.
No mean feat in itself. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/257497532533 ... R_60iKDdZw
Best wishes,
Mike.

I'm suspicious that's AI, looking at their other cards there's suggestions based on what AI can struggle with, such as text on signs.
This is my request and the thumbnail generated by the AI image: And here's the full resolution version:

Pretty sure they used Trevor Mitchell's art for training there.

Not a bad representation of a lowlight MM other than the shaped chrome bumper blade, missing bumper fillet and yuk (wrong) bonnet furniture. The short bonnet / bulkhead joint is over-rounded.

Chief wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2026 1:24 pm I'm suspicious that's AI, looking at their other cards there's suggestions based on what AI can struggle with, such as text on signs.
This is my request and the thumbnail generated by the AI image:
ai.png

And here's the full resolution version:
Duck-ai-image-2026-06-21-12-21.jpeg

Even back then the parking seems to be terrible..

Is the blue car lhd and why is it and the green mini apparently on the wrong side of the road? Can’t tell if there are passengers or if the seats have head rests which would probably not be period correct.

I think the whole picture is AI the village is a composite of stow on the wold. St Edwards Church tower and the right pub name but not real. The Anglia is lhd, the mini behind the minor is out of scale. The green mini has modern seats and looks placed not parked. The mileages to the locations on the road sign make no sense. The Wadworth sign is on a building opposite.
Maybe artistic licence on an original then AI doctored.
The camera doesn't lie means very little these days

geoberni wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2026 8:46 am Even back then the parking seems to be terrible..

Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2026 3:38 pm Maybe artistic licence on an original then AI doctored.

I did show my screenshot of the AI prompt which was used to generate the scene, just to show how the original image on eBay could be AI generated (for example there's another card by the same seller on eBay where the phonebox instead of reading "Telephone" appears to read "COCOCOCOCOCO"

There's a whole load of issues with the AI scene I had it generate, there's a person with two heads, the mileage sign blurs into the grass, there's a person wearing the wall of a shop as the pattern/colour of their clothes etc. etc.

RustAndMagic wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2026 3:23 pm Pretty sure they used Trevor Mitchell's art for training there.

If you look in the bottom right, whoevers work was used for training was used so often the AI tried to sign it