Morris Minor Owners Club

What with me racking up 40 miles every day, and having to make some long runs up to Norwich in the near future (if I'm very lucky); and also the sickening engine in my car getting, well, sicker... I gave in.

Everyone said you can't run a Morris Minor like a new car - or a lot of people did, and I still reckon you can, if you've got time; 60k miles in 5 years isn't bad by anyone's standards, whether it be a modern car or a classic.

But I want to do Rebecca's engine properly, and I want to use the opportunity to tidy up that engine bay, which is starting to get quite ratty thanks to various incidents with failing petrol hoses.

So today I gave in and got myself a rep-mobile. All independent suspension, multi-speed fan with variable temperature, funny non-round headlamps, and worst of all, not a Morris.

Anyway, here's a pic for you all of the latest addition in what appears to be becoming a fleet... Everyone - Meet 'Brick':

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49965961@N ... otostream/

Nice car...I like the Viva...I had a couple of them and enjoyed every minute with them. Good Luck with it.

I hope it's at least as reliable as Rebecca. I think the trick is to have at least two classics so you can work on one at your leisure while using the other day-to-day.

My grandad had one of those and it caught fire!

Hope you get on well with it

At least it's not modern

Don't thrash it too hard, the engines are really soft - you should have gone for the overhead cam one - 1600,1800 or 2.3.
They are a nice car though, good luck with it.

Pete

I still reckon you can, if you've got time [to spend every weekend fixing it]

funnily enough, I remember saying that - and you got annoyed about it? ;-)

Nice motor Kate
I had a few Vivas years ago and they were very reliable and smooth to drive.. the last one I had was the GLS which supposidly was the top of the range excellent car though..
Good luck with yours.

Mal

I still reckon you can, if you've got time to service it regularly

funnily enough, I remember saying that - and you got annoyed about it?

Yeah, and I still disagree!

It's only time to service that I've really needed; until the very cheap engine decided that it really was as worn out as I thought.