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Morris Minor Van JBW506D Almond Green
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:25 pm
by Leo
I bought this van new in 1966 and have fond memories of it.
My Dad worked at the Cowley Pressed Steel Plant and got it at a discouted rate (about £300). I have the receipt somewhere.
It was delivered to Cowley and collected by my Dad with the body still covered in protective wax. I think it had a low compression engine.
I spent ages getting the wax off with white spirit.
Anyone know if it is still in existence?
Leo 1969 Traveller
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:50 am
by leyther8008
Nothing listed at DVLA but Russ at the lcv site is the man to speak to.
http://www.minorlcvreg.co.uk/
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:27 pm
by bmcecosse
At £300 he should have bought 2 - and put one away as an investment!
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:42 pm
by Leo
Wish it had been possible to buy another, I was only earning about £12 per week and just starting out in life.
You could buy a good second hand car in those days for less than a £100 and in fact my girlfriend who now is the lady wife bought me a Ford V8 Pilot in 1965 for £12. Now that is the car I should have stashed away
Leo
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:50 pm
by dunketh
Makes you wonder what 'new' cars we should be buying and 'coccooning' for the future.
I can't see any modern cars having the appeal a classic car does now - but then people in the 1960s probably felt the same way.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:17 pm
by alex_holden
Leo wrote:my girlfriend who now is the lady wife bought me a Ford V8 Pilot in 1965 for £12.
Wow. No wonder you married her!
Now that is the car I should have stashed away
My dad can occasionally be heard mumbling wistfully about the classic bike he sold cheaply in favour of something more practical when I was on the way...
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:14 pm
by aupickup
cars for less than £100.00 ah good old days
but even so we only earnt a few pounds a week so all relative really
in another 45 years they will say we could buy a car for less than £3k ah they were the good ole days
everything is still relative
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:22 pm
by bigginger
You could still get a taxed, tested car for under £100 at the beginning of the '80s - hence the number of Marinas I owned
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:48 pm
by aupickup
n
and what were wages then
i bought my first house for £1800.00
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:57 pm
by bigginger
3/5ths of sod all, IIRC...
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:31 pm
by Kevin
i bought my first house for £1800.00
And I thought we were in the same age group
my first house cost £9,950 in 1974
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:42 pm
by aupickup
mine was 1970, but also in eastbourne
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:15 pm
by Orkney
Bloody oldies
good job theres some young blood in the mog world to wear off the stereotype