Morris Minor Owners Club

For those of you who havent heard, the Bay to Birdwood run was run recently. All entrants are pre 1956. Turn out of well over a thousand cars. The run invloves a 75km route through the Adelaide Hills. In Australia we seem to have a large range of both American and English cars along with some european ones, which makes for a good rally. I thought some of you early minor people may be interested.

If anyone has more interest Google Bay to Birdwood, the offical site has many thousands of photos.

I'd love an e series one day!

someones very nice side valve, they came in period costume to but I didnt get a shot of that unfortunately.

My car in good company!



I'd almost swap my morris for this!

What an excellent collection of cars, much more interesting than just looking at Morris Minors all day (except side valves).
I haven't got XGH 341 on my register so I can't help you with the owner.

mike.perry wrote:What an excellent collection of cars, much more interesting than just looking at Morris Minors all day

I could not agree with you more Mike, and in my view, the way to go.

Sorry Mike I dont have any details on xgh 341 except to say it is a new registration plate max one to two years old, but suspect much less. If I find out any details I shall pass them on.

Many thanks. What is the system with reg. plates out there. They seem to change on cars quite often.

In south Australia, Alpha numeric plates began in the early sixties i think, Before that they were only numeric, and where white numbers on a black background. My Granfather worked int he government garages in hte 20's and could remember who all the cars 1-100 belonged to.

Alpha numeric plates began with RAA-000, over the years went through S, U,V,W and now X. T was reserved for trailers and bikes.

Today it is possible for a small price to have reissued an R or S series plate for about $100, just to confuse the matter. There are also a whole range of different personal plates.

The reason why they change I guess, is that when a car beomes unregistered the motor registra ask for there return. I have never bothered and never encountered a problem. If cars move states then they will also be issued with a new number.

I guess with my car as you had it with an R plate, i would guess that at some point it had been moved form interstate or overseas. Otherwise it should have had just a numeric plate. At some point in recent years, its rego ran out, plates where returned and when re registered it got a W plate.

The series II car i had, I was going to register as SII-803, hence my username. I should change my rego to SMM-918.

Thanks for that info. That explains why the same car keeps turning up with different plates.
Its a good thing there aren't so many cars out there or they would soon run out of plates especially as trailers have their own plates.