Morris Minor Owners Club

Just occured to me, as it does from time to time, the thing I really really like about my moggy. It's the fact that you draw up behind ordinary boxes in a traffic queue with that bonnet mascot imposing itself in their rear mirror, just encroaching into their rear window!! Suppose a Rolls driver would feel a little more superior, but we do it cheaper! Also keep wondering why people stare as I go by- then realise that the car I am taking for granted is sitting in their "wow-look at that" department (or maybe its just my driving!) And of course theres the long lingering fart on the overrun
Any aspects which really stand out for you?

none at all really,
i had vans for good work horses and the car is nice to
but must admit never really classed themma s classics, and in my day they were old bangers and the only cars we could afford

Same here when I started with them. Mind you, the green flasher on the indicator stalk was what made me fall in love with them, aged about 5

I have often wondered this. Without trying to get all freudian on you I believe there must be something warm and motherly about them. It's the only car my kids travel in that is guarenteed to send them off to sleep - even at the age of 11 !

I like the steering wheel, it seems a proper size!!...the one in my plastic eurobox ( aka pretend car!!) is tiny and you seem to have to turn it loads of times to get the thing to change direction! Life in the Mog is simple, one turn in either direction at most is all you need!

I like the fact that I look under the bonnet and can tell what everything does. I don't always manage to but I at least feel that if anything goes Phut I could at a minimum change it, if not strip it down rebuild it and get it working again.

I like the fact it costs very very little to run ! My car sits on the road for just over £100/year - and no depreciation.

Many things. The whole in this case is MUCH greater than the sum of it's parts.

I like underpowered saloons and the Minor is a particularly attractive example with bucket loads of character.

Gill thinks the van's are cute and unique.

I love the exhaust note on the overrun and the fact that my friend's traveller convinced a man from accross the pond that "they even have Tudor cars" referring to his mother's Traveller.

For me its the Smile Factor.
When I first started driving they were still current (just) cars and were thought of as a little boring but if you wanted reliability and a car to start in all conditions that was cheap to run the Moggie it had to be

Yep, one small child standing next to his mother in a supermarket queue said "Mummy there's a car out there with a garden shed stuck to it's back!" They always make you smile

they just ooze character,they have a smiley face,cheap to run and reliable.as lou says they put a smile on your face.

i like the way they rust out

There is something about the view over the Morris Minor bonnet. The Beetle became an icon but the Morris is equally distinctive. Stand and look at one and the shape is great - just right, not cute, just timeless.

I like any car that can be fixed... and my cars seem to need a lot of that

Minors I love because they were just so well designed for their era. They have an amazing lack of major defects* which is a testament to the skill and dedication of the design team.

* - engine top steady and exhaust clamp are pretty much the only inherent faults which is amazing, unless you count the limited power and robustness of the early a-series running gear** which was foisted on morris by politics.

[** Having said that, the early A-series running gear is still as good as some of the competition at the time]

just to see other drivers do the dubble take when you over take them on the M25 lol
old folk asking can i have a look in side we used to have of them

kids at school looking and waving

most of all truning heads down the high street and making people smile when they see them " remembering the old days "

One that has just occured to me as I waited, shivering at the side of the road (not my breakdown this time, more anon!), is that you can lounge back onto that bonnet and the warm curve wraps round your lower back a treat. Keep your shiatsu massagers, I'll have a moggy bonnet any day!

I like the green light on the indicator stalk

and the snail cam inside the brake drums

but best of all I like the foot-operated headlight dim switch

I can't use the foot-operated dim switch without loosing sight of the windscreen

i l.like the rusty bits