Morris Minor Owners Club

Is it just me or does 2010 seem a bit of a futuristic date?

A bit Arthur C Clarke?

I thought that a bit in 2000, then I got a bit twitchy in 2005 and 2008 & 9!

Well being a child of the 60's I thought that by 2010 we would all be travelling in rocket style cars and wearing all-in-one spaceage suits. I know how I would prefer to travel.
Happy New Year to you and Gill.

Who'd have thought in 2010, there would still be many thousands of Moggies tootling about! With I suspect twice as many stuck in garages as either projects or awaiting refurbishment.

Don't worry, in 10 years things will look normal again

Rog

When we enter the '20s!

Dean wrote:Who'd have thought in 2010, there would still be many thousands of Moggies tootling about! With I suspect twice as many stuck in garages as either projects or awaiting refurbishment.

Only twice? I have 3 (OK 4 if you count the cab and chassis). I would guess that for every moggie on the road there could be 4 or 5 awaiting repair or hiding waiting to be found.

2010, who said we we couldn't travel into the future...

So its sounds like what we are saying is that rather than us all getting around in rocket-shaped flying cars in 2020, we'll actually all be getting around in all of those Morris Minors retrieved and restored from people's garages during the previous decade. Now that's my kind of progress!

Now its 2010 when will JLH be doing a hover conversion for the minor

Is it just me or does 2010 seem a bit of a futuristic date?

It's the year we make contact!

HarryMango wrote:Don't worry, in 10 years things will look normal again

Rog

I get a feeling of tumbleweed for this one Everybodys brains must still be clogged up with rich food & alcohol

Rog

its the start of a decade, seems different

maybe i have been contacted

HarryMango wrote:Don't worry, in 10 years things will look normal again

Rog

I don't know about 2020 vision - in ten years time I'll need contact lenses to see as far as my spectacles!

I somehow knew it would be you

Rog

santadawes wrote:Well being a child of the 60's I thought that by 2010 we would all be travelling in rocket style cars and wearing all-in-one spaceage suits. I know how I would prefer to travel.
Happy New Year to you and Gill.

I used to get a "Look & Learn" annual during the early/mid '70s. I remember that one contained an article about future travel. Concorde was just about making its first scheduled flight (I remember the BA flight was to Bahrain; can't remember where the Air France one went) and in the 1980s it was suggested we would all be flitting about on Concorde, whilst by the '90s we'd all be going by Space Shuttle (Global warming was still some way off).

It reminds me of a school competition, where we were asked to depict what the car of 2000 would be like. All of us went OTT but mine was the least far fetched and could actually have been made. It was basically like a wingless aeroplane (Pencil shaped), with a turbine engine, whereas some of the others had really weird impractical ideas (Legs instead of wheels; all totally illogical). Clearly more outlandish ideas impressed the teachers, as I didn’t win a prize (Though some of those cliquey little places could be hotbeds of favouritism).

It is hard to credit that another decade has gone, though I shouldn’t be surprised at the way time flies. When my late grandfather hit 90, in 1992, he told me that 90 years didn’t seem long when you looked back on it. Only this week, I reflected that one of my childhood neighbours had fought in the First World War, which is now nearly 100 years ago. Indeed the WW2 veterans are now all pretty old and seeing the “Clearance” of those born in yet another decade of the 20th Century (i.e. Like the 1920s and then the 1930s), is sad. I suppose you can say that the past will ultimately be kinder to you than the future. If only we could rewind life like a video; I’d make very good use of it.

Well it does mean there's only 2 years left until 2012, where we finally finish the Maian calendar, but carry on using the Julian one.
In 2020 I'll still be driving Minors - I do hope we get hover cars as that will free up the roads for proper cars!

2020 i would like to think i will be still here driving my morris but years have a habit of doing things to the body the older one gets

Just cut out the old AU and replace with new.... neatly butt welded and ground back, who would notice.

Dean wrote:Just cut out the old AU and replace with new....

Yes I'm sure Dennis has a NOS one in storage

Rog

santadawes wrote:Happy New Year to you and Gill.

Thanks Ray. Happy New Year to you and Julie too.

2020 i would like to think i will be still here driving my morris but years have a habit of doing things to the body the older one gets

Certainly be giving an lcv a miss then!