Morris Minor Owners Club

Well, I was talking to Patrick today, and we realised our cars were born very close to each other!
So, let's compile a list of birthdays (: it'll be interesting to see if we can find any 'twins'
either build date or first registration! whichever one you have easiest access to.

regaliaqueen's 4dr saloon, Madeleine "Maddy" - 12th October 1956
sidney's 4dr saloon, molly - 22nd March 1957
sidney's 2dr saloon, sidney - 14th June 1961
regaliaqueen's 4dr saloon, Green "Bug" - 1st Feb 1962
gareth's 4dr saloon, Phyllis - 27th February 1962
regaliaqueen's traveller, Vikki - 13th June 1962
regaliaqueen's Bella (Post-production Convertible) - 1963~
sidney's 2dr saloon, Emily - 3rd April 1963
alex'n'ane's - 08th August 1964
kas279n's traveller - 10th March 1965
hotrodder's - 01st April 1966
george's traveller - 28th April 1967
dryad's traveller 22nd Feb 1968
ondergard's 2dr saloon, Besty Blue - 14th April 1969
mine, 4dr saloon - 3rd Feb 1970
pat's, 2dr saloon - 9th Feb 1970
weimylady's millie - 22nd May 1970
regaliaqueen's 4dr saloon, Tabitha - 12th August 1970
blaketon's traveller - Spring of 1971~
regaliaqueen's 2dr saloon, Bertie - re-registered 8th May 1985

Are these completion of manufacture dates or dates first registered? I’m afraid my Traveller was built at Adderley Park and the Leyland records have been lost. It has a steering lock, so I know it’s one of the last from the Spring of 1971. It was registered in September 1971 (I have the bill of sale) to a lady who owned it for twenty years.

I know the MG Midget is 19 – 20th February 1979 and the BGT V8 was May 1974 (Both were registered in the August of each year).

Date of first registration, as thats the one everybody can access just by looking at the papers (:

The build date would be more accurate - this is available from the British Motor Heritage Trust through a build certificate.

Phyllis was born on the 27th February 1962.
According to the DVLA, she was first registered sometime in the 1980's. Clearly wrong, but I think she was laid up for a while and re-registered around then.

My Traveller was first registered on 22nd Feb 1968. When I'm in the garage working on it I listen to music made in 1968 to get myself in the right frame of mind for working on it. I even found a song which was released on that exact date! (Genesis - The Silent Sun)

Here are ours: (registration dates as I only have a heritage certificate for one of them)

Molly - 4-door - 22/03/1957
Sidney - 2-door - 14/06/1961
Emily - 2-door - 03/04/1963
George - Traveller - 28/04/1967

have added all to the top post <3

its nice to see the birthdays!

Millie was first registered on 22 May 1970 . . .so she's coming up for her 40th!! and its 3 weeks after my daughters (who owns millie) 18th )

-wei

Madeleine "Maddy" (4Dr) 12.10.56
Vikki (Traveller) 13.6.62
Green "Bug" (4Dr) 1.2.62
Bertie (2Dr) re-registered 8.5.85
Tabitha (4Dr) 12.8.70
Bella (Post-production Convertible) 1963 (can't remember)

Betsy Blue was first registered on 14 April 1969 - so her birthday is in a fortnight!

happy birthday for betsy in a fortnight! (:

How many of us are older or younger than our Minors ? Well when my Traveller was built in 1971, I was in my second year at infants school!!

Funnilly enough, at about the same time as it was registered, my father bought his first foreign car, a VW Type 3 Variant, which cost a couple of hundred more than my Traveller. If I'm honest, the VW probably was, OTBE, more durable than the Minor but I doubt it is still around. I don't know what its number was after it was sold (My father had his own number), so I can't check it. The spares back up for the Minor and the fact that the VW was a bit of a pig to work on will have swung the pendulum the Minor's way.

Blaketon wrote:How many of us are older or younger than our Minors ?

My daily minor (1963 2-door) is 28 years older than me . When I bought my 1961 minor I was 15, the car was exactly 3 times my age!

I'm younger than mine, but I'm tempted to get a 1955 model as it was a very good year

I'm most certainly younger (:

it my cars birthday 2 day, what a day as well, and im 26 years younger then mine

registered 01/04/1966

Yep i'm about 27 years younger than mine. And sorry back to the original point, she was registered on the 08/08/64

Blaketon wrote:How many of us are older or younger than our Minors ? Well when my Traveller was built in 1971, I was in my second year at infants school!!
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You're the same age as me then! I started infant school in 1969 when my Minor was about a year and a half old. But I was nearly 4 when it was built.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOTRODDER'S CAR! <3

limegreen wrote:HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOTRODDER'S CAR! <3

thanks gona start it 2moro after bein off the road for 2 months