Morris Minor Owners Club

I drove this rather boring but reliable Nissan Sunny in the 80's, it got me to and from Germany regularly and only broke down once in the late nineties, It finally went to the great scrapheap in the sky in 2001 when some prat in a stolen car crashed into my rear end at a roundabout near Littlehampton Golf club. Thus ended a era that has introduced me to the Morris Minor[frame][/frame]

1977 - Land Rover
1978 - Morris Minor
1979 - Morris Minor
1980 - Morris Minor
1981 - Morris Minor
1982 - Morris Minor
1983 - Morris Minor
1984 - Morris Minor
1985 - Morris Minor
1986 - Morris Minor
1987 - Morris Minor
1988 - Morris Minor
etc up to 2010 - Morris Minor

In 1985, i was driving one of these:-



The Morris Minor is a far better car!

Raleigh Grifter

Series MM Morris Minor and I am still driving it.
Also a Rover SD1 V8. Petrol prices were not quite so astronomical and I was getting a reasonable mileage rate which the government was not thieving back in taxes

Viscount racing bike. Managed the bike thing and trains for college and work for another five years.Then decided to learn to drive when my brother offered me a VW Polo cos I was moaning about the trains so much.

Austin princess 2200 in that horrible puke yellow leyland loved to use, it was a good motor but pretty thirsty with that 2.2 straight 6 but it handled like a big mini and was much better at conering than a cortina I hired for the day, nearly lost it on the first roundabout as i was used to flying round em in the princess.

85-87 1303 beetles
88-93 nissan micra
93 cavalier
94 sunny
95-99 primera
2000 punto
2001-2003 xantia
2004-2010 corsa
current is minor

In 1985, I might just about have been able to point at a car and know that it was a car but I certainly wouldn't have been able to drive one.... (not even a pedal car....)

Renault 16 TL Great fun - comfy seats,column change and bags of smoke!

yamaha fs1e,fitted with a micron expansion pipe loads of noise and on a good day going down hill 60 mph .

Black 4dr A35, and shared the Ford Capri with Jon

Morris Minor was my first car and daily back then.

ford rs 2000 yamaha rd 400 and 67 traveller

my parents ford orion.. saving to buy my traveller in 86

I passed my driving test in July 1985 & bought a 1961 Yukon Grey Traveller.

Rog

'Fraid that was 6 years before i was born... though I think my parents had an Austin Maestro at the time.

A ten speed Raleigh racing bike, tasty! I think it was around then my Father got hold of an A-reg Sierra as our family motor....part-ex'd a W-reg Ital....(shudders at the memory of that piece of.....!!! )
Actually I remember he'd traded in a '70s Vauxhall Victor he'd had for yonks for the Ital and complained about it (the Ital) being an awful car from day 1.
I recently had a chance to drive an Ital my mate was restoring and I stopped and got out after ten minutes telling him it was bloody awful and I would prefer to walk!
Someone did tell me that the Marina/Ital is only good for parts to upgrade Minors. Sorry to offend any fans, but IMHO, he's right!

wasnt born till 87 =]

A 1976 B M W 320. 1967 Ford 3/4 ton pickup. 1970 M G midget.
Still have the Ford and M G . Oh forgot 1924 Ford T speedster
kenny.