Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi, I bought a nice red Minor imported from Denmark. Also the interieur is red.
After the paperwork the car was first registered 20.03.1962.
It is a Minor 1000 with a 1100cc engine installed.
Car ident number is: M/A 2S3 DL 941819
One of the reason why I bought this car is the nice red body color combined with red interieur. I haven't seen such a red Minor till now.
To me it looks not that the body color was repainted in the past, so I assume it is the original body color.

Could somebody tell me if there was a factory produced red body color for my type Minor?
For the restoration I would be interested to know what kind of red it is.


Cheers Ralf

Royal Mail vans were in similar colour (Post Office Red) but I dont think it would be a standard colour for any saloons

Taupe

Search for heritage certificate Grayson. If you supply the car number and purchase the certificate, then it will give you production data including the original colour.

Hi Ralf

I had a red Morris Minor which I bought in 1993 and sold in 1998.
It was my first car and could be the one you have now.
Mine was from 1962 and has a funny history.
I was a apprentice when I bought it and where I worked used to be a Morris workshop and my car was originally bought from this shop.
My Foreman in the shop remembered both the car and the customer - it had all originally papers and at the time in 1962, it was displayed in their very small salesroom.
My car was white from new.
I dismantled the while engine and gearbox and repaired them and went to see my pennfriend in Holland and Belgium in that car in 1994.
Brilliant trip - I still miss that car and if its the same I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
Best regards
Morten - Denmark

Heres a couple of pics of my red car in 1994 from the trip to Holland and Belgium.

I’ve checked out a comprehensive list of saloon body colours of all models of the Minor, none of which show one finished in red.
Sometimes there is a giveaway sign in a well hidden area of the interior, where you could find traces of the original colour. Maybe under the dash.

A red like that was never offered as a standard colour on the Minor 1000 cars - although several I know of have been changed to red later on