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A very very rare Minor And as rare as they these cars are in the U. Being factory fitted with twin side windows on each side of the rear bodywork. Some notes on this subject And what I learned was this special body was built when these cars were assembled in New Zealand. Which is from where the last owner told us he imported this Panel van. All of which ties in with the New Zealand inspection and club stickers on the windows. As for the car itself Wiring harness is either fairly new or excellent original, heater works as do all of the other The Morris Minor, even has a tow bar and trailer wiring plug. Runs well, no smoke, performance seems equal to my own cc Morris Minor Traveler, and we just repainted the car in beautiful BMC Damask a deep reddish wine color. Ideal for a small business And a dandy car for local deliveries. It runs very well, drives wonderfully, and unlike the other Need help with finance, The Morris Minor or shipping? Let our Resource Guide help you find those important things you need to buy the car of your dreams. Browse Category. Send to a Friend. Contact Seller. Sign me up The Morris Minor the Newsletter. By contacting this seller you accept ClassicCars. Show The Morris Minor. View Our Listings. Visit Our Website. Sign up for The Morris Minor daily newsletter Click Here. Get our app. Help Center. About ClassicCars. Contact Us. Our Sponsors. Business Advertisers. The Journal. Privacy Policy. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This prestigious accolade represents the continued growth of the company, and ClassicCars. The Stevie Awards, the world's premier business awards recognized ClassicCars. In The Journal, brought to you by ClassicCars. Pick of the Day: Morris Minor panel van, but with windows

Initially available The Morris Minor a two-door saloon and tourer convertiblethe range was expanded to include a four-door saloon ina wood- framed The Morris Minor car the Traveller from October and panel van and pick-up truck variants from May [5] It was the first British car to sell over a million units [6] and is considered a classic The Morris Minor of automotive design, [7] as well as typifying "Englishness". The Minor was conceived in Although the Nuffield Organization was heavily involved in war work and a governmental ban existed on civilian car production, Morris Motors' vice chairman, Miles Thomaswanted to prepare the ground for new products to be launched as soon as The Morris Minor war was over. This was the first Morris to use unitary construction and was conceived with independent front suspension. Issigonis designed a coil-sprung wishbone system, which was later dropped on cost grounds. Although the design was later used on the MG Y- type and many other postwar MGsthe Morris Ten entered production with a front beam axle. Despite his brief being to focus on the Ten's suspension, Issigonis had also drawn The Morris Minor a rack and pinion steering system for the car. Like his suspension design, this was not adopted, but resurfaced in the postwar years on the MG Y-type, but these ideas The Morris Minor that he was the perfect candidate to lead the design work on a new advanced small car. With The Morris Minor all resources required for the war effort, Thomas nonetheless approved the development of a new The Morris Minor family car that would replace the Morris Eight. Although Oak and Morris's technical The Morris Minor, Sidney Smith were in overall charge of the project, Issigonis was ultimately responsible for the design, working with The Morris Minor two other draughtsmen. Issigonis' overall concept was to produce a practical, economical, and affordable car for the general public that would equal, if not surpass, the convenience and design quality of a more expensive car. In later years he summed up his approach to the Minor; that he wanted to design an economy car that "the average man would take pleasure in owning, rather than feeling of it as something he'd been sentenced to" and "people who drive small cars are the same size as those who drive large cars and they should not be expected to put up with claustrophobic interiors. Just as he would with the Mini 10 years later, he designed the Mosquito with excellent roadholding and accurate, quick steering, not with The Morris Minor pretence of making a sports carbut to make it safe and easy to drive by everyone. Issigonis' design included the same ideas he had proposed for the Ten before the war: [12] : independent suspensionThe Morris Minor and pinion steeringand unitary construction. The French car, launched inhad also been an early example of the use of rack and pinion steering. Nearly every feature of the Minor served the joint aims of good handling and maximum interior space. For the same reasons, the wheels themselves were placed as far as possible towards each corner of the Mosquito's floorpan. The same went for the placement of the engine, as far as possible towards the front of the engine compartment. While this meant that, with only a driver on board, the weight distribution was fairly even, when laden with passengers, cars often became severely tail-heavy, leading to unstable handling The Morris Minor oversteer. The new Morris's independent suspension meant there was no front axle, allowing the engine to be placed low down and far forward. Putting the Mosquito's engine in the nose meant that the car was nose-heavy when lightly laden, leading to superior directional stability, and when fully laden it achieved nearly equal The Morris Minor balance, so handling and grip remained good regardless of the load carried. As proposed by Issigonis, the engine itself was also radical, being a water-cooled flat-four unit. One of Miles Thomas's few restrictions on the Mosquito project was that it had to have an engine that would not fall afoul of the British horsepower taxwhich taxed cars under a formula relating to their engine cylinder bore. At the same time, Thomas wanted the car to appeal to the all-important export markets, which had no such restrictions, and generally favoured larger-engined cars. Issigonis' solution was the flat-four engine, which could easily be produced in two versions — a narrow-bore cc version for the British market and a wide-bore cc version for export. The flat-four layout reduced the overall length of the The Morris Minor, further increasing potential cabin space, and reduced the car's centre of gravity for improved handling. The engine was to The Morris Minor a step too far for the Mosquito project. As the car approached completion inthe war was over and secrecy was no longer necessary or possible to maintain, as more and more Morris The Morris Minor and executives had to be involved to start production. Many were pessimistic about the radical car's prospects and especially the huge cost in tooling up for a design that shared no parts with The Morris Minor existing Morris product. Lord Nuffield himself took a strong dislike to both the Mosquito and Issigonis, famously saying that the prototype resembled a poached egg. He particularly objected to the Mosquito's expensive and unconventional engine design. Whatever Nuffield's personal views, all of the Mosquito's radical features were looking increasingly unlikely to be implemented while maintaining an acceptable final purchase price and without incurring too much setup costs at the Cowley factory. Thomas and Vic Oak drew up a plan to create a three-model range of cars using Issigonis' design - the Mosquito with an cc engine, a mid-sized model tentatively designated the Minor after a previous small Morris launched in with an cc engine, and a new Morris Oxford with a cc version of the engine, all sharing different-sized variants of the same platform and with sporting MG and luxury Wolseley versions to achieve further economies of scale. There was also the matter of timing — a big rush existed for British manufacturers to get new models to market following the end of the war. Austin was known to The Morris Minor working on an all-new but conventional carwhich would be launched in The Mosquito was proposed for launch in and that deadline was appearing increasingly unlikely due to the untried nature of many of the car's features. This meant that several of Issigonis' proposals were reviewed — first the all-independent torsion bar suspension was changed for a torsion-sprung The Morris Minor rear axle and this was then substituted by a conventional leaf-sprung arrangement. All of Miles Thomas' suggestions for spreading the cost of developing the new car and The Morris Minor the design's appeal were treated sceptically by the Morris board and vetoed by Lord Nuffield. It became clear that the only way to overcome the personal and financial obstacles to the project was to adopt a lightly revised version of the Morris Eight's obsolete side-valve engine. While Thomas had been battling for the Mosquito's future, Issigonis had been settling the car's styling. Although in his later career he became known for very functional designs, Issigonis was heavily influenced by the modern styling of American cars, especially the Packard Clipper and the Buick Super. The original Mosquito prototype, which drew Lord Nuffield's "poached egg" comment, was designed with similar proportions to prewar cars, being relatively narrow for its length. In late The Morris Minor, with Cowley already tooling up for production, Issigonis was unhappy with the appearance of the car. He had the prototype cut lengthways and the two halves moved apart until it looked "right". It also gave the car distinctive and recognisably modern proportions — contrast The Morris Minor the Austin A30launched inbut still recognisably prewar in size and proportions. The Morris Minor last-minute change to the The Morris Minor required a number of workarounds — bumpers had already been produced, so early cars had ones cut in half with a four-inch plate bolted between the joint. The last change made was to the car's name. The Mosquito codename was widely expected to be the name of the production model, but Nuffield disliked it. Also, Issigonis' last-minute size increase and the fitment of the larger-than-planned sidevalve engine needed to be considered; while still a small car, the new Morris was no longer the ultra- compact economy car that it had been on the drawing board, and the Mosquito name seemed inappropriate. Morris's marketing department wanted a reassuring name for what it worried would be an innovative, radical car that would be difficult to sell to a cautious public. At the same show, Morris also launched the new Morris Oxford and Morris Six models, plus Wolseley variants of both cars, which were scaled- up versions of the new Minor, incorporating all the same features and designed with Issigonis' input under Oak's supervision. Thus, Issigonis' ideas and design principles underpinned the complete postwar Morris The Morris Minor Wolseley car ranges, although not the same extent that Miles Thomas had initially proposed. The original Minor MM series was produced from until It included a pair of four-seat saloonstwo-door and from a four-door, and a convertible four-seat Tourer. The front torsion bar suspension was shared with the larger Morris Oxford MOas was the almost- unibody construction. Brakes were four-wheel drums. Early cars had a painted section in the centre of the bumpers to cover the widening of the production car from the prototypes. The Morris Minor to the United States began in with the headlamps removed from within the grille surround to be mounted higher on the wings to meet local safety requirements. In a four-door version was released, initially available only for export, and featuring from the start the headlamps faired into the wings rather than set lower down on either side of the grille. Another innovation towards the end of was a water pump replacing a gravity dependent The Morris Minorwhich permitted the manufacturer to offer an interior heater "as optional equipment". Inthe Minor was substantially re-engineered following the merger of the Nuffield Organisation The Morris Minor parent company with the Austin Motor Company to form the British Motor Corporation. As part of a rationalisation programme The Morris Minor reduce the production of duplicate components for similar vehicles, the Minor drivetrain was completely replaced with an Austin-derived engine, gearbox, propshaft, differential and axle casing. Fuel consumption also rose to 36 miles per imperial gallon 7. An estate version was introduced inknown as the Traveller a Morris naming tradition for estates, also seen on the Mini. The Traveller featured an external structural ash wood frame for the rear bodywork, with two side-hinged rear doors. The frame was varnished rather The Morris Minor painted and a highly visible feature of the body style. Travellers were built alongside the saloon model at Cowley minus their rear bodies. The half-completed cars were then shipped to the MG factory at Abingdon where the bodies built in Coventry would be mated to the chassis and the final assembly carried out. This was because the main Cowley production lines were no longer fully equipped to deal with body-on-frame vehicles such as the Traveller while the MG lines still handled these sorts of cars and had experience working with wood-framed bodies. The four-seat convertible and saloon variants continued as well. The Motor magazine tested a four-door saloon in A fuel consumption of A horizontal slat grille was fitted from October[20] as well as a new dashboard with a central speedometer. Inthe Minor received a major programme of updates intended to keep the car competitive into the s. Where previously the Minor had been offered with a broad range of colours and trim options, the 'Minor ' so named for its cc engine shifted emphasis towards rationalisation of components to access improved economies of scale, and thus enabled increased production volumes to help the Minor retain a significant share of the small car market during a period where car ownership was becoming more commonplace. The dawn of the motorway era necessitated the fitting of a new cc Many of the 'luxury' items, such as leather trim, were replaced with more durable and cheaper materials, and over the course of the following years The Morris Minor range of available paint and interior colours was dramatically reduced. Various unique Minor trim items and components such as light units and heaters were also gradually replaced with ubiquitous items from the BMC range. This programme of changes succeeded in giving access to improved economies of scale to allow production to be ramped up. By the turn of the s, overMinors were being produced per year, compared to fewer than 50, per year a decade earlier. In the semaphore -style trafficators were replaced by flashing direction indicators. These were US-style red at the rear using the same bulb filament as the brake lamp and white at the front using a second brighter filament in the parking lamp bulb which The Morris Minor legal in the UK and many export markets at the time such as New Zealand. In December the Morris Minor became the first British car to sell more than 1, units. The Morris Minor commemorate the achievement, a limited edition of two-door Minor saloons one for each UK Morris dealership was produced with distinctive lilac paintwork and a white interior. Also the badge name on the side of the bonnet was modified to read "Minor 1," instead of the standard "Minor ". The millionth Minor was donated to the National Union of Journalistswhich planned to use it as a prize in a competition The Morris Minor aid of the union's Widow and The Morris Minor Fund. The company, at the same time, presented a celebratory Minor to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Childrenbut this car The Morris Minor constructed of cake. The final major upgrades to the Minor were made in Although the name Minor was retained, the changes were sufficient for the new model to be given its own ADO development number. The revised engine was teamed to a stronger gearbox fitted with baulk ring synchromesh replacing the previous cone-clutch type. Other changes included a modified dashboard with toggle switches, white-on-black The Morris Minor unit incorporating a warning light for a blocked oil filtertextured alloy fascia, and a new glove-box cover design a fully enclosing The Morris Minor cover on the passenger side, and fixed open aperture surround on the driver's side. A two-spoke 'safety' steering wheel shared with the Morris and new heater now with fresh air ventilation were fitted incompleting the interior upgrade. Both incorporated separate amber flashers for directional indicators. Fromno further production improvements were made to the Minor, [25] with resource being channelled into improving the ADO16 the Minor's spiritual successor and Britain's best-selling car in the sand development of the Morris Marinawhich would succeed the Minor on the Cowley production lines in Inproduction of the Traveller variants was moved to the ex- Wolseley plant at Adderley Parkwhere the van and pick-up models were already made. This freed up production space at Cowley and simplified the production chain as the Traveller's rear bodies were built at the Morris Bodies factory in Coventry. Adderley Park-built Travellers The Morris Minor offered in a new range of colours from the paint range that had been introduced forincluding vibrant shades such as Limeflower lime green and Aqua turquoise. From Minors were fitted with a steering-column mounted The Morris Minor key and a steering lock rather than the facia-mounted ignition switch used up to that point. Morris Minor - Wikipedia

The Morris Minor readers and Hagerty Drivers Club members share their cherished collector and enthusiast vehicles with us via our contact email, tips hagerty. To have your car featured, send complete photography and your story of ownership to the above email address. From —71, new Minor s roamed the streets of Britain in droves; The Morris Minor would eventually produce more than 1. The only major mechanical change to this diminutive top-seller was an engine upgrade from the hp, cc motor to a hp, cc variation in This particular Minor belongs to Christopher Lane, who uses it as his daily driver for local trips around his hometown of Seattle. Finally, he swapped the rear lever arm suspension for telescopic shocks—a big improvement, he writes. Before Lane optimized the car, however, he had to do a heart transplant. When he bought the Minor, its over-bored engine burned oil and smoked badly. After a repaint and a suspension overhaul, the Morris was in much better shape. The Morris Minor, Lane had to wrestle with undercarriage corrosion—deterioration was most severe just under the floor by the brake pedal. His efforts paid off; these days, the car The Morris Minor well and gets him everywhere he wants to go. Grace Houghton 1 day ago. Lawyers can't find parents of migrant children. Restaurateur uses pandemic downtime to fly at-risk dogs and cats to safety. Rides from the Readers: Morris Minor Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Found The Morris Minor story interesting? Like us on Facebook to see similar stories. I'm already a fan, don't show this again. Send MSN Feedback. How can we improve? Please give an overall site rating:. Privacy Statement.