28-04-2017, 11:58 PM
God I´d post pictures if I had them online but I don´t right now - a light grey, 4-door 1970 Morris 1300 (Yeah go on laugh!!!)
Bought for IR100 in 1996 as a basket case and intended engine+manual gearbox donor for a misbehaving 1969 dark blue Austin 1300 auto.
Morris was put back on the road for IR300, driven 36,000 miles with normal servicing and no major repair - save for an exhaust - until the MOT was (finally) introduced in Ireland in 1999.
by then and at 101k miles, the A-series engine was too smokey to pass and wasn´t converted to unleaded. The electrics were off-the-wall perished and causing a serious drain on the battery. The bodywork was solid (if roughly finished) - there was evidence of Waxoyl when new.
Given away to a suspected stock car racer as a matter of urgency during a house move to a flat with parking for only one car. What a pain I have in my heart typing this....
I´ve since searched for it but it´s gone.
The 1300 for which the grey morris was supposed to be a donor can be seen in the 'stop right now' video for the Spice Girls. I preferred the donor Morris as it was aesthetically awful but running so well. I sold the other one unmodified to a collector in Dublin who trailered it to the video shoot. He told me that in a year since he had the car, it had never been started!
I have never since travelled so far for so little and had so much fun while doing it!
Bought for IR100 in 1996 as a basket case and intended engine+manual gearbox donor for a misbehaving 1969 dark blue Austin 1300 auto.
Morris was put back on the road for IR300, driven 36,000 miles with normal servicing and no major repair - save for an exhaust - until the MOT was (finally) introduced in Ireland in 1999.
by then and at 101k miles, the A-series engine was too smokey to pass and wasn´t converted to unleaded. The electrics were off-the-wall perished and causing a serious drain on the battery. The bodywork was solid (if roughly finished) - there was evidence of Waxoyl when new.
Given away to a suspected stock car racer as a matter of urgency during a house move to a flat with parking for only one car. What a pain I have in my heart typing this....
I´ve since searched for it but it´s gone.
The 1300 for which the grey morris was supposed to be a donor can be seen in the 'stop right now' video for the Spice Girls. I preferred the donor Morris as it was aesthetically awful but running so well. I sold the other one unmodified to a collector in Dublin who trailered it to the video shoot. He told me that in a year since he had the car, it had never been started!
I have never since travelled so far for so little and had so much fun while doing it!