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Images => Life, the Universe & Everything Else => Topic started by: simato73 on December 16, 2017, 17:38:08
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Today at noon.
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Great find
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Great find
Every time I drive on that road I think I should stop for that car, today I did.
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I did all my driving training in one of those, but I failed the test!
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Nostalgia, nostalgia . . . .
My first car was a Morris Ten (1947 model I recall?) the precursor to the Morris Minor.
I took the Driving Test five times (I had pre-booked a string of tests 30 days apart in all adjacent districts!) before nailing it in Aldershot.
:)
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It looks like I struck a chord with these images... :)
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Nice shot, Simone.
Oldie, but different kind of shot due to the snow. Nice conditions.
First shot for me, but the details are also nice.
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I remember the car from Auto Shows in Los Angles at the least. I've probably seen them on the street but I don't think they were particularly common in California.
Nice photographs, almost monochrome. Thank You.
Dave
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Thank you both, Hans and Dave.
Agree the snow was a rare opportunity; I desaturated the images a bit.
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Well spotted. I like #4 - nice details. It appears to be in good condition, although it seems to have quite a list to starboard.
Abandoned?
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The images are very good. You should send to the Owner's Club UK. My wife still misses her Horrace the Morris.
It did not do well in the heat and high humidity of Goa.
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Thank you Mike and Tom.
The car is not abandoned, it is in the drive of a farm and once every few months it is parked in a slightly different spot, which means it has been driven.
Still a bit surprised that it is not kept in a more sheltered space.
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Nostalgia, nostalgia . . . .
My first car was a Morris Ten (1947 model I recall?) the precursor to the Morris Minor.
I had an old blue Morris 8 tourer (with the dicky seat), when I was at university. I think that I bought it for a bottle or two of rum. It was a perennial source of mirth, and the brakes were frightening. I didn't keep it for long - too scary.
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If I recall correctly, did the Morris Oxford not get a very long second life by being built in India under another name and it was built up until only a year or two ago?
Tom, can you help/correct me on this?
Nice work Simone - do you know if the car is a runner? My primary school teacher in NZ had one of these many years ago. I saw him a week ago - he is now 88 and I am 71 - how time flys. I guess that his Minor 1000 is now recycled into something else by now.
The images are very good. You should send to the Owner's Club UK. My wife still misses her Horrace the Morris.
It did not do well in the heat and high humidity of Goa.
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Hugh, you are absolutely correct. The Oxford was called Ambassador here and until just a few years ago all Government Employees (Executive Rank rating Government Vehicles) had them. They tried to modernize the Ambassador but just too many new modern cars on the market so it did not do well. I travelled in on a trip to Darjeeling from Chalsa in 1995 it was a much comfortable ride than the small modern cars available then.
Tom
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This car has a strong personality. Nice captures to show it.
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If I recall correctly, did the Morris Oxford not get a very long second life by being built in India under another name and it was built up until only a year or two ago?
Tom, can you help/correct me on this?
Nice work Simone - do you know if the car is a runner? My primary school teacher in NZ had one of these many years ago. I saw him a week ago - he is now 88 and I am 71 - how time flys. I guess that his Minor 1000 is now recycled into something else by now.
I think it does move occasionally, it is always parked in the same area but sometime not exactly the same spot, so it must have moved.
I don't know if it gets properly driven or if it is just moved so it does not sink in the mud.
I don't know the people from the farm and have never even seen them outside (the parking spot is just by the road, a country lane).
PS: Thanks Paco.
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Perhaps for those interested a little info on this car.
It's a 'split screen' 1953 Morris Minor. Originally it would have had an 800cc side valve engine (Aka Morris Eight), not the 1100cc overhead valve engine currently fitted. The headlamps would have been 5¾" fitted to the front panel, not the 7" which are fitted in the front wings. At some time it has had a much more modern front bodywork fitted, and no doubt the similar era twin leading shoe brakes. I have done these updates several times with these cars, it was a very popular way of bringing the surviving examples 'up to date' as it was back in those days. The mods probably knock £XXXX off the value but who cares, it's lovely and so are the photographs. I probably owned at least six including a soft top and a van, I worked on many more.
The car is licensed until June 2018 so apparently in current use. The licence by the way is free or should be because it's classed as historic. Here is a screenshot of the DVLA search on this car:
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Thanks Tom, Simone, & Seapy.
Simone's images have generated about a 1000 words already - certainly they have stirred up some plesant memories for many here. Thanks again.
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It's amazing how far a conversation go, which has been started by simple images.
I never imagined these images would spark such a long conversation and I am glad I shared them.