Lovely!. As per previous comment my Mum also learnt to drive in our one!. Dear old dad ended up having to drill out the front ball joints and replace them!... Remember Mum nervously driving to the shops for the first time with me and my sister. Happy days!. Great vid.Nuff said. 🙂
My mum learned to drive in one of these. It had 2 steering wheels and 2 sets of pedals. I would sit in the back and watch in wonder. Had one of those Speedos that was a horizontal line moving left to right as you got faster which was different
The first car I ever drove after my Dad had bought one from the box in 1964 (in South Africa). I was only 10 at the time and to this day harbour great memories of our Morris 1100. Driving it at the time (we lived on a farm) was for me like driving a Rolls Royce. It was just perfect and I still think it was a particularly good looking car.
Incredibly rare now , a year after they were introduced in Fiesta Yellow , never a popular colour when new as on Minis but now makes it even more special and desirable !.
They suffered RUST as did Minis etc, always was something needing attn but ran well good on fuel, CVs and UJs needed to be looked after, comfy riding car, 20 years ago you could not GIVE away such a car, Now days DIFFERENT!!
Lovely colour. Some modern manufacturers should think about expanding their horizons and offering more alternatives to their current safe, staid, unimaginative palettes. Yes, I'm looking at you, Audi.
We had a 1966 Morris 1100 from 1974 and then a 1972 Morris 1300 from 1984 in my family when I was growing up. Both faithful little cars, the 1100 was stolen and recovered but written off, the 1300 failed its roadworthy in 1993 and was replaced by a 1990 Nissan Pulsar
My dad had a 1964 B reg model from new. He sold it when it was eight years old with the floor rotted out. I think the colour was racing green but it looked black. He might have had the hydrolastic suspension converted back to coil sprung as he had problems with it. I'm too young to remember and he isn't around anymore to verify what I'm saying.
Congrats from Spain for a flawless restoration. Is the dashboard an original one? I own a Morris 1100 from 1967, and my unit comes with a different dashboard, with no "clock" or needle for speed indications, and a scale in Km/h (normal for a non Brit country) with a moving bar instead. And a "Laviral Lic. Smiths" legend on the bottom and the words "temperature" and "Fuel" in Spanish. Perhaps for exportation it changed. Best regards and keep doing that exceptionally work.
I think the early/series 1 Morris 1100 had the dash inc speedo which this lovely little car possesses. Later models of Austin and also Morris 1100/1300 had the "strip speedo" as did the Morris and Austin 1800's. Austin and Morris 1300GT had a clock speedo with needle, as did the Wolseley 18/85.
i do prefer the mk1's with the proper tail fins. nice car overall but a shame it's had horrible "cover" sills fitted👎. the giveaway is the gap between the sill and wing being filled over and at the rear of the sill the sharp end rather than a curve plus no "pressings" in the underside of the sill. when i did my vp in the 90's these panels were available off the shelf for a tenner a side but instead i chased down original bmc panels from autojumbles (no ebay in those days 😞) and of course the factory panels only reach in length to halfway under the rear door, the rest being part of the rear wing, so needed those as well, more searching but got there in the end. about the boot seal, on mk1's the seal does in fact attach to the lid and is a flatter seal which is why mk1 lids tend to fit better. but overall a nice car that could be a real stunner with some time spent on it 👍
Not 110% perfect but be Fair it is in pretty good condition the paint is at least as good as new maybe better, i owned a slightly scruffy Morris 1100 years and years ago it was not a bad car, might have kept it IF in better condition.
Yes for sure, nice little car but rather concerned about the huge panel gap on the rear nearside door where it meets up with the rear quarter panel, I don't recall my 1972 Austin 1300 GT having such big gaps !
They used to rust quite badly regardless of miles ! to survive this long is remarkable for one of these, but the low miles does help as it means less salt being washed up underneath during the winter !
