Morris - A Minor Documentary 

My dad bought me a morris last year absolutely a blast to drive love all the people telling me the storys they have about the morris minor

My Dad gave me a new minor in 1959 as an incentive to get rid of my motorcycle when I was a university student. I took it from South Africa to the UK for five years, brought it back again and still use it regularly here. Over 200 000 miles, engine subassembly never been disassembled and because of the climate, almost no corrosion, I will never sell it.

Absolutely brilliant film! I'm just starting to learn about the impact this car had at the time. It's great to see such a devoted following, especially from younger drivers! I'm actually just about to post a short car story with a chap who has owned a Morris Minor Tourer since 1977. Fantastic cars!

Great little documentary, fun and inspiring, thanks for this!

Since my child hood..say..5..6 yrs old i dreamt to own one such car..but alas..it never hapoened...❤

My retired uncle in Africa gave me his Morris Minor that's currently sitting in his barn. The car has less rust than I expected, I'm the only one in the family who expressed interest in the car and since classic cars are not valued in Africa, they actually ridiculed me, my plan is to restore it over there and bring it back to Britain where it is appreciated, I'm currently saving money to cover import duties and other costs.

So great to see Steph from "I Drive a Classic" appear and to know she went on to do great things on RU-vid.

HI, my Dad had one of these in Liverpool in the 1960s! good stuff!

Beautiful documentary! Congratulations! ;)

Thanks for you information much appreciated !

had a smile on my face all the way through this program, think i'm going to buy one happy days.

Great to see this documentary. Especially as I now own 'Derek' (as mentioned in the film). Derek's future is assured and will be on the road for many years to come hopefully.

Great documentary! Thank you.

I love the Morris Minor got the chance to mine 1957 thinking about it look so easy to work on compared with modern cars

Great docko but needed to incorporate the distinctive Morris Minor exhaust fart.

Doesn't go fast, doesn't stop fast. I drove one for years to gigs in NZ - simple and reliable.

awesome lovely car

Wow the trolls on this page. Sure you could have a Ford Ka, but that just shows that you don't understand the appeal of classic cars. I have 2 classics (one being a 59 Minor) and 2 retro cars, and all of them have far more appeal than a Ka ever will.

Hoorah for Mike Barson.

Hire one in Devon here! www.selfdriveclassics.co.uk

Gorgeous car

As the 800th ‘liker’ I just had to say how well crafted this gem of a documentary is. A great reminder of a legendary car.

I bought a blue Moggie and upgraded it to 1000cc by fitting a "short motor" myself. All models of Morris Minor were quite popular in Australia, (delivery vans, utilities, 2 door and 4 door sedans) because of their suitability for long distance travel on country roads, and ease of driving in city traffic. Fond memories of owning one in the mid-1960's.

My 1st car was a 1952 Split screen moggie minor. paid 25 quid in 1969

I had to weld a chassis leg on one when I worked at a garage. It was extremely difficult to weld because it had been stove-enamelled from new and I do mean stove-enamelled not galvanised. I have never seen this on any other model of vehicle.

I got my first one from my mom at 16, in 1972. later in college, was buying them running for 100 dollars and learned how to work on cars. Owned 6 or 7 of them and now at 62, have a 1957 convertible sitting in the garage. Trying to get it finished for my wife that actually likes it! Just great cars that I have had off and on my entire life!

Between 1984 and 1994 , the Australian Broadcasting Corporation made forty two episodes of , ' Mother and Son ' . This sublimely brilliant comedy series , starred Ruth Cracknell , Gary McDonald and an original unrestored example of a Morris Minor . That vehicle being their sole means of transport . It was a full roofless convertible version .

I had just got married cos I had to..... Then I saw round the corner car showroom a new almond green minor 1000 with the 1100 engine and realised ,talking to the salesman,that this was the last of the line as they had stopped making them at BMC. £625 . I scraped around and could only find half of that and my Austin A40 would only fetch £55 with mot . Aaaaaaaaaah!

Morris Minor ,quite popular car back in the 60s in Malaysia. A reliable car and easy to maintain !

I got my first Morris when I was 82 yrs old. I have totally restored it. It wasn't in to bad of condition and I watched a lot of UTube vids, learned how to weld and do some body pannel work. Before I knew it a whole year had gone past and the Morris was back togethere and I was on the road and having the most wonderful time taking drives around town. I have upgraded the front brakes to disks because I found it too treacheres with the old drums. it has made stopping much better.

My first new car in 1963 and I would love a new one. So simple to service. There was loads of room under the bonnet; a small engine in the centre and everything accessible.

i am going to get one soon.

My grandad has got a moggie minor and we love it

Great video ! Amazing little cars we use our 1968 Minor as our every day car :) cheap reliable and easy to fix. He has an Instagram account arthur_the _morris_minor if you want to follow his adventures :)

20 minutes down memory lane, I'd forgotten about the glove box on the drivers side (for chocolate in mine). My first car back in 1969, cost £50 to buy and £50 to insure!

I drive an old Volvo and I would rather drive that than any modern car. When I am driving it, I often hear younger lads say, 'there's an old Volvo'. I love it when people stop to look at the car.

ਖੁਸ਼ ਕੀਤੇ ਬਹੁਤ ਵਧੀਆ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਬਣਾਈ ਹੈ ਕਾਰ ਵੀ ਬਹੁਤ ਵਧੀਆ ਹੈ

Hi need help about the car. My neighbor have this car but it get one problem about spark plug the 3rd cylinder one . Any help about it please ?

I would trade my 2010 Mini Cooper Convert. for a Morris Minor 1000 Convertible. I love those BMC cars,..almost ALL of them.

My dad had a '59 convertible when I was a kid, years later he was sorry he didn't keep it

I rather feel like mr bean watching this because i want a morris so much it's incredible

Had to look this up. Dad said a lot of criminals use to love car jacking these 😅

I had a box of tools in the back; I could repair everything single part of that car with just those hand tools.

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed watching and taking me down memory lane, beautiful cars I wish someone would start making them again.

In the late 60's to mid seventies had a variety of them, as did several mates. We called ourselves as being, in the "Grotty Morris Club". One I bought from a dealer in old GPO vans. It was a red type. Another one was a van, that someone had cut out and installed windows in the rear. I once tried to buy a traveller but someone stole the cash from my wallet while I was working. Mom and I had a convertible. The last one I owned was a 2 door saloon. Bought for a fiver and sold for 35 quid. Good luck to everyone still driving them .... best cars ever, except for the Honda CRV.

when i was younger in the early 1970's , i had 2 1959 morris minor 1000 s. 1 convetible & 1 2-door. loved them both. i see them on craigslist & i'm soooo tempted to get one. the price for a nice one is around $10,000.00. not bad for a classic in todays market. the citroen 2cv is another one not to turn your back on. i have a 1941 willys americar that is often mistaken for other makes. neat car, but it rides AWFUL!!. maybe i need a morris minor to keep it company.

I've still got my Morris Minor van it started life in 1962 as a pickup truck, 1969 I put a van back onto it, I still have it today and just put it on RU-vid I haven't used it since the mid 80's and will need a full restoration.

That brought back a lot of memories. A lovely little gem of film.

I owned a Morris Minor 1000 in 1959. I had purchased it used so only know it was a fifties model. Great little car.

Cheap but excellent, Indian-built 50s styled motorbikes with modern technology are selling like hot cakes. Why couldn't they reintroduce the Moggie on this basis?

So this should be called post war Morris minors. Morris Minors now can be updated with front disc brakes and galvanised floor pans.

I love these too in Sri Lanka(Ceylon)

It does look like something one would see Wallace and Gromit driving around in. But I usually see him in 50s Austins. ☺

I think the VW success in USA was to have parts, training for workers, etc, before the cars were delivered to the dealer...too many others wanted to just sell, make a quick profit and get out...Subaru with its odd cars at first has developed into a super auto well respected here.

I own one of these she is beautiful, simple, never dies....

The first time I saw a Minor was on an episode of "Lovejoy" starring Ian McShane. Loved them ever since!

" the smell you don't get anymore", so true.

A very long time ago, I learned to drive in one of these things. It wasn't particularly forgiving of mistskes, and had no synchromesh on 1st gear. It was a car of character, all the same.

I had a 1933 minor. All hydraulic brakes and an ohc engine. 1930s Austin 7s had cable brakes and Ford 8s had rod brakes.

They are bloody expensive to buy now.

EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY, WELL MADE WITH AN INSIGHT OF THE OWNERS

Only one problem with the Morrie the chute was knowing to go in them but apart from bloody that good car

People that restore old cars are crazy. I LOVE crazy people!

In 1979, I bought a 1971 Morris Minor Van, paid £35 for it but gearbox was duff, bought a second hand gearbox for £25, from a scrap yard, spent a weekend swapping the box and clutch, just a few mates lots of spanners and axle stands, new plugs, points, oil and air filter. The next weekend drove to Blackpool with the same mates had a great time. Owned to for 4 years apart from a little welding it passed every MOT. Always used to love the sound of first gear!!

I worked as a parts gopher when I was in high school and their gopher car was a Morris Minor pick up truck, what a little jewel.

I've got a 1962 minor

I just had to pause and look.... a 1957 pick up $ 65000 a van like yellow in documentary $ 13000 The cheapest sedan 1952 $ 5999 Seem to be 15 for sale. Buy I think I give a miss . Hate to think cost of getting work done in Australia at $ 150 to $ 200 per hour. Nice car I prefer over VW. My current car is a Mitsubishi Lancer 2005 with 107000 kilometres.

If you rub the bump above the speedo on a hill it will go faster.

what about a review on the Morris Major?

We owned a green Morris Minor van, a ‘woodie’ my Morris Minor fanatic husband tells me. We lived in Tarpeena, a small rural town in southern South Australia, and we owned the car in the 1970s I think. I can’t remember how long we had it for. When I first met the man who later became my husband, he owned a green Morris Minor which he spent hours tinkering on in his teenage years. He was also the founding member of the Morris Minor Car Club in Melbourne, Australia.

And please don't forget that inimitable vibration off the exhaust.

In the '70's wouldn't be seen dead in one... later converts car into hearse. LOL

One day I wish to own this car. It has always been my dream car, since I was 7. My dad had one. And I agree it has that smell you don't get in cars nowadays.

My second car was a 1958 Morris Minor convertible. My 3rd car was a Morris 1000 - maybe 1960ish.

You can stop nodding no I wouldn't be interested in you I don't see why I should not watch this as I like this car even if I can't afford to buy a Morris minor I like its style .

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Just dove in and we are Owners of a 59 2 door in California Sweet ride!

Great documentary! Just bought a 1953 morris minor this weekend and looking forward to restore it back to original. Can't stop smiling and looking at it!! Not many here in Perth Australia. And yes the smell of the car.. ha ha

My 1949 Morris Minor Lowlite: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nRsUk5toZM4.html, Allan, NZ

Issigonis was a british citizen but he had greek heritage

Always loved the morris minor van. And the ford anglia 105 e both great vehicles.

Lovely documentary!! Amazing!

Haha you all look like your cars 🚗 🤣 The Morris Minors Malcs in Perth WA ♥️ 😎

I have a 1958 Morris Oxford Series 3 ( Ambassador ) back in Goa.

J'adore cette voiture anglaise !

Certainly not a Minor achievement

I really want one but cheapest one here in Belgium is 4000-5000 euros.:(

3:09 The version seen here, the "Woodie" Station Wagon is like that driven by Derek Fowlds in his role as *Oscar Blaketon* in the TV series, *"Heartbeat"!*

en mi casa se usaron muchos de estos coche morris inglés pero con el guía correcto no al estilo inglés

Why not build a new one with safety features NB but same shape.

Hi, a great video and brilliant to see so many young people interested in Morris Minors. I bought a new one, aged 17, with my fathers help in 1968, two door, Maroon B, with a gold coachline, with red interior. An unusual colour at the time. We kept it until 1982, with 76000 miles on it. It is no longer on sorn on the DVLA website, so it may have gone to Morris Minor Heaven. I now have, in old age, a 1980 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II, with 20,000 miles, a 2001 Bentley Arnage Le Mans with 48,000 miles and a 2015 Mini countryman All4, in Jungle Green with 2000 miles, which isn't a long way from BMC Almond Green. Even so, the Minor has a very special place in my heart. Five of my teachers had them, too. Thanks again.

After watching this i thought,fuck it I’ll sell the Alfa and get a Minor.After a bit...nahhh be sensible,love the Morris though,pure personality.

The circle of my friends consists partly of mechanics...and even these guys who can fix their cars themselves are sick and tired about their modern cars which cost so much in spare parts...they go -sell their young cars and buy older cars from days when you didn't need to ask a computer why your car doesn't run...I for one drive a 29 year old golf mark 2 with about 400.000 miles on the dash-and no end in sight because the industry realised that there is money to be made in producing parts for old cars .I love the Minor and think I want to buy one as a second car....a traveller in green...

my dad has it 35 Morris it looks like a miniature 40 model Ford Sedan 100% still all original but it's been sitting for probably 25 years or better now. this one was made before the merger and became Morris Minor. anybody living in Dallas Georgia or in the area got a lot of money they could probably buy it

That was my first car. My father helped me purchase it.

Really enjoyed the video, I once seen one for sale in Franklin, WV many years ago owned by someone who was stationed at the Naval Base at Sugar Grove WV. Sure wish I would have bought it now. One thing I remember about the car is, you could Crank start it from the front of the car. Very interesting car...

I remember how popular these were in Canada when growing up in the 1960's (left hand drive versions, of course).

Great classic that's why they are still about. Thumbs up.

Now we have one, we understand! Nice doc Matt.

See the hole in the centre of the front bumper. Happy days swinging the starting handle if the battery was flat. These days you text the AA and sit on the motorway embankment! Then off to the garage to plug in the computer to find out what's wrong! 😂