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Blasphemy!
MSN has just run a feature "top 50 classic cars" and the Morris was not featured...
Is rust infectious? My hands are turning red...
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I find that a lot of lower-performance, everyday classics are left out of these sorts of lists, excepting the Beetle and the Mini. So many lovely, "common" cars that were around in the fifties, sixties and seventies are probably not emntioned.
Besides, who needs a list to know that our cars are great?:)
Besides, who needs a list to know that our cars are great?:)
Re-employed!:D
If it makes you feel any better, I'm driving the Minor in the second row just before being moved to the front row, when the car was voted as the most popular classic by readers of Practical Classics
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You're right that MSN is American, but this was the MSN UK site...
http://cars.uk.msn.com/news/car_news_ar ... id=6293635
There were some right surprises on that list!
And yes, you do generally get a "what's that?" when you go out driving in a moggy here (and huge smiles from all) but actually they're becoming better known with time... I know many people who have asked me to get them Morrises!
http://cars.uk.msn.com/news/car_news_ar ... id=6293635
There were some right surprises on that list!
And yes, you do generally get a "what's that?" when you go out driving in a moggy here (and huge smiles from all) but actually they're becoming better known with time... I know many people who have asked me to get them Morrises!
Is rust infectious? My hands are turning red...
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Do you mean the styling was from lots of other cars, or there were lots of other cars on the list?..
I did notice the similarities between the 4CV and the Moggy, but obviously the Moggy was the rightful occupant of that time period's spot on the list... There were American cars on there, but they were the ones which were imported to England. The 100E certainly, and I think the Bel Air too... Quite a few of the cars they showed didn't really seem "top" to me! They even admitted that a few of them were "unremarkable" or failures... Ah well. Anything to fill space, eh...
I did notice the similarities between the 4CV and the Moggy, but obviously the Moggy was the rightful occupant of that time period's spot on the list... There were American cars on there, but they were the ones which were imported to England. The 100E certainly, and I think the Bel Air too... Quite a few of the cars they showed didn't really seem "top" to me! They even admitted that a few of them were "unremarkable" or failures... Ah well. Anything to fill space, eh...
Is rust infectious? My hands are turning red...
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Well I read somewhere that Morris had a 4CV on the premises - and pretty much copied it! But yes - that generic shape was already being used in US of A on much larger cars of course.
In the list of cars - I have to take issue with the Humber Hawk showing at #3. While it was a revolutionary car in the UK (we had the older body style Hawk at the time - and I was wildly jealous of the family across the street who got the new one!) - again it was pretty much based on standard US styling of the era.
In the list of cars - I have to take issue with the Humber Hawk showing at #3. While it was a revolutionary car in the UK (we had the older body style Hawk at the time - and I was wildly jealous of the family across the street who got the new one!) - again it was pretty much based on standard US styling of the era.
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I was going to say...on much larger cars of course.
The Humber Hawk was one of the ones I disagreed with, too- it wasn't anywhere near one of the top classics. But then, there weren't many classic Brits in there- there was a notable absence of British cars later than about the forties- no later MGs, no TRs or AHs... [/quote]
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But the one on that list is the later model not the earlier one like this exampleWell I read somewhere that Morris had a 4CV on the premises - and pretty much copied it!
http://www.classic-wheels.co.uk/old_renault_4cv.htm
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Kevin
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from the well documented trip to USA that Issigonis made when contemplating a new small car for Morris Motors...where do you think Morris got the body shape from
I expect he took a camera with him, unless he had a photographic memory!
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Jan 06: The Minor SII Africa adventure: http://www.minor-detour.com
Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block