Morris Minor Celebrating 50 Glorious Years

[@claimnumber515]

I lost my Virginity in a 1950 Series MM. I never looked back in 1967 at the age of 17. Fantastic video. Thank you.

[@vernonmatthews181]

Thank-you for putting this video together with much love and care, greetings from New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤ yes they were still assembled in NZ right up to 74.

[@deemdoubleu]

Thanks for posting this, really excellent documentary.

[@Wooburnmusic]

I owned a morris minor way back, winters never gave me starting problems, two or three crankings with that starting handle saw me on my way, I could decoke this engine and be on my in no time at all ! 😁👍 Yeh !

[@zw5509]

Used to salvage Morris Minors from the scrap yard in the '70s and get them back roadworthy. Great little engine! Fun to drive too! Always reminded me of the VW beetle in shape.

[@whutteretbrock2181]

My dad's friend had one in the early 1950s. I was amazed that Dad could identify him on the road at night because of the position of the headlights.

[@paulsutton5896]

Yes. Morris Minors were only available overseas. That is because Britain had to pay for the war-effort. Ironically, no such requirement hindered the postwar German motor industry.

[@patalexander1965]

Morris Minor, my favorite car! Trustworthy, economy and comfortable to drive!

[@peterww3241]

No doubt they were a great product for their time; but performance, ride, handling, comfort and safety were abysmal compared with the products of today.

[@howellstevens9622]

Absolutely fabulous film!

[@nygelmiller5293]

WHY did the government ban exporting FULLY built cars? Does anybody know?

[@rhobbis]

Exports weren't banned; when import restrictions were removed in the late 80's, used Japanese cars flooded the market and our car industry died. There were no fully built NZ cars left to export, apart from kit cars and specials. We didn't IMPORT many fully new cars in order to protect and provide car industry jobs; painting, upholstery, batteries etc, but that all died when the import restrictions were lifted.

[@haribabuvaishnav6727]

My first car was. Morris mynor tourer. Iam from chennai. India.

[@bobeden5027]

My first car was a 1952 split windscreen Moggie with those amazing trafficators!

[@craigpests_channel]

Im 14 and my first car is a 1959 Morris Minor 2dr saloon. Sadly it doesn't have trafficator arms :(

[@TheTruth-dy8ze]

You should be happy I had to smack the pillars to get them to deploy. My first car was a 1952 reg HHS 214, cost me 60 pounds. I broke a half shaft going up hill and was duly stranded not long after purchase. Gear box would sometimes not engage a gear on moving from being parked, so I’d undo the gear shift from the floor and put a screwdriver into it and wiggle it around and replace the gear shift and it would function. My first car was well worn before I bought it but still it was mine my first car so I had fond memories of it although truly it was a piece that should have been scrapped instead of being sold.

[@markdowling5962]

Beautiful cars, have 64 2 door, see in introduction green tourer XZC 429 Dublin reg was Noel Williams founder and president of Irish Morris minor owners club,!! In 1983 🇮🇪

[@chrisjohnson6876]

Great Video and thanks. My first car was a 1954 split screen 2 door (in 1976) in green In Perth (Aust)

[@StephenSteve32861]

mine was a black '57 in 1969. My grandmother bought one new in 1959 I always hoped I'd get the chance to own it. Then one day she turned up in a Japanese Mitsubishi Colt; I was just shattered. Always garaged and serviced, always BP fuel and never less than a half tank of fuel and never driven until the engine had warmed up. God it was an immaculate car. Mine was definitely not, my Grandmothers. LOL Mine met its end when I rolled it 1970 must have been doing 30 mph. My girlfriend landed on me then we both climbed out the the passenger door and we stood there and laughed like drains. And from there the story is lost in memory.

[@StephenSteve32861]

my first car too.

[@martinsmith8417]

Im loving the insane eyebrows on the opening speaker!

[@rhobbis]

That'll be Jack Daniels, one of the 'fathers' of the Minor :D

[@johnhetherington8830]

Good video sports day like a school real family feel thanks

[@peterryan7827]

Just found this video ,and loved it ,yes i am a fan of the morris 1000 ,i drove 3 for my work over the years from south london with a plumbing company two of which were btand new vans and the third was a traveller nearly new,when i left to started on my own i bought another van,My interest has been resurected recently because i have seen a gleaming yellow traveller hear in newark being carefully tucked away by its owner in his garage.

[@keithbranks8816]

I can only agree with everyone's comments great little car's to drive and work on I think one of the most interesting Jobs to do was to change the brake master cylinder

[@vijayakrishnannair]

Nice 👍

[@dukenukem5768]

BTW, there is some sort of glitch in the playback from around @56:00. I've tried it several times and it is not my connection.

[@mikewa2]

Passed my driving test in a minor 1000. My grandad bought a low light convertible in 1953 ( reg PPA 616) it was so underpowered that the passengers had to get out and walk up steep hills otherwise it wouldn't make it. It was scrapped in 1975 due to the extensive rust and just about everything had worn out despite a sheltered life and regular servicing.

[@jackpontiac52]

@35:30 I actually remember seeing one of these Lilac coloured Minors in Edmonton Alberta 50+ years ago !

[@dukenukem5768]

I'd be car-sick in that; but it is still not as camp as a Nash/Austin Metropolitan.

[@billmurphy821]

Victoria BC had a lilac coloured Morris 1,000,000 too.

[@964cuplove]

Hope you included minor threat by retropower…

[@rhobbis]

You mean the modified Minor that was built 25 years after this video? Yeah, I did ... ;)

[@eddiephillips6740]

That guy should keep his eyes on the road

[@beginization]

There is a 48 low light for sale at moment for only $6500 au the owner has just finished restoring, I was just in deal buying a 57 but if i knew about the low light I would have bought it as it has new paint

[@thesawdustmaker.david.1182]

Audio quality is awful, a shame otherwise would have been an interesting film/documentary.

[@rhobbis]

Really, what did you expect from a 20 year old VHS tape that's been in storage for 15 years?! So sorry to have disappointed you! :D

[@juliethurgood3667]

Sounded fine to my ears.

[@askhatshukla5416]

I have also one 1953 model Morris minors , start conditions in India if anyone want to know information. About my car connect me ....my fb page my car pic their uploaded...🙏🙏🙏

[@Cheeseatingjunglista]

Mental , luv it

[@SilentDMotorShow]

Here’s an electric reincarnation of the Minor: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imKtln5sqKqbqZo

[@davidshirley7712]

Holland is not a country it's a region of the netherlands

[@ApothecaryGrant]

Jack Daniels , you say ?

must have been a great place to work and all-white faces

[@bruceburns1672]

It is a shame that the British had no understanding of Quality control and gradual improvement , because these cars were just unreliable rust buckets like all British cars , yet they were capable of amazing things if they were interested in putting in some effort which was very rare , they haven't changed and are still the same today , still in chaos , still as lost and as stupid as they were when all their car industry was wiped off the face of the earth back in the 1970's along with every other industry like motorbikes .

[@rhobbis]

You sound bitter

[@williamross2579]

Strange, fifty years after it’s first ownership, My Morris 1000 is still a reliable daily driver taking me nationwide and onward to the continent. Given that over 120k of this car are still running across the globe, I find your opinion weightless.

[@bruceburns1672]

William Ross I understand your loyalty if you are a Pom and I still love jags and Range Rovers , but I owned two Morris Minors when British cars were sold in Australia , sorry mate junk , after them I bought Volkswagens , the difference was like , NIGHT AND DAY , the proof is in the pudding and the market sorts out the men from the boys , Britain has virtually no car industry left , even Morgan is now Italian owned , no one in their right mind would invest in manufacturing in Britain after what the Communist Unions done to a once massive manufacturing sector , unfortunately we in Australia have been hit with the Pommy work ethic stick and all our manufacturing has been wiped out as well , I understand why , because just like Britain no one gives a rats arse from the top to the bottom about anything .

[@Minpeace]

@@bruceburns1672 it was the management that was their downfall. Me thinks of Vincent Brittain and his part. Strangely enough one person deeply involved with Morris in the 30s and 40s built electric vans which was used in the laundry trade in Ireland. Like many companies if bad management takes control and they have little care then we often see said companies fail.

[@nygelmiller5293]

To Bruce Burns. I think some people see what they WANT to see. In the past, it was true about bad industrial relations between both bad unions and bad management. There was no pride in a famous product being made - (unlike in the nineties when I went round the then combined Rolls-Royce and Bentley factory.) Everyone was proud to make such famous products! But in factories making "lesser" products, workers didn't get the point that it is an achievement to work gor ANYONE famous, and were not grateful for their jobs. They just expected there to be jobs available for them simply because that had been the case up to then. Now people would be grateful if there WERE jobs for everyone! But they didn't appreciate it when there WERE! And the mean ness of manufacturers to not develop NEW ranges, meant there would not have been the PRESENT Mini, or MG ranges, if foreigners had not bought the firms up, and carried them on! So, on that basis , you CAN'T say the British car industry is something no-one would touch with a barge-pole - because they DID, to the extent of buying the firms! And those firms are THRIVING!

[@cyrusirani5193]

Had to sell mine due to my wife’s constant nagging.

[@dukenukem5768]

Horrible things. Ugly bulbous 1940's styling, and the front suspension used to fail catastrophically (bottom swivel joint failure). Around London in the late 70's I used to see a Minor spreadeagled in the road about once every two weeks, good job they were not used at speed on motorways very much.

[@DanafoxyVixen]

I guess you must be a bit of a masochist, you seem to watch videos of cars you intensely dislike. this isn't the first video of old British cars where ive seen where you've felt the need to comment negatively on

[@dukenukem5768]

@@DanafoxyVixen : I try to keep my comments factual. I have not merely watched videos on Minors, I have worked on many of them in a dealer's workshop, and driven them, so I'm writing from experience. The fact is that they are vastly over-rated by a cult following. I like to see enthusiasm, but also believe that facts should be pointed out. There were better cars in that category of that era.

[@patalexander1965]

Never thought of them underpowered! Driven over 200,000 miles in one. Had three and have one still! Great gas mileage and very little up keep.

[@Wooburnmusic]

King pins had a habit of dropping out.

[@TheTruth-dy8ze]

I know what you mean, my first car was a minor van conversion, it did a single wheel spread out while giving a ride home to my new girl friend, most embarrassing, I told her someone had tried to steal my wheel. Jacked the car up and rope tied it to the upper suspension to get home, very nerve racking. Mine was a 1952 with split windshield that would drive the rain to the windshield corners and drip on my legs through the rubber. The traffic actors were such a joke you had to smack them to deploy. The engine was so worn out the starter could not drive it fast enough to get it to start but I could hand crank it faster so it would eventually start. Piece of crap van worn out before I owned it but I learned a lot about how to repair this car and learned what to look out for in future car purchases.