A truly great classic car! The Morris Minor Traveller (1098cc)
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- This time, I put a 1098cc Morris Minor Traveller through its paces, a car we helped restore! (well, I held some things occasionally...). With its timber-frame and ridiculous trumpet exhaust, the Morris Minor simply oozes character and fun. What's it like to drive? Contains proper on-board sounds.
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I learned to drive age 10 by sitting next to my dad and driving around a campsite.
Imagine that nowdays.Very distinctive gear sounds and a long gearstick.I never hit anything 😊
Dad had minors from 1956. The first was a van with small rear windows. Then a brand new Austin 7 van the week they were launched in Willow Green. But back to a Minor traveller in 62 Clarendon Grey a new van in 67 Rose Taupe and in 1970 he bought a 1960 two door with 25 thousand miles on the clock. In Smoke Grey. They are just fantastic little cars. Reliable easy to drive and repair except for that by-pass hose. Split my eyebrow open on the dash when leaning on the back of the folding passenger seat and dad an emergency stop. Still have the scar 65years later.
I had a Traveller in 1972 when I was stationed in Germany. Money was tight and I was unable to buy a new exhaust so a friend manufactured a new one from old piping(armour plated of course) thrown away from a Chieftain Tank! I went all over Europe in it and yes I did sleep in the back. It was a wonderful car and only replaced when it needed major work. Guess what it was replaced with, a Morris 1100 (the same engine!) Happy times...
Takes me back to the 1960s, when these cars were ubiquitous. Dads driving in their tweed jackets and caps, puffing on pipes. Mums in their polka-dot dresses with the dog in the footwell, kids on the back seat. In the rear, a picnic basket with a tartan patterned thermos, a Halfords set of fold up travelling chairs and table. A sunny day out, heading down the A22, maybe even getting as far as the coast!
Crikey, the excitement!
To @degree. The Morris Minor were both cars that, if you didn't own one, you knew someone who DID!
I always loved the smell of the Morris Minor interior.
It seems many people have fond memories of Morris Minors.
My father had 3 Morris Minors and I inherited his last one, a 'J' reg 2 door 1100 in Almond Green. It had a tow bar (Doubling as a early form of parking sensor!) for our Sprite caravan. It only failed to pull the 'van up a rather steep hill in Devon once, and for most of that summer holiday my father had the heater on to help with the cooling!
The seat back of the saloon also folded down like the estate. My sis. and I slept on the back seat with our feet in the boot on long journeys. (Ah! Good times) I took my girlfriend, all her worldly goods and her bicycle up to Birmingham Uni in our MM. (Not such good times!)
I'm a Yank was in USAF there at Lakenheath, back in 77-80.
I had a powder blue MORRIS MINOR Estate 1963 I think
Absolutely loved that car. So much fun to drive.
If I could, I'd have one EVEN NOW.
The smiles per mile quotient is at it's highest with the Morris Minor
Great to see one again, when I was about 18 these were two a penny. The vans very cheap never above £25 with some mot. My dad bought me one for around the garden when I was 12 he paid £4 for it from garage across the road. Petrol was five Bob a gallon.
When I was a young Police Constable in 1972 we had some of the last of these Morris Travellers as panda cars, so named as they were pale blue (which I think was actually called smoke grey) with white doors and a white roof between the doors. On top was a police sign and on top of that was a blue light. Hardly good for high speed chases, they were nevertheless totally reliable, the only problem being that huge bulky coppers driving them used to collapse the seat somewhat so that those of a more normal size tended to sit very low down. The tiny pedals came up out of the floor, and were so close together that our big boots could almost press them all at the same time with one foot! Because of the extra lights, radios etc, ours were fitted with alternators in place of the standard dynamos. Three or four years ago I actually saw one of our actual cars on e-bay for sale, I recognised the number WRY 687J, which was one of a series with consecutive registration numbers. They were great little cars in their day and never let us down or failed to start. You could always tell an ex-Police one as they came with a zip in the headlining to access the underneath of the Police sign. Happy memories!
Yes we had them in Bristol Constabulary as well. The ignitions were always so worn a favourite jape was to find your mate’s parked and move it round the corner so he’d think it was stolen. The other trick was to switch off the ignition as you drove it along, then quickly turn it back on again, causing a massive backfire, especially amusing in tunnels. Not all boring to be a Bobby!
@hubnut @nigelbarratt6825 @classicray999999 I’m not and wasn’t a police officer but my first car in the late 1980s was a T reg Austin Allegro with transfer stripes on the sides, so it may have been a ‘special edition’ (to get it sold in in the showrooms)… however, it was duck egg blue (smoke grey?) and had two large zips in the interior roof liner… could it have been a redressed former panda car? I’m guessing as it was a basic 1100 that it had an A series engine. The reg letters were AYL, which I believe refers to Aylesbury? On the Morris Minor front, when my dad (already in his early 40s) learnt to drive cars in 1967 having tired of motorbikes/sidecars/motor scooters, his first car was a Series 2 Morris Minor in black livery with divided windscreen and trafficators, which he had for 3 or 4 years. In early 1975 he bought an F reg (1967/1968?) Morris Minor 1000 in what I’d guess was a dark cobalt blue livery, which he had for a further 3 or 4 years - the starter motor failing once on a holiday in the Wye Valley and my dad producing and using the starting handle to crank the car to get us to the nearest garage for repairs! Happy days. 🙂
My Uncle was a PC in Surrey. He said you could wear the full helmet in a Minor and how he caught a burglar in one, chasing him across a ploughed field easily because of the skinny tyres.
GRT 86F where are you now? My wee Morris Moggy, my Traveller made in 1968, destroyed by black ice on a lonely Suffolk road. This fine video made me very nostalgic......I drive a Kangoo now...what i'd give to have GRT 86F back again.
This is the most authentic Morris 1000 review on TH-cam in my opinion. Brilliant!
My local window cleaner uses a pickup version of a minor every day. Not for publicity but because it just works. It fits down the back streets, the engine sips petrol and he gets to smile every time he turns the key.
Oh, that exhaust note, so nostalgic.
11:12 'You don't buy a Morris Minor for performance' - Don't tell my 1275 Minor that! Great video Ian, great to see a Minor on the channel again.
No problem, I used to get wheel spin with them.
Nor the chap near me who put a Rover V8 in his! Not uncommon, I believe.
I'd like to see a mid engined hyabusa conversion with AWD, might have to update the brakes slightly and perhaps lower and stiffen it a shade, maybe bring out the wheels a touch and flare the arches, fit a fire breathing and crackling side exit exhaust.....Happy Days....😲⚠️😳😁
Thirty years ago I had a friend with a 1275 Moggy, and with bias ply tyres you could power slide it around roundabouts all day, was a lot of fun.
Just a ripper video. I used to have a Traveller. Very rare in Australia. Sold it to put a new roof on the house. 🙁. I had a tear in my eye arching this. Thanks to Miss. Hubnut for camera work and capturing the rasp of the exhaust. 👍 Thanks also to the kind owner for allowing us to share his lovely Traveller.
One thing a love about these travelers is they are an entirely useable vehicle today. I love them
Indeed. I dug my 1970 Traveller out of the garage yesterday after months of storage to press it into service again after my modern car went up in smoke with an engine fire. Still trucks along quite nicely.
We had Traveller's for most of my childhood, and with 4 kids I spent many miles crammed in the back with all the luggage and the dog when going on holiday. Often the following car driver and passenger would wave to me and pull funny faces, which made the ordeal a bit more fun
Just after I passed my driving test in 1976, a friend and I had the task of driving an F reg Traveller from South Wales to the Isle of Arran and back for a school camping holiday. As a new driver driving the Moggie up the M5 and M6 was truly scary, in order to avoid overheating we were asked to stop at every service station...the journey seemed to last for hours and hours!
In the very late '70's/early 80's I had a girlfriend who had the saloon version and apart from struggling up steep hills, was one of the most comfortable cars I have ever driven. We used to do a lot of fairly long distance driving too. The visibility was superb and having a starting handle came in handy after i left the lights on one day!
On holiday to ilfracombe in 1968 I slept in the back of the traveller in my pyjamas until woken up to walk round Stonehenge and have some breakfast. Sixteen years later I was spending the night opposite the stones watching Hawkwind. Happy days.
Brings me back to loads of memories of Minors family had way back in 60s/70s.❤❤.
I loved them, more reliable and simpler than a mini. The earlier wipers were a hangover from the first models that had a split windscreen. The heater actually wasnt that bad, better than a landrover even in the 1980s and much better than air cooled VW campers. The post office had rubber front wings made at one stage for their vans. Seat comfort was not a strong point. but 40 mpg was pretty easy to acheive.
To Jim. Gosh! 40mpg!
The styling of the Minor is exquisite. I’m always baffled about how the front doors can open with those curves in the bodywork. It was more attractive with the raised headlights too I think. Parp!
Brilliant review. It took me back to a very funny time when I was working in Alcester in the Midlands back in 2001. I regularly chatted with the locals whilst walking up and down the High Street which had a quintessential British village feel to it (at the time I drove a new Audi A4.) One particular old lady I spoke with on a regular basis (she was well into her eighties) explained to me that she was looking to replace her car for a newer one. "They don't make them anymore, you know!" she told me in a very surprised tone. "What"? I asked. "I've been down to the 'Morris' garage today and they told me they've stopped making them! I need to replace my car" (an Olive Green Morris Minor Traveller) she said in dismay. God bless her.
Well it's finally starting to happy! Hubnuts standards are very much slipping, where was our leg/sandal warning! I was not prepared! 🤣🤣 Great review as always, cheers team hubnut!
Heads and shoulders, knees alert...
If I want to have a very social day, I drive the
morrie thou. In California you are guaranteed of a new friend at every coffee/petrol/thrift store stop.
I often wonder what they would have been like with a flat four engine.
When I did a mini documentary (er... "Minor" Documentary) in 1998 I had to get the sound on disc and the mechanics at the garage were happy to oblige.
Yes, it would be interesting. I saw a Minor van at a show that someone had fitted an Alfa Romeo flat four into.
What an icon of Britishness.
Good video. Keep them coming!
The long hair may have vanished but the sandals are still there. There is still some hippy left in you, you great man.
Ignore Steve. Sandals and ideally grey socks too are the only authentic way to drive a Traveller. I love the scream of Moggy fan blades in the morning!
Not all minors had the" option" of interior heater control. Some had the luxury of twisting a valve in the engine to warm your knees.
One of my early cars in the late 1970's was a 1961 Minor Traveller. IIRC I paid £120 for it. It's frame was was roughly equal amounts of good wood, rotten wood, and body filler. After a few months of ownership I sold it for £200, so good times. It was always reliable but as rough and rattling as any car I've owned.
In Australia a lot of them were converted to 1200cc Datsun engines which fitted very easily and were easier to get spares for. IIRC Minors were assembled in Australia until 1962 when locally assembled Minis took over their role. I've an idea that they were assembled in New Zealand too.
Nice to see the Cornish plate on this one. All types of Minor were very popular here and there are still quite a few on the road.
Yes Morris Minors were assembled in New Zealand. I have read that Minors were assembled there until 1974.
The Datsun engine started out as a license built A-series, so it's no wonder that it fits right in a Morris Minor
Not true. Datsun built the B Series engine, never the A Series.
Never have seen one of these in the flesh here in the US. But--I'd enjoy owning one of these; simple, attractive and an old friend for certain.
I've loved Moggies ever since I was a young child and they were everywhere.
If you think about it, the Traveller was the predecessor to the hatchback. Some people called them station wagons or estate wagons.
Loved the Traveller. The Krannng! of the non synchro 1st gear making the prop ring like a tubular bell will never be forgotten. 50/50 weight distribution and great drift car on ice...it handled so predictabley.
My first car ( at 17 years old)was a 1954 4 door saloon. In my mid 30s I bought a traveller. Now I'm in my 60s I really need another Moggy. Thanks for another great video.
Funny how sounds brings back memories the Morris minor rasp lovely, and the A serious engine was renowned for its reliability and hard-working and simpleness
I have the baby brother, a 1968 Mini Traveler. delightful cars
My grandfather tort me all I needed to know about car control in a moggy such lesson as how to drift around a round about at ten mph on a damp day
Dear Hubnut all your content is lovely, but your tests of old cars are a particular cut above. Thanks for doing this. Regards from OZ.
My first car.'69 Traveller. 300 miles a week on £8! I never noticed those high revs back then but,as you mention, an extra gear would help.I also got used to hitting the brake pedal twice,always firmed them up a bit! Oh, and don't forget Ian,no synchro on first! Anyway,that little car looks and sounds great.
Possibly my all time favourite car, the first car I remember my Dad having, the first car I drove in this country.
The exhaust is just so unmistakable.
What a stunning example this is too - despite having some hubnutary on the refurb.
To Dave French. Am I the ONLY one who actually thinks the exhaust sound is SHAMEFUL?
@@nygelmiller5293you could hear a morris before you saw it sometimes I had a 1960 997cc brilliant car simple and solid
@@alansalter1836 you could sometimes hear the Minor before you SAW it,,? That DEFINATELY was the case with my first car - the first HONDA The 'N' series. It had roughly the performance of N 850 Mini, on only 360cc! It went okay, but somebody MAINTAINED 70 mph down a motorway, and blew their car's engine up!: There was, however a 600cc version, but mine was only the 360! So I had to treat it more carefully! My girlfriend used to wait for me to arrive to take her out. She would get her hat and coat off the hooks on the wall behind the front door when she heard the Honda approaching, and because it was noisy, called it CONCORDE!
I followed the rebuild of the wood on this car. Man alive! What a lot of work. When I was very small my mom drove a red 2 dr. Minor with a white top running on chunky Chevy Vega steel wheels...in Florida! We also had a 71 Corvette in gold with side pipes. And later a new 72 Camaro in flame orange with white vinyl top and interior running Cragar SS mags. These were our family cars! Ludicrous. My folks had interesting tastes in cars for sure.
I have a 1969 morris minor traveller in almond green. Just love it and will never sell her. You don't see many travellers here in Australia. Great vid.
I put a 1098 in my '61 A40 Farina after I blew up the 948... the thing would chug up multi storey car car parks in top gear... bloody awesome!
My first Minor, a 1961 bought in 1987, had the original 948 engine, but the rear axle was from a never 1098, so it was even slower than normal.
The Minor was like street furniture, they were literally everywhere in the sixties and early seventies. One of my uncles had one for ages. He even towed a caravan all over the country with it.
When I was a kid our local GPO minor vans had black rubber front wings with headlights raised up on little spikes. Thanks for another quality HubNut production 👍
Thanks Shane!
That's got me all excited as mines finally coming out of my garage next week after a four year restoration including welding repairs, paint and new wood, just have to get a holiday out of the way first🙄
I remember traveling around in 1 as a kid putting up army careera posters with my dad in the durham area witn my dad in a army issued morris... Happy days....
A lovely Cornish Traveller :) Thanks for this video.
Thank you for this video Mr HubNut it me took back to when my friend was here with us, he was lucky to have had many versions/models through his life but at the end his fawn traveller was his favourite and his van a close second.
I've got an F reg (1968) Traveller in Trafalgar Blue, I regularly see a number of Moggies on the road, there are many MMOCs in the country, I'm a member of the Lancs one. We'll be at Leighton Hall, near Carnforth, Lancashire, on Sunday July 3 for the Classic Car Show.
That Moggy is utterly gorgeous! My wife nearly killed me in a 2 door saloon, many years ago, trying to overtake a BMW 5 series - I survived! I know she’d love another Minor……..
Real classic stuff. I love this
I have a 1971 Traveller - in Bedouin (beige to you and me!) Just having some upgrades done on it - disc brakes at the front and telescopic dampers. One of the downsides is rear visibility - the rear view mirror gives a great view of the back door central pillars and the wing mirrors are really more decoration that any attempt at increasing visibility. I have an oil pressure gauge and temp gauge as well as one for vacuum - all fitted by the previous owner along with a reversing light which lights up the area you cannot see! Very comfortable and absolutely fine for speed as long as you are not rushing. I use Danish Oil on the wood to keep it in good condition rather than varnish.
Danish Oil?
A fantastic video to end the Morris Traveller Series, the Traveller was the first car my Late Grandfather bought as a family Car coming from vans back in the sixties! I just love the sound of a A Series Engine from the starter motor to it being on the road driving. I do not have a temperature gauge or a rev counter in my 2016 C4 Cactus but I do plan to rectify that soon with a Ultra Guage (aftermarket part) .
Great video and thanks for sharing this series on the traveller.
And if the starter motor failed the hole in the bumper is for the starting handle!
Absolutely the best version of the Morry Minor!
My Dad had a '62 in exactly this colour back in the late 70's, day trips from Darlington to Dumfries and back are the fond memories of that little car, 9 year old me loved that car.
I did hear, read or possibly imagined that the original power source was a flat four so many thanks Ian for clearing that one up. So far I've never driven one but would love to at some point. I guess the nearest car to the Moggy that I've had was an old MIni Clubman estate that had similar rear seat back catches. My car was the 1100 with the fake wood panels on the side but it went and handled well on its 10" wheels.
Issigonis had already designed the flat four engine he wanted for the car which is why engine bay is so wide, and makes silly conversions like a Rover V8 possible.
I loved all of my Minors - 2-door lowlight, 4-door highlight, highlight ragtop, commercial van (1098 cc).
The whackiest one I've known was a friend's conversion of a 2-door highlight to a Q-car racer by installing the drivetrain of my wrecked (high-speed rollover) Mazda R100 rotary. One ride in the resultant pocket rocket was enough for me! lol
Aah, what amazing nostalgia mum had Minor 1000 4-door and I remember all of us 5 kids and the dog going to the beach with her (seat belts what are they ? lol) Then she got an Oxford for more room it just wasn't the same and I never liked it . Memories of good times sigh must be getting old . Good one Ian thanks for the trip down memory lane
What a sound - I Iove that raspberry sound of my Moggy Minor - great video Ian 👍
A popular custom engine job for the moggy was putting the Fist 131 or Fiat 132 engine into them.
"It goes right in" so I have been informed many a time lol.
"The Monster " was a blue moggy built by a friend and i who lived near me in Bury lancs.
When my Fiat 131 mirafiori racing special edition rotted through.(as they were very prone to) we spent a sweaty summers week plonking the 2 litre supercharged motor into this under breaked tin deathtrap.
Much fun watching Rs 2000'S and 3 litre capri owners jaws drop. Lol
Fantastic. What a superb restoration, beautiful. Nice AA badge to the grille, super exhaust note, and of course a generous helping of HubNut sales pitch - cum - information and history. As a proud owner of this car back in the 70s I recall the constant reminders from friends regarding the importance of regular inspection and servicing of the king pins ie greasing and checking for wear etc.
In the end however, it was the wood deterioration that led to the cars demise. Otherwise known as the "half timbered car" back then, it was a wonderful drive and most delightful through the Buxton and Derbyshire countryside. Happy days.
You cant help but love that iconic sound 😁
The exhaust note sounds more like a trombone than a trumpet to me, Ian. Completely unmistakable though...
I remember sleeping in the back of one in the 70 ties. i was a small kid at the time ;-)
Utterly adorable. Beautiful example 😊
The carpet cutting in the glove box is exactly the same as the design of my living room carpet
Love that exhaust note - takes me back - thank you 😊
My appreciation for these has grown as a result of this series
that was absolutely lovely. thanks for that. it was beautiful......sorry, going on a bit. BEAUTIFUL
Beautiful.
All the things..
I took my minor saloon to Northampton from Plymouth and back for the national club rally. stuck to 50 mph there and back, never missed a beat. and the a series is so torquey you can pull from 10mph in top gear
A gorgeous restored example of a minor traveller.
Your video presentation is superb Ian
Thank you.
So many childhood memories of being flung around Cornish lanes with that note playing in the background, just love a good Minor. Fantastic review as you always manage, thank you HubNut's.
Friend's grandad had one - while rest of us bundling into ford escorts and minis after school - circa 86-87
@17:30 The worlds of HubNut and Harry Metcalfe crossing over.
If there is anyone who doesn't like a sweet lil' Moggie, then there is possibly no help for them. I mean, they are like an elderly family golden retriever. A bit slow, parps quite a bit, but always there for you and so friendly.
Cool! What a lovely car the Minor is. I like the exhaust farting… Thanks for the video, thanks for the camera work, camera lady! 🤗🚘🤗
What a lovely review, beautifully filmed, of a classic. Top video.
Lovely car and restoration
another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍
What a Spiffing restoration.
Beautiful Work..! 😎
wow! that is a beauty of a car.
Independent front suspention, rack & pinion steering. Nice, i had no idea it was that modern.
Same for the folding rear bench and heater+fan.
Lovely, lovely car !
Had two of these cars in the past, the first one was a 1958 948cc 4door model which I paid £55 in 1968 , first car after passing my driving test in 1966, it was like a Rolls Royce to me although not in the best of condition but never let me down, I sold ii two years on for the same price! and bought a Ford Anglia which was a load of crap!
An SUV of its day.
Having driven both the Morris 1000 AND for some time the 'Traveller' version; it was always a delight to get behind the wheels of both... in Cornwall close to the ever permeating 'salt sea air'... ah yes; both models suffered from sub frame corrosion that was eye watering to witness and even more so when it came to repair bills... Overall it was an OK investment; short term OR if you had the wads of surplus cash.. 😶AND a good garage who knew HOW to repair, weld, replace as needed... hmm probably why my Aunt (a midwife) kept her car going for years...
Great video Ian 👍....I love my 1963 4 door saloon. Mine is the change over year so no split screen but I still have the clap hand wipers. I still never get tired of the trumpet noise on the overun
The first car I can remember my father owning was a traveller in the same green colour back in the very late 60's and early 70's. In those less safety conscious days there was room for a couple of extra children in the boot on shorter journeys!
One just HAS to love a good ole' traveller! We all have so many childhood memories involving moggies! Plus it has that sweet, un-menacing, smiley face with the raised eyes and the trumpet exhaust!!
That car looks (and sounds) absolutely perfect 😊
We had a burgundy F reg traveler, I remember the heater was bloody awful!. But we had it for many years. We even drove from coastal Suffolk all the way to your neck of the woods in Wales. I would love to have it back or get another one.
Wonderful little car. Always fancied a Minor but not yet managed it. How I miss the apologetic little cough of an A series bursting into life.
I do agree that the exhaust noise is the best bit of any Morris Minor. The Traveller was my late Father's 1st car so it has brought back Happy Memories of him whilst watching your video.🙂🙂
I'm pretty sure the floor is just as low in the LCV van and pick ups, which did have a separate chassis.
I had a 1968 van and recall the starter handle being great on cold mornings when battery poor, though can break your wrists if not careful.
Look out for OJN 146F which I sold for peanuts around a decade back, in hope it was going to be restored rather than scrapped.
I love the indicator repeater on the end of the stalk.
Happy memories of holidays down to Devon in Daddy's many Minors from a 48 Low Light through to his last, a 62 one, whose number plate UHO 1 is probably worth a fortune today. Some enterprising company should start building them again, I believe all the body press tooling still exists somewhere. They will probably sell like hot cakes with modern engines or as an EV.