1967 Austin Morris Traveller

[MarillionFan]

Actually I reckon a pottering / tinkering project that you never expect to complete is a great way to de-stress at weekends. Probably healthier than knocking back a couple of bottles of wine too.

WSS

AtWs is called Majestic.

[BrilloPad]

Actually I reckon a pottering / tinkering project that you never expect to complete is a great way to de-stress at weekends.

I prefer a project with an end. Like the counting thread.

[OwlHoot]

Kudos for helping get it working and all that. But I've never understood why people want to restore those dreary, ugly-looking, tiny, grossly underpowered and unreliable 50s and 60s cars when they could just as well be doing the same with an old Bentley or sports car instead.

[suityou01]

Not the actual car, but just so the uneducated can see the charm :

[OwlHoot]

Charm? It looks like a garden shed on wheels, and probably drives like one.

And worse still, I bet the engine sounds like a Chieftain tank even in normal driving.

[suityou01]

Charm? It looks like a garden shed on wheels, and probably drives like one.

And worse still, I bet the engine sounds like a Chieftain tank even in normal driving.

I saw the thread had an owly post, and quick as a flash opened the thread. This silver haired old timer will know a thing or two about the moggy I thought. Like a kid on Christmas morning I was opening your post.

[mudskipper]

Charm? It looks like a garden shed on wheels, and probably drives like one.

And worse still, I bet the engine sounds like a Chieftain tank even in normal driving.

It's nostalgia. Most people never went in a Bentley or a sports car as kids. IT contractors didn't exist in those days...

[mudskipper]

WSS

AtWs is called Majestic.

[The_Equalizer]

Kudos for helping get it working and all that. But I've never understood why people want to restore those dreary, ugly-looking, tiny, grossly underpowered and unreliable 50s and 60s cars when they could just as well be doing the same with an old Bentley or sports car instead.

It's a combination of a couple of factors. You'll find people hanker after cars their Dad had, or they had when seventeen. Also, the cost and complexity of working on a Minor and a Bentley are vastly different. Just working on and fix any car can be jolly satisfying. In fact I would highly recommend have a go at even the simple tasks such as servicing.

[malvolio]

Actaully the old Moggies were quite a hoot to drive once you put on some decent tyres. Never do more than 70, but you had to work at it. I also use to thash my mate's one many years ago; went quite well with the Broadspeed full race 1600 motor in it...

Then again there's a traveller down here from Charlie Ware's old place, slightly upgraded to have brakes, five-speed box and a few other things (such as a rather bigger motor), reputedly does 140 in a straight line and corners to suit.