breakdown truck

[TerryG]

The transit is ruined, the JP4 is cool and is that a wicker traveller?!?!?!

[tractorman]

The Oxford would have done me nicely - the sort of thing I was looking for a year ago! The headmaster at my "junior" school had one (grey) and Father nearly bought one when he changed the first Minor Traveller (803 engine), but was told they used too much fuel (and the price was a bit steep for the age of car - in 1963!), so we got a 948 Traveller instead

[JPB]

The rare (all steel, five door) Oxford Traveller floats my boat too. I've seen plenty of the three door flavour with their vestigial timber around the back end but these steel ones seem to have vanished completely and now we know how: Because a French dealer has them all, that's how!
The stepside look really doesn't suit the Tranny does it. However, if the cab were sectioned and chopped to suit, it might just work. F*ck that, buy a proper stepside!

[rich.]

thought you might apreciate those chaps although im a transit fan, that stepside is just so wrong...

[rich.]

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[rich.]

id have thought john would have been all over the mini..is he too busy with his lambo

[JPB]

No mate, that mini's effectively two spoilt cars. Not really my thing, fun though it undoubtedly is for someone.

[tractorman]

That's an "interesting" Minor though - inside and rear are very "MM" and the grill/headlights suggest a very early S2! As for 1955, I'd say it was earlier - the olds had a 54 Traveller and it had the better known centre speedo and two glove boxes.

The Champ brings back memories of Father's time in the TA (he was a Chaplin to the local lot and used to do a refreshment run when they went to camp). He occasionally brought a Champ back and, if I was "lucky", I got a ride in it when he took it back (of course, I was never lucky - no civvies allowed in military vehicles)! I think the last camp we went on, they hired a brand new VW T1 camper as he'd rolled the Champ at the last camp!

[JPB]

Hmm, this Minor is an original '55 apart from the small arch Minor 1000 rear mudguards and the cheerful yellow and red Noddy & Big Ears paint scheme on the outside, as applied in the early '80s:



So yes, although the rear lamps and small window are correct for a '55 car, that dash suggests earlier. Maybe LHD ones had to be used up before Johnny Foreigner got the new centre speedo? Yet it certainly appears to be a sidevalve one in every other detail.

[rich.]

that minor is a 53 to 55 model..... well thats what i can read in the ad tis pretty though..