A trip into town for a frozen food shopping fest. I have a thing about price of petrol at the moment, so Mrs G is encouraged to shop in bulk. When we dragged our supplies back to the car, I was delighted to see a Morris Traveller parked next to our ride. I got to thinking, its 2/3rds the size of our car, but ticks all the boxes....seats 4 in a degree of comfort, it's an estate car, so Alfie is catered for, it has a smaller engine, but adaquate power, good visibility all round. It is not stuffed with dubious engine management systems, electric windows, air conditionning, exploding steering wheel, dashboard luminance control etcetc. If it goes wrong, I strongly suspect a 13mm spanner, and a hammer is about all thats required to fix it.Prehaps I am a fool, but is there not a market for something simple like this?
The reality is, it has more rust than the titanic, rot on the wooden rear frame, and from distant memory, was not that easy to work on.
Oh well, back to the Vauxhall .....
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my first car was a mushroom coloured morris traveller, with the numberplate "cow". if only i had hung onto that.
and i did my own repairs with a spanner. and once, when the fuel pump jammed (you could tell because it sounded like an angry clock) by the side of the road, i hit it with a wooden clog and made it work again. before setting off on our journey again i went down the motorway embankment for a pee and found a tenner! such are the joys of motoring, as opposed to just driving...
but it did need vast amounts of welding for each mot. and grew mushrooms in the wood. and leaked. but still a fabulous car. if you buy one i will be round!
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