Thanks for posting this, really excellent documentary.
@codystanley23264 ай бұрын
0:06 thyssenkrupp/TKE elevator chime
@nygelmiller52935 ай бұрын
WHY did the government ban exporting FULLY built cars? Does anybody know?
@rhobbis5 ай бұрын
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.
@paulwhite8377 ай бұрын
Nice save, Richard
@charliemanson48089 ай бұрын
5:40 you just know that Roger the gardener skulking behind on the left is responsible for most of these kids... his wifes lonely long haul summers...😂😂😂
@jimmeltonbradley14979 ай бұрын
A blue 1963 Morris Minor Traveller was the car I got married in over 42 years ago. Unfortunately. it wasn't regarded as a classic back then and, when the chassis went, I got rid of it. What a big mistake.
@callmecrazy133710 ай бұрын
That's not actually the one from 1978. This is a rerelease from I'm pretty sure 1980 or smth.
@devans2919 Жыл бұрын
Not a very exciting hillclimb......
@rhobbis Жыл бұрын
The whole event is more about getting a wide variety of cars out and being used, in a pubic-friendly environment. It's not about sprint times or difficulty.
@charliegardner6804 Жыл бұрын
Second to none.
@claimnumber515 Жыл бұрын
I lost my Virginity in a 1950 Series MM. I never looked back in 1967 at the age of 17. Fantastic video. Thank you.
@vijayakrishnannair Жыл бұрын
Nice 👍
@vijayakrishnannair Жыл бұрын
Nice 👍
@vijayakrishnannair Жыл бұрын
Nice 👍
@cyrusirani5193 Жыл бұрын
Had to sell mine due to my wife’s constant nagging.
@daackmpoy Жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this. This was the car my grandpa drove and after 20 years of him passing away, my dad and I are seeking how to restore it here in Mexico (part finding is going to be a struggle). Really happy that you preserve this tape.
@philplumbe5318 Жыл бұрын
No problem getting parts these days, using the Web. Go either to the UK, or even Australia. I too have lots of smaller used Minor parts here in Melbourne.
@markdowling5962 Жыл бұрын
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 🇮🇪
@bitofbritlife183 Жыл бұрын
Very nice indeed!
@vernonmatthews1812 жыл бұрын
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.
@kylewaddington19832 жыл бұрын
50s England As Tiff Needle siad
@askhatshukla54162 жыл бұрын
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...🙏🙏🙏
@joelawrence562 жыл бұрын
brilliant!
@thetoaster11882 жыл бұрын
Swuf ejsisoq
@davidhakes38842 жыл бұрын
You guys may not like me much as a Kid in Highschool I put a 426CI Dodge Wedge engine in a 1962 pickup. straight axle Gasser, what a crazing thing to drive. in my defense I found two halves at a wrecking yard and set the body on a frame.
@DaveSmith-bv8yk2 жыл бұрын
are you selling parts?
@pooddescrewch87182 жыл бұрын
Jack Daniels , you say ?
@eddiephillips67402 жыл бұрын
That guy should keep his eyes on the road
@josetavares77893 жыл бұрын
very danger drive on the wrong side of the road,stupid,,,,,
@rhobbis3 жыл бұрын
<sarcasm> The accident rate in UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa must be so high ... </sarcasm>
@nygelmiller52933 жыл бұрын
As a viewer of this film, it's interesting to see such a collection of British designs, as well as Minors, in AUSTRALIA - and people's reactions to the same cars, in another country! These days there's not just Covid travel restrictions , but I'm at the moment not in that good shape for such a long journey.So to see all this in the "comfort of my own home", in Britain , makes it possible to see everything after all! As they do say, with the internet, THE WONDERS OF TECHNOLOGY!
@paulsutton58963 жыл бұрын
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.
@bobeden50273 жыл бұрын
It's Moggie Minor!
@Wooburnmusic3 жыл бұрын
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 !
@davidshirley77123 жыл бұрын
Holland is not a country it's a region of the netherlands
@haribabuvaishnav67273 жыл бұрын
My first car was. Morris mynor tourer. Iam from chennai. India.
@EnriqueLopez-hb5jn3 жыл бұрын
When you see how much fun the owners have with their Morris, Minors in the different variants, each person has a different opinion on how they got their own version of the car. L
@EnriqueLopez-hb5jn3 жыл бұрын
When you see how the Morris Minor cars featured here are still on the road today,👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽.
@derekporter76513 жыл бұрын
Excellent driving and camera work.
@helenloughton24184 жыл бұрын
That's sounds so sweeeeettttt.
@whutteretbrock21814 жыл бұрын
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.
@peterryan78274 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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
@Cheeseatingjunglista4 жыл бұрын
Mental , luv it
@zw55094 жыл бұрын
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.
@leonardodahumanoid43444 жыл бұрын
I'm 70yo in USA. My first car was a light blue 59 MM. I really enjoyed it. I'd love to have one now.
@JohnnyTHolland5 жыл бұрын
This chap simply blows away ALL the competition - proper hillclimb stuff - see 1.10 in this video : kzread.info/dash/bejne/mGGYxrSpY8mrfZM.html to get an idea of just how fast he is going. SUPERB DRIVING MONSIEUR !!
@patalexander19655 жыл бұрын
Morris Minor, my favorite car! Trustworthy, economy and comfortable to drive!
@peterww32413 жыл бұрын
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.
@martinsmith84175 жыл бұрын
Im loving the insane eyebrows on the opening speaker!
@rhobbis5 жыл бұрын
That'll be Jack Daniels, one of the 'fathers' of the Minor :D
@thesawdustmaker.david.11825 жыл бұрын
Audio quality is awful, a shame otherwise would have been an interesting film/documentary.
@rhobbis5 жыл бұрын
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
@juliethurgood36673 жыл бұрын
Sounded fine to my ears.
@bruceburns16725 жыл бұрын
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 .
@rhobbis5 жыл бұрын
You sound bitter
@williamross25795 жыл бұрын
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.
@bruceburns16725 жыл бұрын
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 .
@Minpeace4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@nygelmiller52935 ай бұрын
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!
@chrisjohnson68765 жыл бұрын
Great Video and thanks. My first car was a 1954 split screen 2 door (in 1976) in green In Perth (Aust)
@StephenSteve328613 жыл бұрын
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.
@StephenSteve328613 жыл бұрын
my first car too.
@bobeden50275 жыл бұрын
My first car was a 1952 split windscreen Moggie with those amazing trafficators!
@craigpests_channel4 жыл бұрын
Im 14 and my first car is a 1959 Morris Minor 2dr saloon. Sadly it doesn't have trafficator arms :(
@TheTruth-dy8ze3 жыл бұрын
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.
@lucythemoggy19705 жыл бұрын
how easy is it to fit the engine u have in a moggy? wot gearbox do u use?
@rhobbis5 жыл бұрын
It's not too hard. A small notch in the bulkhead to clear the distributor, but if you have the later coil-pack engine that's not required. Another small notch in the front cross-member under the radiator. Then custom engine mounts, chassis leg bracing and gearbox mount for the Ford Type 9 box.
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Thanks for posting this, really excellent documentary.
0:06 thyssenkrupp/TKE elevator chime
WHY did the government ban exporting FULLY built cars? Does anybody know?
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.
Nice save, Richard
5:40 you just know that Roger the gardener skulking behind on the left is responsible for most of these kids... his wifes lonely long haul summers...😂😂😂
A blue 1963 Morris Minor Traveller was the car I got married in over 42 years ago. Unfortunately. it wasn't regarded as a classic back then and, when the chassis went, I got rid of it. What a big mistake.
That's not actually the one from 1978. This is a rerelease from I'm pretty sure 1980 or smth.
Not a very exciting hillclimb......
The whole event is more about getting a wide variety of cars out and being used, in a pubic-friendly environment. It's not about sprint times or difficulty.
Second to none.
I lost my Virginity in a 1950 Series MM. I never looked back in 1967 at the age of 17. Fantastic video. Thank you.
Nice 👍
Nice 👍
Nice 👍
Had to sell mine due to my wife’s constant nagging.
Thanks for uploading this. This was the car my grandpa drove and after 20 years of him passing away, my dad and I are seeking how to restore it here in Mexico (part finding is going to be a struggle). Really happy that you preserve this tape.
No problem getting parts these days, using the Web. Go either to the UK, or even Australia. I too have lots of smaller used Minor parts here in Melbourne.
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 🇮🇪
Very nice indeed!
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.
50s England As Tiff Needle siad
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...🙏🙏🙏
brilliant!
Swuf ejsisoq
You guys may not like me much as a Kid in Highschool I put a 426CI Dodge Wedge engine in a 1962 pickup. straight axle Gasser, what a crazing thing to drive. in my defense I found two halves at a wrecking yard and set the body on a frame.
are you selling parts?
Jack Daniels , you say ?
That guy should keep his eyes on the road
very danger drive on the wrong side of the road,stupid,,,,,
<sarcasm> The accident rate in UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa must be so high ... </sarcasm>
As a viewer of this film, it's interesting to see such a collection of British designs, as well as Minors, in AUSTRALIA - and people's reactions to the same cars, in another country! These days there's not just Covid travel restrictions , but I'm at the moment not in that good shape for such a long journey.So to see all this in the "comfort of my own home", in Britain , makes it possible to see everything after all! As they do say, with the internet, THE WONDERS OF TECHNOLOGY!
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.
It's Moggie Minor!
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 !
Holland is not a country it's a region of the netherlands
My first car was. Morris mynor tourer. Iam from chennai. India.
When you see how much fun the owners have with their Morris, Minors in the different variants, each person has a different opinion on how they got their own version of the car. L
When you see how the Morris Minor cars featured here are still on the road today,👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽.
Excellent driving and camera work.
That's sounds so sweeeeettttt.
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.
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.
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
Mental , luv it
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.
I'm 70yo in USA. My first car was a light blue 59 MM. I really enjoyed it. I'd love to have one now.
This chap simply blows away ALL the competition - proper hillclimb stuff - see 1.10 in this video : kzread.info/dash/bejne/mGGYxrSpY8mrfZM.html to get an idea of just how fast he is going. SUPERB DRIVING MONSIEUR !!
Morris Minor, my favorite car! Trustworthy, economy and comfortable to drive!
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.
Im loving the insane eyebrows on the opening speaker!
That'll be Jack Daniels, one of the 'fathers' of the Minor :D
Audio quality is awful, a shame otherwise would have been an interesting film/documentary.
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
Sounded fine to my ears.
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 .
You sound bitter
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.
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 .
@@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.
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!
Great Video and thanks. My first car was a 1954 split screen 2 door (in 1976) in green In Perth (Aust)
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.
my first car too.
My first car was a 1952 split windscreen Moggie with those amazing trafficators!
Im 14 and my first car is a 1959 Morris Minor 2dr saloon. Sadly it doesn't have trafficator arms :(
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.
how easy is it to fit the engine u have in a moggy? wot gearbox do u use?
It's not too hard. A small notch in the bulkhead to clear the distributor, but if you have the later coil-pack engine that's not required. Another small notch in the front cross-member under the radiator. Then custom engine mounts, chassis leg bracing and gearbox mount for the Ford Type 9 box.