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Morris was resprayed in original<br />
Maroon B, as per Dad Don's car.<br />
Amazingly, the<br />
bonnet is still<br />
the original item.<br />
1960s steering wheel taking pride of place.<br />
M is for Morris.<br />
A TASTE OF OWNERSHIP<br />
Despite learning to drive in his mum’s<br />
MkI Ford Fiesta, and his dad insisting<br />
that another Fiesta would be a better bet<br />
as his first car, Kevin’s heart was set on a<br />
<strong>Mini</strong> of his own. “Sure enough, once I’d<br />
left university, dad found a three-year-old<br />
<strong>Mini</strong> 30 on a Rover dealership forecourt<br />
and I spent an enjoyable three-years<br />
trundling around in it, before the offer of<br />
a company car led to its sale,” Kevin says.<br />
Even once the 30 went, Kevin’s interest<br />
in <strong>Mini</strong>s didn’t waiver. Although all<br />
thoughts of owning another (never mind<br />
a MkI like his dad had owned) had faded<br />
into the distance. That was until February<br />
2016, when Kevin visited a classic car<br />
dealership as he and his other half, Helen,<br />
were interested in finding a Maroon B<br />
Morris <strong>Mini</strong>-Minor De Luxe, built before<br />
1966, so they could park it in the GRCC<br />
parking area on the Lavant Straight at the<br />
Goodwood Revival.<br />
“After a moment’s thought, the dealer<br />
said his dad had one just like that in his<br />
garage! I went to see it the next day and<br />
sure enough, it was the mirror image of<br />
dad’s old <strong>Mini</strong>,” explains Kevin.<br />
So this <strong>Mini</strong> ended coming up home –<br />
on a scary, wet, dark trip, with neither<br />
Kevin nor Helen knowing how to turn on<br />
the windscreen wipers, headlights or<br />
indicators! Oh, and the windscreen wiper<br />
worked its way loose and fell off as well!<br />
Built on 8 December 1965 and first<br />
registered in Leicester on 1 January 1966,<br />
amazingly Kevin has the car’s original<br />
bill of sale, which shows that it was sold<br />
new by The Stoneygate Garage Company<br />
to a Mrs Kathleen Mary Scrimshaw of<br />
Oadby, Leicestershire. “The price of the<br />
car new was £574, five shillings and<br />
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