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Mini Magazine - Summer 2018

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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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