The Morris Minor Owners Club commemorated its 75th anniversary and rare automotive brand at the Crankhandle Club in Wynberg on Sunday 26 November.
With a deep vroom and sunlight bouncing off of perfect paint jobs, the Morris Minor Owners Club commemorated its 75th anniversary and rare automotive brand at the Crankhandle Club in Wynberg on Sunday 26 November.
The club’s Vice chair Ron Clarke on Sunday 26 said: “Today we celebrated the 75th nniversary of the Morris Minor. We had members of our club (Morris Minor Owners Club) who travelled down to Cape Town from as far as Oudtshoorn to celebrate this occasion.”
Every two years they host a National Rally which each club has a turn to host in Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town.
“These little cars, with most of them being over 60 years old, travel all over the country,” Clarke said with childlike excitement.
And each year, the club also saddle-up their Minors en route to the George Car Show for the weekend, of which the next show will be in February 2024.
The Morris Minor, launched in 1948 at Earls Court in London, has continued to attract a following even in this part of the world.
Through its years of production, the Minor saw several changes, particularly in engines. However, this automobile manufacturer ceased production in South Africa in 1963 after the rapidly diminishing sales of the Minor and the rising popularity of the Mini Minor, also designed by Alec Issigonis.
In the UK, where the Minor was still selling well to an infinitely more conservative motoring public, production carried on and only ceased in 1971.
