1962 Morris Minor 1000
↑ The late Tony Wood proudly standing next to the 21,000 mile Minor he purchased from the estate of the late Mary James, of Burwood, Melbourne, in 1991. Mary purchased the car new on 6/4/62, and it was sold from her estate 20/3/91.
HNK-657, one of the last Morris 1000s built in Australia (production ended in May 1962) with great history and a genuine 50,000 miles on the odometer, is now at Kelly St Classics in Avoca. It would have been built almosty concurrently with the Morris 850 Mini, and was registered in Melbourne exactly one week before the Mini was registered in Horsham, Vic.
↑ Unused registration label from 1989, when the elderly Mary had stopped
driving the car.
↑ The original 1962
number plates are still with the car.
↑ The
car's identification plate
Tony Wood and his wife retired to Ballarat, but he died in 2005. The car then passed through several owners (all documented) in the Ballarat area, generally in parts and as a 'project', during which time the car was resprayed in a red/burgundy colour, but never really completed. It passed from one owner to another in this state until Tony Wood's nephew, recognised the car he had known well (along with a delightful Morris Minor ute his uncle also owned and drove at the time he owned this Morris) and purchased it. Since that purchase in 2018 the nephew assembled many original parts, photos and documents, and traced its history from 2005. He now owns his late uncle's beautiful ute, and is thrilled the car has gone to Kelly St Classics, where history and originality are so valued.
↑This photo shows the car after it was repainted by a
previous owner from its original English Grey, but all his hard work will
eventually be painstakingly sanded back, and the original colour reinstated.
A house renovation and various other Kelly St Classics projects will delay
this slightly, but it WILL happen!
Many more photos and details will follow, but in the meantime, enjoy these photos of the car being picked up in Ballarat 26th June 2020.
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Watch this space!