A Minor Rarity - Will's Roadtransport Revival (The Truck & Van Blog)

A Minor Rarity - Will's Roadtransport Revival

This might just look like a normal Morris Minor van - but in actual fact you are looking at a real rarity. The photograph was taken in an Oklahoma junkyard, and shows one of just a few hundred Minor vans to ever make it across the Atlantic. While the Minor saloon, convertible and Travellers were all relatively popular Stateside in the 1950s, BMC couldn't give these things away for love nor money. It seems Americans couldn't be persuaded to swap their gas-guzzling sedan deliveries.
Of the 300 or so Minor vans to be registered in the US, the vast majority were used by BMC dealers as parts delivery vehicles. So you can bet they worked hard for a living!

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Comments (4)

Colin Barnett:

I hadn't realised that any Minors had been exported to the US until one appeared in a scene in a Hollywood motel car park in "The World's Fastest Indian", quite possibly the best film ever.

Posted by Colin Barnett | February 21, 2007 9:44 AM

Posted on February 21, 2007 09:44

Neil Curran:

I thought Minors had a world wide appeal and celebrity status - I am sure I read somewhere that Michael Jackson allegedely had a big interest in Minors.

Posted by Neil Curran | February 21, 2007 2:44 PM

Posted on February 21, 2007 14:44

Alan Thomas:

Excuse me, but this one is right-hand drive, appears to have a modern EU-style number plate, and looks as if it's in a street .... an Oklahoma scrapyard? Whatever, the pickup body does not look factory issue - flush sides with no add-on wings - is that why it looks longer than normal?

Posted by Alan Thomas | February 5, 2008 4:31 PM

Posted on February 5, 2008 16:31

Craig:

This is the Maltese version of the Minor pick up with locally built bodies ,and I'm 99% sure this is in Malta.

Posted by Craig | February 13, 2008 1:42 PM

Posted on February 13, 2008 13:42