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Morrie V8
Hi GTB, it was a weird and wonderful combination alright!!!!
It was a bit rough around the edges but was built like a tank. I don’t know what it weighed but it was quite heavy. It was a point-and-squirt machine. Mike Bennion lived near Silverstone and told me he’d raced it there a few times only. No mention of Santa Pod.
I was surprised to see it on the Sept ’67 cover of CCC. He never showed that to me or even mentioned it. The car looks quite different to when I bought it. He had another magazine feature on it in colour – at least four pages – but not on the cover. I’d always thought it was CCC but apparently not. The issue with it on the cover doesn’t have a feature and it’s before CCC went to colour. So it must have been Hot Car or another one. I have been searching for the last 40 years trying to find it.
The magazine feature billed it as “The World’s Fastest Morris Minor”. This was half the reason I bought it!!!! It had been electronically timed at Silverstone @ 150mph.
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