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My 59 year old Morris 1000 has no faults, everything works as it should. It starts, stops, runs, drives, has a heater, is so far 100% reliable in the context of never breaking down.
I have borrowed a SAAB 95, its 10 years old, it tells me to check the engine, but not what to check, it tells me the anti theft system isn't working and that the aircon is broken.
Simpler the better.
I have borrowed a SAAB 95, its 10 years old, it tells me to check the engine, but not what to check, it tells me the anti theft system isn't working and that the aircon is broken.
Simpler the better.
Huntsman said:
My 59 year old Morris 1000 has no faults, everything works as it should. It starts, stops, runs, drives, has a heater, is so far 100% reliable in the context of never breaking down.
I have borrowed a SAAB 95, its 10 years old, it tells me to check the engine, but not what to check, it tells me the anti theft system isn't working and that the aircon is broken.
Simpler the better.
Ah yes the moggie 1000, utterly brilliant car, reliable to the point of insanity and so easy to fix if something goes wrong. The little A30/35 is much the same qualities. Sustainability I think is the modern term for them.I have borrowed a SAAB 95, its 10 years old, it tells me to check the engine, but not what to check, it tells me the anti theft system isn't working and that the aircon is broken.
Simpler the better.
Huntsman said:
My 59 year old Morris 1000 has no faults, everything works as it should. It starts, stops, runs, drives, has a heater, is so far 100% reliable in the context of never breaking down.
I have borrowed a SAAB 95, its 10 years old, it tells me to check the engine, but not what to check, it tells me the anti theft system isn't working and that the aircon is broken.
Simpler the better.
Off piste with thread. Your post prompted me to remember John Miles the driving instructor writing in Practical Classics. (?) who drove a Morris Minornwith Alta conversion I believe. Very quick from A to B and analageous to James Hunt and his A35 van. Perhaps you can learn more in normal road situations from this type of car than driving vehicles of today, where to experience handling you have to be doing 120 leptons..... Getting back on thread there are no electric gizmos to worry about also.I have borrowed a SAAB 95, its 10 years old, it tells me to check the engine, but not what to check, it tells me the anti theft system isn't working and that the aircon is broken.
Simpler the better.
crankedup said:
Ah yes the moggie 1000, utterly brilliant car, reliable to the point of insanity and so easy to fix if something goes wrong. The little A30/35 is much the same qualities. Sustainability I think is the modern term for them.
Its amazing that a machine so simple can be held in such high regard for so long.Next year it will be 70 years since the launch, yet today, it is still a perfectly usable daily car. Not perhaps for covering the high mileages we seem to these days (isn't interesting though that so much traffic has made motoring such an appalling bore, a victim of its own success).
It is arguably easier to live with the Morris and its antiquated feel, than it would be to live with a 3 year old high end German beast and its foibles.
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