Background

Earlier in 2023 we had some club stickers produced to to commemorate the 75th year of the Morris Minor, which was launched in 1948 at the Earl’s Court Motorshow. The sticker features a Minor 1000 saloon, the Bull Morris logo and a silhouette of the Glasgow skyline including the “armadillo” and the “squinty bridge.”

Originally the Glasgow Moggies stickers were for club members only. However, as soon as we posted them on Instagram we had friends from places like the North America, South America, Europe & Australia contacting us saying they’d like to buy one. So…

We decided to make the stickers available to everyone and asked them to send in photographs of their cars from around the world with their stickers!

As photographs are received this page will be updated with them. The person judged to have sent in the best photograph by the end of Sep 2023 will have their sticker price refunded and become an honorary member of the club. The winner will be announced in October.

How to take part

If you bought a sticker and haven’t sent in your photograph, please do so now. Be as creative as you like!

Along with your photos we are inviting you to send us a story about you and your car. This is optional but will allow us to put together a full feature on our website (don’t worry, we won’t publish sensitive data such as your full name or exact location).

Submissions

Australia

Gavin & The Count

Gavin’s car, The Count, is a 1955 Series II 4dr saloon. The car is named as such because it always manages to draw blood when being worked on!

The car has a 948cc engine, with a custom gear ratio and 4.5 diff. Gavin has strived to keep The Count looking original in his 34 years of ownership. It was given to him in 1989 by his parents as a 21st birthday gift.

Nine years ago The Count went right around Australia, with only a single flat tyre and a need to change the clutch in Perth. The Count has made a number of trips from Melbourne to Canberra and Queensland. Have owned the car for 34 years.

Since ordering his sticker Gavin has since joined the Glasgow Moggies as an overseas member. Welcome to the club.

We will be posting a full feature about Gavin’s escapades in The Count soon, but meantime you can visit his website and give him a follow on Instagram.

Canada

Mike, Alberta

Maggie is Mike’s 1956 Morris Minor series II. It’s a two door convertible in left hand drive. Mike bought Maggie late 2022 after selling his last classic car.

Maggie hasn’t been on the road since 2001. She needs some work to be done before she hits the road again. Mike is looking forward to getting it on the road next year. Mike says “I’m super happy to join such a great community of car owners and my sticker is proudly stuck on Maggie!”

We look forward to hearing more from Mike as the restoration progress on Maggie continues.

France

Mary & Chris Hall, Amicale Morris Minor France

Mary Hall, and her husband Chris, live in France where they run the Amicale Morris Minor France club, which the club for Morris Minor owners in France. Mary reached out to the Glasgow Moggies earlier this year when she spotted the 75th Anniversary stickers we produced.

Mary affixed a Glasgow Moggies 75th Anniversary sticker on her 1971 Limeflower coloured Traveller, which has been owned by her since 1993.

In early June the club and friends met up at Chambon-sur-Lac in the beautiful Pays des Volcans area of the Massif Central mountains, which is south-west of Clermont-Ferrand. The views everywhere are stunning, and the roads good – albeit there is a need to use second gear a lot on those hills!

Mary organised a surprise private visit to the Circuit de Charade (also known as Circuit Louis Rosier or Circuit Clermont-Ferrard) motor racing circuit. The circuit opened in 1958 and was built around extinct volcanoes, its challenging nature favouring the most skilled drivers. It was described by the late great Stirling Moss as “the most beautiful circuit in the world”. Four French F1 Grand Prix were held there between 1965 and 1972. Sir Jackie Stewart won twice, with Jim Clark and Jochen Rindt winning one a piece. The circuit now hosts track days and historic racing events.

Revenons à nos moutons…

The Minors were lined up on the grid before a copious breakfast of various croissants and jus (coffee) were served in the pits. This was accompanied by an excellent explanation of the history of the circuit and how it is being used today, as is briefly outlined above.

Then it was time for three tours of the circuit in the Minors behind the safety car. This was done at “parade speed”, which was more like flat out for the vans and travellers taking part with their aerodynamics of a flying brick. One driver, Amanda, in the rather modified black convertible found the cornering rather easier!

Definitely a morning to remember for the French club.

Germany

Albert & Petra – Kamp-Lintfort

Albert & Petra sent in these photographs which were taken at Kloster Kamp (an Abbey), Kamp-Lintfort, Germany. 2023 sees the Abbey celebrate an anniversary too. It’s slightly older than the Morris Minor, at some 900 years old!

Miss Marple was built in 1968 and first registered on the road in 1969. Her present owners acquired her in 2020. Albert & Petra are are members of the Morris Minor Register Deutschland, with Albert becoming registry administrator in 2022.

In 2021 Miss Maple won a “car casting” for a cine film which is about Princess Diana’s existential crisis during the Christmas of 1991.

Great Britain

Connor & Betty, Yorkshire

Connor sent in this photo of his lovely 1960 Morris Minor 1000 Betty. It was taken at Sewerby Hall, Yorkshire.

Connor has proudly affixed his anniversary sticker on the front windscreen, just above the tax disc. He has had some restoration work done to Betty recently, and she’s looking magnificent. You can give Connor and Betty a follow on Instagram

Kazaroonie

Birmingham based owner Karen says she chose to buy one of our stickers because as well as supporting her local MMOC branch she also likes to support other Morris Minor clubs and branches.

Iris is a standard Minor 1000, except for the MGA Iris Blue paint and MG Midget rostyles. Karen describes Iris as a “workhorse during the week and a show queen at the weekend.”

United States of America

Randolph, California

Randolph moved from Los Angeles to Sacramento around 2016. At that time he found a Tourer for sale on Craigslist in Sacramento. When he later met the owner to view the car Randolph says “I realised I’d been talking to him on the phone for the last twenty-five-years!”

The car was a non-runner, but had been well looked after. The owner had been slowly working away on it. “Finally, I bought it and worked on it for about a year. I had purchased a rebuilt engine from another member of the (North America) registry, but he moved have been drunk when he did it. It smoked so bad I was reported to the California air quality district!”

“I sold it to a friend, then bought it back two years later. It runs so well now with a stock 948cc engine. The latest thing I did was install a duo tone interior, which someone gave me.”

Randolph then casts his mind back a few more years…

“Some time in 2008 a friend the Morris Minor Registry (North America) asked me if I could help him, or restore the wood on his 1962 Morris Minor Traveller. He took the car completely apart and found rust that he hadn’t known existed.

My friend had purchased the car on eBay, direct from Great Britain. It was rougher than described,

Every year my friend would ask me again, but the price of the work would go up another $1000. Finally after stripping the car apart he asked me if I would just take it off his hands for $500. He’d had enough.

I literally had to put axels on the car to tow it to my house, using my Volvo 240 station wagon. Which is in itself a modern classic.

I was a little slow on cash at the time, so I couldn’t afford to buy a complete new timber kit for it. So I had to blend and replace the wood as necessary. Marrying the new wood with old was no easy task. As they say in these parts “it’s not my first rodeo”.

I’ve been working on the car little by little ever since then. I’m still working on the car today. When I saw the Glasgow Moggies on Instagram were doing a worldwide celebration for the 75th anniversary of the car I decided it would be nice to get another sticker for my car and send in some photos. It’s nice to read about other cars from across the globe too.”