Jay Quinn <jpquinn@cyberramp.net> writes
>Did anyone out here watch the Faulty Towers episodes?
>
>The one where Bazel's car failed him on his way to pick up something very
>important and was on a ridgid time schedule. The ole car wasn't starting.
>
>Well, he gets really pissed at his car on the side of the road and starts
>giving it a warning. Of which, it didn't do anything, so he runs and gets
>limb off a near by tree and thrashs it vigerously. Pretty funny scene.
>
>What type of car (Mini?) was that? And what year? As well as any other
>specifics about that little red car.
It's not a mini, but it's big sister the Austin Morris 1100/1300 series,
like most badge engineered cars of the period there were a lot of
siblings:
Austin 1100, 1300 and 1300GT
Morris 1100 and 1300
Wolseley 1100 and 1300
Riley Kestrel 1100 and 1300
MG 1100 and 1300
Vanden Plas 1100 and 1300
I think in America it would be known as the Austin America. They have
now got cult status in Japan, the best UK examples are being exported,
top money being UKP4500-5000
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Jeremy Edwards
1972 Morgan 4/4 2 str
Melton Mowbray, England
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