Vintage Minor Register

Still no sale, so it is going on eBay in a day or two, so it is anyone's guess where it will end up.

Bonhams has forwarded Register details and my request for history to the original auction vendor, so hopefully, we will at least uncover the car's previous forty years history.

And here it is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1929-OHC-VINTAGE-MO ... 9d&afsrc=1

Up to GBP 3,100.

There is some discussion regarding the car on the VSCC forum. I am appealing for a good home for it among LCES members.

Went for GBP 4,100 - six bidders, seven bids with the fresh bidder stepping in ten seconds from the hammer. Here's hoping it is going to a good home - it has had four owners since being auctioned by Bonhams, and none did any work on it - except to strip the registration number. But at least it is still in one piece.

I see there is another saloon on ebay at the moment. Mike

The ebay number is 130372628907 its a 1931 saloon I believe. Mike

Thanks Mike - here it is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3D1&_rdc=1

The tourer is going to a new owner in Gravesend who had visited and seen the car in the flesh before bidding for it - so he knows what he is getting in to.

I also have the details of the '32 saloon but they will remain confidential for the time being at the request of the seller.

Bit of a follow-up on this tourer.

I wrote to Bonhams asking if I could be put in touch with the original vendor. Happily, I have now received a leter from the previous owner who writes:

"I bought Morris Minor FB 8045 roughly thirty years ago from the late Mr. Ron Grey of Mere in Wiltshire - he was a dealer who gave me the original logbook. The car was first registered 1/1/30 and it was full of previous owners. Some time during the late seventies, there was some regulation brought in that all vehicles had to be at Swansea with a V5. I then sent all the old logbooks for several old vehicles I had at the time, asking them to register them and to send me the old logbooks back, but they only sent me the new V5's."