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Old 2nd July 2022, 20:00   #1
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Here are a few pictures of her, owned for twenty years but has been sitting in a garage for thirteen of them up till eighteen months back when l sent her up to Yorkshire for recommisioning. We've done around 1000 miles since we collected her a couple of months back. There is some welding to do underneath which is being taken care of in the next few weeks & the interior is being bought up to scratch gradually:
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Old 2nd July 2022, 20:11   #2
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Very rare vehicle theses days, and lovely to see. Mind you, I thought that all Oxford Travellers were a single colour, the Cambridge version having the duo tone. If yours was always two colours, even rarer!
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Old 2nd July 2022, 20:30   #3
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FIL has a Morris Oxford pick up.
Well, it started out as two cars…..😀
He made a tidy job out of it. Pity I don’t have any photos of it at hand.


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Old 3rd July 2022, 16:48   #4
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Very rare vehicle theses days, and lovely to see. Mind you, I thought that all Oxford Travellers were a single colour, the Cambridge version having the duo tone. If yours was always two colours, even rarer!
I'm not sure about all Traveller's being single colours but this one was, Smoke Grey. We changed to the two-tone, l chose Triumph Cherry to break the grey up. Also, this is an A55 paint scheme as the chrome sidetrim finished at the rear door rather than carrying on to the front. A60 two-tone's were top & bottom with the full length sidetrims. I think the earlier scheme was far more effective though so despite the trim difference l went with the A55. I have some unobtainium door finishers to fit (one is NOS) & the holes are already there as the replacement rear doors are A55.
Incidentally, she was fitted with an 1800 Sherpa engine when l bought her, now replaced with the same, a crated reconditioned one l found in the back pages of Classic Car Weekly some years back now. The original gearbox now backed up with a 3.9 MGB differential.
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Old 3rd July 2022, 19:05   #5
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Old 3rd July 2022, 20:25   #6
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Very nice bit of nostalgia.
You don't see the Morris Oxford that was prior to this nowadays many years ago they were rebuilding them in India IIRC. Talking about it with my brother in law the other day he had a two tone green back in the '60s.
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Old 5th July 2022, 00:51   #7
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The Hindustan Ambassador, based on the old MO Oxford's:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hind...ion%20lifetime.
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A very good looking and practical classic , can't be many estates left ?
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A very good looking and practical classic , can't be many estates left ?
They're pretty scarce but you could probably get one if you wanted, depending on your desires regarding condition.
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Very nice bit of nostalgia.
You don't see the Morris Oxford that was prior to this nowadays many years ago they were rebuilding them in India IIRC. Talking about it with my brother in law the other day he had a two tone green back in the '60s.

My father had one of those for a few years, green it was, with trafficators where you had to give the B pillar a thump to get them to pop out. The fabrol gear for the valve timing stripped, once on route to a holiday, common problem apparently, then he set fire to the wiring for the dash illumination and ended up jury rigging little lampholders and SMES 12v bulbs, with twin flex.
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