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    Oct 13, 2020 5 minutes

    MARMITE MYSTERY MOTOR

    Dear Classic American,

    I would like to introduce myself as the crazy person driving the silver car on page 53 of the Chelsea Cruise feature. Thank you for your comment “Dunno what it is but we love it” – it is definitely a Marmite car, but I love it and smile every time I go near it. In fact it is an almost completely handbuilt 1968, 350 Chevy-powered Morris Minor, pretty much all has been done by hand, no machinery… although I did use a welder! I thought I would fill you in on a few of the details of my Warbird Morris Minor. I bought it many years ago and truthfully was ripped off; I just had to have it as it had that ’41 Willys-based flip front. The inside had been emulsion

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