BOX of TRICKS
IT’S a surprise this wasn’t a character in the movie Cars. The black-painted front wheelarches are the shoulders framing a teddy-bear face with its grille-shaped nose and those sparkling eyes posing as headlights. It was this happy personality that first attracted Gippsland couple Amanda and Johnno Goodge to the humble Morris J-type van.
“I bought a big-block Corvette about 10 years ago,” begins Johnno, “and Amanda was hanging it on me: ‘Well, what am I going to have?’ I said: ‘You choose a car and tell me what it is and we’ll get it for you.’ One day we were having coffee in Melbourne somewhere and a Morris J-type van pulls up out the front.
