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    A little van that needs a lot of work

    Jan 22, 2021 4 minutes

    Will Armston-Sheret

    Contributor

    Will has a collection of Morris Minors. This column follows the maintenance and modification of them for daily use, as well as the long-term restoration of a 1950 Lowlight Tourer from a desert scrapyard in America and a 1970 Morris Van which has been in his family for nearly 40 years.

    MY FLEET

    1950 MORRIS MINOR LOWLIGHT SALOON

    OWNED SINCE: 2012

    1950 MINOR LOWLIGHT CONVERTIBLE

    OWNED SINCE: 2017

    1967 MINOR SALOON

    OWNED SINCE: 2010

    1970 MINOR VAN

    OWNED (BY MUM) SINCE: 1980

    Dad has put me to work on the family’s 1969 Morris 1000 van. It feels a bit of a busman’s holiday, going from bodywork prep on the 1950 Lowlight

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