Hemmings Classic Car

No Place Like Home

“If you find yourself looking into the gutter, you’re in the wrong lane.”

DANG I did it again! I inadvertently folded myself into the front passenger seat of my restored 1966 Morris Minor convertible. It happened right in the middle of a town on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand where we have a house. Neighbors were waving hello, I was not paying attention, and after many years, I once again absentmindedly climbed in on the wrong side of the car. To avoid humiliation,

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