@SpecialAndNotDumb Don't forget ash and dumplings , Yorkshire puddings , pork pie , black pudding, fish and chips chip buttys list is endless but our country's crap now because of the government but it dosnt change the people of GB ....
@SpecialAndNotDumb it may be a hidiously ugly peice of shit but its our hidiously ugly peice of shit and thats what makes britain great we drink tea and laugh at your stupidness
@DEXISWOLF driving a hidiously ugly piece of shit and drinking tea makes britian what it is , a sorry cloudy shithole of a country , just imagine how great my comment would have been if you also mention scones , bangers and mash
good luck getting one in the condition thats in for £2000 :L bought mine for £400, spent £1100 getting it to roughly that condition, but you wont pick one up for that. Your looking at £4000+
It started when he turned the key. Must have had it warming up for 15 minutes. One thing I don't miss about my old carby car is the extra sleep-in of a workdays.
@RANKSTUBE well, first of all you need a wet track, like in the video, and then you can slip and slide all you want. Second gear is probably the best for this. Without the water, this thing wouldn't have enough power to drift even with the most slippery of tires.
oh look it started first time instantly! as the A series did,why does clarkson hate british motors so much,they must have taken the coil lead off that austin 1100 in his i love datsun 120y shoot. i know what car id have drove the 1100s started good and drove good and handled not like the 120y they handled BAD prob worse than that morris 1000 ! but rusted far better LOL
I drive my Girlfriends A30 (similar to a35 except smaller rear window). I love it except having long legs, I find the pedals painful to use and it feels very twitcy on conering - a bit like the front might tuck under and roll the car. Does yours do that too? or is it that our car needs the steering set up?
While I was restoring mine I got onto "Frontline Spridget" who offer uprated performance parts for midgets/sprites (and obviously A30/A35/Minors since they share the same floorpan roughly), and got some of their uprated dampers and a rollbar kit. It is quite serious stuff, but absolutely amazing what it does to the car when it's on there
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60 yr old spinster librarian in protracted legal battle with the BBC : knack'd skinnies & wankered clutch. Anyway what kinda name is Tiffany Dell for a morris power-slider, for chrissakes??
it occurs to me that you don't want try fast turns on a right hander, on a narrow road, or your back end'll probably bounce off the bank! and if you try it left hand, you'll swing into the oncoming lane. save it for the track, i think ; )
replying to myself! just watched the video again and wanted to point out how when tiff gets into the minor at 0:32 it's like he's not been in it before and it's been sitting there for ages, yet it starts without the choke and thenj goes on to put the car in third, whilst talking to camera without missing the gear. my dad bought a minor as a treat for himself when he retired and he hadn't driven one for years, and he had to get used to the gear positions all over again!
Oh dear me! Power sliding a 34,000 mile Morris 1000. Bet the poor thing (and it's owner) didn't know what it was in for when the TV production team asked to borrow it. And could you pick up a decent one for a 'mere' £1000 to £2000 in 2006 when this video was posted? I've believed good Minors have cost quite a bit for a while now, most in the sub £2000 price bracket need some TLC to the best of my knowledge.
Bulb replacement would be....errr....Minor, not sure about paint and upholstery. I'd not be so good at doing it myself so paying someone else would end up costing me more than a better car. Been there, done that with other classics!
Upholstery I can do myself and I know someone who can knock up a good coat of cellulose on the car at a reasonable price. I guess it all depends on who you know.
My Uncle Ralph used to had the convertible verson of his first car, but now he owns the 1000 which is similer to the one you see here but his is white
@morris850 that depends wether you want to see a fat bloke saying a car is shit because it doesnt make you feel like a car of that make should do over a gentelman driving a wide range of cars old and new, expensive and inexpensive on the edge and having alot of fun doing so =/
The brakes are ok if you keep them adjusted up. My 1959 Morris tries to leap off the MOT rollers when i take it for its test, they are pretty good. They do fade under heavy braking though
Very nice. But don't laugh, I bought a Morris Minor directly imported from UK 2 years ago. It rounds like a clock, it's a really nice car ( noisy, eventually polluting ) and I love it ( On Sunday only ).
The brakes on these cars are NOT as bad as the media say they are. Mine can STOP with two adults up front in 70 yards from 60 mph without skidding. That was with original width tyres on a dry road. A small 1098cc engine saves on the petrol cost and 'gets you there and back'. At under 800Kg they are light and fun. I know a club member who walked away from a 40mph wing-to-wing head on crash with a Transit van. For a 17 year old male comprehensive insurance is 1/10th that of on a diesel Peugeot307
I can remember reading about James Hunt, either an interview or a tribute, he said his A35 van was his favourite car "because you have to drive it flat out just to keep up"
i drive a 1956 split screen moggy, wet roundabouts ar amazin, lookin forward through the side window ;D i hav now got a 1293 race spec engine in my moggy, does nothin but spin, so much power compared to the original 803cc
If someone built and sold new Morris 1000s with a 16 valve 1.2 litre engine and rear wheel drive I think a lot of people would buy them. No fancy prices though.
i drive a riley 4/72 1.6 (1969) rear wheel drive, live axle, drum brakes, no abs, no t/c, 165/80x14 tyres wet roundabouts and petrol station forcourts rock! i have been know to roll tyres off the rim on roundabouts though, fun is not always above 60mph!
@SpecialAndNotDumb Don't forget ash and dumplings , Yorkshire puddings , pork pie , black pudding, fish and chips chip buttys list is endless but our country's crap now because of the government but it dosnt change the people of GB ....
DEXISWOLF 1 month ago
0:13 to 0:16 is why I admire Tiff. Amazing skill to get that Morris perfectly in the centre of the window.
RikMcCloud 1 month ago
Were average at best? that's why I got the sport version =D
frosty12ify 2 months ago
hidiously ugly piece of british shit , dont even go there with " power sliding " a morris 1000
SpecialAndNotDumb 3 months ago
@SpecialAndNotDumb it may be a hidiously ugly peice of shit but its our hidiously ugly peice of shit and thats what makes britain great we drink tea and laugh at your stupidness
DEXISWOLF 1 month ago
@DEXISWOLF driving a hidiously ugly piece of shit and drinking tea makes britian what it is , a sorry cloudy shithole of a country , just imagine how great my comment would have been if you also mention scones , bangers and mash
SpecialAndNotDumb 1 month ago
its the brittish beetle
yorrickwi 7 months ago
good luck getting one in the condition thats in for £2000 :L bought mine for £400, spent £1100 getting it to roughly that condition, but you wont pick one up for that. Your looking at £4000+
AwakeningA 8 months ago
I dont understand why Tiff didn't join the Top Gear team as a replacement for the stig....
MrWeekendoff 11 months ago
@MrWeekendoff he stood in for the Stig for a while.
Daveslazz 7 months ago in playlist VOD Cars - Tiff Needell Tribute
at 1:17, what is the music?
hornby123me 11 months ago
@hornby123me, The Tornados - Telstar
Dragsteryourself 11 months ago
It started when he turned the key. Must have had it warming up for 15 minutes. One thing I don't miss about my old carby car is the extra sleep-in of a workdays.
Boobdepot1977 1 year ago
what gear should i be in when trying to slide my morris?
RANKSTUBE 1 year ago 7
@RANKSTUBE Leather jacket and jeans should do, by the looks of things..
morris850 1 year ago 49
@morris850 perfect i shall try that
RANKSTUBE 1 year ago
@RANKSTUBE high in second and just before the turn up to third
trainboy52w3st3rn 1 year ago
@RANKSTUBE well, first of all you need a wet track, like in the video, and then you can slip and slide all you want. Second gear is probably the best for this. Without the water, this thing wouldn't have enough power to drift even with the most slippery of tires.
trafficjam10 11 months ago
I'm 16 (17 in March), and i've just bought my first car, a 1967 Morris Minor 1000.
xDanCobleyMusic 1 year ago
@xDanCobleyMusic how's it going for you?
I was think of buying one as my first car too.
whimsypie 10 months ago
I love Tiff, he's a great driver.
Cellsolid 1 year ago
I'm a big fan of mr. needell:)
senoajiwijanarko 1 year ago
Ah yes, drifting in a Moggy on a wet roundabout...
I know EXACTLY what he's talking about!
ChristheXelent 1 year ago
Good grief :-).
Pr1ckles 1 year ago
Atleast it's a lot nicer than the marina which is the worst car ever
lamborgboy 1 year ago
@lamborgboy i had a marina for about a month but crashed it every time i went out, it was no mk2 escort that's for sure.
freedan33 1 year ago
Tiff is caning that moggy!
JohnnyTheWolfLupino 1 year ago
love the telstar...
uvlajzakonje 1 year ago
"Once you homed your skills in a Morris 1000, you were ready for anything "
JohnnyBoi93xD 1 year ago 2
When my rear bushes were worn out the back end was MAD on corners
thomasking55 2 years ago
oh look it started first time instantly! as the A series did,why does clarkson hate british motors so much,they must have taken the coil lead off that austin 1100 in his i love datsun 120y shoot. i know what car id have drove the 1100s started good and drove good and handled not like the 120y they handled BAD prob worse than that morris 1000 ! but rusted far better LOL
somote68 2 years ago
it doesn't matter how old or even ugly a car is, as long as it goes sideways! it'll look amazing!!
trelimastoura 2 years ago 3
actually bluebus207
morris was its own company untill it was taken over by BL in '72 thats what killed the british car francise was 'BL ' and all the strikes ;)
gentman123 2 years ago
Ahhhh....the Morris Minor, Austin Allegro, Morris Ital and Hillman Hunter.
It doesn't take much working out to suss why Rover went down the pan, and is now thriving in China.
British engineering post 1945 is a bad joke.
bluebus270 2 years ago
our engineering brilliant most international motorsport teams are based in britian. Its our mass production thats shit.
ckeith1987 2 years ago 4
These are motherfucking great cars to drive, I have one, insurance is £35 free tax+it feels fast and fun to race around corners in
jacobbengali1 2 years ago 5
lol this is great!!!
2tallbrandon 2 years ago
great cars had one years ago. Tried to slide it near Rugby and turned it over in a ditch
SparticusA 2 years ago
I really like Moggies, but prefer my Austin A35, just doesn't look quite as grown up as the Minor, a bit cuter.
Chunkychucky 2 years ago
I drive my Girlfriends A30 (similar to a35 except smaller rear window). I love it except having long legs, I find the pedals painful to use and it feels very twitcy on conering - a bit like the front might tuck under and roll the car. Does yours do that too? or is it that our car needs the steering set up?
christhesnaildriver 2 years ago
While I was restoring mine I got onto "Frontline Spridget" who offer uprated performance parts for midgets/sprites (and obviously A30/A35/Minors since they share the same floorpan roughly), and got some of their uprated dampers and a rollbar kit. It is quite serious stuff, but absolutely amazing what it does to the car when it's on there
Chunkychucky 2 years ago
i got 1 there beast
jib1995 2 years ago
im gonna get a morris 1000 and learn some shit!
VortexNeurofunk 2 years ago 2
minge rimjob
helmit74 2 years ago
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60 yr old spinster librarian in protracted legal battle with the BBC : knack'd skinnies & wankered clutch. Anyway what kinda name is Tiffany Dell for a morris power-slider, for chrissakes??
rtyees 2 years ago
its Timothy Needell Tiff is his nick name
VortexNeurofunk 2 years ago
I want one of those! O.O
herbienbrian 3 years ago
it occurs to me that you don't want try fast turns on a right hander, on a narrow road, or your back end'll probably bounce off the bank! and if you try it left hand, you'll swing into the oncoming lane. save it for the track, i think ; )
pjsmoulder 3 years ago
replying to myself! just watched the video again and wanted to point out how when tiff gets into the minor at 0:32 it's like he's not been in it before and it's been sitting there for ages, yet it starts without the choke and thenj goes on to put the car in third, whilst talking to camera without missing the gear. my dad bought a minor as a treat for himself when he retired and he hadn't driven one for years, and he had to get used to the gear positions all over again!
pjsmoulder 3 years ago
Oh dear me! Power sliding a 34,000 mile Morris 1000. Bet the poor thing (and it's owner) didn't know what it was in for when the TV production team asked to borrow it. And could you pick up a decent one for a 'mere' £1000 to £2000 in 2006 when this video was posted? I've believed good Minors have cost quite a bit for a while now, most in the sub £2000 price bracket need some TLC to the best of my knowledge.
rx6180 3 years ago
no they dont. my dad got a running 62 moggy with minor rust on the sills for 500 pounds. 2000 pounds will get a almost mint one
6joshh6 2 years ago 2
i bought one for £300 and a splitscreen series 2 just needed 2 floor pans replacing
Morrisman1000 2 years ago
I picked up my '68 2dr for £1350 and only has minor (hehe!) issues to deal with like paintwork, upholstery and bulb replacements.
tonicaek 2 years ago
Bulb replacement would be....errr....Minor, not sure about paint and upholstery. I'd not be so good at doing it myself so paying someone else would end up costing me more than a better car. Been there, done that with other classics!
rx6180 2 years ago
Upholstery I can do myself and I know someone who can knock up a good coat of cellulose on the car at a reasonable price. I guess it all depends on who you know.
tonicaek 2 years ago
This is why im learning to drive on a morris!! Unbelievable fun to drive! cheap to run and easy to maintan! what more do you need?
obl233f 3 years ago 3
couldnt agree more......hillarious little cars
57silver 2 years ago
My Uncle Ralph used to had the convertible verson of his first car, but now he owns the 1000 which is similer to the one you see here but his is white
sideslide23 3 years ago
Fun Video, My First car was a 1000. He forgot to mention 90 degree turns with the handbrake. Good times
davebdave1 3 years ago
I learned to drive on a morris too!
altafhkhan 3 years ago
thats why i own a morris 1000
flattop 3 years ago
God bless Issigonis,he gave the world its best cars
Joe90ridesahonda 3 years ago 2
Tiff needell is far far far far better than jeremy clarkson
dolphin674 3 years ago 24
better at driving yes, more out-right entertaining, no..
morris850 3 years ago 40
@morris850 that depends wether you want to see a fat bloke saying a car is shit because it doesnt make you feel like a car of that make should do over a gentelman driving a wide range of cars old and new, expensive and inexpensive on the edge and having alot of fun doing so =/
NewRomantic4 1 year ago
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i owned a moggy 1000 for about 4 weeks in 1969. couldnt wait to sell it. what a load a crap.
cant understand all the fuss about the moggy.
the mini made it obsolete in 1959.
yet they made it until 1971!
ormus55 3 years ago
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Eat shit, needle-dick.
terminegger 3 years ago
thank god for sane people like you
nipperoid 3 years ago
The brakes are ok if you keep them adjusted up. My 1959 Morris tries to leap off the MOT rollers when i take it for its test, they are pretty good. They do fade under heavy braking though
trunnions59 3 years ago 2
Very nice. But don't laugh, I bought a Morris Minor directly imported from UK 2 years ago. It rounds like a clock, it's a really nice car ( noisy, eventually polluting ) and I love it ( On Sunday only ).
Guy ( Brussels, Belgium )
gillesdesthilaire 3 years ago
is this the 130bhp moggy with central locking and electric windows and quadphonic cd player ;)
advent45143 3 years ago
I have this car on a fridge magnet
geordieboydave 3 years ago 2
shawly that makes the fridge door heavy?
chickmansson 3 years ago 4
The brakes on these cars are NOT as bad as the media say they are. Mine can STOP with two adults up front in 70 yards from 60 mph without skidding. That was with original width tyres on a dry road. A small 1098cc engine saves on the petrol cost and 'gets you there and back'. At under 800Kg they are light and fun. I know a club member who walked away from a 40mph wing-to-wing head on crash with a Transit van. For a 17 year old male comprehensive insurance is 1/10th that of on a diesel Peugeot307
thomasking55 3 years ago 4
That looks a lot of fun! As for the car itself, that looks to be one of the last ones made!
Actually this reminds me of the late F1 driver James Hunt after retirement - his method of transportation was an Austin A35 van!
joh2 4 years ago
I can remember reading about James Hunt, either an interview or a tribute, he said his A35 van was his favourite car "because you have to drive it flat out just to keep up"
russ13b 3 years ago
very good, its true as well minors are very chuckable. I just couldnt get on with the brakes on mine though
mrspivvy 4 years ago 2
now that's drifting with style. pop in a K series and you could do that competitively.
acalthu 4 years ago
Na, rebuild an A to mini miglia spec
russ13b 3 years ago
i drive a 1956 split screen moggy, wet roundabouts ar amazin, lookin forward through the side window ;D i hav now got a 1293 race spec engine in my moggy, does nothin but spin, so much power compared to the original 803cc
walkercontracts 4 years ago 2
My front tyres just skid, I'm doing something wrong...
thomasking55 3 years ago
Excellent!
volvomantom 4 years ago
Now I know why he struggled in that D1 Drift Soarer last year, should've been in a moggy :D
mrbigzero 4 years ago
If someone built and sold new Morris 1000s with a 16 valve 1.2 litre engine and rear wheel drive I think a lot of people would buy them. No fancy prices though.
vidpop 4 years ago 4
i drive a riley 4/72 1.6 (1969) rear wheel drive, live axle, drum brakes, no abs, no t/c, 165/80x14 tyres wet roundabouts and petrol station forcourts rock! i have been know to roll tyres off the rim on roundabouts though, fun is not always above 60mph!
nesmaddan 4 years ago
Great to see a classic drifting instead of that Jap rubbish!
stuing 4 years ago 11
were is this taken from??
SammeBMW 4 years ago
an episode of 5th gear..
morris850 4 years ago
He,s right! wonderful cars,ABS is for people with no skill.
Sebbio149 4 years ago 5
damn right, just keep pumping away on that pedal!
YamahaFs1e 4 years ago
I drive a morris van, and Tiff is right, wet round abouts rule!!!!
gaiusross 5 years ago 2
Classic Tiff! Wet roundabouts Morris 1000 style!!!!
MF301HA 5 years ago 2
and thats why i put disks in mine
felain 5 years ago
bah... weak... :)
morris850 5 years ago
bet you nicked em off a marina
nipperoid 3 years ago