1964 Morris Minor 1000 Traveller
The timber-framed Traveller is among the most distinctive variants of Alec Issigonis’s Morris Minor, a design that debuted at the 1948 London Motor Show and became one of Britain’s most recognized post-war automobiles. The Traveller estate body arrived in 1953, built around a structural ash wood frame with paired side-hinged rear doors.
By 1964, the Minor 1000 had been running the 1,098cc overhead-valve A-Series engine for two years, up from the 948cc unit introduced with the Minor 1000 in 1956. That same 1956 update also replaced the earlier split windshield with a one-piece curved glass, giving the car a cleaner front appearance.
The Minor’s specification included torsion bar independent front suspension, rack-and-pinion steering, and a four-speed gearbox with synchromesh on the upper three gears (forward-thinking features for a car designed in the mid-1940s). Curb weight for the Traveller was approximately 1,840 lb (835 kg).
The Traveller outlasted every other body style in the range. Production of the Minor continued until April 1971, and it was a Traveller that was the last car to leave the line.
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