Not A7 - but a real car-enthusiat's "anorak" test question.

[John Mason]

Note the slightly different grille on the Austin as to the Morris grilles.

John Mason

[Tony Griffiths]

Note the slightly different grille on the Austin  as to the Morris grilles.

John Mason

Yes, the Austin grill mirrors that used on the early Austin 7 Mini.

[andrew34ruby]

   
The wavy grille was used by Austin 5 years before the Mini, on the Austin Cambridge of 1955

[Stuart Giles]

And just in case we should forget that 60's rot box...

[Duncan Grimmond]

Spotted today in Boroughbrige

[Charles P]

I learnt to drive in a Morris Minor pickup on a grass airfield at the age of 13. I could handle opposite lock before being able to reverse.
It may have been formative.

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[Howard Wright]

Spotted today in Boroughbrige

Hi Duncan

You may have realised but the car spotted is not an original pickup but one made from either a van or estate.  You can tell by the seam across the roof and down the sides. The rear windows are wrong too.

Cheers

Howard

[Stuart Giles]

Spotted today in Boroughbrige

Hi Duncan

You may have realised but the car spotted is not an original pickup but one made from either a van or estate.  You can tell by the seam across the roof and down the sides. The rear windows are wrong too.

Cheers

Howard

May have been a van when it left the factory; wouldn't have been an estate (Traveller) as they didn't have a proper chassis at the rear - it's just peeking out under the pickup bed in that photo. The only certain way to check what it started out as is the chassis number/VIN prefix. MAV = van; MAU =Pickup.

BTW, the factory pickups did have a seam across the cab, filled with a rubber moulding, you can just see it in the photo of my old "Sudden Green" (as my mates dubbed the colour) pickup on the previous page.

[Howard Wright]

Thanks Stuart

Cheers

Howard

[Duncan Grimmond]

The rear windows look to be the same shape as the van rear door ones ...However, I agree it seems to me " made from " rather than original.