The cars on this list carry chassis guarantees ranging from two to five years. All carry new MOT's and have been fully serviced and mechanically overhauled. All our cars can be adapted to take unleaded fuel - If you would like further details or photographs, please contact us.

The current stock lists indicate the cars we are evaluating as of JUNE 2008

OUR PRICES ARE QUOTED IN GBP ( £ ) - You may use the conversion tool on the list pages to convert to any other currency.

OUR SALES PHILOSOPHY

Modern cars are built from such light materials that once rust or bubbling paint develops in their structural seams, they are beyond their sell by date.

On the contrary, Durable Cars, like Morris Minors, are constructed from much heavier gauge steel and are so relatively strong that even when in poor shape are still just about viable. As a recent example of this refusal to die, we recently advised an elderly lady who had owned her Morris for forty years from new. It was unfortunately deeply riddled with rust and had been repaired with filler and fibreglass under its fairly new re-spray. The chassis was like a patchwork quilt, but it was able to obtain a legal MOT and it worked well.

The cost of restoring this car to its original glory would have been about £12,000, which for this owner, on a fixed pension, was beyond her means. Naturally she was upset and said 'but my garage has always done what was necessary,' which was true because they were in a mistaken way trying to help her out by carrying out only minimal work to keep bills on the low side.

The majority of Morris Minors have many of these problems because unlike with old houses, no one bothers to give an overview of their real condition. All sensible home buyers want to know what is behind the wall paper before taking the plunge and will always as a priority spend whatever is necessary to sort out the 'dry rot and rising damp' before considering the paint finishes.

We of course regularly carry out complete rebuilds for our customers to 'as new' standards, which will last for many decades, but the costs, anything up to £15000 or so, are beyond most people's Morris Minor budgets.

Fortunately because we have been around for the last thirty years and have a wide range of contacts it is quite unnecessary to spend such large sums to obtain a decent Morris Minor with a good future. A large number of our best sales cars have in the past been fully or partly restored by us or other respectable restorers. Many never go on the open market because their owners hate the idea of their 'old friends' being 'prodded' by strangers and prefer us to find them a good future home. Durable Car ownership is essentially about function, so like a house it isn't absolutely essential to have every room decorated in order to live in it.

Our priority is therefore to make sure that any car we sell has a chassis with a good future, a new high quality safety MOT and be mechanically reliable for everyday use.

Many of the cars on this list are priced 'From.' This means that more can be done to them cosmetically now or in the future, but in the meantime they will do their job efficiently.

One thing we have never done (which is the normal way in the motor trade) is to apply a nice cosmetic re-spray, which looks OK for a year. Dressing 'mutton up as lamb' is not where we come from.

Being a national and international business, we sell unseen quite a lot of our cars on detailed descriptions and can honestly say that no one coming to see the completed job has rejected it.

Ideally if you are able to come once to see us, we will always find the right car for you within your budget price range taking detailed notes by comparing the many cars we always have on our premises.

The only drawback to buying from us is that we rarely have a line up of Morris Minors ready to buy and drive away in because normally we agree a detailed specification with a customer before completing the work. Sometimes it is possible with a very nice example.

If you have never driven one or want to reacquaint yourself with the experience, we are happy, by appointment, to let you drive one without any obligation.

N.B. ALL MORRIS MINORS ARE U.K ROAD TAX EXEMPT.