Reading “front-wheel drive,” “848cc inline-four,” and “34hp” in a row is enough to pull the imagination closer to a piece of agricultural equipment than something capable of earning a speeding ticket, and as if to drive the point home, the Cherry Red first-year example pictured here was marketed under the Morris name, which is a name that sounds less like fun and more like someone with an AARP membership and a perennial head cold.īut there’s nothing mundane about the Morris Mini-Minor experience in person.
If you cover up the model designation with your thumb, the Mini doesn’t look great on a spec sheet. Thankfully-and really playing the stepdad role to a T here-BMW had plans for a better party: A big old Mini bender that included pouncing around Munich for a few days in a ’59 Mini-Minor, before swapping keys for a souped ’66 Cooper S and a climb in the Austrian Alps.
Its role in our vehicular history is fascinating and worth knowing, but slogging through the worn-out timeline of races and dates and trademarks is a weak way to celebrate an anniversary. We’re now six full decades downstream from the original, and yet most of us drive to work in something that can be traced back to the Mini.
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