THE seventh Morris Minor car ever made sold for £22,500 yesterday.
The grey model cost £358 when it rolled off the production line in 1948 and still has only 15,538 miles on the clock.
© Copyright 2023 Historics AuctioneersThe seventh Morris Minor car ever made sold at auction yesterday[/caption]
© Copyright 2023 Historics AuctioneersOver 1 million Morris Minors were made[/caption]
In all, 1.3million Morris Minors were made and it was the first Brit car to sell more than a million.
The motor was designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, who later went on to develop the Mini.
The newly-sold car does 40 miles to the gallon and can hit 64mph.
It has small versions of railway signals which pop up as indicator lights.
The motor was sold by Historics Auctioneers in Slough, Berks, who said: “It is understood to be the oldest running example.”
The car has chassis number 507.
Numbers 502 to 506 are missing while the first is in the National Motor Museum, in Beaulieu, Hampshire.
© Copyright 2023 Historics AuctioneersThe car has chassis number 507[/caption]