I own a mid-grey 1967 Morris Minor Traveller (Ian Allen’s letter, 7 June). Recently, I was returning to it in a Sainsbury’s car park in Macclesfield with some shopping. Hanging around the rear of the car I noticed an elderly lady wearing a Giles cartoon grandma-style hat with a flower in it and a dark ill-fitting coat. When I approached, she asked: “Young man [I’m 72!], is this your car?” When I replied “Yes”, she whimpered a little and shuffled around the rear of the car to peer in a side window.
Then came the swinging 60s punchline: “Young man, I’d like you to know that I lost my virginity in the back of one of those.” I was a bit taken aback but managed to ask if she enjoyed the experience, to which she replied, “No, not really”, and shuffled off with her trolley!
So, perhaps the Morris Traveller should be viewed as an essential part of the 1960s sexual revolution and the headline should be. Morris Minor Traveller – swinging 60s icon.
Pat Jeater
Macclesfield, Cheshire
• Ian Allen mentions that the Morris Minor was used among other things as a police car. In the late 1970s my wife had a pale blue one that had previously been a police car – along with a hole in the roof where the radio aerial had been fitted.
Ian Arnott
Peterborough
• No of course the Morris Minor Traveller is no Brexit icon as it was designed by Alec Issigonis, a European immigrant who was the son of a Greek father and a German mother.
Anders Ditlev Clausager
Birmingham
• Not so many years ago, when I drove a VW Beetle, there was an unwritten rule that drivers of such a car would acknowledge, with a wave of the hand, each other on the road. Sadly those days are gone.
Rob Parrish
Starcross, Devon
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