{"id":499180,"date":"2021-02-23T20:32:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=116480"},"modified":"2024-05-30T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:40:12","slug":"a-little-success-the-morris-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/a-little-success-the-morris-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Success – The Morris Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>I was 19-years old and working nights at a Shell service station in San Jose, California, with my friend Jim Jett, when a tiny, roundish car rolled in that looked as if it had been inflated. A young woman stepped out of it and told us that a little red light was staying on. The car only had one instrument, a speedometer, in the middle of the dash. Integrated into it was an analog gas gauge, but temperature, oil pressure and charging were monitored by idiot lights.<\/p>\n

We opened the hood and then stumbled around laughing. The battery was as big as the engine! We had never seen a motor that small in a car. The little inline, overhead valve, four-cylinder engine only displaced just under one liter (equivalent to one Big Gulp) at 948-cc and made a mighty 37 horsepower. It wasn\u2019t even as big as one bank of a Chevy small-block! Yes, there were cars with even smaller engines back then, but we were used to seeing big American cars, with big American V8s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n