Pimp My Minor

For some time now I have been trying to sell panels on the minor to corporate sponsors. I am now please to announce two such deals.

The first was to my mate Rick who runs Berkshire Property Maintenance. Rick very generously sponsored the rear pane of the car and even put in some incentives for extra sponsorship if I can get the car in the press etc.

Pretty certain I will manage that so hopefully there will be some extra money on it’s way to Help for Heroes as soon as the press releases are written.

My plan is to get the kids at Lynn’s school to write the releases so it would be a very hard hearted hack that will ignore them!


The second corporate sponsor was WIN. WIN are a technology service provider and text aggregator and have not only sponsored a panel on the car but also set up a text short code so that anyone can text in to sponsor us!!

They are also investigating whether or not they can track us on the journey se we may be able to have a LEJOG tracker page for the drive- this will allow all interested parties to see where we have broken down at any time day or night!

Finally I persuaded Lynn’s brother to do the sign writing. The car was finished about a week ago and looks wicked. Steve’s company impact graphics have done an amazing job despite the rubbish paint finish- in fact now the graphics are on I think the car handles better as the rigidity has been increased significantly.


The next major job is to do my press releases and try and get some more coverage and sponsors- we don’t have many more weeks to get to the £2k target so the more exposure we can get the better.

Over the next few weeks I intend to expose myself across the local area so watch out Newbury!!

Meet Sky

Over the last couple of weeks I have been pretty slack regarding updating the blog but I and my ever growing team of helpers have not been idle!

Last post I did was immediately prior to going to a big car show in Basingstoke equipped with collection tins and lots of literature about the adventure.

As you may recall from previous posts I still have an issue with the door popping open when driving but I had a cunning plan to solve this. I thought that if I locked the door there would be less chance of it flying open in transit.

So when I had packed the car prior to starting I locked the doors. Then I started her up and left her running to warm up- slamming the door closed as I left the car. OOOPs!

One Morris minor happily chugging away with the keys locked inside and no spares!!!

Fortunately 1968 locks are not that tricky to open and with a bit of wiggling of my preferred tool we were in!

The show was good and we had many donations and long chats with other owners and even met the person who sold the car to Colin whom I bought the car from.

That was a pretty illuminating chat where I learnt that the car had been bought from a scrap yard for £300 and then restored to it’s current glory?!

The haunted door appears to have been a feature back then too.

Last weekend we attended the local schools produce in the park event and again shook our tins and encouraged the school children to name the car.

We had lots of entries (some not so complimentary such as Rusty and one chaps insistence that it should be called Kevin!) but when we drew the name out of the hat the car was christened Sky.

So Lynn Sky and me are now only a couple of months from our epic journey and I still haven’t worked out what the average speed will be- will book a day off and do a long trip soon!

12 Months of motoring secured!

Dave has worked his magic on the Mog and I now have a full 12 months of MOT!

Off and on it took Dave about a week to get all the welding etc done but even then he was unable to cure the enormously annoying habit of the doors popping open for no apparent reason. Maybe the car is possessed!

Although it may seem a small fault it is seriously off putting to be going round a corner only to hear a KLUNK and feel the wind rushing though whatever hair you have left.

I may have to weld the doors up Dukes of Hazzard style and enter and exit via the windows.

We have a car show to attend this bank holiday Monday and I hope to take the Mog and the Ferrari along with some collecting tins and stickers publicising the run and the blog so hopefully I can land some more sponsors.

That all depends on the bank holiday weather and at present the outlook isn't great.