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!