Teenage Spirit

"MartinS" wrote

Also in the Hornby range. I sold one on Saturday and didn't *quite* think it captured the atmosphere of the real thing, mind it was painted grey & I only ever remember black 'Mayflower' cars.

John.

Or white. My Oxford one is white.

Black, Grey, that washed out blue colour and I even saw a white one but I think that was a non standard used for weddings.

Chris

You may be right. Anyway, here's a photo of one:

They always remind me of a small 'Rolls'. You see them sometimes at county shows etc ..... they had about 1200 or 1300 cc side valve alloy motors. Not quite in the cult status as the Moggy but still a good one to restore.

Chris

The Mayflower (1949-1953) was designed to look like a luxury car, but was much smaller. They were supposed to appeal to Americans, hence the name, but they didn't - too small and underpowered. The 1247cc side-valve engine with aluminium head developed 38 bhp and could accelerate the car from 0 to 50 mph in 26.6 sec. Fuel consumption was 28 mpg. The similarly sized and lower priced Morris Minor was introduced in 1948. Only 35,000 Mayflowers were built, compared to almost 1.4 million Moggy Minors.