HOW THIS CAR CHANGED MY LIFE - TIFF NEEDELL. Morris 1000 Traveller full story.
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- An emotional story of how one car changed ex Top Gear and Fifth gear presenter, Tiff Needell's life forever!
A huge influence throughout his early life was the Morris 1000 and Morris Traveller and Tiff takes us for a trip down memory lane in this heartfelt story.
From sliding his mothers Morris 1000 around corners, to buying a Morris Traveller as his first car, the story takes a twist to reveal why Tiff Needell ended up being a racing driver and television personality, and not a civil engineer!
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What was your first car? Let us know below.
did that car have a Ford 5 speed gearknob fitted? has it had a 5 speed box fitted?
and gotta say, towing with a Morris 1000 is BRAVE, especially nowadays!
Red 1979 Chevy Van (car?!), 87 Dodge Charger (awful!), 1990 Nissan 240SX, then almost always Miatas after that.. Thanks for the beautiful video!
1983 BMW 320i
I had a 4 door MK2 Escort 1300L
MK3 Escort 1.1 in yellow.
One of the best films I’ve seen on CZcams in ages. Well done guys and what a brilliant story.👍
Cheers Blair! :)
I began watching you on Top Gear in the early 90’s and I’m glad I still get to do that on CZcams. Keep it up Tiff. One of my favorite videos of you is actually your episode with Harris spanking the 3 hypercars!
@blair henderson agreed 😌👍
The end photo gave me chills.
Thank you!!
@@lovecarsTV did you have to make it end like it was Tiff's obituary?
@@Pionirish Exactly my thought too ! I was waiting for the RIP and 19xx-20xx !
Tiff Needell is the "class" when it comes to anything with cars, reviews, stories etc. Just awesome. RESPECT
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Beautiful episode! Especially when he opened garage door for the Lotus 69F...
Thank you very much. We love this one too.
I’d like your comment but it already has 69 likes.
Given çurrent climate this film is an oasis of calm in a world that has gone to hell in a handcart............Nice one 👍
Yes agreed, 'Foxes Afloat' a narrowboat adventure is wonderful too! Also a 'Rogue Mariner on the upper Thames' (&France) is just great.
Amazing how that competition just totally changed Tiffs life direction. Imagine winning a formula car in a competition now. Would be unheard of.
There's something reassuring about a Morris 1000, I am of a similar age to Tiff, passing my test on November 28th 1968 , my first car was a Morris Oxford Estate, 1962 vintage, with a very powerful 1622cc engine producing an incredible 61 bhp lol, remember racing a Ford Cortina 1.2 for around 25 miles while on holiday, we had our car full of camping gear, so it was so much fun, because going down a hill I would overtake the Cortina, but when we went up the other side the Cortina passed us lol, this went on for about 25 miles along a rare dual carriageway of the time lol, fond memories though, holes in the front footwells big enough to get your foot through ! exhaust held on with a piece of wire, and a brake pedal that went straight to the floor ! had to pump it several times for the brakes to work, drove over 1000 miles on the holiday like that 😅🤦♀️ but I was just 18 and a new driver, plus safety in those days was secondary to mobility !
Living in Colorado I had a right hand drive Moggie. Loved it. I took out the passenger seat so my Great Pyrenees Khoda could sit next to me and look out the windscreen. got great reactions from oncoming drivers.
Nice story. Decent guy with his feet on the ground.
Thanks very much Martin
Fabulously heart warming 22 minutes of video.
Yes, I watched this twice
HA! Andrew, thanks very much!!
My father had a Morris Traveller when I was a young boy in the early 1960s and I loved it.
Drove my first car, a mini 1000 in 1990 and had minis ever since. A Morris Traveller is still on my wish list and it's great to see the story of the best presenter ever driving one around.
Made me a bit tearful 😅 you can just see the love for cars in this film! 👍 Good job guys
Thank you very much Mike!
I love this insight into Tiff's early years. I would like to know a bit more about his (few) years as a Civil Engineer. Did all the mathematics and Structural design help in his racing career? I recently found out that Colin Chapman himself was also a Civil Engineer. My first car? That was a rear wheel drive Mazda 323 estate.
Thank you very much! Will ask Tiff about the further information!
Or you could buy his fantastic Autobiography. ( dm me Tiff for my bank details 😅)
So refreshing to see a CZcams car video where the presenter is not repeatedly trying to make up pointless metaphors and stupid jokes. A wonderful clip, as a driver of several Morris 1000s it was especially heart warming.
I read Tiff’s autobiography a while back and this video makes me want to read it again . What a legend, always cheerful, bet a pint with Tiff would be more fun than with most modern Grand Prix drivers .
These memories of good old days, the story of tiff how he became the great & loved driver we see today.... Literally I was smilling the whole time. A great video by the team. There is something we all just about tiff that charisma, a striking personality, he is the guy who had made so many people mad for powerslides. Keep going man you rock.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much!
My first car was a Little Tikes Cozy Coupe (with performance pack)
You could swap the rubber to somethijg grippier treads to increase the off-road traction on those vehicles!
I don’t normally comment on these videos (despite being on CZcams with a car channel myself!), but this was such an enjoyable, and beautifully presented, and well edited video, I just had to say how much I loved it. Genuinely brilliant, and very poignant. I remember travelling with my uncle in his old van as he competed in motorbike racing at Knockhill in Scotland. Such different times to today’s world of corporate sponsorship and the high cost of racing, even at junior levels. Brilliant Tiff, just brilliant. One of the best things I’ve ever seen you present.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment 🙂
This is the essence of what loving cars is all about. Not pointless drag races. Passion. Tiff is an absolute legend.
We do a drag race every Wednesday and a feature every Sunday 👍
This film was absolutely brilliant! The edit, the story, and presented by an iconic individual 👌
Ah wonderful memories of a time when traffic was almost non existent, drivers were polite and traffic cops would let you off with a caution! 🇬🇧
So true!
Delightful! My first car was indeed a Moggy Traveller - from Charles Ware - and in green! Happy memories 😀👍
Hello Adam
If cars or bikes are more to you than just getting from A to B. This video will have some meaning, stir up some memories and emotions. Love it.
Thanks for watching 🙂
I am 65 at the moment lol .and my first car after passing my test was a beaten up oldsmobile rocket 88 my parents went mad I paid 25 pounds for it .my dad coverd the insurance. Great video love old tiff puts Clarkson in Second division
Lol my dad's first car they were fast.
@@pyrrhus17 I wish I had that car now lol
Shaun Sizmur Clarkson was never in any but the bottom division, Tiff in the top. Great in a car (any car? Any sort of motorsport event for four wheels), and always willing to learn. Loved this video. Les
A Oldsmobile 88 1957 has been in my son in laws family since 1957👍
But the traveler is my wife’s all time favourite 💪
I started with a 1930-something Morris 8. Fantastic car. (mind you, having *any* car back then was fantastic).
Oh wow! 🙂
We have lost that simple joy of the freedom of a car, it is seen as such a right now. I remember sitting in the old Singer that my Dad bought for me to learn in, practicing gear changes and in my minds eye picturing the green country lanes that would lead me to places to go hillwalking and the pub afterwards, with a kip in the tent to follow!
Get back to your rc matey.
Tiff you are a legend, you have been a permanent fixture and possibly the main reason I’ve been obsessed with cars since I could speak, 30 years later I’m still obsessed and you are an even bigger legend.
Bless you, very kind words!
Tiff Needell, such an accomplished and likeable presenter, showcasing an accomplished and likable motor car. Yes, I had a 1954 Oz built 2 door in green as my first car. Hope you had a grand day, Tiff!
Thank you 🙏
Absolutely loved watching this. Tiff is such an incredible man and it’s so nice seeing an insight into where his love of cars began
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much!
Fantastic story! What more could you want? Racing and TV legend Tiff telling you his beginnings in modest and heartfelt way. This is why Lovecars is a cut above so many CZcams car channels. My 1st Car was a 1981 Talbot Sunbeam 1300 LS with a 1600 Ti engine swapped in and lotus stripes & Rostyles, still have a polaroid of it, it rusted almost as fast as it went due to its 1300 diff 😂
Thank you very much!!
Fantastic story, Tiff is still to me one of the very few drivers that can drive properly and actually describe what the car is doing.... Top man!
Couldn't agree more!
I just found this today. Wonderful, wonderful! Said by a 68 yo civil engineer car lover
Great episode could feel your nostalgia!!
Thank you Gary!
Beautiful video, thanks for sharing your memories with us Tiff ☺️
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much
Almost, only almost, a tear in my eye ! Tiff, you are e very lucky man being able to re enact a part of your youth ! Well done Sir !
Thank you
God how I've loved the Traveller since my mid-teens.
Thank you for a most wonderful piece.
Wow.. Absolutely brilliant, loved it. Thanks for sharing your story Tiff.
Thank you very much!
Right in the feels ❤️
Thank you Jared!
Very rarely does a film on you tube just make me smile but this one does with joy and sentiment
Sweet story.Tiff is by far the best motoring TV presenter.
My first car was a Ford Escort 1100L😎👍
Glad you enjoyed the video 👌😁
A very heartwarming story. 👍
Ford Escort. And no, not a cool one!
But I do now have a Lotus Esprit.
Thank you Paul. Our own personal favorite!
What a wonderful episode! One of my favourite from your channel. Hopefully, we’ll see more diverse content such as this, aside from the usual supercar ones.
Thank you Sam! Our favourite too. Just a shame [insert word here!] drag races, get so many more views and costs much less to produce!
Old school wins everytime for me!
GRT 86 F....my Traveller, sadly deceased on an icy road near Fressingfield Suffolk in 1977. Thanks for the memory.
Glad you enjoyed the video and it brought back memories. 😁👌
This should be on the recommended CZcams page for let's say at least 100 years ..... !!!!! #amazing #oldschool #tiffneedell #lovecars #morris
In our dreams!! Thank you!! :)
Absolutely Class!!
Thank you Tony!
Great video as always! This channel deserves a LOT more attention!
Btw; my first car is a 205 gti 1.9
Thank you and great car!
A grey Morris 1000 - bought for £5 - when I was 13! To drive on the old aerodrome behind our house. Loved it when it was cold and wet and we could put the heater on 'full blast' - with wipers flapping away. Would often take a picnic too! Austin A55 next - ooh, wheelspin on the gravel in 2nd gear.
What a history lesson. What a story. Brilliant. More of this style please. None of this stupid boring drag races that seems to be the CZcams trend these days
Thank you, and yes we aren’t the biggest fan of drag races but the wider audience appears to be! Hopefully having 1 drag race and 1 feature a week keeps everyone happy 😊
Thanks for a beautiful story Tiff! I just wonder who are those 7 heartless people that disliked this video :)
Thank you. And CZcams is a funny old place! 😉
Perhaps the 3 Grand Tour presenters and the 5th Gear Team.....all jealous ;)
Probably not fast enough for them.
What a recreation👌🏻
Thank you!
That was fantastic! It took me back to my first car, a trafalgar blue minor 1000 saloon that my mom gave after passing my test in 1984. The freedom it gave and the hours of fun😅😅
I never would have guessed that's how the legend began. And that Lotus, be still my heart. Thanks Tiff
My first love '72 240Z
1969 Morris Minor. I bought it in 2019 and can't drive till December.
You will love it
11:27 That's gold!!!!!
Thank you!!
Began with a GMC Sierra truck living in Texas. Base model, rwd, and a lot of powerslides on dirt.
Then moved to Rio de Janeiro, got a VW Gol, small Brazilian hatchback with a 1 liter engine, 55hp, and 145mm tires. With this car in hands I discovered Tiff Needell, got a VHS of Burning Rubber, and put all that in practice. Hand brake turns, Scandinavian flick, and even tried out the 360s!!
Been a fan for over 20 years!! Learned a lot from you!
Thanks for watching 🙂
Delightful. My first car was my mother's 1967 Pontiac Catalina station wagon. Drove it for a few years in a state of gradual degeneration (the car, not me) and kept it for years more after it could no longer be driven. Finally scrapped it when childhood memories of riding along on mom's errands and family road trips had receded far enough into the past and I could prioritize dealing with the present.
Brilliant! Thanks Dan!
Great story Tiff. My first was a Renault 5 TL.
Thanks Graham. Renault 5 with gears shifter on the dash?
@@lovecarsTV No it had a normal gear stick, the Renault 4 had the dash mounted gear stick.
Graham Sivill ah yes. Thank you
Hello Sivill how are you doing
4:01 Uncle Tiff telling a story about how he was the original Drift King back in the summer of 1969.
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Tiff is one of the greatest. And this story was beautiful.
I loved this, 8 years later it was my first car to, same colour, same moss and rust, roundabouts and snow pleasures. Only difference was a knackered 1964 MG Midget was what saw off the Moggy...now I'm still dreaming, but have had my 2nd chance with a Traveller and am enjoying my slightly less glamorous memories.
Many thanks Tiff that was a wonderful film👍
Tiff can talk about brushing his teeth and it would sound amazing
Hahahahaha! Not sure about that, but thanks!!
Lovecars well either way we love the videos! Cheers from San Francisco! 🥂
Whos cutting them effin Onions? 😭😭👑
😂😂😂😂😂
Same here
That was really lovely, thank you Tiff.
Thank you for such a beautiful story that pulled at my heart strings. It’s lovely to hear you started and you are like one of us. Thank you.
Tiff’s car: *has turn lights*
Tiff: uses his hand
Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!
Cheers guys!
Lovecars cheers!!
This gave me chills! I'm so happy I subscribed to this channel so long ago. Thanks Tiff!!!
You're the coolest!
How refreshing to see a real presenter with a beautiful piece of British engineering. Great little film; well done Tiff.
"... fifty minors on the premises in various states of repair" sounds like the parents went away for the weekend...
British cars made up to and including the 1960s did not receive any rustproofing in the factory, so repairs due to rust were much more common than now.
A Hilman Imp 😂
Nothing wrong with that!!! 👍
Good story that makes you appreciate Tiff more. He has kept it real without becoming a clown. The same can't be said for the presenters of some well known motoring shows.
Thanks for watching!
Far more accomplished than given credit for. A fine insight into the early life of a well respected man in my book.
Thanks
Wonderful story with the always joyful Tiff. Thanks a lot!
That was positively Fantastic! I loved the look back through the eyes of someone that lived it.
What a beautiful story!!
Lovely piece down memory lane. Thanks.
Loverly Video Tim...thankyou.
Brilliant story Tiff, thanks
@Lovecars Tiff is an absolute legend in the motorsport world. A true asset to this channel. New car tests are great, but these segments are even better. Cheers
Awe what a lovely video, I really enjoyed it! Beautifully shot and edited. Fascinating hearing about Tiff's early years, thank you for sharing it with us.
Starting handle you say? You must be older than you look Tiff. But still looking handsome and dapper after all these years! So glad you were able to buy back the racing car and restore it to its original colours.
My first car too, mine was identical in almond green from 1968. Absolutely loved my old Flanagan! Thanks Tiff 😎
Beautiful. Thanks guys.
Utterly beautiful!! Watched it with my father of whom owned a Yukon Grey Traveller “HHD56” and this brought back so many memories of long journeys from Lancashire down to Cornwall in the summers of old. Thank you from both of us for sharing your story and love for a true British car.
That’s brilliant and thank you both for watching 🙂
Very emotional, fantastic
Wonderful film , thanks for sharing.
Brilliant!
What a great story. Thank you for sharing.
What a delight Tiff!!!!
This was beautiful and almost a little sad! Lovely story and Tiff finally got the dream team in a photograph all these years later!
How charming Tiff, thanks for sharing
Probably one of the best vid's I've seen here on CZcams for ages,, top marks to the guvnor Tiff Needell,,
This was absolutely beautiful, amazing content!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much!
What a really lovely film. I had a little tear in my eye towards the end. I was also a civil engineer and was surprised to hear your were also Tiff. My first car was a 1984 Cavalier but once I killed that I could only afford a 1977 Morris Marina Coupe 1.3 and I got very attached to that odd little car. Wonderful content. Keep it up.
Thank you John! Lovely first car too!
A delightful and charming video. Thank you.
Just excellent. Tiff is a treasure. More like this please. My first car was a 1977 Saab 99GL 5-Door in faded red.
Thanks 🙏
Excellent video and story, thoroughly enjoyed learning a bit more about the legend that is tiff needell
Brilliant episode, best yet.
Thank you very much Howard!
This is class. I absolutely love how fast he's driving it now. Reminds me of my dad driving our Rover P4 - basically a 67 year old boy racer with the wrong car.
The end photo made me cry. Thank you Tiff, for everything!
This was great to watch. You could share his pure enjoyment for the car and see across his face memories flooding back. The world may have moved on but memories of a lost time will live on forever
The idea, the execution ... the story. One of the best car related videos out there ... with one of the best car journalist.
Glad you enjoyed the video stay tuned for more. 😁👌