Morris Vs Reliant The Worlds Slowest 0-60
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2023
- A short video of the Reliant Supervan and the Morris Minor going head to head to see who can reach 60MPH the quickest... or the least slowest!?
Also featuring some cold starts. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
This video improved the lives of millions of people. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Humanity will remember this moment.
Glad to have been of service to mankind!
I've been waiting for fourty years for someone to run this exact test. In 1982 I raced my Reliant Rebel against a Minor from Telford to Lichfield. I lost. I've always maintained this was because of the Moggies superior grunt out of roundabouts and now, finally, you've provided me with definitive proof that I was correct. Thank you.
Glad to have been of service! The Morris does have a good feeling of torque through the gears, the reliant is no slouch but needs more RPM. Thanks for watching!
It is the video I didn't know I needed.
Glad you enjoyed this madness! Thanks for watching.
In a climate of pretentious, ignorant, elitist, classic motoring journalism, this is what we need- cold, hard, relevant facts.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching and for the feedback! Life’s too short to take things too seriously!
Despite never having had a criminal record, and being a boring sort of a chap, around 1981/2 I was arrested for robbing a local post office with an accomplice (he was in the Isle of Man at the time watching the TT and had the tickets to prove it) and making my getaway in blue Morris minor that had been stolen from a nurses car-park in a nearby hospital. Although not 'hard' in any way and feeling very scared to be accused of such a thing, I laughed out loud when the Copper claimed I'd made my getaway in the Minor. As I explained to him, if I was going to do such a thing, I'd have stolen a 2.3 Cortina or some such other quick but bland car, not a motorised bath bun. Needless to say, they soon dropped their investigation into me and to this day, I can't understand what 'intelligence' led them to my door. Now I work for the buggers lol, (different Force though).
Brilliant!!, thanks for watching!
My 1932, vintage Morris Minor two-seater doesn't get to 60mph. The 847cc side-valve (SV) engine, an evolution of the original 1928-1931 overhead cam (OHC) unit, produces 19bhp. With a 3-speed 'crash' gearbox it has an official max speed of 52mph, but I've eased off at 49mph. I generally pootles along at 40-45mph. The Alec Issigonis post-war Minor was named after the pre-war version, with the 1935-1948 Morris Eight being book-ended by the two Minors.
Definitely faster than the Fiat 126p. The Reliant is a rocket even compared to the Polish family car, the Polonez.
Now to think the Reliant Rialto 2 did 60 in 14.1s. of course you need to absolutely floor it.
That would have shocked me at the lights in my 950 Pop Plus Fiesta lol
@Rikmos That must've been an experience😅
@Rikmos Ah well, couldn't be that bad.
@@Bald-RickOh my, alright fair enough.
OK this is brilliant.
Glad you enjoyed!
Two good old cars (same as me..old) great video. I still hold up traffic in clapped out cars, but now, people don't abuse me with horns and verbal, they just forgive, because of age. Peace be unto you.
Inquisitive minds needed to know this information... and now they do!
Very interesting and entertaining thanks for sharing with man kind hats of to you 👍
Great stuff!!!
Brilliant, thanks for watching!
Oh, that start took me back to my childhood, in my Grandad's Reliant Robin (a Jubilee Robin, no less!). I don't even remember the sound, but I suddenly was reminded.
"I don't think that made much difference to be honest". Very scientific 😂
The Morris is the car I'd want to be in braking from 60 mph, emergency stop style, in the Reliant poo would come out 😂.
The reliant stops better than you would think… you still clench up though!
@@badgerlodgegarage Haha! I've been a passenger in a Robin at 65mph, that was an experience, stable enough though, just a bit of crash anxiety.
@@graemew7001 I was going 80 in one, felt like a rollercoaster.
@@mrjed6912 WHAT???? I doff my cap to you sir! 🤣. You have cahoonies the size of Jupiter!!
@@graemew7001 Lolol thanks😅. I was the passenger so I had nothing to hold onto. I admit I started hysterically laughing from fear after.
Fancy a race? My 2CV with a massive 602cc awaits....
That would be a fun one!
That would be a fun one!
Oh well, just lost a bet with myself. Actually thought the Regal would take the win, there you go.
Anyway, great video mate.
Thanks! To Tell the truth, I thought the same, Thanks for watching.
My old Moggie was the same color(Trafalgar blue),but the resemblance probably stops there! Significant mods to the engine(948 ccs),and A35 13 inch wheels and radials,for starters. Done gradually,as finances became available,it got a stage three head,three ring camshaft,Sprite valve springs,double row timing chain and gears,a three branch manifold,with a straight through exhaust,and a pair of inch and a quarter SU carbs with modded needles,blue springs,and light oil in the dash pots. Never timed the zero to sixty,but the Speedo needle would go past the indicated eighty max on the dial,and continue past the fuel gauge,until it was hard against the BACK of the zero pin,trying for a second time round! Eventually died from a broken crankshaft.With hindsight,I should have strapped the centre main bearing,but ,at the time I thought balancing the crank was sufficient.Bad move!🥺 Still,it was great fun while it lasted.
now that does sound like fun!
I thought that was great!😂👍So much so, I subbed! Finding the fastest of the slowest.
Thanks for watching and the sub! Glad you enjoyed.
Who will do...The Fastest of the Slowest...Badger Lodge Garage! hoorah, hoorah!
60 mph in a plastic pig! hes very brave!
Its Actually not that scary.... the noise on the other hand...
Heckled by a locomotive, but at least it wasn't raining.
A mate of mine recalls pulling up at the traffic lights decades ago and hearing the sound of an ENV preselector gearbox (in neutral these sound like a mildly concerned chicken). He looked around expecting to see something pre-war, but no, it was a 'Minor fitted with a preselector and a Riley 9 engine. For the record that would probably be 28bhp, down to 20 after the gearbox and diff had taken a share. Slow but probably unique.
I keep getting heckled by something! That sounds like a interesting drive train swap... probably quite fun
Ohh yeah- double cup-holders in the super van! Two full cups will be testing the cargo limits 😮
Two full cups!…That’ll take about 5mph off the top speed as well.
Awesome video and great cars! How about doing a video of how both are like to live with on a daily basis?
Thanks for watching! I could do a back to back comparison… real life stuff, sort or covered the reliant in its own video, but I see what you mean!
@@badgerlodgegarage Nice one! I'm a big fan of classics like this because they're amongst the cheapest and charming so they're what keep the hobby going! Real life stuff would be great, seeing their daily capabilities and maintenance needs etc. Great channel as well!
Had a lift home from work in the early 80s in a Reliant Robin, never again, i would rather walk, used the bus after that day
Ive recently come accross the chanle and i must say i have learn somthing from it so thank you 😁
Thanks for watching! Glad you got something from this weirdness!
 i love the weirdness and i love the cars and you're very welcome i look forward to watching your next video !!!😁😁
I once seen a Morris minor that was fitted with the engine,gear box, rear axle and brakes from a marina ( at least that's what I was told )
Throttle stuck open on my Reliant van when overtaking a bus, the spring had broken, that was NOT a lot of fun. I note the Reliant Regal seemed to run out of puff once it got to 40mph, my recollection of mine was it was quite nippy but I was mostly using it on B roads , ran it on the A1 in the snow once, which was difficult as my middle wheel was running on 3 inch virgin snow .
That sound rather exiting… yes the 0-30 time is pretty rapid I think. 40-60 loses it! I can imagine snow keeps things interesting!
Bmc speed and power going on there
Didn't get the aluminium engine till the Robin
Thanks for watching, unfortunately you are incorrect, the aluminium 600cc overhead valve engine was introduced to the regal and 1962, subsequently being increased to 700cc and then 750cc in 1973 with the introduction of the robin, and eventually its final form as 850cc onwards, but it was basically the same engine all along!
I actually enjoyed this video 😀 lol
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching!
You should try taking a roundabout at 60mph in both vehicles , many yrs ago i witnessed a 3 wheel Reliant taking a roundabout at speed with 2 young lads with disastrous results, also witnessed
a fire in a plastic reliant you would not want to travel in one afters seeing how well they burn, apart from that another 5 minutes of my life i wont recover well done lad
Thanks for watching, and yes it’s rather impressive when they go up…Proper fire ball! 60 round a roundabout is asking for it in one of these!
Well now there's a train 😂😂
Does the MM have the 948 or 1100 in it?
Forgot to mention it’s the 1098
@@badgerlodgegarage Thanks, yeah looks like the "newer" speedo
My split windscreen Morris minor 4 door, 1954 803cc was so much slower 😅! SKV 471.... I wonder 🤔... Scrapped?
enjoying
smashed that subscribe button!
Thanks for subscribing, It’s appreciated!
@@badgerlodgegarage thanks for the content!
No idea what Reliant it was. You only showed the inside of the car. There are several Reliants, and, being Dutch, I really don't know which one is a supervan 3.
Hi, thanks for watching, if you look at my previous video, it shows a lot more of the Supervan 3 including exterior driving shots and further information.
It may be slow, but it sounds the part!
It does make a good noise!
As I always say it’s much more fun to drive a slow car fast, then it is to drive a fast car slow…….
I fully agree!... though i do like fast cars as well.
I'm surprised the Morris weighs that much.
There is a fair bit of metal in the morris!
@@badgerlodgegarage One of my favorite British cars.
Not sure why the Morris seemed faster than it was 😂
The noise😂
Hmmm... Carrying just a moderately-sized driver, a 1098 Minor in a perfect state of tune should do 0-60 in about 22 seconds.
There is every possibility that more performance could be gained from the Morris if I put a timing light on it!… timing is still roughed In by ear really!
Thanks for watching.
You look like Del Boy with that cap on, but the Reliant van is not yellow.
It's the right sort of van, though.
Perhaps if you left the throttle alone and just relied on the choke the Reliant would start on the first prod every time.
Thanks for watching! I have tried many combinations to start it, always needs a good few pumps, never starts on choke alone. Basically the fuel runs out of the carb and pumping what’s left gives it just enough to keep going until the float bowl is filled again! (Yes the carb is knackered) but it always starts second time every time!
@@badgerlodgegarage How does pumping the throttle introduce more fuel into the carb?
@@gordonnorth5698 It doesn’t! But it squirts what little is left in the bowl down the intake, allowing the engine to run just long enough for the fuel pump to re fill the bowl and keep the engine running. A fairly basic problem that I haven bothered to fix!
The Reliant seem to struggle past 50. How about 0-50. In case van gearing was a factor. Wink
Daft idea , stick to tinkering it's more interesting than speed obsessed nonsense
Great vid thanks.....