Car 6...Hillman Minx..195

The Minx sold between 1945 and 1947 had the same 1185 cc side-valve engine, the same wheelbase and virtually the same shape as the prewar Minx. This postwar Minx became known as the Minx Mark I (or Minx Phase I). Between 1947 and 1948 a modified version, known as the Minx Mark II was offered. My particular car had done many miles, I owned it while I lived in Perth...during one of my sillier moments I suddenly decided that I had had enough of working for a local council and with little more than a "See You" I drove away from brother Jim...a few days later I was in Kalgoorlie west of Perth...the old Minx was showing signs of age and I decided I'd ditch it and hitch a ride across the Nulabor Plains.

On a street in Kalgoorlie I left a note on the dash telling who ever read it that this old Minx was now finders keepers! I hitched a ride thanks to a very friendly truckie...from memory I think it took me over a week to get back to the eastern states...btw, the road across the Nulabor was unsealed back then!