PreWarCar found in Dutch scrapyard

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Now that scrapyards have turned into car dismantling concerns about as exciting as the dentist's waiting room, it’s good to hear about a yard of yesteryear which still exists today, in that most organised of places where your editor is seated: the Netherlands. And, what’s more, a PreWarCar was found there recently!

Steffan Grofsmid buys and sells cars in the north of this country under the name of Mercedesfreaks. When he visited a local yard in February, he took a few photographs of some of the classics there, one of them being the car shown here. Yes, that poor little coupé is looking extremely sorry for itself and, no, we don’t think it will, or even can, be saved for restoration. But finding a 1930s car in a working scrapyard today simply has to be a rarity. Oh, and this one even wore old Dutch registration plates! That makes it even rarer. ‘VD-39-73’ was issued in 1956, but the car itself is clearly older than that. Unfortunately, the number is unknown to the Dutch road transport authorities.

But what is it? We racked our brains, thinking it surely had to be something British, but frustratingly couldn’t find an exact match and even started thinking about German cars before we called for help. We should have done that straight away, as Rutger Booy was happy to come to the rescue, identifying it swiftly as a Morris after all. “Indeed a nice find of a fairly rare car. It’s a Morris 10/4 Special Coupé of 1933/1934,” he wrote. Spot on, and thank you very much! Now, wouldn’t it be nice to find out a little more about its past? Does anyone happen to know this little Morris coupé?

Words: Jeroen Booij. Pictures: Steffan Grofsmid / H&H Auctioneers.

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