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Shiny black and with its classic – if a little dumpy – lines, chrome bumper and gleaming wing mirrors, Wayne Campbell’s Morris Minor glides extremely quietly through the doors of his Glenrothes garage. Built in a year of petrol rationing due to the Suez crisis, when tales of Russian spies gripped the nation, and the Ecurie Ecosse team took the chequered flag at Le Mans, the 803cc model has aged remarkably well since it rolled off the production line exactly 65 years ago. Since 1956 it’s clocked up tens of thousands of miles – but exactly how many is hard to tell, as there are only five digits on the mileometer. And yet as it sets off, there’s not even the slightest puff of exhaust to be seen belching from its back end.