Morris Minor Owners Club

RIght i just thought id start my post for the restoration of jeff, went and picked him up at the weekend and brought him back to manchester and after doing some surface rust treatment and taking the lower door steps off to assess any hidden damage he is now sat waiting for mr postie to come with some new parts and a welder and the restoration can get cracking. Oh and after a long carfull look over him we discovered that he is in really good original condition with no patching or bodging.!
Ill post pictures as and when the work progresses, but heres a couple of jeff catching a lift to his new home.![frame][/frame][frame][/frame]

Looks like an excellent project. The DVLA site says it was last on the road in 1981 so it's only had 13 years on the road from new! Did you get the engine and gearbox with it?

What a great colour choice

Go for it!
Pale Yellow and duo tone pale yellow and cream with champagne is an interesting choice, that I can't quite get my head around.

However my suspicion is that brown cars were actually fashionable in the 70s, so a relatively cheap way of bring the Minor "up to date" without actual investment or effort.

The rarer colours are rare for a reason, they didn't sell.

Watery school custard perhaps ? In Germany brown is the new silver. Nearly all newly registered Mercs, BMW's Audi's etc are a rather nice metallic chocolate colour. With a tan interior ...looks good.

i think yellow is good and i see a pale yellow morris once and it looked so cute good luck with the restoration :0)

Why not go for Highway Yellow as that is an original pale yellow colour that was used for o short while.

i thought the highway yellow was a loud one rather than a pale one but i could be wrong is there a full colour chart anywhere ?

Acidic Loud hmm that doesn't sound like Highway Yellow as its a sort of primrose yellow like this one
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unfortunately there is not a full colour chart on the board only the partial one at the top of the bodywork section.
I have also seen another very subtle yellow colour on a convertible let's see if I can find a photo tonight.

Here is the other Yellow one its slightly darker than in the photo as it was a really sunny day and the owner said the guy that painted it thought it looked more period than highway yellow and its believe it or not a 60's Toyota colour.

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ok so the yelllows look very nice not what i imagined at all

Oh my god I have to try and paint that colour, I think you may be doing it yourself lol,(Im his father) some parts ordered but will have to wait till my van is done,

Well kids often dont like to give parents the whole story

hi new owner of project Jeff...making some changes to me likes....