Morris Minor Owners Club

Someone on here did the same with a cream flick sticky back plastic - shades of blue peter- they looked just like new ones for a fraction of the cost of new and gave some strength back to tired pressed card. I was that someone. https://www.mmoc.org.uk/Messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=67196 Still not ba...

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Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:45 pm

I loved the car far more than my wife

Should this possibly have read "loved the car more than my wife did" ?

I'd be interested to know how you know it dates from November. There might be hope for me finding out more about mine. My date isn't definitive, it was extrapolated from a couple of dates I came across. Looking back through old threads we have both been here before! viewtopic.php?f=1&t=65705&p=5967...

Thanks Phil & Alan - phew!

Well, I was going to apologise to the OP for a minor digression - but as I now know he's a fellow PNE fan I'm sure he'll forgive me (although we unfortunately didn't manage to win today. I don't live in the area now so couldn't go, but I will be there on Tuesday for Leeds...) So, my digression, befo...

it's a sobering thought to realise that the pre war cars I used to see at VSCC Prescott, as a child, weren't then much older, if any, than my cars are today. This telescoping of time always fascinates me. When the film Genevieve, featuring vintage cars, was made in 1953 the car in the title, a Dara...

Sorry to be vague, because it's a couple of years ago since I did this, but I do remember trying to use brute force to get the first motion shaft out through that aperture, and then working out it had to be removed the opposite direction to the way Haynes shows it.

then I'm afraid it looks like these images didn't survive one of the transitions the board has had since Is this the final word on the loss of a huge part of this forum? It isn't all that long since I've referred to some of the images on older threads, eg Neil MG's Traveller thread, philthehill's d...

Think you'll find it's BMC green. Probably go a lot faster in BMW green, though......

I've been informed by a reliable source in a major supplier that at least some of the forged rockers now on sale, including the ones sold by his employers, are not really fit for purpose.

Yes - providing it's not from a pre 1962 car with different sidelight apertures (which I think could be modified if necessary)

My AP Traveller has oblongs each end - both before and after I replaced the boxing panels. Never seen a minor, or an image of a minor, with anything else, apart from amateurish welded patches covering the holes.

The book to get is Ray Newell's "Morris Minor Traveller". Quite expensive, and most of it is general history available elsewhere (sorry Ray) - but it has a section on timber replacement written by Steve Foreman of Woodies (timber frame manufacturer) which is invaluable. Also do your searching on her...

If you go trekking in the Himalayas you will probably spend your evenings thawing out by a yak dung fuelled stove. I don't think the smell ever bothered me more than the smell of my companions...

Many thanks. Don't expect to get back to the paint till April, but this is valuable advice.

Kennatt, thanks for the advice, sounds like I'll be best flatting the existing celly, then recoating, reflatting and polishing. I'll have to accept that I'll need to touch in from time to time. Too late to start again in 2K, but I would do it differently if I was starting again. Keith, from memory I...

The dropbox link wasn't working when I tried it. However.....

www.dorsetmmoc.co.uk/wordpress/tech_art ... ebuild.pdf

Bloody good guide too!

Mark

Thanks Gavin, but looks like I have caused some confusion - my Midget 1275 is the engine, not the car! The carb is an HS4 on a mini manifold, and doesn't look to be in too much danger of fouling the bonnet on my Traveller

I was advised that the Midget boxes would be too restrictive as they are intended for twin HS2 carbs.