Morris Minor Owners Club

If you click the link at the top the sale prices are now added. On YouTube there are a couple of characters wandering about looking at the lots which made me pretty glad I didn’t go.

I’ve tasted unknown leaks to help identify. Although I suppose you have got to know what tastes of what, antifreeze is quite bitter, oil is pretty well recognised by looking, I can’t describe brake fluid. You could always have a selection of control items to compare. :D I’d better say, to cover mys...

Many thanks Pete and Rob, I can see how it all goes together now.

I am using an original steel lowlight grille so I assume the wing should have a front edge flange to join the hockey stick. Have I been sent a defective part?

I’ve just bought a pair of fibreglass lowlight front wings from a ‘well known supplier’. The flanges are in place for fitting to the inner wings and A post but nothing on the front edge to attach to the grille panel. Is this right? If it’s right like this how is the front edge of a lowlight wing sec...

Er, thanks Phil, it’s very nice, but I’ve got two already.

I just had another look at the link to this sale at Evesham, more lots added, all sorts of treasure. Or possibly rubbish it’s all in the eye of the beholder. At least I’m no longer tempted by the Singer Gazelle. My son has just acquired an engineless Land Rover which I’m sure will keep us busy for m...

And some more Minors listed by these people today, beware!

In the fifth edition the print date should be on page 79, at the bottom in tiny print.

A second edition for the series two in 1953 to a ninth in 1956 is quite a progression. I had no idea they were so prolific. This would seem to confirm my view that they started with a first edition for each series. There must have been more than one edition for the MM if only to cover variations in ...

We can pool our handbook info and hopefully build up a picture of what was issued and when. I have picked up the following copies over the years: Series MM with no edition number but a print date of 2/59 on page 63 so presumably a replacement copy. Marked AKD470J. Series 2 fifth edition, printed 2/5...

I’m not sure which edition it would be but the 1098cc engine came in late 1962 so a 1963 or 1964 book would be right for your car. Some of the ebay sellers list them by the year.

The Morris handbooks were known as AKD3922 in the sixties and one I have is marked 17th edition 1970 on the flyleaf. Earlier editions have the year in tiny print on the penultimate page, for example 2932 2/54 on my 1954 copy, the fifth edition. They seem to have revised the book every year or two so...

The book ‘Making Cars at Cowley’ by Bardsley and Laing is probably the best record of Morris production I’ve seen, but as it covers nearly a century there is not too much detail on each phase. Morris seem to have mostly photographed their innovations and developments and I always get the impression ...

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What year and body type is your Minor?

Rootes did a lot of badge engineering using the names of all the companies they picked up over the years. Their basic saloon was the Hillman Minx, the Singer had a little more chrome and a better interior, the Sunbeam Rapier was the sporty two door and the Humber Sceptre was top of the range with pe...

Contagious rust? Yes that would be the Toyota Corona virus.

(I’m sorry I’ll get my coat)

No I’m leaving the Marinas for you Phil. I know how much you like them .

To help resistance to temptation can anyone please give good reasons why I should NOT acquire a Singer Gazelle? (Or a Vogue.)