Morris Minor Owners Club

Well it's been about 40 years since I learnt the theory, and not really used it since, so this will be a bit rusty, but basically.... The traditional Lead Acid car battery is a fickle thing, whose performance depends on a number of factors, including operating (ambient) temperature. There's lots of ...

Yes, from this comment "an abject pile of scrap that my father decided to buy, with the intention of me spending 100's of hours on to make worth a fraction of what he paid for it. Needless to say I'm not clinically insane." you'd think that Dad would have known not to waste his time and mo...

My first car was a 1969 Mk1 Ford Escort. I brought it in '75 and it was already a wreck in terns of bodywork and other bits. Although only 6 years old, it had started life as an 1100 Cross Flow, but the previous owner had put an old 1500 engine from a Ford Cortina into it. I changed it for a 1300 Cr...

Just one word of caution before relying on just a visual examination of the exterior appearance... They are pretty (actually to be honest, make that 'very') expensive, BUT, it is possible to get Alternators that have been made to look identical to Dynamos. if you search for 'Lucas C42 Dynalite', you...

It's not a Minor, but just happened to notice this ebay advert this morning, when it randomly came up on the other items at the bottom of the page.... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Morris-1800-Landcrab/172866794183?hash=item283fa9f2c7%3Ag%3Ak9cAAOSwQG5Zu9zp A different approach to making a sale...? :lol:

The eventual price charged to my debit card was within a nat's crotchet of the exchange rate on the day ordered. No problems with it at all. The debit on my account showed it in $can, the exchange rate and the amount in £ (and of course the greedy capitalist lackey of a bank's charges for doing les...

firedrake1942
How did you get on with the exchange conversions using ebay Canada?
I've brought stuff from Amazon.com before and their prices were all upfront converted before you committed to the purchase.
How does it work with ebay from an overseas site?

I saw these recently on fleabay. There must be more than one company in Hong Kong turning them out as I see your image has a mileometer with a reading, whereas the one I saw was at 00000. It's annoying that they have limited advertising for them and that they are fairly prolific on eBay Canada, but ...

Yes, saw that when it first got listed. 'Teardrop trailers' have been around since the 1930s, basically a 1930s trailer tent, but people still make them from scratch. if you do a search, you'll find them still being made in the USA and Canada. I thought they were something that had died off in the e...

Why is the Active Topics menu only showing 3 topics, the same 3 topics it's shown since Friday, even though there are several Topics which have been commented on over the weekend? So therefore they are 'Active'. Based on my use of other php based Forums, the Active Topics should be the list of most ...

DVLA has it Untaxed since 2006 (probably SORNed?) No, if it was on a SORN, the DVLA website would state so. It's either parked up and rusting somewhere or very likely it's been broken up and the logbook/V5 not been sent in to DVLA. My car, recently purchased, has had a lot of work done, some of it ...

Have you tried searching for the biography of "William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield GBE CH". He only made motorcycles for 3-4 years maximum before switching to cars, so that's a pretty brief period of history for anything to survive, especially from the beginning of the last centu...

It is interesting that the Club has yet to communicate this possibility to members. Have you let the politburo in Derby know? Well it was only published yesterday! If you scroll to the bottom of any webage on the GOV website, it tells you the update history. 14 September 2017 Outcome for the 'Roadw...

Nickol - this comes into effect in UK on 20 May 2018.

This could be interesting... As I read it, the 'Vehicles of Historical Interest (VHI): “Substantial Change” Draft Guidance' https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/644962/vehicles-of-historical-interest-substantial-change-guidance.pdf final section of 'Draft Advice'...

I'm sure anyone interested has likely already seen it, but I've just noticed this new listing on Fleabay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Morris-Minor-Black-Police-Car-in-need-of-total-renovation-with-all-the-parts-/382225686748?hash=item58fe6d20dc:g:uMMAAOSwPyBZuDSz Makes a change for a Police Moggie not...

markattard - if your Moggie currently has indicators utilising the Lucas DB10 system left installed from where they introduced the flashing brake light, then it's just a case of picking up a connection to each trafficator from terminals 4 and 8, which are the 2 feeds from the indicator switch. https...

I don't think that necessarily means that it was taxed. How could it have been if it hasn't been MOT'd during recent years? It is post 1960 so requires an MOT in order to tax it. I think sometimes the information on that site is confusing. Good point, it didn't say 'Exempt' just 'No Details Held'. ...

I don't know how this forum is managed, but stopping spam can be hard work. What will keep the levels down in this forum is the authorisation process for opening an account. I'm a Moderator on a very well used Health & Safety Forum http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/forums/ used by a great man...

Rasputin wrote:I just checked on the GOV.UK website and it says SORN.

Glad I did the screenshot then as it's been changed in the 3 hours between our posts....
Perhaps the seller is a member of the forum?