Morris Minor Owners Club

philthehill wrote:for hair in the wind driving.

Is that what you call it when the Toupe' is whipped from the drivers head by the slipstream?

Surely Volvo would be able to confirm the importation of the car when new?

The problem with the DVLA is that it seems to be increasingly a profit centre raising money by fees and fines, its a shame we can fee and fine it when it gets things radically wrong - like here

Dealing with DVLA can be a nightmare - especially since they closed the "local" offices forcing you to deal with the central bureaucracy over the phone - many of who don't seem to have the first clue about what they are doing. A colleague of mine has a Mazda Bongo that was imported by a pr...

The Megane 2 owned by my sister had an ABS fault indicated by the warning light, it took 3 different diagnostic units to arrive at the conclusion that the O/S/F sensor was the root of the problem, so not all this kit is equal. I have a small palm sized unit that does basic code reading but it took a...

Download this document from the DVLA

It has all the details.

Some guys race 2cvs, they have their own series, featuring both short "sprint" races and longer endurance events, its amazing to watch a team swap an engine and gearbox in the paddock in just a few minutes. They have raced a few times at a local circuit where I Marshal sometimes. I know so...

I think you did the right thing. Notifying the DVLA of a sale is a legal requirement and given that it takes seconds to fill in a form I cant see how they justify charging £70 for completing a task that they are required by law to do in the course of their normal business. Sounds to me like a way of...

I am a child of the fifties (well, almost) and spent time as a student in the early seventies, and that was when I honed my body restoration skills to perfection! As anyone from that era will know, all good rust repairs involve fibreglass matting and a suitable two-part filler paste, or gloopy, syr...

I've never understood how some people are happy to simply slap a patch on top of rust. I guess the bodge mentality comes from a lack pride. I prefer to cut back to good metal and start from there, In the past when my father did the welding after I had prepped the area I took a pride from knowing it ...

POMMReg wrote:

bmcecosse wrote:Is it a 'very rare' LBM car ???

Grrrr......

Don't be shocked to find a Minor 1089 real axle wedged in your chimney
Christmas morning!

Isn't a 1089 rare in itself?

But if parked in an unrestricted street a Parking Enforcement Officer (or whatever they are called in that neck of the woods would have no reason to make an observation on a legally parked car in an (apparently) unrestricted street. It depends where you draw the "jobsworth" line. In my tim...

Ah the good old Rocket n feather huh? Prices rise as soon as any upward shift in oil is announced but fall so painfully slowly even when the bottom drops out of the market, aided and abetted by a greedy Government whose rip off taxes are predicated on the cost of fuel (and on the tax already charged...

Facebook? Nope! wont go there, too many issues surrounding the whole concept of "social media". I never did understand the "scattergun" idea of this where all of your "friends" are subjected to "everything" you post about your activities. I have different sets...

Greetings from 60 miles west of you.

Pembs seems to have several moggys scattered around.

MOT stations could always MOT a car on its chassis number in the past, which probably also happens with used imports. The above still stands. I know someone who has an imported Mazda Bongo that has just gone thru an MOT on VIN number alone as it needed to have valid MOT for issue of UK reg. That wa...

The law has developed over the years - unless things have changed recently (and I cant find any reference to is) the original requirement was for seatbelt mounting points to be installed and used in cars first used on or after 1st January 1965 / Built after mid 1964, although the law later required ...

I think with historic cars it becomes an excersize in verifying the ownership and documentation, pretty pointless really.

For on line renewal surely things should remain the same as before which I have used for taxing my "modern"? Then the system cross referenced a renewal application with the Insurance database and VOSA and allowed the application to progress if all was in order. I am assuming that for the n...

Its time will come :wink: Yup, I haven't seen any other that are "OYM...A" myself. Can anyone tell me anymore about the registration? I know it is from Central London originally, but from what I can work out, "A" suffixed cars are somewhat of an oddity. Should my car be an "...

Another OYM XXXA registered Minor in Wales? Sadly the one here is about to lose its 948 lump to aid someone who needs an engine, It was supposed to be a project for me but it has some serious looking corrosion to the underside as well as the body, Im hoping to persuade my boss to put it aside in the...