Morris Minor Owners Club

So a little more progress, well I think its progress,, The engine bay floors and chassis legs are err…. Well to be honest absolutely dead. Once it’s on its side I’ll take pic of the chassis leg, it’s not pretty I warn you now… lol As for the wood and rear bodywork, well I think the pictures speak fo...

Thanks for the suggestion but this will be a bespoke frame built on the car so unless Young Mr Newell has finally turned to the dark side and published a section on bespoke custom builds not sure it will help, but thanks for the thought, :) many years ago (about 1992-3) I bought the practical classi...

Hi, thanks for your comments, No it’s not in a good state, I think I’ll need more panels than are available for minors, and lots of the panels I’ll need will be need modifying from what’s available so I’ll be fabricating quiet a lot of them. Surely half the fun, is taking something that is this dead...

Made a start on clearing out the back of the traveller today, Well it is made of wood so it has been used as a shed for the last few years, We also started to remove some of the wood today, amazingly we needed spanners and screwdrivers for some of it, although some of it came off with a gentle tug a...

So we pulled the engine ot of the bay and stripped the front wings off,

and well I think a picture says a thousand words well two words in this case "OH bugger" lol

Thank you for your encouragement. I agree wood replacement is very satisfying. I've always enjoyed restoring travellers most out of all minors. For this build though the rear frame will be a custom build not off the shelf from Mr Forman or similar. And I'm under no illusion about the amount of weldi...

Thankyou,

I'll post again once soon showing the strip down,

I already know how bad it really is, but ill leave that for my next post,

so you can all have a little chuckle at just how bad it is, (iI did)

and we do this for fun??

Thankyou,
I feel i may have a couple of local repairs to do to the wood before re varnishing,
but shouldn't take long,,

Trust me it’s worse than it looks in the initial pictures,
As will be seen in the next "thrilling instalment"
But I figure it still looks like a traveller so it must be repairable,

Steve

Hi Boys and girls of the Minor Forum, Specifically the custom section, I thought I should start a build thread of my traveller, it will only be a mild custom, nothing to cleaver, it was a one owner car form new, two owners now I have it, I’ve owned it about 10 years but just had it stored up, so I f...