Morris Minor Owners Club

I'd love to get one for my MM but £540??? Crazy.... this price smells like something, uhm....unreal (to be polite).

Ciao from Italy

Stefano

Hello, at last I have fitted the original rear lights kindly supplied by Peter, even if the Italian Customs did their best to forbid me this pleasure..... http://www.stefanopasini.it/images/MM_original_rear_lights-2.jpg http://www.stefanopasini.it/images/MM_original_rear_lights-1.jpg The original su...

Hello Mike and everybody in the MM Register, the original air cleaner has been adapted (at last! Photos coming on my web site soon...) to my MM and the car drives nicely, the only problem being that after having installed new carpets everywhere the clutch pedal seems to have lost some of its travel ...

Hello Mistarkos, my 1949 MM had the same problem as yours: when found, 30+ yrs ago, it was a sort of dull pink. It was repainted in black because at the time information was scarce and nobody in Italy knew that this was the effect of discolouration of the original Maroon A. If I may (respectfully) g...

Dear Mike, thank you for your information! I think that this will have to wait until next autumn/winter, now the MM is too much fun to drive to have her dimsantled for this job.... This afternoon I shall collect the MM after the interior refurbishment and the fitting of new carpets all over. I'll pu...

Hello Darrell, Oli, thanks for your answers. I'd love to see where you welded the fitting for the temp gauge fitting so I can do the same. I must say that the MM is performing quite nicely even if the outside temperature yesterday was up to 37°C. A really big improvement was the drilling of a hole i...

Hello, I'm taking the MM back home this morning. Last week the mechanics changed the 4 dampers and all the grommets of the suspension, leaf springs, rods etc. I hope that the few 'clunks' still there last time will have disappeared by now. I hope that Newton Commercial will ship soon the complete se...

I like my red cochline on the black bodywork, but I don't know it is an original combination....

http://www.stefanopasini.it/images/MM_Coach_Line.jpg

Cheers

Stefano

Hello Mike, Oliver, thanks for your input, I have sent a message immediately to Don hoods. Speaking of improving the MM's performance, I am wondering if it would be possible to modify the carburettor to have a vacuum port to be linked to the Accu-Spark distributor; and, if it can be done, which part...

This picture may help understanding why it feels so good driving the Minor these days in Italy....

Cheers

Stefano[frame][/frame]

Hello, after a few days of very pleasant 'open' pottering around Bologna, the MM is back at the garage again. During the 150+ miles done last week, I appreciated it so much that I decided to go on with the improvements that are necessary to make it really nice. :D :D At the present moment the mechan...

P.S. if this can be of any help, engine number is USHM2/25052 and the car was built between 10 and 17 November 1949. Thanks!

Stefano

Hello Mike, I did it! The 'maiden voyage' went very well, though the MM now is in dire need of a carburettor adjustment (it sputters a bit when it's hot, i think that the mixture is too rich). There are several creaks and weird noises around the front axle even after the dampers were refilled with o...

Hello, after some weeks of rest, as the MM was cleaned thoroughly, had the oil gauge renewed and connected, the dampers refilled with oil (to my surprise they were completely empty), new 145x40 Bridgestone tires fitted (their diameter is a bit smaller than the old Firestones, but they were the best ...

Thank you! These pictures are what I needed to understand where the tube has to be connected.

Have a nice day

Stefano

Hi Mike,

I see that this is not a H2....I'll check what it is when I'll take it off the MM.

Ciao

Stefano

Hello Mike, I don't know but I remember that a guy running one of the MM spare parts suppliers' sites looked at the pics of my engine and told me that this one is a non-original H2. I just found it on the car, non-original filter and all. In this carb we didn't find any vacuum take off but we'll loo...

Hello David,

thank you for your very kind offer, a picture or two of the place on the engine where the tube of he oil gauge has to be connected would be very, very useful. Thanks!

Stefano

Today I tested the MM after the guys at the body shop made some changes to remove some annoying rattle under the dashboard (that is when they dicovered that probably the gauge does not work because it is simply disconnected from the engine). As the car was there, I asked them to put a electronic dis...

Hello, we are preparing the MM for spring (assuming that it will come some day....Italy is not as warm as we are used to these days, and more rain is expected over the next week-end. :x ) The car starts quite well now but it needed a stop at the body shop to fix several annoying rattles. Whilst the ...