Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi Nam, Not really possible to form a clear idea of what you intend to do from your diagram. The basic principle you need to follow is replacing the structure as closely as possible to the way Alec Issigonis designed it, which in this case means restoring the strong front to rear boxed beams formed ...

As far as I can tell this is all I need to weld in section wise. In this picture I have edited am I right? You've obviously got the rear hangers to do as well, but the biggest job is piecing in the structural members above the area you've marked. The panels I've highlighted, which are covering the ...

You've a serious job on your hands there. The rear floor you've used has a raised side and rear, but these are really only cosmetic cover plates and shouldn't replace the main sill step and seat box. These are vital structural elements, as is the curving chassis section which extends from the sill s...

Haven't bought the paint yet, so still open to advice. I've just done a quick Google, though, and 3M don't recommend this mask for isocyanate 2k. Has anyone used the non-isocyanate 2k from Jawel?

Using cellulose as I'm a novice, and the advice I've picked up on here and elsewhere is that while celly is clearly less durable, it is far more forgiving in allowing mistakes to be corrected. Also safer - its not really feasible for me to buy an airfed mask and separate compressor for what will be ...

Looking forward to seeing your Millions at some stage. I'd rather put off a close look at your other project, or indeed Andrew Bywater's, for a few years yet though......

From the pics it looks like you've still fairly sound metaleft. As you say difficult to reach, but you need to get as much of the area behind the boxing plate as you can get to back to bare metal, using wire brushes on flexi shafts, powerfiles, dremels, anything you can get in there. Treat any remai...

Thanks for sound advice from both of you. Underneath I'm using Brantho Korrux 3 in 1 as a primer and undercoat with a stonechip surface and a celly top coat. It will be all bare metal, so sounds like a final clean up, get the garage nice and warm and leave plenty of drying time between coats. I'm qu...

I was hoping to get my Traveller's shell ready for painting before summer finally died, but didn't quite make it. So some advice would be valuable, please. I'm working in a dry single garage, only heated while I'm working, and will be painting with the door open. I'd like to get the underside fully ...

Looking at your photo you might also be missing the interior light mounting bracket, which on mine is central on the rear face of the cab roof join. You normally fit the interior light wiring before the headlining.

Fabulous story! If I've another 31 years of Minor driving in front of me, I'd better fill my legs with a paraffin/waste oil mixture. I'll do the car's legs as well while I'm at it.....

I had Phil down as the most likely of the "regulars" to have had a new one! £152 for an 8/9 year old - no wonder it lasted at that price! I paid £40 for my 1957 four door in July 1970, but it went to the scrapyard a year later so not great value, but great fun. Jealous of Busguy's fleet of...

I posted something similar in the "Ages of MMOC Message Board Users" sticky, but as it is a bit buried in there please forgive me for repeating the question. I've only recently looked at that thread and found that at 64 I'm in the oldest 12% of those forum members who completed the survey....

The survey (and a post from me last night) are in a sticky at the top of this section


http://www.mmoc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5634

Mark

I've only just got round to looking at this. At 64 I'm fairly close to the youngest age at which you could have been a moggy driver while they were still in production. So it slightly surprises me that even after allowing for people getting a few years older since this survey was first started, quit...

Had my garage side window forced open a couple of weeks ago. Nothing taken, think they were too shocked to see the underside of a rotated Traveller in front of them. Good job they didn't realise they were standing on two well wrapped engines....

Should be the panel lights. You'll only notice them in the dark!

Never got round to doing a restos thread - there are others on here with far more expertise than me, but I'll post a quick run through of four years work when I finish it.

At least you bought it as a project and knew it needed a lot doing. Quite a few of us on here paid serious money for cars which we thought were sound, only to find that they weren't all that much better than yours under the filler and paint. In my case no real regrets as I'm really enjoying the rest...

James k wrote:The water in the radiator was cool enough to put your finger in.

Suggest you use this method only when the car can reliably reach your local A &E..............