Morris Minor Owners Club

Finally after many years of saving up I have bought my first Morris Minor , I drove her home at the weekend up the M1 from Coventry and it never missed a beat, as an added bonus the heater works very well

I am going to look forward to enjoying driving Bessie, keeping her maintained and making one or two cosmetic changes over time

Many thanks must go to Paulltubby, with out Paul's help, advice and guidance whether that being on e-mails, text messages or on the phone I wouldn't have been able to buy this car, I don't know if the owners club have any awards for members going out of their way to help others but I would definitely like to nominate Paul

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Looks like a cracking car. Congratulations!

nice looking car. well done
is that a petrol cap on the rocker cover?

Glad you're sorted Nick.
Samuria, some Minors have a filler cap like that, with a metal cord to secure them. Methinks they're a period replacement to the plastic ones ;)

Nick, very nice looking car.
Looking at the last picture, I would re-route the battery Earth strap round to the right (as you look in from the front) as the braided strap could end up make and breaking a shorter earth connection on the battery restraining bar.
Good choice of a nice green saloon (I like green).
Enjoy your driving, George.

Glad to hear it found a good home. The owner had been trying to sell it for a long time! I went to see it months ago when he also had two others for sale as well. The green car was the best of them and had the best rust-free doors I'd seen on a Minor for a long while. It was SO plastered in underseal/waxoyl underneath that it was hard to judge the condition, the brakes pulled to one side and it had very perished and oversize tyres on, as well as being at the top end of my budget so after some consideration I left it. I did see it advertised a couple of times later but he'd put the price up rather than down so maybe he'd done some further work on it and I found another 4door which was rather less expensive. I did think it was basically a decent car though which must have been looked after for much of its life for the interior and chrome brightwork to be so good. I hope you enjoy your new purchase

Your minor looks the business, it shouldn't need very much done to it !! It looks just like one of my grandfather's old minor. Enjoy !!!

It looks very nice - let's hope it is as nice underneath...... Please don't spoil it with 'cosmetics'

Quite right. Looks took good to be messed around with.

chesney wrote:Glad you're sorted Nick.
Samuria, some Minors have a filler cap like that, with a metal cord to secure them. Methinks they're a period replacement to the plastic ones ;)

i stand corrected.
still a cracking car

samuria wrote:

chesney wrote:Glad you're sorted Nick.
Samuria, some Minors have a filler cap like that, with a metal cord to secure them. Methinks they're a period replacement to the plastic ones ;)

i stand corrected.
still a cracking car

If I hadn't had a Minor in the past with the same setup, I'd have drawn the same conclusions! ;)

Looks good, enjoy the motoring

Nice car and the shock of having a new driver did not cause it to break down on its motorway journey!
The rocker box is from a 948 Minor with the earlier metal cap and the vacuum pipe is also earlier, later cars had a plastic pipe. Check that the engine is a 1098!
The car has been changed to neg earth and the battery has beeen turned around to suit. Be careful that the live cable does not short out on the bodywork and when the time comes to change the battery get one with the pos and neg terminals the other way round so they are at the back of the battery.

looks great! enjoy

What a Gorgious car you have there welcome to the club

bmcecosse wrote:It looks very nice - let's hope it is as nice underneath...... Please don't spoil it with 'cosmetics'

Yes Roy, this is a good one underneath! The underside is very good in all respects and not had lots of mot patching... in fact the car overall is very good... and a very genuine car... time for Nick to enjoy it and get some miles under its belt! This was a long search to find a good one and has been well worth it! Thanks for your kind comments also Nick, its been a pleasure helping you find the car of your dreams

Thank you every one for your kind comments, George I will alter the earth strap on the battery

Roy, I won't be fitting head light peaks , the cosmetics I had in mind were things like electronic ignition and fitting poly bushes, nothing too drastic just things to improve it a little

Thank you Paul, I will enjoy driving her, I had only had the car on the drive for an hour when the neighbours were out having a look

Nick