Morris Minor Owners Club

I've had four vehicles with the 948: an A30 so fitted with otherwise original running gear, an A35, an early A40 Mk2 and my present Mog. I've also had a '58 Mog, a 1960 Mini, and a '67 Traveller with 1098s. There's no doubt that the 948 is a very sweet engine; Lindsay Porter reckons it's the sweetes...

I'm gradually sorting it out and I'm really tickled pink with it! I wish I'd bought one like it years ago. I've had loads of classics including 3 B series Farinas, a Wolseley 1500, Riley 1.5, 2 Vanden Plas 3 Litres, Riley 2.6, Rover 110, 4 Beetles etc. etc. but this Morris has really got under my sk...

Hey man, farting is a gas!

Thanks for the kind words Fingolfin, but it just goes to show how dangerous it can be to buy a car on the basis of a photograph or two as this is a very scruffy car indeed as this photo shows. The first owner must have taken reasonable care for it to have survived at all I suppose, but he fitted var...

I can do Morris Minor impressions.

Yes it is a nice number even if it isn't original. As for the tyres they probably are a bit old. I've removed one that was quite perished. I suppose the risk is that the lovely deep tread can fall off the tyres completely. Have you known this to occur on tyres with no sign of perishing? I imagine th...

Thanks for the welcome and to answer Beero, it just tickles me to have a car on crossplies after so many years of radials and I picked up 3 really good spares at an autojumble a few days after I bought the car so I might as well use them. The tyres on the car are pretty good too. I have no intention...

A couple of weeks ago I bought a 1956 (57 regd) Minor 1000 4-Door in black with a red interior. This car was previously registered as 7285TU I believe, and originated in the Manchester area where the first owner kept it until 2010 when he died. It isn't in great condition, never having been restored...