Morris Minor Owners Club

Quirky

Hey Oli

I love hearing about people driving these cars daily...

Please keep us in the loop as time permits...

Congrats on doing this...where I live in the states...it would never work...folks would run me over in a New York minute...

MikeC

Your inheritance looks pretty decent from here...take your time...I rebuilt the bottom end of my old heap....nothing more than lots of wood blocks and jack stands...spent a whole winter on my back welding with my trusty ole MIG welder... https://i.postimg.cc/X734VqsK/20211213-183531.jpg I used a lot...

I have only owned one Morris and it had in its previous life (before me) the seats and the door cards were swapped out so it didn't have any vintage smell to it...I have owned several older VW's Beetles and they always had that distinct vintage VW smell...I love that smell too... https://i.postimg.c...

Glad you got it home...looks like a fun project...

MikeC

I bought one from the fine folks at ESM...

Made the ole hood stand right up straight...had to cobble up a support bracket tho....



I closed it for the first time a couple weeks ago....and it shut too...

You are blessed for sure...

Having a lady in your life who helps work on your old cars...she is a keeper for sure...

Thanks for sharing...

MikeC

Hi Philthehill I have fought with this car since the day I bought it...I scratch my chin a lot when I am working on it...I guess I must be a the preverbal "Bull in the china shop"...these fine thread on this ole heap has driven me crazy... I am still amazed that there were so many of these...

I think this will be my last post on this project for a while... I got another project in last Monday and I really want to build it...it is a 1939 Plymouth coupe...gonna be turning it into an ole oval track car... So I remember a couple of weeks back I bought a bunch of screws and a shifter boot and...

Hi Morris Minor folks https://i.postimg.cc/C13cKS8Z/20220106-180948.jpg I am looking for a kit that might be available to change out these lug nuts and studs for a coarse thread... https://i.postimg.cc/Ss2Lqxsn/20220202-175401.jpg I think I stripped one out on the front of the William Leo Columbus (...

Thanks for all the insight...you guys are awesome... Still grinding and cutting away on the old heap... The pile of spent discs is growing taller by the day... https://i.postimg.cc/15JPm6mf/20220306-110821.jpg we are getting closer to end of the major welding patching on this ole man... https://i.po...

My father told me years ago....the best sort of electric car should be a diesel / electric hybrid... The older I get the more I understand his thinking...electric is not free either and taking on a 65,000 debt to save on gas is just backwards thinking at this point in time... I would have loved to h...

I got a long lost package from the fine folks at ESM...and it included a hood support extension... Had to cut up some more rusty steel from an old bed frame... https://i.postimg.cc/4NqJSxtY/20220307-165829.jpg A little clamp action to line things up... https://i.postimg.cc/7LyqqtKD/20220307-172529.j...

I think I am freak really...I love to save rusty crusty metal...well I had cut some OEM Morris Minor metal a couple of months ago.... https://i.postimg.cc/NG8BnSZ8/20220306-112752.jpg So I trimmed off a piece of rusty metal... https://i.postimg.cc/Dw0h8Z05/20220306-115627.jpg cut cut cut....grind gr...

So last week we were fiddling with brake lines and brake parts too...the former owner says he fitted the ole heap with MG Midget front disc brakes to the Morris Minor spindles...I cracked both bleeders loose as they stuck out to where the new flexible brake line was going mount and my wrench would n...

Looks like you got a keeper right there....hope the whole family get to enjoy it...

So is it a girl or boy Moggy??

MikeC

Ok kids....when I bought the ole heap...I bought it for one price and then I get email from the owner and he says "Hey Mike...I bought a lot of new parts over the years would you be interested??"...I said send me a list...we he did and a price list too...so I figured he was English car guy...

I knew the old man was going to need some sort of under hood support...I had a piece of scrap from a set of shelves from where I work...I looked online and found some pics of the cross piece...so I was off and running...cutting and welding again... https://i.postimg.cc/Kv41QL7t/20220220-112734.jpg I...

Hi Phil When I get the wheels mounted up on the car...everything appears to be rolling along ok...I have not driven it and that will be the true test for sure... I will try and touch base with the former...I could sworn he told me he drove the car with no problems with those wheels on it... hmm... m...

Hi Morris Minor folks... The former owner of my old heap sold me this car with 4 aluminum wheels on it...the car was cheap enough I didn't question them at all... He told me he drove with these wheels on the car and used it as daily driver...back in I think he said 2010 or so... https://i.postimg.cc...