Morris Minor Owners Club

I will "bite"! What's "special" about it? It's a nice looking example of a "late model" MM, it's not even a "low light"! I don't know if that's a realistic figure in Europe/UK or not, but personally I would rather have a "Jag" you could get for the s...

Any chance its a spigot bearing ?

Don't know anything about the war department units but a friend of mine has a president tractor and it uses the later series MM type engine with the aluminium water jacket on the right hand of the engine. I remember this because it corroded out and he had to make a replacement.

Mike, If you are going to get it stitched make sure you show it to someone who realy knows their stuff ! With a crack like that going right out to the cylinder it may need sleeving as well to stop it cracking down the cylinder wall, and if it does I think replacement block would be in order.

We have several pieces of older farm equipment with oil bath aircleaners (tractors, trucks and utilitys) and they all use the same oil as the engine takes in the sump ! (clean of course) I presume the minor would be the same.

I saw an old mechanic I used to work with remove a cylinder head by leaving the car hanging on an engine crane by the head so the full weight of the car was going onto the studs over an Easter weekend break (about 5 days) with a liberal amount of vinegar poured into the head bolt tunnels. The theory...

Just letting you blokes know that I have just picked up my spare parts car ! I had a look at it late last year just before the start of our harvest period and by the time the harvest had finnished the owner had gone on holidays so I had to wait until now when he had returned. When I aproached him he...

Thanks Dave, I showed it to one of my "spys" and he thinks he knows where one is ! Aparently another fellow in the district used to have several minors and he thinks he remembers one like it in a box of parts he has. He has since sold the minors but still has a few of the bits he collected...

Thanks Dave, that conferms it, my badge is identical except the centre emblem is missing ! I had a pretty good look around after I found it but it looks like the emblem may have been missing for decades. Mike, I like the clock idea, and I remember seeing one sold on "Epay" a while ago, and...

I think I have just found the center badge for the 49 lowlight, but its missing the "emblem" in the center. Its just the right size to fit in the hole in the glovebox lid, made out of chrome plated spun steel with a black ring between two raised spun sections on the "face" and ha...

There is always a lot to learn isn't there !

Thanks blokes,
Graham

plastic_orange wrote:Mine doesn't have the moulding and it is July 1950 no 57550.

Pete

Number 47632 from 1950 don't have the belt moulding either.

Thanks Mike, I arn't sure if its inner guards are the same as the lowlights or not, I had a look over the car but its something I didn't even think to look for. Likewise the bonnet "looks" the same as the other lowlights I have so I am asuming it is the same as the 49 and 50 cars. I did no...

G'Day blokes, I am still collecting bits for the "lowlight" and had a win yesterday ! (I think) I was up at a Saturday meeting of our little vintage club and one of our newer members was telling me about a minor his neighbour had on a farm he had purchased. When I heard "side valve&qu...

Lancia Fulvia or maybe Fiat Arbath ?

  All the threads on the engine are metric due early components having a French ancestory. The bolt heads however are Whitworth. Mike, I don't want to "hijack" the thread, (I am realy enjoying it) but how did a Morris Minor end up with a "French" heritage ? I know it's probibaly...

I am definatly a "newby" at minors, but I had another closer look at the 49 car. The black paint behind the guards may have been painted on when the colour was changed from maroon to blue (well after it was built) but there are quite a few spots underneath on the floorpan and they are only...

Umm well,
Definitly 2 wipers and one very nice oil bath aircleaner so it looks like some spec's are different.
I recon the paint would be the same though.

Graham

I went and had a look at mine, the 50 model is an orignally black car so black underneath and behind the guards. But the 49 model was originaly "maroon" and it has body colour under the black paint behind the guards. All black on the underside of the floorpan, with no sign of colour "...

Don't worrie Chris the damaged body certainly wont be "junked" Its not unusual to find cars sitting out in the open here. There was virtualy no recycling of car bodys back then, so when people were finished with them they just sat or were sent to the local shire tip to be buried. :cry: (ve...