Morris Minor Owners Club

Paladin1962 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2026 4:56 pm Once the sun's over the yardarm it's Bacardi

It's 5 o'clock somewhere......

Same as usual - Heck's Farmhouse Medium Dry.

My wife might read this......

On the starting-up front, drive off as soon as you want. The engine will warm up much quicker under load. You aren't doing it any harm.

A couple of suggestions:

A J Bayliss & Son Ltd. Retail dealers

Solihull Motor Company. Reciprocal retail dealers

I always chuckle at " would make good wedding car".

Often turns out that they have mis-spelt "welding".

For those who value after-sales service, I have nothing but praise for R-Tech Qelding Supplies of Tewkesbury. They sell their own brnd equipment. Not the cheapest, not the dearest, but they have a back-to-base repair facility that is really reassuring, and their stuff is AFAIK made by themselves. Si...

Horrendous.
One of the reasons I try to dissuade people from fitting seat belts to vehicles that don't have factory anchorage points.

I remember the ten-year test coming in, and some of the death traps that were taken off the road. I remember the howls of protest. None of them came from me.

To be honest, the main reason I deploy trafficators is that the general public like seeing them.
My wife & I call it "the finger". At traffic lights, you often see the people in the car behind pointing excitedly at the trafficator when it pops out.
Cheers them up - and cheers me up!

The simple facts of the matter are : Original Trafficators are only an Amber Arm, with a steady illumination. Many owners using Trafficators have switched to a flashing LED lamp so that people might actually notice them. If using flashing trafficators with their own flashing LED, at the same time a...

It's easy enough to have both operating simultaneously from the same switch.
I do this, and fit LED flashing bulbs in the trafficators; they act as very useful side repeaters.

Yes, one can benefit the classic car scene by being open, friendly, avuncular, and thus signing up a new recruit, even though it may not result in a sale. I have identified another type of time waster this morning. A Morris Minor is being advertised by someone living near me; the price has recently ...

I have removed my tongue from my cheek, but I am still making a case for timewasters. Of a sort. There must be many instances of people wanting to view Morris Minors or indeed any classic car who don't know if they want to buy any Morris Minor, let alone the advertiser's one. To make my point cleare...

Nobody is sticking up for timewasters. I am a timewaster and feel that I must put our case. How else are we going to try out cars that we always fantasised about without actually buying one? The adrenalin rush that comes from pretending that you can afford something that in reality you can't is beyo...

Odd. I use FB for communicating, Marketplace for buying/selling, and I subscribe to several groups aligned with my (too many!) various interests. I have not seen such a demand. Famous last words? Is one heading my way? Fingers crossed not. I do have Adblock+ installed, which does keep most unwanted ...

I had until recently a Riley 1 1/2 CFB 877.
It was first registered in 1951.
I will check to see when CFB 445 was issued.The results are in.
CFB was issued from September 1950 until May 1951.

Another report here of it arriving recently. Friday in my case.

Actual real heated rear windows with heating elements embedded within the glass are available and not too expensive.
Mine came from "the usual suspects".

I am not for one moment suggesting you try this but we would mix old engine oil with whatever claggy waterproof substance we could cheaply lay our hands on and slap it everywhere underneath. Old engine oil may well have beneficial effects on your Morris nuts, but it didn't do my nuts any good. Seve...

My twopenceworth for what it's worth (2p presumably) is: I am an uninvolved member, and intend staying that way. Therefore I am happy to leave the running of the MMOC to those who are prepared to put the time in. Were I prepared to play a part in running the club I would feel better placed to critic...