Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi Everyone, I'm in the planning stages of my next restoration, an early Series 2 LCV. When I got the van, it was without the original engine and gearbox but still has the original diff ratio. Can anyone here with lived experience driving cars with earlier drive lines provide some input please? I wi...

I thought I'd pop this post up to hopefully grab the attention of someone more in the know about LCVs... I'm approaching the time where I will need to start sorting out the jigsaw puzzle that is my 1958 LCV pickup / ute.. It was pulled apart over 20 years ago by a previous owner who had it bead blas...

I'm sorry, but I'm going to chime in and disagree with the last post. I did my replacement of the windscreen seal a bit over a year ago. The issues people face have nothing to do with the rubber, it IS an issue with the design of the seal. There is insufficient allowance of both the size of the rubb...

Hi Guys, As I am restoring an Australian LCV (Ute), there's a chance that it may be different, but... Can anyone advise what the interior of the cab rear panel was trimmed with (if anything) around the rear window and down to below the seat? Most of ours were fitted with bench seats, but I still nee...

Hi Scott, I would have at some stage. I only managed to get that shot because I had found someone had linked the page in a forum post somewhere. Being a dead link with the demise of the Australian site, I only got back to it via the web archive. To find other pages, you'd have to guess the url or fi...

Well my '51 MM series definitely had it on the left. It was a restored car, so who knows what was done to it.

I think it's come out as a very good match..

This is the result..

I've never seen an example of the ESM paint, so can't really comment on what it looks like. However, the use of a top coat lacquer is only for a few reasons. Either they were only able to reproduce it as a base coat formula, in which case a top coat clear is required to give it gloss or, the lacquer...

Hi Bill, The Australian authorities are even less help and the situation is compounded by the fact each State has its own different authority and they are barely interconnected. They also have their own rules, licences and registration information. Vehicles here are not tied to their original regist...

A search on the forum has shown a few posts about this topic, most from several years ago. I thought I'd share my work (at work) today as one of the three Minor colours I was working on was the dashboard 'gold', the other two, or at least one of, are Australian colours and the 'gold' maybe impacted ...

Hi Philip, Thanks for the reply. I had already contacted BHMT and they are not interested in helping. I tried twice, once via a certificate request (as it seemed the logical approach to initiate a search) and the second time with a lot more details that would significantly reduce the search to a few...

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone here has had success in getting a vehicle search done when you don't have the exact information that BMHT asks for to do a certificate? Chris Stevens on here has been very helpful in trying to pin down my lcv's identity. He has come up with a known vehicle that would...

Thought I'd add an update here on my progress with respect to Australian colours. I will shortly have access to colour chips for Australian Minors with paint colours used in 1958 and 1959. As I work in a paint shop, I will have access to a spectrometer and be able to scan the samples and SHOULD be a...

Yes, it is very early in the series but it's not a timber dashboard.. Well in that I say, it has no timber board, but has the metal support panel that all MM series cars. When referring to MM series, I meant it's not the updated facelift when they changed to the central speedo. I have contacted Brit...

Guys, although I appreciate the input, the wiper reference has taken the thread off topic. The only reason I mentioned it is because my 51 MM series Minor had it on the left, the Series 2 cars are on the right and that change may have helped identify the age of the car. As it happens, I have since b...

Well the plot thickens. I have contacted the LCV register for more help. For future reference, readers should note that the 'potteries' branch document I often see people referred to, has errors in it. It is also reproduced by the MM car club of NSW. In there it suggests the LCV's were produced in 1...

Does anyone know when the wiper motors were moved over to the driver side? My MM series had it mounted up above the passenger glove box, this Ute has the series 2 position.. (but the wiper motor is sadly missing) Wiper Motor was up under the dash until the change to S3 in 1956. Look online for pdf ...

Unfortunately Keith, that doesn't help. The article does cover the information I've seen on a 1960 model, it follows that ID system. My later car, a 1958, follows the UK system with the addition of the Australian body number after the UK number, as does my late 56 series 2 sedan. Neither of these ad...

Have done so. Thanks

In my case, there are definitely only three numbers. Clearly stamped along with the associated depression into the steel. I used to own a '51 High light MM series side valve car. I'll have to dig through old photos and see what that had.. I figure that it's definitely a CKD car, I just don't know wh...