Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi, have just seen your post. You mentioned owning a 4 door in the Manchester area about 10 years ago. Well, it's probably a completely different car, but I live in the Manchester area and bought a 4 door about 9 years ago. Prior to this the car had been in the Edinburgh area where it was originally...

While my car is condition 1, but not concourse, I have nevertheless found the concourse examples at recent Nationals excellent reference points for how mine would have looked when new, and what concourse owners I have talked to have always been nothing less than polite and couteous, always willing t...

I can remember going out for a family outing in my Dad's Austin 1100. There were some students a few cars away in the car park who had locked their keys in the boot of their Mk 1 Escort, and they were going from car to car to see if anyone's keys would open it. Couldn't believe it when our Crook Loc...

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I am slowly restoring my '60 saloon back to original spec.

Does anyone know whether Minor radiators were gloss or matt black when new??? The pics. in the Original Morris Minor book show cars with both gloss and matt painted rads!

Thanks....Paul.

My Traveller has a 1275 Midget engine. Two years ago it pulled our trailor tent to the National at Harewood quite happily, positively zipped up the M62 hill which has the highest bit of motorway in the country at its top. Had to be careful coming back though, found myself doing 80 downhill! I would ...

Hi all.... While on the subject of crossplys and radials, just before my '60 saloon went off to the Moggy Factory, a friend noticed that it had crossplys on the back and radials at the front. This would explain the 'interesting' handling of the car (I know next to nothing about tyres). Does anyone k...

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Paul.

Thanks for your replies, guys! Looks like I'll have to take the wholelot out and start again. Sorry, I forgot to mention that the car is an early 1000...it has a single windscreen, but the insert is metal, but this is in two pieces, the joins in the middle above and below the windscreens being cover...

My 1960 saloon is off the road at the moment undergoing restoration. The windscreen rubber was replaced a couple of years ago, but the two part chrome insert was not fitted back in. Does anyone know if it is possible to fit the insert into the rubber without having to take the whole lot out again? T...

Argghh!!!...I give up!! I am having big problems getting my off side head lamp working. Recently I replaced the nearside front wing, both headlamps were in full working order at the time. On replacing the headlamp with the new wing on it still worked perfectly.....the only problem being that the oth...

Hi again. I forgot to define the noise...it sounds just like any other Minor........only LOUDER!!!!!!!!!!!

Ideas? Paul.

Hi. No rattles, and its always full of oil, good quality stuff too. So far as I know the manifolds are ok, but I will get the garage to check when it's MOT time in a few weeks. Interesting you should mention the air filter. It's the saucepan type, but the top is slightly different from all the other...

My '60 saloon has always been a good runner, but the only 'problem' is that it has always been much louder than other minors. When one passes in the street most are so quiet you sometimes have trouble hearing them at all, but mine is simply louder when on the road. A new exhaust went on about 3 year...