Morris Minor Owners Club

Supply and demand? That's what it is. Simple as that. We used to have Mini pick-ups at work. I think they cost about £400 brand new and they were used and given as much respect as a wheelbarrow. That's why there are so few left now, which is why they're valuable. Added to which, professional restor...

It rather sounds as if your car has had the identity of an older one swapped onto it at some time. This is not uncommon and was probably done in order to sell/transfer the registration number of a car which only existed in the form of documentation...... Why whoever did that then sold the car on wit...

The best way to tell will be from the chassis number. Also, check that the number stamped into the alloy plate on the bulkhead is the same as the number stamped into the steel bulkhead on the car itself. According to reference books the earliest chassis number for the facelifted 4door cars like your...

I broadly agree with what has been said by others. You would be very lucky to find a genuinely good traveller for £3-4000 now. Most in that price range require a bit of work which is hard to find the time to do when you have a young family. A traveller even in the best condition requires more mainte...

The DVLA will only be able to re-allocate the original plate if it hasn't been sold. If, as you say, you know it HAS been then it belongs to someone else. If it doesn't show up as being on a vehicle then it is probably being held on a retention certificate by the current owner? It certainly won't hu...

New models (or new colours etc) tended to be introduced at the Motor Show which always took place in October. Therefore, yes, the 1958 range would have been introduced in October 1957

dalebrignall wrote:my girlfriends speedo does not work correctally

MY girlfriend doesn't even HAVE a speedo

There is another issue too which will lead to inaccuracies. A couple of years ago I bought a very rusty Minor 1000 saloon and stripped it for useful spares. I got a local scrapman to remove the remains of the shell and tried to send the V5 document to the DVLA, as you used to previously, with a box ...

I think somebody is simply confusing the body number and the chassis number. The car itself is plainly a 1956 (or thereabouts) Series11 Minor and so is the chassis number you've quoted, so I don't really see why there should be any confusion :-? If the stamped chassis number on the engine bay bulkhe...

BUT be prepared for other drivers regularly hooting at you, shaking their fists and shouting because they didn't realise that the interrupted red brakelight was your direction indicator :-? . I soon got fed up with that arrangement on mine and fitted orange flashers just like the previous owner of y...

There were no photos on the listing when I first spotted it. The car doesn't look as bad in the pictures as I was expecting.
Looks quite a decent project doesn't it. I'm almost tempted! Shame the original reg number is no longer with it.
I'm sure that could be brought back to life fairly easily.

The chassis number (what is nowadays refered to as a VIN (vehicle identification number) is stamped into a metal plate which is then screwed onto the engine bay bulkhead. Obviously this can be removed easily. The same number is also stamped into the bodyshell either onto the bulkhead below the screw...

The traveller was never factory produced in that way. Are you in Sydney Australia? It's just possible your car was based on a van chassis & cab and the body was produced locally.

Another one listed on ebay auction now (item no: 171569130372). Requires restoration. 1956. Beige. Registration no: AAS 569 which is a later, re-issued, non-transferable plate. For sale in Princes Risborough.
Do you know of this one?

As you probably know, the sidelamp wiring is red and this circuit is not protected by a fuse on a 1960 car :( You might be able to find out where the circuit shorted to earth but maybe not..... As others have said, I wouldn't be in TOO much of a rush to replace the entire loom just because of this. ...

It's certainly worth shopping around but I think for young drivers, the scheme the club have arranged through Footman James will be hard to beat on price.

With Winter weather upon us, here's a little job well within the capabilities of most, which might keep a bit of water out. The gloveboxes on my Minor were getting damp and so today after work I spent a little time improving things. Rainwater was seeping in around the windscreen wiper wheelboxes whi...

I had an early 948cc Minor 1000 - it was late a 1950s car but I can't remember what year - and it certainly had a red fan. My 1961 car - also 948cc - has a yellow one, so at some stage during 948 production they seem to have changed but I can't tell you when! Unfortunately on most underbonnet pictur...

That is much too late a chassis number to have a "SMM" prefix.
I agree, it looks like a late Series 11 car and the chassis number would also seem to suggest late 1955 or early 1956?
Most Lucas electrical parts are date coded - can you read a date code on any?

As Mike says, all Minor 1000 cars had 3.00" width wheels right upto the end of production. I personally think they drive best on 145 section radial tyres but many owners use 155 section tyres without problems.