Bettis in his new home

Post by **toginthemog** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:20 pm

well it ooks like Bettis as my son has named him has a new home well actually its the same one he has had for the last 6 years but he is not sharing it with 2 trailer loads of crap he burst into life after we put some petrol in it so it looks like my trip to Brooklands has shifted my backside into gear and we intend to make a start when the rest of the garage has been sorted Morris is now next door all on his own dont want to distress him he,s been through to much with his rebuild. the pile in the middle of the workshop is the next trailor load for the tip [not the Lambretta] if you remember the picture challenge of inside my garage you will see what a change it is. My new motto has to be if we havent used it in the last couple of years we don,t need it [Exemption on that for Morris parts]

Post by **d_harris** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:25 pm

Looks Good. Single Piece flipfront?

Post by **toginthemog** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:41 pm

hi Dan yes but it is a bit knaf as it,s steel bonnet and glass wings does,nt work to good I think one or the other but not both little cracks appear on the joints so looking at a glass flip front

Post by **bmcecosse** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:13 am

Nice big workshop - will be great when it's cleared!

Post by **d_harris** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:21 am

Eh? Glass wings bonded to a steel bonnet?

Sounds a bit wrong to me.....

Post by **grumpygrandad** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:26 am

hello mate nice size working space you have,,grandad my new car

Post by **ASL642** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:16 am

"The Yellow Peril"!

I had one in bright yellow - could always find it in the carpark!

Post by **grumpygrandad** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:55 am

regaliaqueen wrote:"The Yellow Peril"! I had one in bright yellow - could always find it in the carpark!

hello the yellow is bright but is a ford colour wheather its capri i dont know..grandad

Post by **Dean** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:45 pm

Must be great being able to work all the way around the car in a garage. I have problems using drum pullers sometimes as the centre bolt locks onto the garage wall before the thing has opened up enough!! grrr

Post by **toginthemog** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:38 pm

well today Bettis got a nice shiny coat of paint on the floor shame on you for encouraging me by saying how big my workshop is I think I have not apreciated the fact I can get 6 cars in bay 1and 2 with another workshop next door poss 2 more I must give myself 3000 lines to apreciate it more. The bay we have just cleaned and painted we have not even been in that one doing anything since we moved here 12 yrs ago.More progress tomorrow as we have decided to do the next bay.

Post by **Dean** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:04 pm

toginthemog wrote: the fact I can get 6 cars in bay 1and 2

Absolute paradise!!!!

Post by **wibble_puppy** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:20 pm

Jings! You lucky *ahem* !

Why "Bettis"?

Post by **toginthemog** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:38 pm

I know it,s the most stupid name I have ever heard of why could he have not called it something like thunder or thor or something manly. no my stupid son decided its got to be different can,t get him to change it he just ignores me as I have had the car 6 yrs in the back of the garage and just given it to him he say,s he has the right to call it what he wants. shall I take it back unless he calls it a proper name.

Post by **wibble_puppy** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:39 pm

No don't take it back! Where did he get the name from?

Post by **Sidney'61** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:41 pm

wibble_puppy wrote:Where did he get the name from?

A Spanish football team?

Post by **toginthemog** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:51 pm

he does,nt know [stupid child ] gets it from his mother. I know I should,nt have let him come to Brooklands with me He now has the bug hence why we are on with the car after all this time

Post by **wibble_puppy** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:58 pm

lol

The first thing I thought of was a beautiful place in Wales, Betwys-y-Coed, the shortened form of which is pronounced "Bettis"

Post by **toginthemog** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:06 pm

no nothing as sensible as that now he has just said it is in a beatiful place his nice shiny garage [Quote again stupid child]

Post by **mrbenn** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:11 pm

Is it wrong to love a garage? Because I think I do

Post by **toginthemog** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:27 pm

is,nt it strange I,m never in a real good mood unless I,m working in the garage and it,s so nice to see the garage clean and tidy. yet if I walk in the house and it,s not tidy it does,nt bother me. I can divorce the wife but I could,nt divorce the garage Need treatment must get the medicine out LOL

Morris Minor Owners Club

Bettis in his new home

Bettis in his new home

what do you think

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