How to prove you can't improve on Sir Alec....

Post by **timmo** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:06 am

At the end of the day, its always going to be down to personal choice. If you mod/custom any car, you do it because YOU like/want to not to please other people

Theres plenty of room for all types, i like modded/custom just as much as stock. My Traveller wont be stock WHEN! its finished, but will be how i want it to look...i hope LOL

Post by **plastic_orange** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:18 am

Ondergard wrote:plastic_orange wrote:
Judge for yourself

http://mog.myfreeforum.org/about1083.html

Pete

The mate you refer to in the captions to some of the pictures in that thread has just sold that hot rod for about £7500 on Car and Classic, hasn't he?

Now, that's the kind of modification I think is brilliant! Without looking at the smoothed dashboard and the amazing engine space, you wouldn't know it wasn't pretty well a standard Minor.

If I had had the money, I would have bought that off him, no question. I wouldn't touch the one one I started the conversation about with a bargepole!

My friend Dave emigrated to America (Colorado) 2 years ago, and took a tidy slightly modded traveller with him. He sold the green Minor around 4? years ago for around £5k to finance a project that never got off the ground. That green V8 Minor was for sale recently, and I told Dave about it as he thought of buying it back. He actually phoned the seller up, but the guy was after over £10k for it which was a bit cheeky given that he only put on a new carb since buying it from Dave. Dave actually owned the car twice (he liked it so much). It was possibly the nicest standard looking V8 minor around (didn't look like this when Dave got it though - black windows, 5 spokes, even lower, and a different non Morris shade of green - pics on Minor Mania gallery somewhere), and if the guy got £7.5k for it, then well done to him.
It drove very well, but was a bit noisy in my opinion (needed soundproofing), and the person who originally built it was a skilled engineer.
Hope to see it around with it's new owner. I've got plenty pics of it.

Pete

Post by **badobsession** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:54 pm

timmo wrote:At the end of the day, its always going to be down to personal choice. If you mod/custom any car, you do it because YOU like/want to not to please other people Theres plenty of room for all types, i like modded/custom just as much as stock. My Traveller wont be stock WHEN! its finished, but will be how i want it to look...i hope LOL

WELL SAID THAT MAN