What ever happened to the LBM?

[tysonn]

Discussion seems to have dried up on this subject.Did we milk it dry?
Mick

[POMMReg]

Discussion seems to have dried up on this subject.Did we milk it dry?
Mick

Conclusion is/was that it was to allow Tourer's to be converted to 2drs - 2drs
TO Tourers doesn't seem likely.

Wiper motor plinth thing sorted too.

Phase 1 "Hybrid" Minor's had separate body codes, anyone owning a Traveller
or Convertable "P1 Hybrid" please pm me.

LBM currently lives in a 3 bedroom semi on the outskirts of Plymouth!

[ManyMinors]

The "long body moulding" or LBM could never possibly have been anything to do with converting saloons to convertibles because a). The factory used a separate bodyshell for the convertible and lists this in the parts book. b). The factory sold the convertble version brand new for exactly the same price as the 2door saloon, so going to all the work of converting one into the other would make no sense. c). It would be impossible having built a bodyshell for the 2door saloon to add the additional convertible strengthening sections to the INSIDE of the sill box sections and d). On the factory built convertible, the body moulding (long OR short) around the rear of the roof simply is not present. It is part of the saloon roof panel. Its presence on a saloon makes for an easy aftermarket "convertible conversion" because the hood can be screwed directly on to it if it's left on BUT the factory-built convertibles had a wooden strip made from three pieces of timber fitted here instead to which the hood was secured. If you look at a 1950s Convertible the "LBM" cars do have this visible moulding for a few inches on each side pressed into the rear quarter panel forward of the hood fixing. However, lifting the edge of the hood will reveal that this moulding is only a few inches long and the hood itself is attached to wood, NOT a metal moulding. Contrary to Mr LBM's theory it is the aftermarket conversions which often utilise the saloon moulding for hood attachment NOT the factory built convertibles.

[ian.mcdougall]

OH NO!!! here we go again, Tysonn why could you not let sleeping dogs lie.

[tysonn]

LOL was feeling a bit bored.
Mick

[twincamman]

[tysonn]

Hehe.Not many biting though ;-(

[POMMReg]

OH NO!!! here we go again, Tysonn why could you not let sleeping dogs lie.

Is anyone REALLY interested in this sort of stuff?

[tysonn]

Chris you are joking of course????????/

[POMMReg]

Chris you are joking of course????????/

Well, I find it interesting even though 99% of readers don't - only takes up a page anyway!

[irmscher]

[les]

99.9%

[POMMReg]

99.9%

5 pages of posts devoted to it, so I'm sticking to 99%!

As for the colour of 69899 engines....24824 Austin LCVs blah blah

[ian.mcdougall]

Perhaps we should work out how many new purchasers of minors were men who rolled their own cigarettes.

[ManyMinors]

I think new buyers were more likely to be pipe smokers

[tysonn]

Smoking was compulsory in those days!That's why I have emphysema.
Mick

[POMMReg]

Interesting to find out how many Tourers/Convertables were converted to
2drs - MAY be picked at Gaydon(?).

I know the LBM saga has been milked dry, but this should have been picked
up YEARS ago, cannot rely on BMIHT records to answer EVERY question -
being a historian is bxxxxy hard work - compounded by the struggle to obtain
chassis/body numbers....

And now for something COMPLETELY different....

Austin LCV engines, late 1967-early 1969 GREEN - presumably all "10MAUL"
models - were there any BLACK pre-70000 "10V/189E/" engines?