Anyone on here have 1964 Traveller CAR734B

[bmcecosse]

Not the first by any means - my Rally Minor had Wolseley drums front and rear 66/67 - and additional teledampers front and rear, as well as the original lever dampers filled with EP90... I knew better than to fit antiroll bar, the car having plenty of understeer already - but it did have negative camber ......

[SteveClem]

Bbc,I'm sure you know what you mean but It's like Chinese to me!

[SteveClem]

Sorry, meant ' mc', one finger typing still carp!

[SteveClem]

'Bmc'!

[CAR734B]

Yes it's coming back to me. He wanted Riley drums up front (I take it they are bigger diam or wider) but Wolesley was all he could get at the breakers. And he could not have been the first with that mod. because now I recall somebody told him about it. I do remember he kept the stock lever arms damper units in situ. OK, so he was the first in a cast of thousnads before him Sorry the memory is getting hazy.

I would love to see that car now.

[CAR734B]

Now I think about it, I'm sure sometime in the mid 70s a magazine had a mini-feature on the Riley/Wolesley drum conversion.

[philthehill]

The riley 1.5 front brakes are a larger dia at 9" and the brake shoes are very wide.
I had Riley 1.5 brakes on the front of my Minor back in the 1970s. Very good they were too. But the drums were very heavy which increased the un-sprung weight.
They were superseded by the Morris Marina disc brake set up. The Minor now has the Wolseley 1500 8" rear brakes fitted and they provide a nice balanced braking with the disc brake set up. No servo is fitted as I like to feel the brake feed back through the pedal.
The front brake conversion is easy to do - near enough a bolt on job.
The Wolseley rear brakes require the back plates to be swopped from side to side to match up with the minor handbrake cables. Again a near bolt on job.
The metal brake pipes need to have the right form of nipple on their ends and the correct nut.

[irmscher]

Phil aren't the cylinders really expensive and hard to get hold of now ??

[philthehill]

New Riley 1.5 brake wheel cylinders are expensive and hard to come by but here is a link to what appears to be useable wheels cylinders with a Girling overhaul kit:-

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1958-1965-RI ... SwUeBdvam1

Wheel cylinder repair kits are available from 'e' bay.

The one reoccurring problem I had with the Riley 1.5 front brakes fitted to my Minor was that the adjusters easily became slack in the back plate and the back plate then had to be replaced as there were no adjuster repair kits back then, thankfully there was a plentiful supply of S/H backplates available from my local scrap yard. NOS adjuster repair kits are now available from 'e' bay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-A55-A ... SwHZhbP4rR

Below are photos of the Riley 1.5 front brake set up:-

Riley 1.5 front brakes 1.jpg (170.06 KiB) Viewed 10533 times

Riley 1.5 front brakes 2.jpg (293.07 KiB) Viewed 10533 times

[jagnut66]

CAR 734B is still out there.

Hi,
So what was the outcome of this? Did you get to see your dad's old traveller again?
Best wishes,
Mike.

[CAR734B]

Hi,
So what was the outcome of this? Did you get to see your dad's old traveller again?
Best wishes,
Mike.

Sniff, seems CAR 734B remains elusive. Sob;)

[jagnut66]

Sniff, seems CAR 734B remains elusive. Sob;)

Did the club office pass on your details to the current owner?
(If you didn't before) It could do no harm to ring them again, get them to recontact the current owner and ask them to let you have first refusal, if and when they decide to part with it.
It would also give you the opportunity to touch base and update your contact details with them, if neccessary.
Best wishes,
Mike.

[CAR734B]

Don't come on here too often, as at the start of this thread I'm here to trace CAR734B. I've pix of it in the 60s and 70s here. It's still out there. One of you has it, I will speak to the club again.



CAR734B. Will see it one day... one day...

[geoberni]

Have you tried asking on the various facebook groups, not only for Minors, but Classic Cars in general?

[CAR734B]

I've made broad searches. It's been 11 odd years and still no word. LouiseM of this parish says the car is owned by a member - owner was contacted - and no word. I come back on to check here once in a while. Will keeping checking.

Pix of the car from the 60s/70s still sit in the family album. One day eh...

[mrs.smith2012]

I hope the owner does get in touch. If I am blessed enough to own a Morris in the near future I’d love to know the car’s history so if an old owner came forward I’d welcome it! History is fascinating!

[CAR734B]

I check-in every now and then. Original post 2014. This is going to take a while!

[ManyMinors]

How strange that the owner has not followed this up. I just checked on the DVLA website(s) and the car is still taxed so is probably still in use.
The MOT site shows that the most recent MOT expired in 2020 but that isn't unusual as there is now no legal requirement for a current test.
That site also shows that the annual mileage for the years previously recorded was VERY low. Perhaps it doesn't get out much.
Good luck with your search.

[CAR734B]

Well... minor success. SWIDT?

I've found CAR734B. More because Ai has got ever cleverer I think. Typed in CAR734B and several images came up. Guess what...

CAR734B Castle Roadsters Newark & Nottinghamshire 01.jpg (497.54 KiB) Viewed 2943 times

Castle Roadsters somewhere... Newark & Nottingham'ish - have the car among their members.

CAR734B Castle Roadsters Newark & Nottinghamshire 02.jpg (97.5 KiB) Viewed 2943 times

This...

CAR734B Castle Roadsters Newark & Nottinghamshire 03.jpg (362.53 KiB) Viewed 2943 times

And this...

CAR734B Castle Roadsters Newark & Nottinghamshire 04.jpg (515.53 KiB) Viewed 2943 times

Aaaannnd this...

Seems the net is closing. And Ai by virtue of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) helped a lot. Seems OCR found the characters CAR734B in a pix search.

That's the Fox Inn - in Kelham, Nottinghamshire. Club meet for Castle Roadsters? Minded that it had a 1300 Spridget in there when last known and there was tell of a Fiat twin-cam, maybe the StreetRod bias company it now keeps is a clue?

[CAR734B]

Clearly not but they'd pass for a stock item - I like. Very much under-stated... anyone know what those rims are?