Morris Minor Owners Club

PaulTubby wrote:If the car is solid and good, you have hit gold! alot of bodged examples out there. In my opion, paint it the colour you want, enjoy it, keep it and use it! also looking at the photo, is the passenger rear wing fibrelass, looks cracked at the rear edge, if so this would be easier to replace then repair to be honest as once they crack they never seem to be the same even when repaired and briged and strengthen from behind. Make sure once its been painted to waxoyl, dinitrol the underside and box sections, plus i would check under the kick plates, the panels on the sills under the doors.... these bolt on and off and have a good look in there when assessing its true condition

StaffsMoggie wrote:Nice find. As for the colour, its your car and up to you what colour you paint it. There are plenty of Minors around in original colours/trim anyway. If the car is solid I would keep it and make it into the car you want.

Limeflower was a hideous colour, it looked vile on MGs too! Just my opinion of course.

Enjoy the Minor and make it how you want it.

lambrettalad wrote:my better half was dead against a green moggie ,so what did I buy? a green one (bravest I've been for years !) but now she loves it,It's nice to see all sorts of colours,or rats at the shows.Just imagine what a row after row of old english or almond green moggies would look like

simmitc wrote:When you "do" a Traveller properly, you will usually spend more money than you can realistically get back by selling it on. It's your car for you to do with as you wish, and although limeflower is one of the rarer colours for a Minor, it is not historically significant. My travellers had limeflower interiors. Impossible to replace (I used to work for the company that made the material, and we simply could not run the production line in a small enough quantity to get the colour). Both cars are now biscuit - a non-minor colour, but it works very well with the teal blue paint (despite what others may say, that IS a fantastic colour!). My first sludge grey (rose taupe) traveller soon became maroon. One trafalgar blue became teal blue. In short, you have already bonded with the car, you want OEW, you have OEW. Compared to what other do with the cars, a change of colour is nothing