Morris Minor Owners Club

"Agree far less in an old car to cause fires compared to new, Mines a 50s too."
Particularly, unless rerouted, the pump to carburettor fuel pipe directly above the exhaust manifold. In spite of that I don't carry a fire extinguisher in the car, but do use decent ethanol friendly fuel pipe. Not those steel braided things that have more than once failed.
In addition to items already mentioned I do lug around all sorts of stuff that will, hopefully, never be needed. Even a spare fully set up distributor!

I do carry a fire extinguisher in the car. It's important that it is suitable for vehicle fires. Of course it goes without saying that you should only ever attempt to extinguish a small fire. I may be rather ridiculously over-attached to my Morris but it is only a car. Be prepared to walk away and let it burn.

Stephen

I liked the old roof racks but don't know if I would trust one now.

I saw a YouTube video a while ago in which they recommended not using a fire extinguisher because of the cleanup involved post-fire.

They instead spoke of a liquid that 3M make which not only extinguishes the fire nearly instantly, but leaves no residue at all - but that's as much as I can remember

Classiccars wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 7:02 pm I liked the old roof racks but don't know if I would trust one now.

There was a new program on TV not so long ago, some form of buy cars and sell them for profit one (but not Wheeler Dealers, this was a group of men) bought a brand new rack from somewhere in Staffordshire for a Minor, but no company details were given and I never did find anything online.

Online it claims the racks that are no longer available could hold 50kg, I always wondered if they damaged the roof/gutters over time since all the ones I saw were metal direct to the roof, no rubber feet etc. that I could see.