Morris Minor Owners Club

I've just found this -
http://cracker.com.au/classifieds/sydne ... 95469.aspx
and it's made me think.

Other car clubs have sourced rot free secondhand panels from Australia when the UK supply had totally dried up.
Maybe it's time for a few of us to get together and see if we can get rot free van/ pick-up chassis sent over ?
I haven't the faintest idea how we'd go about it but I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to ask the Vauxhall etc club how they manage.

Paul Humphries.

Anyone want to find out how much a container from Oz is?

Or find out when another car club is putting together a shipment and ask to share their container.

I think the MMOC did a container full of rare sidevalve bits from New Zealand a little while back.

alex_holden wrote:Or find out when another car club is putting together a shipment and ask to share their container.

That was more my idea.

Seriously though it's worth thinking about.
After all how many people would be interested in rust free LCV chassis, cabs and rear bodies. And what about MM front wings / panels ?

Paul Humphries

I used to run containers across europe so I'll make a call in the morning and get a rough price for a 20' container port to port.

I've text my matey that works nights in the P&O Freight offices and he reckons a 20 footer would be a little over £2000 without container hire or import taxes! Thats self load in Canberra and self unload in Southampton or Felixstowe, to have it loaded and shipped from elsewhere in Oz and driven to Canberra could cost up to 2500ASD. To move from Southampton or Felixstowe to anywhere in England or Wales would work out at £32 per mile plus VAT and £38 per mile plus VAT for Scotland and NI. He'd have to do a special quote for Eire.

Spare a thought for the poor o'l Aussie Minor owners, its nice to have these parts shipped over here, but what will they do when they need spares, especially for the early or rarer models.

Other car clubs have sourced rot free secondhand panels from Australia when the UK supply had totally dried up.
Maybe it's time for a few of us to get together and see if we can get rot free van/ pick-up chassis sent over ?
I haven't the faintest idea how we'd go about it but I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to ask the Vauxhall etc club how they manage.

True and we are one of them as Chris said

I think the MMOC did a container full of rare sidevalve bits from New Zealand a little while back.

Just ask Bryan Gostling as he was involved with the last container load.

esm had bought some van chassis from aus and were supposed to be rot free, and they were not, and were not happy with them
you can not see all the inside unles you take the top plate off

i would think the best bet is to just buy a van , maybe bad body work, but sometimes have good chassis

i have just bought a van where the back end body work needs rebuilding and apart from a 3" plate at the back that needs welding the chassis is fine, as the previous owner for 30 odd years had coverered all the underside and sides etc of the chassis with old engine oil, also in the engine bay i might add, i have just scraped a good half an inch of oil and gunge from the engine bay floor and have got back to the original paint

I'll unload at Southampton Docks if you like.

Can't guarentee you'll get all of it out of Southampton mind

if you go to felxstoe get me a truck and trailer ill drive to brians place if you need

Thunderbirds are go! Take XL2.

what we need is a tele porter that way get anything any time were dose doc who live ??????????

You've spoilt the joke now!

Mine and its original seen on Satuday after its 5th coat of paint, one more to go and them waxoyl to go in

sorry les what part of kent you in over easter im down my mums (in strood) so if you see my red traveler its me

I'm north/west but maybe not at easter.

Can see the spoiler on it already Russ !!!