Morris Minor Owners Club

This is an amazing story!

This chap buys scrap landies from the MOD, rips them to bits then makes new ones - which he then sells to the MOD!

Recycling at its best!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7052340.stm

Yes, its a great story-read it earlier today- we should do this for Morris Minors and sell them as true recycled sustainable transport.

We already do John

But not on that kind of scale.

wow!

Someone was telling me on Tuesday that Land Rover parts availability in Lincolnshire was better than anywhere else and that the parts were really cheap.
Wierd! Now I can understand why, if they sell at parts 50% of book price.

rayofleamington wrote:Someone was telling me on Tuesday that Land Rover parts availability in Lincolnshire was better than anywhere else and that the parts were really cheap.
Wierd! Now I can understand why, if they sell at parts 50% of book price.

I cann't understand though how they can say a Wolf engine at £7000 is half the new price - after all they are just normal 300TDi units and not that much to the "general public" from local LR dealers.
Are they really saying the military paid £14000 in the past for a engines ?
They should have tried one of the biggest / well known / excellent reputation Land Rover engine reconditioners
( http://turner-engineering.co.uk/html/st ... gines.html ) who could have supplied a short unit for £1895 and had £12000+ left over for the ancilliary components !

Paul Humphries

" cann't understand though how they can say a Wolf engine at £7000 is half the new price "

I expect that was the BBC journo getting his facts wrong again.