Morris Minor Owners Club

Hello,
After some advice please. Stripped down to asses floors and sills, is it worth repairing.
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Cheers
Mark

I would imagine the response you'd get is that they're all worth repairing!

If done profesionally, no, the cost of repairs would be more than the car is worth.

If you have the skills and the time, then yes, if the sills shown are the worst bits on the car then its not a bad proposition as a project at all.


More pics please? Floorpans, inner sills, chassis legs , spring hangers.

This was my project car before I started work on it.

Hello,
Thanks for the replies. Will put some more photos up tomorrow.
Cheers
Mark

I would imagine that area is a fairly straighforward area to repair. The true cost in time and money is in the hidden, complex bits, like the front door hinge panel/inner wing, or the rear inner wing/floor/box section/spring hanger/seat upright bit (even worse if it's a 4 door).

You need space to store everything, you need one heck of a workshop, a stack of money and a good portion of determination. Preferably some experience from other suicidal (and longwinded) projects. A helpful girlfriend/wife/partner is the optimum help and motivator. Other than that...yes, anything is salvageable, but is it *really* worth it?

Knowing what I know today from my own 10% done restoration, I´d say "No. find something better." On a bad day. On a good day, I´d say "what the hell, let´s go for it".

Rational vs emotional. You decide.

/Richard

Thats a real "Deal or No Deal"
Once you start spending time and money,where and when do you stop.
appears doors are shot and i suspect a lot more of the bodywork.
Salvage what you can and purchase another with a lot less work needed.
Just my opinion obviously and trying to be helpful,honest and realistic to your challenge.
Good luck with your decision.

More pictures needed really. How bad is the exterior?
The scariest picture has to be :
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As I've never seen such nasty looking rot in that position which suggests its "as rotten as a pear"
If the cross member is as bad as the rest I'd run away from it unless it has sentimental value for you.
There are much better ones to be had.

I have repaired worse.

MarkyB wrote:-snip-
As I've never seen such nasty looking rot in that position which suggests its "as rotten as a pear"
-snip-.

I've seen and repaired worse!
Thats the inner wheelarch area and the end of the inner sill step, both fairly straighforward to make a good repair and if you have some 2mm steel and 1mm steel sheet a cheap repair too!

If every Minor was scrapped "because there are better ones around" then there would soon be none left!

chickenjohn wrote: If every Minor was scrapped "because there are better ones around" then there would soon be none left!

Very true

Maguire wrote:

chickenjohn wrote: If every Minor was scrapped "because there are better ones around" then there would soon be none left!

be a lot of years before that point was reached based on the number churned out.I think you have to be realistic in restoring old cars,you have to look at the rarety or abundance. For instance I have a reliant GTC .Only 443 produced.So any one found is worth the effort and money to put back on the road.But a rotten minor(even though I do love the old birds) Don't know how many million came off the line.Not sure if I would be tempted unless it was a real sound example with just average work involved.Looking at the pics think I would be giving this one a miss,theres bound to be much much more hidden underneath and inside sections,Thats without the mechanical work as well.But good luck with it

Yes, but there arent many left now! and most of those that are are hiding rust much like that seen in the above picture.

Run away from it mate - quick!! It's been horribly bodged already - see pics 5/6/7 - they are the really scary ones. It's gone - just treat it as a parts car.

kennatt wrote:Don't know how many million came off the line.

303, 443 of the 1098s (Pressnell), so hardly "millions"
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Oi! I didn't say it couldn't be salvaged.

Bluesman is spot on, it would need a large investment in tools, parts, time and commitment to restore.
Maybe I'm doing Markie a disservice but as he's asking what we think about this Minor here I'm thinking this would be a first project and he doesn't have welding equipment or sheet metal working tools.

My advice remains run away from this one.
Let it rot for a few more years and there will clearly still be people who can restore it.
First choice would be something with a current MOT*.
Second choice one that has had an MOT* recently.
Fourth comes one that hasn't been used for years but has been stored in a garage.
The minimum this will require is a complete brake rebuild

Bottom of the heap is one that has been dumped in a field for years like this one. Its a liability unless you know what you are taking on and have the facilities to make something of it.

Aim for something that can be a rolling restoration.

*By no means am I suggesting an MOT means a car is sound but it does mean you can can get some use out of the car while you sort out the nasty bits.

Pictures 1 and 4 is bodgery in the strictest sense but I would not worry too much about it.
Pictures 2, 6 and 8 are very bad bodgery and have reduced the strength of the car overall.

If you go along to your local branch they will almost certainly have been approached by people who have Minors for sale or that they just want rid of for nothing that are better than this example. I know my branch does.
Sorry to go on so long but I have been there and done that and got the tee shirt.

Well, its deffinately salvageable. But as BMC says, its been bodged around....which means that behind those repair plates is probably more horror. My plan of action would be to take a hammer and angle grinder to it, and see what your left with once your back to good steel. You may well need to buy new floor sections, crossmember sections etc, and thats where you start getting into chassis alignment etc. Its doable, but is a LOT of work, and will cost a lot.
If now, and i hate to say this, take off what is good on it.....and flog that. And what isnt good, take it to the scrappy, you should get a fair price for it scrap.

YG

At the risk of seeming contrary I'd say just leave it alone.
As others have said it IS salvageable and they are not being made any more.
If its crushed or shredded and sent to China it'll never get restored.
I really doubt there is anything worthwhile unless there is some rare piece of trim that has survived somehow.
If you want rusty dynamos, fuel pumps etc. that might work but probably need reconditioning I have several in my shed

Run away from it mate - quick!!

Yes, don't walk!