Morris Minor Owners Club

I am A new and proud owner of a 1958 Traveller.
I am trying to get my pic up.... So far so good....
I found a site called
www.tinypic.com
its very easy to navigate
Mike

Welcome Mike!!! looks like a very nice car you got there!!! love the colour!

Is the back end completely wooden, or just a different colour from the front? Looks great.

Very different! I like it! Welcome aboard.

Well done - I lived in Houston for a while - and never saw a Minor !!

Now I am confused.. I find a chat board that I can follow and seems like everybody uses. I then find one (.morrisowners.co.uk) That seem to have many of the same people on it.... I wonder if I am going to have to post everything I do on my car on both.....I just don't to be redundant..
Thanks again
Mike

Here is my story. I bought a Traveller for $20 in 1971 but it had no current title. (The last owner of record had been dead 7 years). It had passed hand to hand to 7 different people b4 I got it. Back then its was ok to do that. . I drove it home. Parked it for 2 years and tried to get a title b4 I did any major work on it. Well the state of Texas said no way. I was young and poor back then so I took their word for it. I sold it for parts for $75.
Every since then I have longed for one. I saw this on in Calf. Now that I and old (still poor) I figured what the hell and for a very reasonable price I bought it.
It looked real good but had some hidden problems I discovered. I have been working on it for the last 2 month. I will Post my progress with comments, pictures, and a lot of questions

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Here are some pics of the car's wood. There is wood where there used to me metal.....As far as I can tell the panels ar just 1/8" plywood that has been varnished...(Go Figure)...They look good and should be cheap to replace if I need to.......You won't believe the color (The pic here does not reflect the REAL COLOR.)
The roof has a cloth covering on it. I will go into that later
Mike P

It certainly look very smart - is the ply put on over the normal aluminium panels - or instead of them ? Someone has certainly put loads or effort into the job. In wet and windy UK they probably wouldn't last very long - but in Tx you have a chance.

Glad to see you made it onto the site Mike!

ooooh! I love the wood, I threatened my husband last November when I got my Traveller that I wanted to have it more like the American Woodies of the Forties and Fifties and that I thought a wood veneer on the alliminium panels would look great, he just raised his eyes heavenwards and told me that I really must stop listening to that old 1940's and 50's Hillbilly and take up knitting!!! But now I can show him how good it can look. And I love the dark blue. well done

Hello from France
it is fine as american woody
i own 64 almond green traveller
dan

Welcome to the Board Dan. Whereabouts in France are you? Have you any pics of your car?

Bonjour Dan,
Welcome from me,
Are there many Moggies in France that you know about? I used to travel north to south every year in France and have never seen one.

Hello regaliaqueen i live in Brittany.south coast.Near carnac quiberon lorient,do you know?
Bonjour dave.50 km around 3 moggies( cab, trav, pick-up).do you come in france each year?.straightly in line north south? why not by our"belle et sauvage bretagne"
dan

britany wrote:....do you come in france each year?

Most years, on MOT (Minors On Tour) Come and join us

This year we're going to La Forge Sainte Marie, Joinville

World is little ,we was at cheverny 2007 MOT but no with traveller because suspension was very,very hard so we came beetle+eriba caravan.and there ,everybody said me :it's normal moggy is hard for the back !!

Hi again - we went to Cheverny 2007 and stayed in our tent with my traveller called Vikki (below) - what colour was your Beetle? I remember there were 3 or 4 on the campsite?

hi ,i remember i have picts of your traveller at home .it is very nice.
we was froggies alone with 120 british and dutch morris minors .it was not easy i dont speak english very well and my wife nothing.
look at MOT site :photographs taken by participants .Henk and Carina Van G...our beetle is there