Morris Minor Owners Club

The Minor I have just bought - although not picked up yet - has a number plate which (sort of) suggests a Shakespearian name.

I thought of the idea of putting a calligraphic Shakespearian quote around either the boot lid or the bonnet. Proper, calligraphic, hand-painted lettering. The thing is, what paint should I use, and is here any way to seal it so it doesn't rub off when polishing the car or something worse? Can you seal writing like that onto the car in some way?

Use an airbrush with cellulose - and then spray clear lacquer on top when it has all dried in thoroughly.

bmcecosse wrote:Use an airbrush with cellulose - and then spray clear lacquer on top when it has all dried in thoroughly.

Can't use an airbrush for calligraphy - it would have to be hand-painted, "built" letters, which you just can't do with an airbrush.

Can't you use your Calligraphy on a piece of card, carefully cut around it to make a stencil and then use BMC's idea with celly and lacquer?

The cutting out would be fiddly but the end result would be stunning and hard wearing.

Or make your design and have it cut in Vinyl.

That's what I did with names for my boats and personalising Bev's Ital.

Oh dear, I've never admitted owning an Ital before!

Never mind, I once owned a Maxi

Alan, you should have said and I would have had a try. Is it Puck?

Alan, do you mean: Stone, P. W. K.: Title: The Textual History of King Lear?

.... we two alone will sing like birds in a cage.... across the boot!

regaliaqueen wrote:.... we two alone will sing like birds in a cage.... across the boot!

Is that Shakespeare? It's been years since I did Twelfth Night etc.?

King Lear.

Katie's right - it was Puck: in Welsh (my second language) "W" is a vowel, and pronounced like the double-O in "book" or "look".

The quote is: "I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes."

"Put a girdle" in this case means, effectively, he'll circle the earth in forty minutes.

Don't think he'd be driving a Morris Minor to encircle the earth unless it was rocket powered!

Ok, go on, someone throw in some latin. Lets get it over with!

Cogito Ergo Sum

Glad to hear it! Some folk don't!

"Si hoc comprehendere potes, gratias age magistro Latinae."

O tempora, o Morris?

O tempora, o Morris is a brilliant pun!

Isn't it "O tempora, O mores" really? Quote from Virgil is it?

(cribs from Oxford Dictionary of Quotations) Cicero, apparently. In Catilinam