Morris Minor Owners Club

If anybody out there has fitted a new vinyl hood themselves, and would be willing to answer any dumb questions as we argue about how it goes on I'd be grateful if they could pm me their email address, and maybe a phone N° if willing to accept calls.

Hope it won't be necessary but....!

Fitting the windscreen tomorrow, then working over the weekend so the fun starts some time next week. It's about the only moggie job we've never done, we've done traveller woodwork and all the usual stuff.

If you have a copy of the Lindsay Porter restoration manual it gives good instructions on hood fitting, main thing though is plenty of patience and lots of tea breaks Much easier than fitting woodwork BTW

PM sent

Thanks, both!

GOOD LUCK I HAVE DONE A COUPLE OF THESE (ONE A SPLITSCREEN) BUT I AM SADLY AT THE BMC RALLY ALL THIS WEEKEND SO I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH SOME POINTERS ALLOW LOADS OF TIME REMEMBER TO HAVE A GOOD STAPLE GUN TO HANDTO TACK IT ALL IN PLACE(ASH IS A HARD WOOD) AND MAKE SURE THE HOOD MATERIAL IS WARM WHEN YOU FIT IT AS IT STRETCHES EASIER AND SHRINKS BACK A LITTLE WHEN DONE IN OUR LOVELY BRITISH CLIMATE (THE HOODS ALWAYS SHRINK ANYWAY) AND FINALLY MAKE SURE YOUR FRAME IS IN GOOD SHAPE BEFORE YOU START IT MAY NEED SOME BENDING AND TWEEKING HAVE A GOOD LOOK AT HOW IT FITS AT THE SIDES.

Phew, it's on! It took all of Sunday am to tweak the frame, then the hood went on like a dream in the hot sunshine in the afternoon. (We sweated buckets).

This afternoon it took hours to do the fiddly bits on the front rail (a certain Minor supplier being cursed more than once).

No doubt it will leak in a thunderstorm, but it looks brill! Will post pics when I have sorted them. Thanks for all the advice & offers of telephone help.

There remains the teeny weeny problem of the intransigence of French bureaucracy to accept it should have been registered as a Morris Minor 4-seater back in 1991 when it was first imported here, the log book has it down as a whingeing Minor MONOR 2 places. Grr.