Morris Minor Owners Club

Not sure if this information is worth posting or not but am pleased by it and thought I should share it.

Started off with a 3M x 3M Pop-Up Gazebo ( Argos last year ) to keep the rain off but it blew in from the sides and was dark when the polyester sides were fitted. Had a quantity of twin walled polycarbonate sheets in storage and some left over 1" close celled insulation off-cuts lying in a shed so. The sheet is trapped between some thin timber batons fixed into the 3x2 either side at the base, while each acrylic sheet is held with three cable ties through the gazebo frame at the top.

A couple of lengths of 3"x2" and a roll of Duck Tape later I've now got somewhere to work while it continues to snow. Have to say that it probably wouldn't be that cheap if one had to buy the bits off the shelf. No wind, have a heater on and been welding / grinding most of the day.

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what a great idea! i'm so restricted by the weather at the moment not having a garage, this looks fab. hopefully i've got use of a workshop soon to finish her off, but all the same...

A few years back I got a cheap 4m x 3m gazebo of ebay. The quality was absolutely rubbish and had to be repaired on first use.
However, it is big enough to get a complete minor inside!

As for the polycarb sheets you've got - how many more have you got as I'm planning a garage extension?

thats a brilliant idea

I'm please you like it.

I'm even toying with the notion that if I bought another gazebo ( I've still got a couple of sheets of polycarb left ) I could join it to the garage behind and turn it into a spray booth for when I've finally finished all the welding on the salon that you can see lying on it's side. But that's for another day. Ran out of gas and welding tips so things didn't progress very far today.

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Ingenious! Just don't set it on fire.........

i hopew you don't mind my saying, but the breeze blocks are a really bad plan if you'rte going to be working under it - they can easily slip off each other and leave you crushed. go for wooden blocks - they squash down and are far less likely to slip/crumble - if they do, you will be able to see it happening ages in advance and get it sorted

Thanks for the advice Matt. Believe me it was a lot worse when I just had the breeze blocks up on their ends under the chassis.

But seriously. It's not clear from the photo but it's sitting on 2"x4" timber blocks placed in the middle of the concrete blocks that supports the back end from under a 2"x1" steel box section frame, welded between and below the chassis to take a trailer / ball hitch. There is also a third stack of blocks in the middle, all be it not supporting anything, that would stop it falling on me anyway.

I'm more concerned about how much welding I'm having to do on something that was supposed to be a quick fix rather than a restoration job and how unpleasant being Cherry Bombed is. I'd somehow forgotten how painful it is when it goes down your sleeve.

I'm more concerned about how much welding I'm having to do on something that was supposed to be a quick fix rather than a restoration job

tell me about it...
i bought mine as a first car taxed and tested last january, before i started looking...
it was rotten and covered in underseal to discuise the fact :/
i passed my test at the begining of november and, about £2000 later and as many hours working as possible around my a-levels to fund it, it's still no on the road.
i'm currently driving my mum's pergeot. not bad, but not a minor