Morris Minor Owners Club

millions of people enjoy gardeners question time with experts answering questions from the audience,so i'm thinking lets have a hour and Q and A session at the national .

I would be fascinated to hear BMC and others talk and share their fantastic knowledge and experience,maybe even video it for prosperity ,it's too valuble to lose

live long and prosper

it's a moggie Jim but not as we know it

lambrettalad wrote:millions of people enjoy gardeners question time with experts answering questions from the audience,so i'm thinking lets have a hour and Q and A session at the national .

I would be fascinated to hear BMC and others talk and share their fantastic knowledge and experience,maybe even video it for prosperity ,it's too valuble to lose

live long and prosper

it's a moggie Jim but not as we know it

I would like to see said experts repairing cars either on you tube or here, in the metal as it were, so when I need to change my crankdinkdoodlethingy on the subwoofcamsprocket, I can actually see someone do it and copy said myself.

If it was a sound recording there would be a lot of beeps inserted

Should 'concours' Minor's have their engine bays finished in gloss paint?

Starter for ten!

well....

The bodyshell was rotated on a "spit" in the spray booth, so the engine bay would be the same colour as the rest of the body.

Mike

Colour agreed, but to what finish?

Shiny gloss (bulkhead & engine bay floor)

All well and good if it WAS gloss, but if it wasn't.....

Does "concours" mean "as it left the factory" ?!

Chris

I've had a couple of very good original Minors, and spent a while cleaning the engine bays. Yes of course its the same gloss paint as the rest of the body, but with very little prep and care involved. Obviously all the flatting and prep was on the exterior panels and the engine bay just got painted, so was a slightly textured orange peel finish with a few bits of dust and a paint run or two here and there.

"Does "concours" mean "as it left the factory" ?!"

Well, in theory yes. But as we all know a car fresh off the production line would not fare well against the lavishly prepared concours cars. I heard one definition of concours, a few years back being 'as the factory would produce a car for a motorshow' ie: rather more care involved, or at least they'd flat off the runs in the engine bay.

(Having said that I recently encountered a modern Citroen which had no colour coat in the engine bay, just the base coat and some overspray round the inner wings. But who buys a new car because of the shiny engine bay finish anyway....).

lots of modern cars have barely any paint other than the outside finish...

Under the interior trim in my red focus is the white primer coat, but the engine bay is painted

Saves 27p a car, and when you make 100,000 a year thats a reasonable saving

A demonstration of Roys racing head gasket change would draw quite a crowd

in the rain at the side of the road at night 'cause it only takes an hour

MarkyB wrote:A demonstration of Roys racing head gasket change would draw quite a crowd

Blink and you'd miss it!

les wrote:

MarkyB wrote:A demonstration of Roys racing head gasket change would draw quite a crowd

Blink and you'd miss it!

A demonstration of Roy opening his wallet would have the same effect !!