Morris Minor Owners Club

Just been talking to a member of the Irish club about replacing the sills in my car and he mentioned he had a cream coloured traveller (project) that needs new wings, front grille and wood. I have most of that though I would have to buy new wings. Tempted, of course would have to see the car, but I have four other cars already. Do I really need another one .... Lol

Reason would dictate that no, you do not need another car.

However, if the price is right and you can do something with it...

JOWETTJAVELIN wrote:Reason would dictate that no, you do not need another car. However, if the price is right and you can do something with it...

Oh I know !!!. I have one car that drives, a 4 door I'm trying to get on the road for the summer, an existing traveller restoration and a scrap 4 door. So.. No I don't really need one. However..... the car was described to me over the phone as a cream Morris Traveller, chassis and floors good, running, no suspension or brake issues, disc brakes etc, but that it had rotton wood, needed two front wings and a front grille, most of which I have already (with the exception of the wings) so for a low price (c.€900) the potential exists for a good car on the road at some point with minimal work (though fitting new wood is hard).

Will probably walk away as I can't afford to have any more cars sitting for years in the hope of its day in the sun. Have little enough time as it is to do them up. Still, I can dream

If you decide to buy, I'd love to be a fly on the wall when you try to explain it to your better half. lol!!

Dean wrote:If you decide to buy, I'd love to be a fly on the wall when you try to explain it to your better half. lol!!

So would I. Mind you she never goes near the big shed and has no idea of whats in it, so I could easily get away with it, until of course she sees the debit from the bank account.

First rule of car restoration---separate accounts! Sounds like you have a strong constitution to consider more minors, I'd have a breakdown with that many in bits.

Use 2 seperate cheques (to hide true amount) and hide it at the back of the big shed!

second rule of car restoration.........................get all the bits delivered to your mates address so swmbo dosen't even see them.

Forgiveness is easier to get than permission

As long as you have good 'covered storage' it is well worth considering. But I would negotiate that price down somewhat..... And get rid of the scrapper.

If you did what was logical all the time, life would be boring ;)

"It's life Jim ,but not as we know it !!!"

Third rule of restoration, always pick cars of the same colour and dismantle so it looks like a pile of bits from one car. If there appear to be two things the same, one is the 'inner and the other is the 'outer' from the other side. "Ah no, it's actually one right wing and a left inner wing which looks similar, perhaps they even used the same pressing. And that's the bonnet inner next to the bonnet. Not two windscreens, it's laminated, that one's the outer and that's the inner with a sheet of plastic in between hence the name 'laminated'. If inner and outer doesn't cover it then upper and lower might work.

From my late uncle who had many red tractors in bits spread around fields.