Morris Minor Owners Club

Just seen a white moggy on eBay, body work looks like it's got rust cancer, there's little rust spots all over it, it's that normal on mogs ?
It's item No 190981619884

that car is worth a look at. from the pictures it looks like the paint maybe original and has worn thin due to years of washing and polishing, so it will need DA sanding back to bare metal, and repainting also a door or door repair panel, boot lid and a wing. most important check the cross member under the seats, the floor panels and all four inner wings. most of these cars can be made exellant again due to most of the panels being available, its all down to the amount of time and money you want to put in.from experiance i spend double the amount of money and twice the number of hours i thought it would take, but i still love bringing them back to life, good luck, graham

I thought I would post the link for everyones convinience so you do not have to manually search for it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190981619884? ... 775wt_1170

Thank you for the info and for posting the link,

Being white tends to accentuate any little bit of rust making it look much worse.
It's the underneath you need to look at and under the carpets to see what the structure is like.
Looks an honest car to me, well worth a visit.

They just added more info. Thinks it's a bit too much work, sent me more photos of under the car, said cross member buckled, looks to be a full restoration job.

Still a bargain I guess if ya clever and can do all the tricky jobs

The Chassis Rail going across the front of the car is a bit buckled from what looks like jacking up in the past

That isn't the important cross member, the one across the middle of the car is.

The jacking points which is what I assume he means by pick up points are best removed in any case.

Interesting to see the pictures they sent, it sounds like any easy project, maybe a rolling restoration to me.

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The hole near the back spring is probably close enough to be an MOT fail,
There has been a plate welded to the near side chassis leg at the front, all pretty typical for a car of this age.

Looks better than mine but that does not say much, you could patch it up for a couple of MOT's but I reckon before long you would end up needing to replace quite a large part of the structure. the front X member and siderails would also need prety extensive repairs judging by the patches.

Walk away.