Morris Minor Owners Club

Good evening, I thought I'd best introduce ourselves before I started posting on here, so here goes. My name is Rachael & O live in S. Wales. I've always had a soft spot for all classic British cars ( I didn't actually own a foreign car until I was 31!) I've had several Minis, a traveller ( OGR 8H who was bought by a chap who had something to do with the Heritage Motor Museum) & a wonderful Austin Cambridge that I drove daily from S. Wales to Bristol, it was one of the most reliable cars I ever owned!
But it's the Moggies that are the cars that do it for me, we had several when I was a child growing up in the 70's, & my dad got back into the classic car world in the 90's with 1 or 2.
Sadly, my dad passed away in February this year , but I have taken on his Moggie, Rosie, so it's a lovely reminder of my dad. She's only had 2 previous owners ( my dad, & the original owner) my dad bought her in '92 with just 12,000 genuine miles on the clock. Unfortunately, due to ill health, he more or less kept her as a pet, doing just 3,000 miles in her since then. I've had her 4 months & done 300 miles & she hasn't skipped a beat, she drives beautifully & really makes me smile when we are out & about together.
Her paintwork is showing her age now, & she hadn't had a service, so we are off over to Charles Wares on Wednesday where she will have a small weld done underneath & a 6000 mile service. I'm very much loving forward to going over there & looking at all the cars in various stages of repair.
I'm a driving instructor by trade & sometimes I like to have a bit of fun & put the livery on Rosie & drive her around- we always get lots of waves!
Soooo, there you are! Now you know all about me & Rosie!:)[frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame]

Hi welcome to our site, you will find us i hope a friendly bunch.... I joined about 4 months ago when i bought a 1969 traveller with the plan of getting it back on the road. Ive found the people on here to be passionate about there cars like ive never found anywhere else. if you need any advise this i the place to be.

i hope you meet some really nice, helpful and caring people as i have.

kind regards

Alan

lovely story

Lovely looking car, welcome to you both.

hello to you Rachael , and to Rosie , i also have a moggie called Rosie , i hope you have loads of fun driving her ,for many years to come , and i hope we get to bump into one another one day , not literally ! lol, welcome to the site , and yes id agree we are a friendly bunch i hope youl find , good luck , and HAPPY MOTORING !! Richard .
PS Rosie looks very nice !!

nice car,and a lovely colour

Thanks for the warm welcome. A quick update: we took Rosie over to Charles Ware's last week, & left her there for Phase 1 of her restoration. To my knowledge, in all the time my dad had her, & probably for a good part if her time at her first owners, she had not had a service. So she had a 6,000 mile service, a small patch welded on her underside, brake creep sorted out, a torsion bar re attached correctly, an MOT & an odd listing to the left was corrected too, along with a few other bits & bobs. I also had a pair of mirrors put on too- what a revelation! I can see where I'm parking now ! I'm £1,000 lighter, but it was well worth it as now she's running like a dream & I'm confident she's all ok.
I'm ashamed to say the whole experience over there made me cry. I found it a bit over whelming! Poor Tim who was dealing with us was very understanding though. I think it was a combination of seeing all the poor sad cars in the compound ( I get emotionally attached to old cars) & also because I can't share all this with my dad any more, he'd have been very interested & excited about all this.
Nevertheless, Rosie makes me really happy & I'm looking forward to Phase 2 of her restoration early next year when she will be going back to have a re spray & new, more more modern seats put in. I've wrestled with the idea of seats, as to be honest, I like my old cars as completely standard, but I have to be practical & think that newer seats that I can adjust might be a but more comfy for the pair of us.
I'm taking Rosie out today upto Monmouth as I'm doing a duathlon up there, looking forward to the drive, but not the event itself, I've done no training at all!:0
Here's some pics I took when over at C/W's...[frame][/frame]