Morris Minor Owners Club

Have been perusing e bay for a while looking at convertibles and dreaming of summer....... and I came across this one.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-1958- ... SwwpdW6E9d

Thought to myself..that looks nice.....but on closer inspection of the pictures it would appear that the bulkhead bracing brackets are missing.....

Presumably a chopped saloon.......how crucial are these brackets to the structural integrity of the car??

Apparently the car doesn't need an mot but would it pass one missing these brackets??

Andy

I highly doubt that it would fail an MOT for missing the brackets, the chances of the MOT tester knowing that they should be there and noticing that they are not is quite slim, the brackets are there I believe to prevent scuttle shake from the now weakened dash and windscreen surround. Tbh I would start to be thinking if the dash brackets have been omitted, have other more important parts such as the vital sill strengtheners not been fitted as well? Shame as it seems a lovely car

1/10/59 according to DVLA(?)

Request body number

Also calling it a 58 is off with the turn signal and horn push design, and the smaller, oval number plate wasn't used until later 59, so 1/59 is a stretch. No trafficator slots but the wiper locations match. Carb also updated to HS2. What's going on with the heater hoses? Where is the one on the spark plug side of the engine going?

That is odd - how does the heater work?? And it looks like one of these stupid 'lead replacement' things has been fitted in the fuel feed.

I see it now. The tube goes into the thermostat housing.

The heater take off appears to have been fitted into the temperature gauge take off which is above the thermostat.
In that configuration the water pump will not push any water round the heater.

Looks to me like the heater pipe is going into the thermostat housing