Morris Minor Owners Club

That is awesome! Where did you manage to find it?

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/RARE-Classic-195 ... 9-&vxp=mtr

Its available elsewhere as well but more expensive. But be careful the image is actually a photo taken through speedometer glass and has the reflections of the glass on it That said for about £6.00 and the about same again for delivery it seems to be a reliable watch, keeping good time.

Also available are watches with the later type speedo image on, (albeit for a mini cooper.)

To a certain extent, for me at least, this is a bit of a cheat as this later gold faced speedo has only one light at the top where as the one in my 1957 has two. It's close enough!

I want one - but I doubt it will fit my tiny wrist

That's easily sorted - just stuff yourself with loads of chips, burgers, chocolate, milk shakes etc and you will see your wrist expand nicely........along with the rest of you!

It fits mine and i don't eat the cr@p that has been mentioned, In any case there are , as on most watch straps, plenty of links which can be removed to alter the size.

Thanks for the advice about how to make the watch fit!! I know it says it fits between a 6 1/2 - 8 inch wrist but it would look enormous on my wrist (which is just under 6 inches). Now if they shrank it to a ladies size...!

Panic not, these are similar but UNISEX

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Morris-Minor-100 ... VQfXps4-rg

I saw these recently on fleabay. There must be more than one company in Hong Kong turning them out as I see your image has a mileometer with a reading, whereas the one I saw was at 00000.
It's annoying that they have limited advertising for them and that they are fairly prolific on eBay Canada, but not a sniff on the UK site.

I think the only cautionary tale I would have is that when I was in the USA during my RAF career, we had some watches made with a unique logo on the face, which cost about US$25 each.
After about 4 years, the case was so tarnished where the thin chrome plate had worn off, I had quite a job finding a replacement cheap watch which I could swap the case from. 10 years later, I'm now on a 2nd replacement watch, case and innards, with just the face transferred over.
So just be prepared to do a case change in the future.

firedrake1942
How did you get on with the exchange conversions using ebay Canada?
I've brought stuff from Amazon.com before and their prices were all upfront converted before you committed to the purchase.
How does it work with ebay from an overseas site?

The eventual price charged to my debit card was within a nat's crotchet of the exchange rate on the day ordered. No problems with it at all. The debit on my account showed it in $can, the exchange rate and the amount in £ (and of course the greedy capitalist lackey of a bank's charges for doing less than sod all)

firedrake1942 wrote:The eventual price charged to my debit card was within a nat's crotchet of the exchange rate on the day ordered. No problems with it at all. The debit on my account showed it in $can, the exchange rate and the amount in £ (and of course the greedy capitalist lackey of a bank's charges for doing less than sod all)

Thanks