Morris Minor Owners Club

I went into Herefordshire today to meet someone who had various Minors. Seven of them were off the road stored in various barns and he was driving one which was a 2 door 1950s saloon with a 5.1 litre V8 in it.
There were two pick ups, two vans, including a rubber wing ex-GPO one, a ex-police Panda car and two vehicles we could only partially see through the door of one of the barns. There were also loads of spares scattered around. My wife took some photos, which I will upload tomorrow, if I get permission.
Some of them are going to be for sale, as well as various spares.

sean

Good for him! He has saved a good variety of models that are ever decreasing. The V8 is an interesting animal too!

Rural Herefordshire is a old vehicle hideaway.
One garage in the back of beyond I went into a couple of years ago had just sold a comprehensive set of NOS Minor body panels and were in the process of recommissioning a Minor that had been driven into one of their buildings when taken as part exchange for a BMC 1100 many years earlier. There were several other classic/vintage vehicles scattered around as well.

is there any information on posting pictures any where on the forum, especially size? or do i just attach them?

sean

Generally the site is pretty fickle, but the biggest problem these days is people taking images on their phone which are, by default settings, too large.
I usually resize to 1Mb or less and there's usually no problem. Although this random image below is 1.7mb.
You can use the add files and search for the files to add, or use drag and drop.


Really a good idea to use the Place Inline Option as it stops the annoying ATTACHMENT box around the images and it means you can have images and text at different places in the post, rather than all the images being at the end. I hope this helps.

ok, thanks, i will give it a try later tonight, or tomorrow.

sean

here are some photos of the V8 minor:

Some photos of various spares:

more spares;

some photos of vehicles:

some more vehicle photos:

i am interested in this pick up top, as i haven't seen one like it. was it an option, or home made?

sean01597 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:59 pm i am interested in this pick up top, as i haven't seen one like it. was it an option, or home made?

I think there is a good chance it could be a Traveller roof.


Thanks for posting the photos, the pickup looks good, and nice to see an Austin badged van.

Regards John

sean01597 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:59 pm i am interested in this pick up top, as i haven't seen one like it. was it an option, or home made?

What are you going with that top? Do you have the same vehicle where you can install it?

Clayton James wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:44 am

sean01597 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:59 pm i am interested in this pick up top, as i haven't seen one like it. was it an option, or home made?

What are you going with that top? Do you have the same vehicle where you can install it?

it was just there and as i hadn't seen a pick up rear top like it i wondered about it.

sean

i hope to talk to the owner of the vehicles in the next two weeks. i think he is planning to sell most of them. he said he definitely wants to sell the panda car.
is there any idea of the values?

i have more photos i will post over the next few days.

sean

Really a good idea to use the Place Inline Option as it stops the annoying ATTACHMENT box around the images and it means you can have images and text at different places in the post, rather than all the images being at the end.

My Uncle Tom used to have a Hillman Superminx when he was alive, so it's nice to see one, even if is being towed.
I hope it survives and is still ploughing the Queens highway.
Best wishes,
Mike.

The V8 one looks like a real sleeper, that probably surprises lots of folk!

jagnut66 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:56 am Hi,
It looks like the whole lot wants pulling out and sorting into some kind of order.
The vehicles are what they are but there seems to be a whole load of spares in there too, some of which may prove very useful and could have a value to someone, other items might be fit only for scrap.

The other question on the subject of the vehicles themselves is, does he have / can he find the logbooks for all of them?
I wouldn't touch a vehicle without one, as you then have to fight the DVLA to get it registered.
To me one without a logbook only has value as a donor to save another.
I hope he has a current one for the V8 Minor otherwise it may end up on a 'Q' plate, if it can pass an IVA test.
Best wishes,
Mike.

he is committed to clearing the barns and i have said i will help. the problem is that someone came and took two vehicles last year aided, he thinks, by someone he knows who lives nearby. it is very difficult to get any vehicles out now.
they were mostly stored in the barns pre 1998 and he has their logbooks, plus two spare. i was hoping to get an idea of the value of some of them as an incentive for him. the panda car looks fairly solid and he is going to sell it.
the V8 i do not know, but it is registered as an historic vehicle and hasn't had a recent MOT.

sean