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Can someone date this for me please?
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:32 am
by Shawn
FA51
3/502979/03531
APJM/H/70361
Very, very rusty.
I think it's about a '56/'57 - has early type folding seats, and badges, but everything else looks like a 1000.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:08 am
by rayofleamington
I'm not near my books at the moment, but just regarding the SII badges on a 1000 - we had those in the UK on a few cars that were sold via the government (eg disabled adapted cars). My 57 was one of these and came with SII seats on sliders, SII badges and a few other modifications.
I'd be surprised if these special models were exported however it's not impossible to imagine.
numbers
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:14 pm
by Willie
You are about right!
APJM is the prefix for the early 948cc engine up to mid 1958 and,if
I read it rightly, it says FA5P??
F= Minor, A = 4 door, 5 = CKD R/H drive(completely knocked down)
and P = Ivory paint.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:31 pm
by Pyoor_Kate
Help me! I look at that poor bedraggled (or berusted) minor, and my brain just goes "oh, it needs help... let's fix it..."
Gaaah.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:46 pm
by paulk
Yes but some sick individuals like me look at it and go
Hmmmm Spares!
Although even i'd baulk at the 12000 mile trip to collect it
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:26 pm
by rayofleamington
Help me! I look at that poor bedraggled (or berusted) minor, and my brain just goes "oh, it needs help... let's fix it..."
What may help you Kate is to try fixing one like that! You then see them in a very different light
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:32 pm
by Cam
rayofleamington wrote:
Help me! I look at that poor bedraggled (or berusted) minor, and my brain just goes "oh, it needs help... let's fix it..."
What may help you Kate is to try fixing one like that! You then see them in a very different light
Very true.
But she needs to do one though.
Anyway back to the original question! From that chassis number, I make it around mid May 1957.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:08 pm
by Pyoor_Kate
But she needs to do one though.
They're queueing up y'know, just not minors. I've got access to a Suzuki SC100 Whizzkid, which I can have a crack at if I want (and I do want, actually, looks like it might be fun); and for myself there's the Trabant / Tatra / Moskovich fetish to assuage....
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:59 pm
by Multiphonikks
... don't forget the minors... and the landy for your other half..
Then there's the DAFs...
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:29 pm
by Cam
Bikes, Ha! Where's the fun in that?
There's no sills, floor, sping hangers, chassis rails, etc etc to rot off... Hmmm...
Sounds like you are itching for a change, and one that only a rusty 2nd Minor can satisfy!
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:14 pm
by bigginger
Cam wrote:Bikes, Ha! Where's the fun in that?
There's no sills, floor, sping hangers, chassis rails, etc etc to rot off... Hmmm...
Isn't it the foot pegs that rot off bikes, Kate?
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:38 pm
by Cam
Oooooh! Nightmare!
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:29 pm
by rayofleamington
Isn't it the foot pegs that rot off bikes, Kate?
Unless it's a jap bike - then they just crack off around the welds
Especially when you are hundreds of miles away from home
(that's the first time I raided a skip for a roadside repair - strapped the footpeg back to the frame with some wire
)
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:36 pm
by bigginger
Pyoor_Kate? Japanese bike? Nooooo! An MZ, of course!
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:04 am
by Cam
rayofleamington wrote:that's the first time I raided a skip for a roadside repair
You don't look the type!
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:04 am
by rayofleamington
footpegs tied on with wire looked proffesional compared to the bodge that will be done on my cylinder head! (I just spotted a BIG hole under the thermostat). This 54 has stopped being a project and is becoming a nemesis. aaagh
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:07 am
by Cam
Isn't there SUPPOSED to be a big hole under the stat?
Sorry, not helping there!
Seriously though, where exactly is the hole? Going through the bottom of the head overhang?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:16 am
by bigginger
Oh yes, ANOTHER stud decided it wanted to strip the thread in the head today (repairable, I guess, but I'm in a hurry) - I think it had happened before my time with the engine (it went as I was putting the rocker cover securing nut gently back on), had been bodged back in and finally decided to let go.
Right, so 1098 out. 1275 in, discs off blue car and back on to black one, drums from black to blue (and Kpins, just so it rolls) - a fun w/end if only I can get a ^(*&£$ MOT in time for the rally
Odd that it seems to be the thread in the head, not the thread on the stud, but these things like to keep us guessing...
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:27 am
by rayofleamington
Seriously though, where exactly is the hole? Going through the bottom of the head overhang?
yup:
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:29 am
by Cam
Well, for the Rally, belt it back into place and weld it up.
Gah, that's really cr*ppy isn't it.
