Morris Minor Owners Club

I see so many cars with siver/grey kick plates I'm now loosing the plot. They are supposed to be body colour aren't they?

I believe that an option of stainless steel kickplates & finisher were available from new in the 1960s (possibly only with de-luxe cars?). However the standard cars were mild steel & body coloured.

Cheers Chris.

Hang on! I thought they were supposed to be silver coloured. **dashes off to find reference books**

Definately silver coloured. All the original and concours cars I have piccies of have silver (or stainless) covers. No body coloured ones.

My trav have silver.

It is just the finishers that are body coloured, not the kick plates.

Woahhhhh - my heads in a spin now!

I've had a look through a couple of books & Cam may be right. Certainly some of the restored cars have silver covers (although the sill finishers are body coloured). Problem is that are very few colour photos from the 50s & 60s where the door is open and the sill cover is clearly shown. I'll agree that the majority of cars in 'Original Morris Minor' have silver covers as do my traveller & 4 door. However there was no trace of silver on my 2-door car when I replaced the rotten o/s cover a few years back - athough there's no guarantee that was an original anyway!

Yes, body coloured finishers and grey kick plates. The stainless versions of either were options or aftermarket items I think.

what about the MM? what colour should that be, and is there a paint code for it?

Well I intend to incur the wrath of Issigonis' ghost and paint mine traffy blue cos the present grey looks cheap and tacky.

They are painted silver on both my cars, a simmilar shade of silver to the late cars wheels, in fact thats what I'll do, get a litre of dark silver to do the kick plates and wheels, when I've run out of other more pressing resto items.............

Onne, the MM is the same as the later cars. Or to be correct, the later cars are the same as the MM!

Not sure of the paint code for the silver though. Bill might know. Here is a picture of OJO's interior and you can JUST see the tops of the silver kickplates:

http://potteries.mmoc.org.uk/RallyPics/ ... 004_15.JPG

well thank you mr Cam. So I'll have to buy myself a tin of silver as well...

It is a multi coloured car, an MM. Gold here, silver there, chrome here... the list goes on

Yes, but it IS lovely though.

Cam wrote:Not sure of the paint code for the silver though. Bill might know. Here is a picture of OJO's interior and you can JUST see the tops of the silver kickplates:

The kick plates on the original MM's such as OJO were made of aluminium, and I believe that this was the reason for using a silver finish on later steel versions. Hope this helps.

Bill, do you know if ALL the MMs had the aluminium plates? Or when they changed over to steel?

I am going to check ine1 they don't have any rust on them whatsoever, so maybe someone painted the ally panel!

Ohh the excitement is killing me!

Don't forget your magnet!

what will that tell me? or isn't ally magnetic?