Yeah, bit of a risk towing it with a landrover. We all know about their reliability.
;o)
Hugo, please note that the above was firmly tongue in cheek. I have no desire to be visited by the Cornish Pixie mafia in a Discovery......
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Hahahahahhahha!!!!
Keep an eye out this Saturday and give us a honk when you go past. Better still, call the AA!
I've got more confidence (albeit misguided) in the Defender than the Moggie....
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Sorry DB, I seem to remember the ad said you had to take the moggie away within a week, so I assumed you were away picking it up last weekend.
If your picking it up this weekend, when will you be back ? Sunday afternoon ? I'll stand on the bridge before J26 of the M6 and throw lumps of ready-to-set body filler at the bottom of your doors.
Have fun with the motor anyway - if you can keep it on the road when the mot is due, you'll have had more than your 160 quid's worth, and driving something that slow with skinny tyres and no brake servo can only be educational !
Thankfully it is still not illegal to have fun in a car !
Bora - what Bora ?
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borasport20 - if you stand on the bridge at about 5pm on Saturday you should see us. Rather than body filler, can you not chuck a couple of new doors over?!
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The doors are likely to be the least of your worries: there are some for sale in the back of the current "Minor Matters" (MMOC magazine), and they just bolt on.
The structural parts of the bodywork are the death of them as it becomes uneconomic to have somebody else replace the floor, the rear inner wings, and front chassis legs, etc...
But, all the parts are available, and there's a book by Lidsay Porter:
"The Guide to purchase and DIY restoration Morris Minor & 1000"
ISBN 0854294422
which really does show all the gory details of turning several cwt. of rusting metal back into a Morris 1000 again, if you've the space, time, skill, and some money.
Take care, and enjoy.
John H
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Rather than body filler, can you not chuck a couple of new doors over?!
how about I stand on the inside of the roundabout at the M58 junction with a very large wire brush held at sill height and you go round and round - that would at least start to clean up the o/s door.
I did a double take when I saw the Ebay piccie - looked identical to one my brother owned thirty years ago, reg no 'UKA 24' - wonder what the number would be worth these days.
Bora - what Bora ?
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It's here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sat in my garage, gracefully leaking oil, is my 1965 Moggie. It came with a load of bills, showing over four grand worth of work in 1992/3. Basically the whole of the underside seems to have been replaced, along with a reconditioned engine in 1993.
Here's the bad bit. It ran fine on Saturday when I drove about 15 miles, but now it's like a bag of spanners. I think I might have shaken up some old petrol and mixed it with rubbish in the tank. Result, lots of soot and a jerky, jerky ride. I'm going to give it the Redex treatment on Saturday.
So there you go, I'm now the owner. Relatives think I'm mad - girlfriend isn't that impressed with her "present", especially as the insurance doesn't allow her to drive it!
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If the underside is good it sounds like you have a bargain. Don't worry about the mechanicals. Secondhand bits are plentiful and cheap. I've just bought one for breaking with an excellent engine and drive train, 3 good wings and tyres for £100. It's woth buying the factory manual and parts book, both available from the club, but a Haynes is handy too. I may have a spare Haynes or other manual handy. If I have, you can have it for what it costs to post. Let me know if you're interested.
Oh, and look on the oil leak as free rustproofing!
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nick - that sounds good, thank you. e-mail is maryanneandsteve \"at\" tesco \"dot\" net
if you find anything.
I was very encouraged with all the work that was done in the early nineties - it\'s going for an MOT in the next week, so I guess we\'ll see then.
Cheers.
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May I respectfully point Master Diesel in the direction of
www.haynes.co.uk/HonestJohn/HJ_bookshop_07.htm
Where you will find a moggy book of fine heritage......
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I have an original owner's manual for one of these - somewhere (!) If I find it would you wnat it ?
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Thanks, but I found the owners manual in the glovebox (no gloves though).
Quite looking forward to Saturday to see how it goes after the engine treatment....
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How did it go - or otherwise?
Like Borasport2.0 I also now have a Bora; it followed a 1.3 four-speed and 1.6TX Jettas.
Both superbly reliable. The 1989 1.3 had 66,000 miles on the clock when I bought it and the 1990 big bumper 1.6TX 52,000 miles.
Neither used any oil nor spilled a drop in between services.
The only reason I got rid of the TX was because the Bora came into the hands of a car dealer friend of mine and he let me have it at a stupid price - 50 per cent below that of a franchised dealer for the same 1.6SE 2000 year specification and just 46,000 on the clock.
It was even in the right colour, reflex silver. Meanwhile the silver TX is still knocking around town, having been acquired by a 20ish year old bloke; he got a bargain as well as a mass of service history.
Did you see the recent TV car programme about how good the Morris Minor was to learn to drive in and practice power drifts on roundabouts?
I used to go out in the winter onto the town's sea wall, get up to about 40mph and spin the steering wheel.
The Minor then needed just one flick of the wrist to straighten out again...
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Just as well, really: they weren't much good in the sea. And by the way, didn't Minors have a habit of losing their front wheels - I seem to remember that this happened at slow speeds on max lock.
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Only if you didn't grease the trunnions. Like many 'problems' with older cars it was down to lack of maintenance.
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"Did you see the recent TV car programme about how good the Morris Minor was to learn to drive in and practice power drifts on roundabouts?"
BMWs do this (when there is no-one about to witness shut non-BMW owner type stuff). DSisconnect all the nanny stuff and let rip. Admitedly the 3 was better than the 5 but its still fun !
(Fireball that's another joke btw)
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In case anyone is interested, I no longer own the Morris Minor I bought off e-bay! When giving it an honest appraisal, I realised that I had neither the time or the technical know-how to restore it to it's former glory, so.....
... I sold it on e-bay, for a loss!
But!
I am now the proud owner of a 1973 MG Midget 1275cc RWA. Okay, it cost a lot more the the Moggie, but what a car! Just spent a fair amount of money getting stuff done that was needed, but it's worth it.
RtB and HF approve anyway!
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....I trust that you did the decent thing and greased your trunions before selling it on DB
Regards, AI
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