Ere Dave, you like old car's don't you?

[DaveDorson]

Waiting in for a delivery (about mid day) then I'll be headed up there .

[MiniMort]

I'm hoping for an early Minor (like an MM) but also it may well be nothing like what the guy says so I'm gonna raise my expectations sky high with a Dacia Denem.

 

What? A man can dream can't he?

[Crooner]

It'll be a mint, one owner from new peach of a Morris 10/4 that has been sprayed with oil underneath and has a like new interior. It will also only need an oil change and the enjoyable fetting that we all like to get it fully functional.

How do I know? Because its not me.

[sierraman]

I'm hoping for an early Minor (like an MM) but also it may well be nothing like what the guy says so I'm gonna raise my expectations sky high with a Dacia Denem.

 

What? A man can dream can't he?

Even better a hoard of Lonsdale YD41s.

[DaveDorson]

It was an eight and it's fucked

[beko1987]

sooooo... you bought it?

[Cavcraft]

It was an eight and it's fucked

Stop making it sound more tempting and hurry with the pictures and price, please!

[DaveDorson]

IMG_20190305_132649343 by davedorson, on Flickr

 

IMG_20190305_132655658 by davedorson, on Flickr

[DaveDorson]

IMG_20190305_132701574 by davedorson, on Flickr

 

IMG_20190305_132714998 by davedorson, on Flickr

[DaveDorson]

IMG_20190305_132746518 by davedorson, on Flickr

[PhilA]

That looks quite sleek and aerodynamic.

 

I spot some AA Book of the Car repairs also. GiB.

 

Phil

[DaveDorson]

I'm quite willing to pass details on to any utnerrsedi party, but he wanted a grand.   I walked away chuckling to myself

[PhilA]

Special light weight racing edition, that's why

[barrett]

Got a V5? Gotta be worth something to a hot rodder if so. Otherwise, walk away!

[DaveDorson]

It's got a v5 yeah.  It's properly hanging.  I've enough to be getting along with so it's staying where it is for now

[anonymous user]

Got a V5? Gotta be worth something to a hot rodder if so. Otherwise, walk away!

Separate chassis on these so ripe for a nice 1950s plastic kit to be cobbled onto it.

[eddyramrod]

It's got a V5?  Now it needs a V8...

Seriously, that could make a lovely hot rod project, but you would need to have the time, space and skills.  So that's me out...

[Dave_Q]

Underdelivering somewhat on the running boards.

[N Dentressangle]

Underdelivering somewhat on the running boards.

 

The earlier 8's seem to have had them, but the Series E would have looked like this:

 

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Morris-8-Series-E-1948-/372604667595?hash=item56c0f806cb%3Ag%3A3HYAAOSw6nhcauXA&nma=true&si=oN%252FiotSdVQVH6EhpO1UmA2Gvbg8%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

Given this one actually sold for £2.5k, the asking price for a collapsing heap of rust seems a bit optimistic:

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MORRIS-8-SERIES-E-HOT-ROD-RAT-ROD/143090937664?hash=item2150e26f40:g:m2IAAOSwPrdcPOrX

[Dave_Q]

What I meant was that whether we're calling them sills or running boards, they seem to be missing/mangled/rotten, at least that's what it looks like on my phone screen.

[RayMK]

The earlier 8's seem to have had them, but the Series E would have looked like this:

 

 

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Morris-8-Series-E-1948-/372604667595?hash=item56c0f806cb%3Ag%3A3HYAAOSw6nhcauXA&nma=true&si=oN%252FiotSdVQVH6EhpO1UmA2Gvbg8%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

Given this one actually sold for £2.5k, the asking price for a collapsing heap of rust seems a bit optimistic:

 

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MORRIS-8-SERIES-E-HOT-ROD-RAT-ROD/143090937664?hash=item2150e26f40:g:m2IAAOSwPrdcPOrX

 

Those headlights look very odd.  I always remembered the Series E having headlights almost completely cowled in to the front wings and sloping headlight glass.  Perhaps difficulty in finding replacements has resulted in modern or more easily obtainable conventional units and the slightly gawky look. 

[Rocket88]

I think the historic racer towing arrangement could do with refinement.............

[DaveDorson]

It's got a V5?  Now it needs a V8...

Seriously, that could make a lovely hot rod project, but you would need to have the time, space and skills.  So that's me out...

 

I don't have close to the time.

 

That's the biggest issue.

 

It needs literally everything.  I was hoping it'd be a bit rough, and need a bit of welding doing and could then be freed up, cleaned up with new tyres and brake bits and then make a reasonably easy to run about in, albeit rough as anything car.

 

It's really at full restoration stage, and I'm not sure the finished car is close to the cost of doing it in terms of time and expenditure.

 

Friend of mine is currently building an 8 based hotrod with a ford BOB V6 24v, auto box, and some other tweaks, he's interested in some of the parts on the car, so it might end up in my ownership yet, even just to rape the parts off

[meggersdog]

 

 

I was at a local open day yesterday, it was miserable weather, but the allure of rusty cars, a bacon roll, and free coffee was very strong, especially after a Saturday night with someone sending shots to my table at the local Weatherspoon's. 

 

Were you at Ross's ? I was going but my arthritic knee was playing up so didn't. He dropped the R4 van off tonight before I left work.

[Justin Case]

Those headlights look very odd.  I always remembered the Series E having headlights almost completely cowled in to the front wings and sloping headlight glass.  Perhaps difficulty in finding replacements has resulted in modern or more easily obtainable conventional units and the slightly gawky look. 

I believe that the 'standing out' headlights were a conversion so that standard Lucas lights could be used, in which case the original faired in ones must have been as effective as a glow-worm in a jam-jar

[Squire_Dawson]

A grand for an old heap like that, what planet are they on. It wouldn't even break for anywhere near that. I thought I heard mention of the word FREE though?

 

 

I believe that the 'standing out' headlights were a conversion so that standard Lucas lights could be used, in which case the original faired in ones must have been as effective as a glow-worm in a jam-jar

 

Yes, a popular upgrade was marketed by Lucas specifically for these cars, using the latest block pattern lenses, i.e. the standard for the next 30 years. These cars were still plentiful in the 1960's and there seems to be no shortage of them even now.

 

Buy it and use it as your very own tradesman's preferred transport....

 

 

[DaveDorson]

Were you at Ross's ? I was going but my arthritic knee was playing up so didn't. He dropped the R4 van off tonight before I left work.

I was indeed.

[DaveDorson]

A grand for an old heap like that, what planet are they on. It wouldn't even break for anywhere near that. I thought I heard mention of the word FREE though?

 

 

 

Yes, a popular upgrade was marketed by Lucas specifically for these cars, using the latest block pattern lenses, i.e. the standard for the next 30 years. These cars were still plentiful in the 1960's and there seems to be no shortage of them even now.

 

Buy it and use it as your very own tradesman's preferred transport....

 

 

If it was free I'd have taken it on.

 

Unfortunately offered a car translated to "I might know a bloke" and then actually showing an interest made the chap think it's worth money.

 

Never mind eh?

[SpareSnare]

Pity about the eight, but the Alfa looks lovely. Just as nice in the metal?

 

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[DaveDorson]

Pity about the eight, but the Alfa looks lovely. Just as nice in the metal?

 

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The Alfa is beautiful, and it goes like hot snot. Friend of mine did a lot of work on it, and it does get used in anger too.