BMC/BMH/BL Readers wives #End of year round up#

[SiC]

15 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Frogeyes are brilliant little things. My father owned one in the late 1960s and I recently tracked it down. I've also found out my old A level DT lecturer found and restored my father's old one and has owned a few since. His current project is an American dry state import which he reckons is structurally amazing. Worth a consideration. 

I'd consider anything if it's the right price 🤣

LHD to RHD conversion I imagine would just be a new rack and dashboard. I think the rack is a Moggie item too, so should be reasonably easy to source. Dash may be harder but possibly something that could be fabricated by a professional quite easily.

Edit: or even fibreglass. They're vinyl lined so probably wouldn't be too noticeable.

https://www.ahspares.co.uk/austin-healey/sprite/inner-body-panels/dashboard-rhd-fiberglass.aspx

 

[S2000]

Back today after having the head gasket replaced after it went pop on the way to Hooky Classics at Hook Norton Brewery. So far today I’ve done about 60 miles just enjoying it!!

 

[anonymous user]

Frogeyes are wonderful. Absolutely shit compared to a modern car, but wonderful. I am now a bit too big for them and with my dodgy right knee would need a left hand drive one to stand a chance of getting in. I miss my old one. (Rev counter should be driven by a cable and little gearbox on the back of the dynamo on that)

This was it  I googled the registration and found yhe pic of it outside the garage where I lived. It looks like it was up for sale last year.

[Matty]

Just having a random ebay wander. @Gerrymcd, noooo. What are you doing??

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134163482562?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=gioZ6pdgQW-&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=3Da_rdIpStK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[GMcD]

1 hour ago, Matty said:

 @GerrymcdWhat are you doing??

Sometimes I wonder!

I've tried on here to keep it in the fold but haven't had much interest so eBay it is (although so far mostly all I've had is complete time wasters).

I've still been driving it whilst the Toledo is in bits at the back of the garage. 

Smoll car:

[Remspoor]

[SiC]

@64A60 I saw a notification that you posted but it appears your post disappeared. What happened?

[Remspoor]

On 8/16/2022 at 1:24 AM, SiC said:

@64A60 I saw a notification that you posted but it appears your post disappeared. What happened?

Typical BL it quickly turned to rust.

[Remspoor]

[Remspoor]

Boys night out from the readers wives.

[Matty]

^^^ love the way it's gently rocking on its springs even at a standstill. Mine does that too 🤣

[Remspoor]

Not my image.

[Remspoor]

and now a musical break.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_Jack_Dupree

 

[Matty]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225142846833?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=_kE3nYHoRXu&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=svwv9r4orxa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I'd bloody love this if I could. But I can't 

[Joey spud]

I saw this on a diy leccy vehicle Facebook group.

It's powered by a forklift truck motor,four deep cycle (120Ah) batteries and a simple motor controller/ potentiometer.

 

[New POD]

12 hours ago, Matty said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225142846833?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=_kE3nYHoRXu&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=svwv9r4orxa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I'd bloody love this if I could. But I can't 

Perfect for banger racing (in the 1980s) 

[Matty]

6 hours ago, Joey spud said:

I saw this on a diy leccy vehicle Facebook group.

It's powered by a forklift truck motor,four deep cycle (120Ah) batteries and a simple motor controller/ potentiometer.

 

Clever looking thing. Wonder how fast it is? TBF anything s quicker than a 1098 so it's all relative I suppose

[Matty]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155172469800?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RYN1SUxhRr-&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=svwv9r4orxa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Nice cars and a clever piece of design at the time but surely not at this money? It's a ground up job. 

[SiC]

1 hour ago, Matty said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155172469800?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RYN1SUxhRr-&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=svwv9r4orxa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Nice cars and a clever piece of design at the time but surely not at this money? It's a ground up job. 

That's a massive project. At that price, it's one of those that is quicker and cheaper to buy a better example. 

It's either stripped for parts (which many don't look that good) or someone restoring it because they want to have something to fiddle with. 

[Six-cylinder]

[Matty]

28 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Arrrggghh why is fucking everything worth going to in the South of England (actual completely immaterial as I'm on my way to Kos right now) 😄

[Matty]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

That's a massive project. At that price, it's one of those that is quicker and cheaper to buy a better example. 

It's either stripped for parts (which many don't look that good) or someone restoring it because they want to have something to fiddle with. 

Absolutely. Kudos if it gets done but there's not enough wiggle room at the money. Like you said, just buy a better one

[Dyslexic Viking]

This is perhaps the right place to ask. Was there a Pickup version of  the Minor or is this one that has come up for sale in Norway homemade?

Because I've never seen a Minor pickup before and this doesn't look factory.

https://www.finn.no/car/used/ad.html?finnkode=277321632

[Yoss]

They did make one but it didn't look like that. That one looks home made. 

[martc]

25 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

This is perhaps the right place to ask. Was there a Pickup version of  the Minor or is this one that has come up for sale in Norway homemade?

 

Yes they did make Minor pick ups - as both Morris's and Austins - both in the UK and in Australia ('ute' of course).

UK made Morris

UK made Austin version.

Australian made 'ute'.

However, I think 'yours' is a third party build as they could be supplied as a chassis and cab to body builders.

Here's one in Australia with what looks like the same body.

'Flat bed ute' conversions, another third party variation, were popular in Australia and New Zealand -

 

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Thanks both. Was  what I thought because the pickup part on the one for sale seems too advanced and expensive for a mass produced commercial vehicle. I've looked a bit more at it and wonder if it was originally a Minor Traveller or chassis version?

[Matty]

Just now, Yoss said:

They did make one but it didn't look like that. That one looks home made. 

Ironically the homemade one looks less homemade 😁

[Matty]

If only I had the folding. Even her indoors reckons these are cool as fuck. The Triumph straight six symphony.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325380068181?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=E8JaGl9JTx-&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=svwv9r4orxa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[NorfolkNWeigh]

15 minutes ago, martc said:

Yes they did make Minor pick ups - as both Morris's and Austins - both in the UK and in Australia ('ute' of course).

UK made Morris

UK made Austin version.

Australian made 'ute'.

However, I think 'yours' is a third party build as they could be supplied as a chassis and cab to body builders.

Here's one in Australia with what looks like the same body.

'Flat bed ute' conversions, another third party variation, were popular in Australia and New Zealand -

 

 

Mr Bailey, the fishmonger who had a shop near my Grandmas house in Birmingham had a flat bed Morris pickup from when I was first aware of these things at age 2 or 3up until the shop closed down, presume he died , in about 1996. That’s at least 30 years of being washed down every afternoon by hose in the street. I remember him letting me “help” when I was little and my Gran was chatting to his wife.

It still looked immaculate in later years when I drove past, the chassis could have been like Triggers Broom though, I suppose.

[martc]

@Dyslexic Viking

Scandanavian Morris Minor commercials - DOMI (Dansk Oversoisk Motor Industrie) made a Minor van, unique to them, that was used by both the Danish and Swedish post offices.

This is a DOMI which has found itself in the UK. UK made vans look like this Austin version -

But what may be of interest is that, according to a book I have ('The Minor Commercial')  Lillehammer Karosserifabrikk made commercial vehicles based on Morris Minor chassis but I can't find any pictures of them.