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ocsum Got the keys
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John Ballard valued contributor

Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 2434 Location: Dubbo NSW
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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Loks good and fairly rust free, good luck and get started
_________________ " I still have all my marbles, they just roll slower "
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Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 3558 Location: 4559 near a big pineapple, Qld
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 2:33 pm Post subject: Re: Lil Jen |
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ocsum wrote: |
Thanks for now and I'm sure I'll have many questions coming soon
Cheers Pete |
Fire away ~ that is what we are all here for ... to help
Looks a good one to start with. Seems to have had a light bingle on the front left at some stage. What is the colour on the ID plate?
I see that you are up Toowoomba way.
There is a great Morris club in town. Very friendly and affable members
Join up and there will be lots of help and advice there locally too
http://www.morrisdownunder.com/downs/#ab2
cheers
frosty_________________ BE Australian, ...BUY Australian (or Kiwi)
~ Will glass coffins ever become popular ?
... Remains to be seen.
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ocsum Got the keys
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ocsum Got the keys
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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John Ballard wrote: | Loks good and fairly rust free, good luck and get started |
Thanks John, I'm just sorting the 3x 950 motors I have to see if they are any good at the moment.
Cheers
Pete
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John Ballard valued contributor

Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 2434 Location: Dubbo NSW
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Just reading your post again, Series 11 had 803cc engine but to restore better and a lot cheaper to rebuild a 950 Minor 1000 engine.
1953 first of the OHV engines but should have a "cheesegrater" grill.
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ocsum Got the keys
Joined: 16 Feb 2020 Posts: 33 Location: Toowoomba,QLD
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Hi John,
You are correct it does have a cheese grater grill, but I would have though there would be a way to tell exactly what year it is and not a year range. Sorry used to working on Holdens and Fords.
Cheers Pete
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Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 5205 Location: Wollondilly, NSW
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 8:01 am Post subject: |
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Hi Pete, welcome to the forum.
You have a late 1953 Series II, November/December build from the UK so it would have arrived out here in 1954 if it was an export car from new.
Being a UK build makes your car different from 95% of Morris Minors in Australia. Most were locally assembled from kits sent out from the UK but yours came out as a complete car.
As it is a UK build, the musuem at Gaydon will have access to the original build details if you wanted to restore the car to it's original appearance. Paint, trim, engine/gearbox numbers are all on record. They will also show where the car went from new - either a local UK dealer or for export.
As John says, the 950 engine is a better option over the little original. So much so that there's very few Series IIs running the original engine.
Your car would have had the wier motor tucked up under the dash originally but someone has wisely decided to convert it to the later engine bay set up - much easier access if needed now.
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ocsum Got the keys
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Scott,
How do you figure this from the ID plate? Is there a chart showing this. I had a look on line and the most detailed chart I could find was this https://potteries.mmoc.org.uk/Identify.htm
I'll look into the Gaydon museum and see what I find
Cheers
Pete
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