Vintage Minor Register

Drive It Day this year falls on Sunday 23rd April.

If you are planning to visit one of the many gatherings on the day, please post your intent here, so members can look out for each other and meet up on the day. And remember to take your camera!

Definitely time for another update. Lawrence Bleasdale, who is caring for the car at his farm in Bromyard at the moment, sent some engine oil for analysis, and it has white metal in it. Not good news but not unexpected. I don't think the engine has been rebuilt since John Peckham rebuilt the car in ...

I'm old fashioned and use Straight 30, but I know others use 20/50. Just avoid Hypoid oils which eat any bronzed in the bearings.

So your fabric saloon is a 1931 season model (chassis M32249) and as such has the 'leather grain' steel bonnet which was also fitted to the fabric-bodied 2-seater which was only produced for the 1931 season. All the earlier fabric saloons had plain bonnets, like the steel saloons, tourers and vans. ...

Another thought. While servicing, drain the gearbox and put in straight 140 gear oil. It does make a big difference and makes gear changing easier. Use the same in the back axle, but don't fill the axle up to the brim of the filler hole. It is unnecessary, and too high an oil level will encourage oi...

Hi Frank, and welcome to the forum. Re the front engine mounts, it sounds like perhaps the rubber bushes under the engine bearer have compressed - a common problem solved with new bushes. I've had starter problems in the past, which were never the fault of the starter motor, but a poor earth return ...

So I decided to clean up the chassis frame myself, rather than having it blasted. It was a LOT more work, but gave me the chance to closely inspect every inch of it for damage or potential issues - there were none. There is slight wear in the spring hangers, but nothing that merits boring and bushin...

Two more recent Minor entries - Alistair Bond with his Semi-sports IA 9142 and Stuart Cooke with his McEvoy prototype RC 300. Also a couple more recent M Type entries from Mark Smith and Roger Payn, plus Roger Burnett's Sportsman's Coupe, bring the M entry to six. The Old Bull landlord Joe Reed is a...

Excellent. These Minors are truly sturdy, capable and reliable cars - IF they are properly road sorted and maintained. The biggest barrier to good Minors being used is the nervousness of the owners to use them for the purpose for which they were built. The Austin Seven fraternity has, in general, a ...

I think I've finally got it right - Sunday 30th APRIL!

That sounds like an amazing adventure - definitely fodder for the Magazine! But of course our sturdy little Minors are more than up to the task!

All warmly invited to our spring lunchtime pub meet at the Old Bull, Inkberrow, Worcestershire on Sunday 30th April. Always an excellent and eclectic turnout at this historic pub.

Please ignore previous reports quoting a date of Sunday 1st May!

Morris Minors at Pre-War Prescott As I’m sure everyone is aware, Pre-War Prescott is hosted by the Register, and forms but one of the three days of the Register’s annual Summer Rally. As such I always try to encourage as many Minor owners as possible to come along to one or more of the three days wi...

Here's the Minor entry list as it stands today. It's a good start and I'm hoping for many more! 1 VG 2007 1929 Morris Minor fabric saloon Ian Grace (VMR) 2 BPB 357 1934 Morris Minor 2-seater Richard Bullock (VMR) 3 DG 325 1930 Morris Minor tourer Clive Hamilton-Gould (VMR) 4 BR 8606 1930 Morris Mino...

http://www.vintageminor.co.uk/Forumpix/Hurricane and Spitfire.JPG Fantastic news this morning from the BBMF. We've been provisionally allocated a Spitfire AND a Hurricane, to display together at 14:25 in the afternoon. To have not one but two BBMF fighters over Prescott is a tremendous first for PW...

With the coming of the warmer weather, I've had a chance to pick up on the restoration. Right now I am concentrating on the engine. This has been stored, dismantled for decades so there's plenty of cleaning and removal of surface rust to get through. I'm having the cylinder bores measured so I can o...