Vintage Minor Register

My LED headlamp bulbs are very bright front on, but are definitely not as good as tungsten bulbs at lighting the road ahead, but the advantages - low current consumption and being able to use them in rain and low 'daylight' conditions - outweigh this significant disadvantage. I keep tungsten headlam...

Ian - I am very pleased that you are evidently going to keep the car as it is. It looks wonderful! - Ken

Thanks Ian - yes better than last year and hoping for some good motoring this summer.

I see what you mean...it is very difficult keeping an 'oily rag' car and I know I would find it very hard although in the case of my car there was no option but a complete makeover.

Ian – I was disappointed to read that you plan to redo the fabric on this car (and by implication a thorough going over). I had thought your intention was to do the minimum necessary to use it. It seems a shame to molest it even if it was changed in the distant past.
Ken

A c1929-30 type Morris Minor front axle assembly is available in Westbury, Wilts. A friend who discovered it tells me that it appears to be a good condition and complete with king pins, back-plates hubs and brake drums. The drums have not been removed, but the brake shoes etc are assumed to be inclu...

Interesting - here is another picture of the car from Harry's collection. It looks like a LWB chassis to me - some McEvoys were on these.

Regarding your note on hub caps above - my hub caps were dented and generally knocked about, but they have been very presentable since my efforts at restoring them in the 1960s. I punched them out of the wheel hubs using a large wooden dowel - as big as will fit though the outer hub opening. I trimm...

Ian You should surely aim to save as much as possible of the original fabric of this rare model. Far too many 'old cars' are actually almost all new especially those professionally 'restored' as opposed to conserved. I know this won't be the case with your McEvoy, but you probably get my point. I se...

Fantastic!

It is a Wolseley Hornet rad
Ken

It is a Wolseley Hornet rad
Ken

Ian I can’t dispute your statement regarding the production records because I have never seen them. However, I have a photo of a Hornet special which is on an early chassis judging by the three stud small hub wheels. The Hornet Special expert Dick Serjeantsen has been baffled by it and still hasn’t ...

Hi Ian A photo of this car appears in Harry Edwards’ article on [Morris] ‘Specials’ published in the Morris Eight Tourer Club ‘Journal’ dated 1966 (where also can be found the Maltby works picture posted by you in ‘Our Cars’ under the topic ‘KR5670’ your interesting Maltby bodied Minor saloon – see ...

Ian I can't understand your logic! Surely this car left the factory as a chassis as did many Hornets of the period. There were probably more Hornets with proprietary special bodies built on factory chassis than any other make including Austin 7, Bentley and RR. I don't think you have solved the myst...