Recommendations for a first classic car restoration project?

[TickingTappets]

Have been thinking about doing a restoration on a classic car for a while and am looking for suggestions for a beginner to take on this sort of project. I would be looking to spend just a few hundred quid on a tatty car requiring bodywork, interior and maybe mechanical type work. I have been looking at Austin A30s, Heralds and various other 60's cars. I wouldn't be looking to restore to concours standards so would definitely be looking at doing the bodywork and respray myself and brakes and some basic engine stuff.

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated,

Chris.

[TickingTappets]

Thank you all very much for the comments, I think the Herald is the favourite at the moment. The availability of parts is massive and I've always liked its looks.

[TickingTappets]

Well, I've now got my first restoration project - a 1964 Morris Minor Tourer. She ain't pretty (shabby chic?) but she's strong, and has passed the last four MOTs without advisories, so her structure is very sound. Parts availability is huge and reasonably priced and I love the simplicity of everything about her. When she's cold you pull a little lever out to get her going; when your cold you wind a chrome handle to make the windows go upwards and when it rains you stand on your feet and pull a hood over which takes about 2 minutes.

I am already in love with her cuteness and lack of complications - now I just need to make her pretty again, and to make some decisions about the new? paint and hood colours.

[TickingTappets]

Yes, she's an original factory tourer. 948cc which is surprisingly nippy - nice tight handling, although a bit (a lot) skittish over lumpy bits of road and all in all a right old hoot to drive.

It's the outer body panels, chrome and interior that needs the most work, which I'm already attending to and I had great fun ordering £500 pounds worth of nice shiny things from GS.Jones Minors last night after a couple of glasses of red. Who the heck knows what's going to arrive!!!