RE: You Know You Want To: Morris Minor

[Mr2Mike]

I like it in general, but it just sits too low. I think it would look hugely better without the tyres disappearing up inside the arches like a barried E36.

[markh450]

v8will said:

This meets with approval!!

Anyone got a link for the build thread?

It won't have to pass any approval if it is still registered as a minor, as its pre 1960 then no MOT and I suppose the DVLA doesn't get to find out what mods have been done to the chassis/ engine etc etc?

Looks like there could be a boom in heavily modifying pre 1960's cars soon.

all OK until you crash your carbon fibre bodied, flat plane V8 engined, 200 mph austin 7 into somebody and the insureance start asking questions!!

[AndyBrew]

Yuuuuk!

[2volvos]

Some Gump said:

Awesome. "Different" cars are always cool, but this is really at the upper etchelons of awesomeness. Imagine the look on the face of Porsche drivers as you lap them at a track day? Having a 4 pot also helps the stealth effect - the rover v8 drag car mentioned would be heard a mile off (and besides, cars that go round corners >>> cars that go fast in a straight line).

That so called 'Rover V8 drag car' held the Shelsley Walsh closed car record until a certain Mr Mikkola turned up in his works Quattro and was awesome on all the hillclimbs during the late 70s early 80s. So it was no straightline show off one trick pony. And of course Nic Mann drove it very well too.

Out of all the cars on the hills during that period it was the most spectacular by a long long way.

[405dogvan]

Munich said:

How did he get insures for only 250 GBP? I would have thought the insurance companies would have ran a mile from this.

Insurance is often more about the person insuring it than the car (in fact it's 99% about the person).

As for the car - cool doesn't even remotely cover it!!

[tomoleeds]

unusual and good story but 14k ? ,think would rather hsve a 2005 m3 convertible

[405dogvan]

groomi said:

You're possibly right, but the point I was alluding to is that it would not be a carbon fibre spaceframe. Fortunately such inaccuracy is seldom found in PH front page articles...

It isn't and doesn't claim to be.

If has - and I quote

"carbon composite doors, wings, front panel, boot and bonnet."

Reading, it teaches you stuff

[405dogvan]

tomoleeds said:

unusual and good story but 14k ? ,think would rather hsve a 2005 m3 convertible

Thanks for sharing but if everyone did that we'd have 7 billion posts that 7 billion people didn't agree with

Since you started it tho - err - I'd have this, I love it

[ettore]

tomoleeds said:

unusual and good story but 14k ? ,think would rather hsve a 2005 m3 convertible

...and thank the lord we're all different!

[peterg1955]

405dogvan said:

groomi said:

You're possibly right, but the point I was alluding to is that it would not be a carbon fibre spaceframe. Fortunately such inaccuracy is seldom found in PH front page articles...

It isn't and doesn't claim to be.

If has - and I quote

"carbon composite doors, wings, front panel, boot and bonnet."

Reading, it teaches you stuff

It certainly does.... 1st line of 3rd paragraph from the original PH article.... ;-)

"It’s built on a carbon fibre spaceframe for huge torsional stiffness"

[groomi]

peterg1955 said:

405dogvan said:

groomi said:

You're possibly right, but the point I was alluding to is that it would not be a carbon fibre spaceframe. Fortunately such inaccuracy is seldom found in PH front page articles...

It isn't and doesn't claim to be.

If has - and I quote

"carbon composite doors, wings, front panel, boot and bonnet."

Reading, it teaches you stuff

It certainly does.... 1st line of 3rd paragraph from the original PH article.... ;-)

"It’s built on a carbon fibre spaceframe for huge torsional stiffness"

Sometimes I love this place.

[405dogvan]

groomi said:

Sometimes I love this place.

Yeah - we get people who, when their mate tells them that he knows a bloke selling a Ferrari, they go and see the Ferrari.

Thing is - the original ad said it was an MR2 with a stuffed Ferrari Horse hanging from the rear bumper but this guy only believes what his mate said - didn't even read the original ad.

3 weeks later he's on here saying he thinks he's been done and it's not really a Ferrari - the badge on the wheel is the wrong shape and the gears engage when cold!!

[LuS1fer]

peterg1955 said:

405dogvan said:

groomi said:

You're possibly right, but the point I was alluding to is that it would not be a carbon fibre spaceframe. Fortunately such inaccuracy is seldom found in PH front page articles...

It isn't and doesn't claim to be.

If has - and I quote

"carbon composite doors, wings, front panel, boot and bonnet."

Reading, it teaches you stuff

It certainly does.... 1st line of 3rd paragraph from the original PH article.... ;-)

"It’s built on a carbon fibre spaceframe for huge torsional stiffness"

I think the great unwashed term this sort of situation as "Pwned" whatever WTF that means....

[Fast Bug]

I pay £190 fully comp for a 1961 Beetle with nigh on 200bhp, all mods declared and an agreed value of £15k. Modified classic cars aren't expensive to insure on classic policies, you have limited mileage (5k in my case), and the theory is it's your pride and joy so you won't crash it.

[tomoleeds]

ettore said:

...and thank the lord we're all different!

well would you pay 14k for thr morris minor? thought not

[jackdebray]

FOURTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS!? Its a bit late for an april fools joke surely

[ArosaMike]

jackdebray said:

FOURTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS!? Its a bit late for an april fools joke surely

It's a race/Hillclimbe car though which means, if it's well sorted which it would appear to be, normal valuation is impossible.

[dan tournay]

jackdebray said:

FOURTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS!? Its a bit late for an april fools joke surely

You can easily spend that having a standard minor 1000 restored and I know more than a few moggies that have had considerably more than that spent on them.

Edited by dan tournay on Thursday 5th July 16:05

[carinaman]

Reminded me of this:

'Early cars had a painted section in the centre of the bumpers to cover the widening of the production car from the prototypes. This widening of 4 inches (102 mm) is also visible in the creases in the bonnet.'

from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor

[mjb1]

v8will said:

This meets with approval!!

Anyone got a link for the build thread?

http://www.beardmorebros.co.uk/website%20pages/new_project.htm

The Beardmore brothers have put together some cool cars over the years, my personal favourites are the Rover V8 Reliant Kitten: http://www.beardmorebros.co.uk/website%20pages/rel... and the Fiat twin cam Lada: http://www.beardmorebros.co.uk/website%20pages/lad...