1967 Morris Minor (How bad is it?)

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6 ай бұрын

Dan and I clean and partially disassemble the Morris to determine the condition in preparation for restoration. We answer the question "How bad is it?" (after sitting for 30 years outside in Florida.
The power washing background music is used with permission from the artist "Virg." Music Video link here : • ViRG - Too Much

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@deemdoubleu 3 ай бұрын

As an ex British Leyland car owner, this looks factory fresh

@pedrokd5439 2 ай бұрын

My convertible was a similar condition. Built a rotisserie, 12 months for rust repairs. Engine and gearbox rebuilt. Did full respray. Now on club rego.

@davehyde6207 2 ай бұрын

This was a pleasure to watch

@sifibuckle 5 ай бұрын

Love seeing moggies being rediscovered and loved all over again.

@pedrokd5439 2 ай бұрын

Its amazing what a wash and polish will do !

@MiniorMinority 4 ай бұрын

I really hope you get the old girl straight. Love the rolling technique

@asithajayasundera1631 12 күн бұрын

Good Job! Moris Minor has the steering on the wrong side lol

@DaveBooth-qs7sw 2 ай бұрын

It’s repairable! Chassis wise & the engine I’d strip it down completely & send the whole engine into the reconditioners & have them wash the cylinder head &5(3 block in their bath to remove all the rust sludge & junk out of it! Even have the radiator flushed out!

@myke49 5 ай бұрын

Takes me back to the days when our family car was a Morris Minor 1954 with the long gearstick and the small bore 803cc engine. In later years I put a 950cc engine in it. POWER! When it was three months old, it was parked outside our house. It was ANZAC day and a returned soldier, driving and Austin 7, while way over the drinking limit, drove into the front of our brand new Morrie. He withdrew from within the Morrie and drove off. It was repaired but in later life it rusted. But nothing like your Morrie. It looks really in need of some serious metal work. Have fun. And all the best from Australia. Mike in Oz

@davebdave1 5 ай бұрын

It’s great how these cars are loved all over the World. Of all of the cars my Family owned over the years the Morris is the most appreciated although you wouldn’t know it by looking at it now. We will restore it though.

@Indy_at_the_beach 6 ай бұрын

You guys have admirable optimism.

@utcherry 6 ай бұрын

I'm amazed you were able to get it to run!

@davefrench3608 5 ай бұрын

It's an A series engine, give it petrol and spark and it runs.

@utcherry 5 ай бұрын

👍👍@@davefrench3608

@kenlydon1395 3 ай бұрын

A rare car in the US not many exported and by ‘67 the production figures were dropping , replaced by the Mini and other east west engined models.

@jimharper1782 5 ай бұрын

Looks just like that Morris I saw in the hallway at Sarasota High School.🤔🤔

@davebdave1 5 ай бұрын

VIP parking

@mully89 6 ай бұрын

That's solid 🤣👍

@davebdave1 6 ай бұрын

LOL, solid gold

@chriscansdale6389 4 ай бұрын

The "I don't know what this is" is the clamp for the spare wheel. The wheel should be under the boards in the back, on top of the fuel tank. If you look in the centre of the floor between the fuel tank and the "trunk" opening there's a visible bolt hole. The clamp bolts on there and pushes against the tread of the tyre when the wheel is in place.

@davebdave1 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! We’ll have to get that back in place when we get it back on the road. I used the spare often but never to swap out a flat. We used to take the Morris off-road and we’d sometimes get a drive wheel buried in the mud. We would then jack it up and lay the spare under a tire to bridge the newly dug hole and be on our way.

@enochpowelghost Ай бұрын

i have restored cars in worse conditions to this, but they were not morris minors lots of pieces to edge of sills or rockers you call it. front chassis legs for some reason seem to take on water make sure you have drain holes at bottom, to prevent rust from inside chassi in future. Veg cooking oil inside chassis legs preserves chassis also and is biodegradable, the oil evaporates and condenses to a sticky protection film lasts for more than a decade.

@FMFGUF Ай бұрын

I suspect the hole in the roof may have had something to do with the chassis leg rusting out so badly behind the brake master cylinder...Generally, it doesn't look to bad for 30 years of sitting outside.

@davebdave1 Ай бұрын

My dad drilled the hole for a CB antenna. We patched it with body filler but obviously it didn’t hold.

@AnandaGunarathna-gk3ej 3 ай бұрын

👍

@ungurdani8346 2 ай бұрын

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@sujpuj 4 ай бұрын

Great content! Love the restoration series

@mikemolto8411 3 ай бұрын

Everybody knows this. Whitworth spanners and nuts for the body and AF for the drivetrain.

@Indy_at_the_beach 6 ай бұрын

I guessed 2 1/2 also. However I would not start work on a project myself unless it was at least a 4 or 5.

@davebdave1 6 ай бұрын

Yes, 30 years ago when it wasn’t too bad I didn’t think it was worth the effort. Nostalgia has set in and even though it’s now a bucket of rust it seems like a good idea to make it roadworthy.

@user-ki4uc6rm9k 6 ай бұрын

Better structurely than most of the Morris,s I’ve repaired here in the uk,nostalgia is great, the memories are priceless, I’m currently collecting the parts to repair a traveller, or woody as they are sometimes referred to, was my grandfathers from new, I don’t know what parts are available in the states but every panel is avalible here in the uk. Good luck with the project I’ll be following

@davebdave1 5 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@user-ki4uc6rm9kThanks, this is encouraging. Good luck with your grandfather’s car!

@tonycamplin8607 4 ай бұрын

It looks in reasonable condition to me, I've seen and repaired far worse. Suppose that as it is from America that's what stopped it rusting too badly.I disagree with you about the rear spring supports and there surroundings though, they're really bad. Was fascinated by the American words for car parts, it took me a while to work out that rockers were sills. Good luck.