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3 hours ago, Vaughan said:

In England it is young love : in France it is l'amour : and in a Morris Mini Minor it is impossible!

Oh no its not!!.........................................................?

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the doors are on RT, the bottom needs trimming to fit the beam and floor levels, a mount was required for the doors as one bulkhead was curved out, a support had to be hollowed out to accommodate this on one side of the door.

we have also added more grease to the rudder tube, the stern tube was greased as was the pillow bearing just in front, the good news is that once the rudder was greased it now moves really easily, a new steering wire (2 x 10m lengths with one join at the back) was fitted, the old wire was in about 9 lengths, one just a metre long, and the joins kept snagging everywhere. the good news is the steering is much better now.

many other jobs were also done, scraping sanding, painting and varnishing, tidying.

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On 24/07/2018 at 20:42, Vaughan said:

In England it is young love : in France it is l'amour : and in a Morris Mini Minor it is impossible!

Triumph Spitfire! Triumph Herald! Austin Healy Sprite! Morris Minor/1000 like a room at The London Hilton.

My father bought my mother a Morris 1000000 for a birthday present, wish I had it now.

Judith at the wheel of our Spitfire so must have been down the pub! Sprite in Southern Spain and god only knows how! we were camping.

Morris 1000000 were only available in this colour.

My God we were just kids really, and we were engaged, but it lasted 50 years.

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the 1000000 was only available in lilac, paint code RD17. With a vanilla internal trim, and cream wheels. We had one in for repair in the middle seventies that was all but a write off, having had the whole of the drivers side ripped of by a lorry (whilst it was parked thankfully ). We had to verify to BL, that it was an original by posting off pictures of the car and the chassis number, stamped on the floor and under the bonnet , before we could rebuild it as so many rip offs were being done that they had to ration the badges

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14 minutes ago, FairTmiddlin said:

the 1000000 was only available in lilac, paint code RD17. With a vanilla internal trim, and cream wheels. We had one in for repair in the middle seventies that was all but a write off, having had the whole of the drivers side ripped of by a lorry (whilst it was parked thankfully ). We had to verify to BL, that it was an original by posting off pictures of the car and the chassis number, stamped on the floor and under the bonnet , before we could rebuild it as so many rip offs were being done that they had to ration the badges

I had forgotten the cream trim, thanks, OK vinyl, but years ahead of it's time. Mum's car certainly turned heads. I can't remember when my father bought it new from Saunders in Rickmansworth but I still had two or three years to go at prep school so I think it woulf have been about 1960/61

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22 minutes ago, Maxwellian said:

Was that your work Doug? She is coming on nicely. 

I think that's Dave's work. But the important bit is that you can see where Timbo took the handrails off. Yes, yes, an excellent post-modern handrail puller-offer in the Norfolk style was Timbo.

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1 hour ago, Timbo said:

I think that's Dave's work. But the important bit is that you can see where Timbo took the handrails off. Yes, yes, an excellent post-modern handrail puller-offer in the Norfolk style was Timbo.

but Timbo, did you preserve the original handrails Said he, (knowing the answer is no - they mostly came off in pieces, so I wouldnt have wanted to rely on them in an emergency).

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3 minutes ago, grendel said:

but Timbo, did you preserve the original handrails Said he, (knowing the answer is no - they mostly came off in pieces, so I wouldnt have wanted to rely on them in an emergency).

It was that Norfolk Screwdriver I was using. The blade seemed to be more lump hammery than a Lincolnshire screwdriver!

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Another very busy weekend, lots more done. The gas is now working along with the interior lights, last bits on the fuel system finished and the new alternator and split charger,  rear doors adjusted and new flooring in the rear well  and also the canopy frames.  Toilet to finish but at least it now has a floor.

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well back home, and on a pc that doesnt take an hour to type a sentence.

this weekend the team I have put in at least 25 hours of work, yesterday was a 6am start 11pm finish, I even got a couple of hours in Friday after arriving at 8 pm.

I have added tingles, I have taken the rear doors off, and shaped the top to the roof to raise the doors 2 " to be able to fit the rear well floor in. 

I have traced the cabin light wiring and crawled into tight spaces to remove unused wires, then connected circuits to wire them into the fusebox, replaced non working lamps with working ones. cleaned, tidied, found the missing nav light (the red one) and the new fairleads, shortened excessively long wiring looms and generally helped out.

cupboard floors have been found, trimmed to fit around new parts and fitted, window trims fitted, the window catches need fitting (I have taken a pattern to make some more (to be delivered and fitted at beccles)) the rear handles from the roof have had a pattern made and new ones will be made (and fitted at beccles). we are nearly there (well there enough for beccles).

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