Tuesday 14 November 2023

it's for SALE

My mother has decided the Morris can be sold. The car was only used occassionly and she no longer fancy to make a trip with the car. The last occassion it was used for was for the graduation of her granddaughter. Here you can see my nephew driving the car a few months back. 

Most of the details about this car can be found back in this blog. It has always been stored in a warm garage and well maintained. It's instantly usuable.

The asking price is a reasonable and fair € 12.500,- 

If you are interested or want more details feel free to reach out to me. My contact details can be found at the right: "about me" - - click on "email" 



Update 1-12-2024 : Today I received the Dutch yearbook 2024 "Onschatbare Klassieker. It does contain the price index for almost all cars. And of course the Morris is included. My asking price for our Morris is based on the current market value and there are little LHD on the market, so it's not easy to compare. But this index shows I was not far off, I consider our Morris definatley around the B category

Sunday 16 April 2023

Scale model 1:18 by Minichamps

This scale model is on the mantelpiece at my mothers house. Apparently dad bought it once in Germany. Unfortunately it's in the wrong color. It's actually quite a nice scale model. The roof can be taken off easily and it has a folded roof which you can put up instead (sorry no photo taken). The model is made by Minichamps.

This website has a good overview of it and in the right color:

https://modelcars1-18.com/en/makes/Morris/Minor-1000-Tourer-cabrio-1959-Minichamps-1:18/details.html 





Saturday 15 April 2023

Fuel pump stuck?

A few weeks back we wanted to start the Morris and get it out of the garage. But it wouldn't start up and the battery was low. So it was recharged but still it was not starting up. When using "start pilot" spray it started up easily but wouldn't keep running. So clearly a gas issue. So likely the fuel pump had gone bad. 

Today I had more time to have this checked. So removing the fuel lines and the connectors fist.


When taken out I had it further checked but nothing unusual could be seen. So when hooking up the connectors straight to the battery it immediately worked and spit out the remaining gas


When mounting everything back I started up the engine and it ran almost immediately. Not sure what happened. My brother did happen to be around later today as well and mentioned it was replaced about 7 years ago for a new one. Typical. Not sure if it got stuck somehow since it had not run for more than 6 months or so. Oh well.

Out of curiosity I just checked the fuel pump and hit this Dutch webshop instantly:

https://www.carburateurwinkel.nl/contents/nl/d656_Huco_Brandstof_Pompen.html

Reason for mentioning this one is simply because I know the owner of this shop. So it might come in handy some day.