Originally Posted by +fireamx
WOW!!! What a cool car. It's been a very long time since I've seen a "Minor Morris" (that's what we used to call them way back when).
Looks like you're doing a fantastic job at turning it into one slick street rod.
I nominate you as one of the team of people who should get together and build the first "HEMI" Crossfire.
If you can cram a small block chevy into a Minor, a hemi in a Crossfire should be a piece of cake.
Really enjoyed the photos, nice job.
Over here in Aus, the place was full of old Morris's, Hillmans etc, I used to have a 1950 Morris Oxford as a paddock bomb as a kid, my parents went on their honeymoon in a Morris Minor Lo-Lite convertible, (complete with side v/v motor, (good for 55 mph) and I still have a Morris Mini Cooper S Motor in the shed waiting for an appropriate body shell to mate it with.
When I started work in the 70's, I was working with a Canadian guy, (we nicknamed him "The Yank"), he was saying when he was a kid, they used to drop Cleveland V8s into old Morris Minors for a bit of fun. (Why is it that Canadians don't like being mistaken for Americans!!)
Anyway nice to see your old Morrie is such good nick.
Cheers, Terry