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| Non-mechanic owner can no longer be the keeper For Sale (1954) edit C63967 | | | My Morris has been in storage since 1994, when it failed its MOT. At the time, it required several hundred pounds worth of welding to the floorpan. My ambition to drive it once more have been dashed by the escalation of work now necessary to put it back on the road. Charles Ware's Morris Minor Centre have estimated their charges for work — to include a new floorpan, sills, and two new front wings — will be around four thousand pounds.
The car was originally Clarendon Grey in colour. When I became its proud new keeper in 1989 it had been hand-painted a cruel shade of purple. The engine has been reconditioned, and still cranks freely. The brakes are seized. The front wings are significantly rusted through (in the usual place — behind the wheel arch) The driver's seat upholstery is in tatters. The parcelshelf beneath the dash has been hacked, (not by me!) to fit a radio.
Not being a mechanic, I can't undertake the necessary restoration work in my own time. Nor can I justify the worthy costs of employing a specialist garage. Which leaves me resigned to the harsh reality that I am no longer the right keeper (if the car is to stand any chance of being returned to the road — where it should be!)
I am advertising on the off-chance the car might find a new keeper, and I might be spared the upset of having to send it to the scrapyard . . .
"Series II Morris Minor — seeks doting Mechanic for fun, friendship, and long evenings in (the garage!)"
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