It's so funny to me how nonchalant James is when approaching repairs. The dude's really competent in what he does but avidly shrugs off most tasks or does some crazy workaround.
I found James's channel where he does retro gaming videos first and then came here. You should see him Frankenstein 2 retro consoles together. It's really something else
Oh too real, me and my dad were doing up a bike once, we started it up and it stank so bad after turns out there was a rats nest in the exhaust ans there were several dead rats in there
Dude it really is so rare, even on old clunkers that have sat that long. I've seen old Chevys that sat outside abandoned for 20+years that had less crud in the cooling jackets 😅
@@abhimaanmayadam5713 could definitely be a chemical interaction between old and new coolant after poorly done flushes. Or maybe something caused by a "leak fix" product that was used.
James Channel is fantastic, I honestly am so happy you convinced him to make his own videos because they are absolutely fantastic. I love that he just does stuff. Does he do it so that it functions? yes. Is it clean? rarely. but it works and it is jank in a appealing way. Well done James
Alec Issigonis didn’t believe in radios, he said they were too distracting. However he did fit all round ashtrays and made sure you could fit a bottle of wine in the doors. 😅
@@TheSkelliztop gear UK vs AU: The Stig = the Fronk Cars = nuggs Test new cars = Test old nuggs Still take old cars on adventures tho. Which one would you watch?
There is somewhere to get good parts actually! At least for Morris cars, and it's surprisingly Denmark. Due to historical reasons Denmark now have more Morris cards then England does - and they still take care of them. Loads of specialty shops that can help you with any kinds of parts you'd need.
I had a variation of one of these sh*tboxes in the 70's. It was a 1971 Austin America 1300 cc. Second gear synchro was pooched. I'm reminded of that thing every time I see Basil Fawlty beating his car with a tree branch.
Not 2 hours ago, I wondered what project was keeping Garbage Time quiet. Seeing a Morris in the thumbnail answered all my questions before watching the video.
@@OnionChoppingNinja The reason you sometimes see Jag XJS is because they share a transmission with a pickup truck so people throw the engine in from one and it runs way better than the V12. This is not a lie this is a real thing that people do
I've a friend in Adelaide who has a '67 Morris 1100. Was this same colour and collapsed suspension. It was given to him by his grandmother. It was his uncles but when he died it was parked in her shed for over 20 years. Had no rust but my friend hated the old fart colour and resprayed it red. It had bucket seats and 54k miles. We pulled took the tappet cover off and it was like vegemite. We cleaned it all up and eventually the suspension was put up to normal height and 6 months later it's back in the shed. Been there 29 years now. With the temp pegging at H, this is quite normal. They aren't built for our temps and run very hot when pushed through the Adelaide hills.
I feel like the 24 hours of Lemons race is the perfect kind of race for you to compete in. It's like the 24 hours of Le Mans, except there's a budget cap of 500 dollars.
They did for a year or two, but some sort of corpprate contract reason made them stop. The Ausie side of the LeMons contract started their own budget endurance series. I've raced LeMons for about a decade and am on a first name basis with many of the staff. @@Cube6529
Aus product by released in the 90s(?) iirc, that was then next released officially for British market by Nulon UK in 2006, I'm not sure if it was ever 'officially' released in the US per se, but given the lax regs I'm sure it's just imported
New parts really do suck. All the aftermarket rubber parts on my '76 Yamaha need to be replaced every 6-12 months. The 40+ year old originals are fine.
actual rubbers too expensive and pu additives banned list gets longer by the year. oh well at least I can still buy lead paint.. the guys at the thai hardware store don't understand what lead is and why i'd rather have zinc laden. i honestly don't even know whats the point even with the lead paint it disappears in 4 years anyway seemingly.
@@HappyBeezerStudios correct. welcome to late stage capitalism and planned obsolescence. Its made to suck so you spend more to buy more to break more to buy more
Still driving and loving my virtually perfect 1969 Austin America (the one marketed in the USA), 55 years on. It's all about good maintenance and a sympathetic driver.
Those blocked coolant passages are what you get when someone has been living with a leak for months and just tops up the radiator with water every few miles ... especially if you live in an area with limescale.
@@dr_vendetta8361Which is even more crazy given how cars rust in NZ. That being said there are loads of these still about in the UK, you just have to know where to look.
I've a Mini 1275GT bored out to 1400cc. Lumpy cam, big valves, high compression & other stuff. 120bhp on the rolling road & 120mph on the 'test track...'
I miss my Leyland mini clubman. I was restoring that for seven years I had mostly rebuilt it. It was made in Australia . I’ve replaced the carpet, the seats, the back window, and the side door windows. I found a centre console. I’d replaced the spark plugs and leads. It just needed some rewiring, and it was roadworthy, and then it was stolen. I still miss it to this day 15 years later, it was a clubman S with a 998cc engine
Exibit A on why I became a machinist. Stop making quality IAC valves for my Dakota? I made a bypass with a manual choke. I have built so much junk for my 245 it shouldn't say Volvo up front anymore.
Mate as a classic mini owner I'm loving this. The 1.5" socket, the permatex aviation gasket goo, the chonks on the drain plug magnet, the *terrible* new parts, all the weird front wheel drive stuff, the overheating in australian heat... It's all exactly what i deal with every other week! Also all that crap in your cooling system happens to everyone. Sometimes its clogged up old antifreeze, somtimes its aluminium rust off the thermostat housing... Welcome to old Minis!
I had a $700 Craigslist '83 Civic for about a year in 2008 and lucky for me it ran like a top. Rear hatch not staying up was resolved with a lawn sign stake. Deathtrap on the interstate (couldn't go over 50 mph going uphill) so sold it off for $800. 👍🙉
OH IT'S AN 1100. I love these so much. Honestly, in 1962, no other small family car was this sophisticated. Next to nothing was front-drive, and the Hydrolastic suspension is dreamy when it works. The Mini and 1100 essentially invented the modern small car.
The disk brakes were also quite advanced for the early 60's in a cheap small car, I was surprised to see it had them. It seemed like the mini's and their related offshoots were better built than most other British cars, people seem to have better memories of them now than they did of most triumphs and whatnot. My father has a friend who traded his muscle car in on a brand new triumph spitfire during the 1970's gas crisis, he hated it. From the showroom the roof leaked, electrical issues galore with faulty new components available right from the dealer and the car would run differently depending on the day of the week no matter how much work he put into it. He got rid of it within a year or 2 iirc and bought a toyota cellica GT.
@@timberinternational2377 Absolutely. Someone quite fairly said on the Intercooler Podcast the other week that the 1100 could quite fairly claim to be the most modern car in the world in 1962.
A neat trick I learned from an old timer. Muriatic acid will flush any and all schmoo in an engine. Then follow up with a flush of baking soda and water. It's also a good way to find a leak in a clogged brass radiator
My mum had a 2nd hand one of a later model in the 80's in great condition, even the suspension. She loved that car washed it weekly and made sure it actually got regular services (she usually treated her cars terribly). Some bastard nicked it.
Me, as an MG Midget owner: James has had this pretty easy, i mean it's an A Series and it hasnt even overheated Nugget: *overheats* Me: Thereeeee it is. Full BMC owner experience now guys, welcome to the club of abject misery. Tally ho from ol' Blighty
@@mushter17 Coming from someone who's owned plenty of stuff from the BMC, BLMC, Leyland and Austin Rover stables and never had much of an issue outside of rust (as in the same issue which plagued other cars from same era as each model I owned) why perpetuate a myth about them being 'bad'?
@@skylined5534 You should've been buying lottery tickets your whole life then, because it sounds like you got incredibly lucky. Seriously, every factory had a slightly different standard, especially with the chaos of British Leyland owning so many manufacturers all in direct competition while being owned by the same parent company. Not to mention the fact that workers didn't get paid well, hard to believe any of the cars worked for any length of time.
I had one of these, a 67 Morris 1100, in South Africa. Brilliant handling, no suspension problems, good five seater. It managed a long, rough track where a Land Rover had broken a half shaft. In Britain it was the top seller during the 60's.
@@forzaguy1252 technically still 0th gen because BMC's gearbox in sump system wasn't the one that was widely adopted, 1st gen was fiat's system designed by dante giacosa and launched with the autobianchi primula(test launch with a niche brand for experimental features like fiberglass bodies, rack and pinion steering, front wheel drive, the FIRE engine and new aerodynamics) and fiat 128(mainstream launch)
Traction Avant, first started production in 1934. Wouldn't mind getting one and doing a restomod, original exterior and interior with modern mechanicals (+A/C and bluetooth stereo, cleverly hidden of course). There were 760,000 made so it's no loss to cut one up.
@@HappyBeezerStudios 250 is ridiculously fast, though, isn't it? I feel like only emergency vehicles need to go that fast. I suppose that if you were in an emergency and needed to get to a hospital, though, you'd be very grateful for the extra speed... but how often does that happen, vs someone just being a jackass.
I'd just like to say thank you for this video, this entire channel as a whole helped me sleep the last two months as I found myself spiraling in my own headspace. Whenever I now feel myself losing sight and spiraling I replay this video in particular to help stabilize myself. So, thank you.
28:38 block, head and engine was all limed up.. it musthave had a leak amd the owner used water that was pulled from a sandstone aquifer with high lime content. We use limeaway in the states to clean it. Probably not safe for engines, but you can soak parts in it.
12:41 you're soldering to a fluid-filled pipe, which is boiling inside (the noises) and carrying the heat away with the fluid. Both of these sap heat, making the solder not stick. You have to drain + dry the system, then solder.
It may hold, it may not - and for future reference, you can basically never solder a fluid-filled pipe closed, so you end up needing a threaded port or fill tap somewhere.
@@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer those are in a similar league, the niki is the indestructible one, that just runs on things, that are able to combust, while the Trabant is smelly loud and clunky with a cardboard chassis. PS: I don't wanna trash the Trabant, I love it but for its nuggetness.
Jokes aside, I think TV was technically invented by the British (John Baird). It's mechanical and had a huge spinning disc, so it probably also leaked oil at some point lol
8:28 yep, modern stuff is made horribly, that is why i am glad you bought that George from Numatic, it is one of the last good vacuum brands that does not make their stuff out of rubbish in china. glad to see people also understand what has happened to the market .
Please keep us updated on this beautiful little nugget! I'm fascinated with this bizarre creature. I actually thought it was a Hillman Imp from the thumbnail. Lol
Imps, then Hunters, Royals etc were built in Adelaide under licence at the Chrysler factory. Dad had a Hunter Royal, mate had an Imp (gutless wonders both!).
The center exhaust is cool. But my very first car was a baby blue 1976 Chevy Caprice Classic "glass house" sedan that I inherited from my great grandfather. It also had that chalky paint issue. It had a vinyl covering on the roof that was growing mold. But the coolest part about It was the center fuel filler neck behind the flip down license plate. I loved playing this game where I'd make my friends put gas in it and laugh at them while they tried to find the filler neck. Why didn't every car have that? I could pull up to the pumps facing either direction. Oh, and I really loved the head light dimmer switch on the floor by the brake pedal. It took me a month to figure that out when I started driving it. I just assumed it didn't have high beams until I accidentally stepped on the switch one night. I was so excited. "Oh! What?? No way it DOES have high beams!" This was back in 1998 so just googling stuff wasn't a thing yet.
I've seen plenty of hydraulic leaks on old Citroëns as well. One time simply because a hose clamp had gone missing. When it works it can be pretty comfortable, but as a kid I often got carsick in them due to body roll. Citroën did have a "activa" suspension option on the Xantia model which basically adds an active rollbar system to completely counteracts bodyroll. As a matter of fact, the Citroën Xantia Activa V6 has been the record holder for the Moose test since 1999 because of this. Personally I would love to have a Citroën XM retrofitted with this system. On another note: never feel for hydraulic leaks! Hydraulic injection injury isn't fun. I couldn't really see if James was using his fingers feeling for leaks at some point. 100PSI can apparently be enough to pierce the skin.
Well it was built in Australia. I'm not sure if that would make it better or worse. The fact that as a kid in the 90s I always heard my mother talking about Morrises she was in as a kid and I never saw one to know what she was talking about certainly isn't a good sign.
I had a buddy in the 90s who bought an Austin Tasman. It had a transverse straight six-cylinder motor. Flat out, it would do 50 mph (80 Km/h).@@AfferbeckBeats
@@DuckReach432 when working properly they would do the ton (100 MPH) from experience. They'd do 80 KPH in second gear @ 7000 RPM. OHC engine. Yes, they've lots of issues....
They were only kind of built in Australia. For tax purposes, cars were frequently imported as "complete knock-down kits" or CKDs and assembled at local factories.
I had to smile when the 'Minispares' oil filter went on. I can almost recite all the part numbers he would be needing!. Clever dizzy though. But these 1100s and the later 1300s were brilliant family cars. Mum & Dad had one but that had the clever red strip speedo that slid across a line of digits. You couldn't get a better riding car short of a Roller.
The Austin version had the red strip speedo, the mk 1 Morris had what you see here. My mother had a new Austin 1100 in 1964 and my dads business partner's wife had the Morris version, both bought and delivered at the same time, I remember there were differences between the two other than just the badges and grill.
I'm so genuinely that glad you guys are smashing it with nearly 500k subs. I'm from Melbourne. Come across for some mischief. I'm turning my missus's '94 BMW 318 in a "rally" car Big love from Melbs
as a classic mini owner its so cool to see how so many cars shared the same stuff between each other. Like the engine in that car is near on a 1 to 1 of what a minis is in terms of layout
I'ts an A series, same as a mini engine. I had an 850 Mini station wagon (rare in Australia) in 1977 and swapped an 1100 into it, bolted straight in with no mods. Got it up to 90mph on a downhill with three radials and one crossply. Scary.
@davidjulian8536 ha yeah I know what you mean by scary. When I bought my mini I was a learner. My dad had to drive it home and did 75 mph. Which though isn't a lot, in one of them it's horrifying
Went to the Irish vs All Blacks match in Wellington in 1976. One of the lads had an orange Mini that had 850 badges on it and a hot 1275 under the bonnet.. Seven of us in it drag racing a Torana XU1 on the Hutt motorway.... Torana left us after 100mph was exceeded... the speedo needle on the mini went right past the 90mph and round to the stop pin at 0....
That's funny you mention that, I'm currently working on an 18-year-old Peugeot Expert which is rotten despite being galvanised from the factory. The joy of salted roads in the winter.
My Nan had an MG F, that thing was so nimble and you could tell the person who designed it loved cars. The MG5 that every cab driver has doesn't hold a candle
Hey Wade and James, we are 95% certain my great-grandmother purchased this car new in Sep 1966 then my mum drove it until about 20 years ago! We have more info if you are interested. Awesome episode, thanks for rebirthing the car! 🙂
Aw James you coulda used Flex Tape, the tape that seals every hole, the tape made by that guy that taped a boat in half, for the pipe thing that was leaking! Leave that flex tape on there it’ll melt in place and stay there for a hungie years!
@@Retroelectronic Seems a bit funny that the Morris minor and mini came with heaters as standard, then. That sounds pretty made up if I'm being honest 🤔
