Scrapyard Morris Minor - Unused for 9 years. Will it Start? 

Fell about laughing at that!🤣

As a retired mechanic who had 4 years working on the good old moggies, I can confirm you are 100% correct, plus if it ever broke down at the side of the road, a few minutes under the bonnet and off you went again, try that on a modern car with 40 computers hidden everywhere! Where did it all go wrong?

Too right. 😂

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@@nobbybrown8056 well, where it went is that modern cars are MASSIVELY superior in comfort, economy, safety, equipment, performance, reliability, (no - really..!), emissions etc etc etc............... I haven't had a car break down on me in at least 20 years!! ...and I don't drive new cars - just modern ones .. !! ...yer pays yer money and.........

right up Ian's street - it had it's day though, even £500 would be way to much IMHO

As a starting point for what is going to be an expensive project anyway, a thousand this way or that isn't really that significant.

I was expecting £500 ish, but I know I'm probably not up with present day values.

The way used car prices are going at the moment, I'm surprised it's not £15,000....!

Compared to the £495 I paid for my first car , a green Morris 1000 2 door ( URX 202G ) ( ask me the reg of my current car and I wouldn’t have a clue ! ) in 1972 it’s a lot . But remembering the real junk cars sold for £1200 or so at the 2021 Beaulieu Autojumble auction £1500 is not an unreasonable asking price in my view .

First Oltcit is way beyond running. Engine is seized and fairly well burnt.

I know which one I (and everyone watching this) would rather see on the road.

"that is an easy restoration" LOLZ....

Well I'm back here re-visiting this video. Totally not just bought myself one of these (maybe subconsciously due to watching this???) Either way, mines just as bad lol!

I agree, Lawrie would like this!

@@royblackburn1163 Boom Boom 😅

Ah, yes - the ubiquitous A-series! What a great little engine that is. I've had really nackered ones that still start and run on the first turn of the key. One wreck of an 1100 I had, the engine was rooted. Big-end noise, main bearing noise, oil-pressure dropped through the floor, made squeaking noises when above idle(spun bearing I think), but it still started up fine and served enough to be able to drive the car under its own power for the purposes of moving it around the yard DESPITE all those horrible and very unhealthy noises from within!

One of the many things I loved about my Minors was that they started first turn, come rain, come shine. A big source of satisfaction after certain other cars I owned.

@@promerops I have to agree, I had A series engines in my old Minis but the transverse mounting could drench the distributor (placed just behind the grill) so a first start after lots of rain was let's say a tad more of a challenge. The minor with the engine inline would not have seen this sort of drenching. I never had a Minor but like the 2CV I would love one.

IMO Minor has more style in it's bumper mount than the Marian has in total, but different strokes for different folks.

No obligation to pay it! It'll find its value.

​@@HubNut Anybody paying more than a couple of hundred for that needs a check up. If it was a 1935 Riley or something in that condition it might be worth saving.

I would love to see you do a resto on the old girl , but £1500 is a bit rich for the work that needs doing, I’d offer £1200 that’s probably the max , as parts and labour ? , take care dude and best of luck with the channel 👍👍👍

Thank you! Sadly I have a few too many projects already, including an Invacar and a 2CV with a dead engine...

Reminds of my childhood

The solenoid was clicking, which suggested to me it was trying to send power to the starter, but not doing so. Hence the bridging of contacts.

@@HubNut agree but if it has that button no need for the screwdriver to short the power across 😀

Sadly we didn't have a suitable hammer. I think the problem was the solenoid rather than the starter itself mind you.

@@HubNut I had a car that I had to park on a slope if I wanted to be sure to be able to start it. You're not a hubnuter who walks alone in the world! And I'm writing you from MOT (which is called MFK [Motorfahrzeugkontrolle] Taliban country Switzerland (there's no worse in the whole world!) always had weird cars that today would be worth something. The slope ones were a Fiat 900T van and a Talbot Samba (I fixed the starter but later the gearbox failed, luckily after a 5000 km trip at home) and the worst case was my tiny 6-cylinder 3.8 Liter american coupé Oldsmobile Starfire with an automatic gearbox = no pushing possible, where I always had to carry a good hammer to hit the starter case. Luckily in this case, the starter was easily accessible due to the enormous hood.

And Arkwright wants Nurse Gladys Emanuel….

Incredibly, they did sell these in North America! Can't be many left over there.

Never seen one in the USA in the last 58 years, including car shows. Maybe I will see one next week!

@@davidp7414 here in central California I know there two oh the on in Porterville and one in Madera.

Pffft!

That's fairly close to be fair, and a lot quicker!

There for the Minor. But then we found some Berlingo treasure... That'll be our next video.

Thanks. I think the true value is somewhere between the two, but perhaps the lower side. We'll see.