The _Don
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jamesfuller
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I like that. I could build a small demountable camper to go on the back!
Dieselman
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or a BBq and beer keg holder...
The best Moggy I've seen was featured in a magazine called "Race Car Engineering" some years back. A guy had chopped one down the middle, widened it by a foot or so, chopped out the floor and dropped the whole thing on to a space frame with 2.0 zetech, independent coil-overs, LSD etc. and then painted it in the original olive green. At 1st glance you just saw a moggy!
Alec Issigonis did that in the Forties!
renault12ts
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Indeed he did, the very first ones were 4" narrower. hence the band in the middle of the bonnet.
And the extra strips on the bumpers, tooling had already been finalised for them. Helped restore one a while back- great fun to drive!
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I used to work with a bloke at Longbridge called Morris Minor.
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Moggy?
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Dunno - I never heard him called that.
renault12ts
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Indeed again, though on the later ones the bumpers were one piece.
joecash
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I remember them - had a steering column that would go straight through the heart in the event of a crash!!
Dieselman
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The best anti-speeding device there is.
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- E32O CDi Sport, MX5 1.8 Sport, Range Rover 5.0 SC, BMW X1
But all but the later ones, which just might have had a collapsible column, had a lovely sprung-spoke steering wheel to bounce off.
. On my 1958 Traveller, it was deep dished.
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I once drove a traveller with a really stiff clutch pedal.
Went to change up in a hurry and pulled on the steering wheel for leverage, there was no nut hoding it on the splines and it came right off in my hands!!!
Weird thing is that I ended up buying the house right alongside where this happened.
Went to change up in a hurry and pulled on the steering wheel for leverage, there was no nut hoding it on the splines and it came right off in my hands!!!
Weird thing is that I ended up buying the house right alongside where this happened.
The Polisher
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We've got a 1970 Travellor in Trafalgar Blue. My wife has had it since she was 18, so 23 years and counting.
Been completely rebuilt, new wood, wings, paint, engine has had an unleaded head but thats it.
Not my cup of tea, but its cute and I know I would be shown the door before her Moggy would!
Been completely rebuilt, new wood, wings, paint, engine has had an unleaded head but thats it.
Not my cup of tea, but its cute and I know I would be shown the door before her Moggy would!
jamesfuller
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My other half has owned a series 3 land rover since 17 and is very attached! I did suggest selling it, you should have seen the look I got!
