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First time I saw a Traveller was outside our house in 1957. I was 3 years old and thought it looked really nice and really unusual with all that woodwork.

Sorbo: I happened to know that, though the product did not last with Morris Motors for very long.....Was the differential replaced in the Traveller of the correct ratio? The hubs/drums shown in the vid seemed to be the MM type?

You guys are now my TH-cam heroes. Nearly 11 years ago we came back to the 'States after working as Expats in Melbourne, Australia. While there, I had warned my wife that I would be coming home eventually with something build in Australia. Sure enough, we found a '57 Morris Minor that still belonged to the original owner's family, and had been built at the Zetland NSW factory, just outside of Sydney, and sold new by Lane's Motors in Melbourne. Our Minor, now named Sadie - after the first owner - was shipped home to Crystal Lake, IL with our personal belongings and arrived about 6 weeks after we had left Melbourne in August of 2014. My then-three year old daughter ran outside and gave our car a hug after being off-loaded in the street in front of our house. Sadie has been in daily use and never off the road for any length of time in 68 years. These are brilliant little cars, virtually unknown in the USA. I get a little tired of being asked "what year is your beetle?" My before I croak dream would be to go on the "MOT" with Sadie - which would mean she would have motored on three continents in both hemispheres!

Wonderful stuff, the only problem with your videos is it makes me wish even more that I'd made the 2024 Minors on Tour. However, your videos make me feel I'm almost there 😅... Looking forward to tge next one. Have a wonderful Christmas guys Kind Regards Johnny 👍

I’m glad that you got your rear end sorted out!

Pretty remarkable that a 30bhp engine would be able to grenade a diff! I've broken three half shafts, but that's with a 1275cc MG Midget engine in a 1970 Traveller.

The new diff will mean it will cruise much nicer at the expense of not being able to burn rubber so readily off the line.

Always happy to help a fellow Minor owner! 😇

Troubleshooting step part 1: 6:04 Interior light has been left on, probably causing a flat battery.

just one of those days:(

Great video, certainly you've the Spirit of Minors on Tour, I'm sure you must have been awarded one of the esteemed MOT2024 number plates. I wish my Traveller had been ready and I'd likely have met you. Reckon be 2026 before Boris the Morris makes it to his next one. Only been twice but lovely folk garanteed.

I love the 'Fulton' on the lowlight I didn't know they were available for MMs I'd like one on my 67 Traveller. I'm in UK.

Steph of Idriveaclassic spotted there. Subscribed.

What a great video 😊

I love everyting about this except that you had mechanical trouble. It makes for a cliffhanger, tho. lol Oh, and the woman wearing the disposable plastic rain bonnet is my idol. She did her hair for a classic car road trip. THAT's class. ❤

Those speedbumps are raised intersections, FYI! They do wonders for keeping traffic from speeding through neighborhoods. Just what low-speed Morris Minor experiences benefit from :)

Fantastic video, John! I've owned a few Morris Minors over the years, now have MGs only for Britcars.

Enjoy the videos! 👍👍

The background music is too loud compared to your voice volume.

As the video started clearly someone owns a Metro in the states my God a mini metro in America. In the early 90s an ex girlfriend had a metro & wrote it off on around about in Leeds West Yorkshire. It was similar to the car in the video which looks like a City which I think was a 1.0L. As they were so crap & I worked for Rover lol until 05. Over 2 million made with nearly 1,5 million sold here theirs just under 600 left on UK roads.

I'm English & you can have a car on foreign plates in the UK for upto 6 months, presumably meeting up with moggy minor owners your not going to be here, why anyone not from England Scotland Ireland or Wales would want to come here must be mad. But owning a Morris Minor you must a little weird lol & like the rain. In the UK once a car from out of the country is here more than 6 months it has to be registered for British plates & for Road fund license & yearly MOT. But as both cars are over 40 years old they would be exempt for both anyway. Think it was brought in when foreigners particularly eastern Europeans came in there clapped out cars & were getting out of paying Road fund & would no way pass an MOT also the police couldn't prove if they had insurance or not due to been foreign.

In certain circumstances UK plates can be transfered to another vehicle or even what's called on retention where the registration number is kept for use at a later date or put on a different vehicle,very distinctive plates are traded and each time a transfer is made the DVLA(DMV) gets a £80 fee.

Finally!

No Lemon’s Rally 🍋 Fall Failiage 💔

Nice way to start the day with this video update. Thanks for the efforts!!

On one of the online Morris forums, someone has made a pair of wedges which when hammered into place above the centre of the length of the torsion bar, will ease the bar down enough to remove and then replace the bolts the correct way. The other problem which will happen if the bolt is fed in backwards, is that the nut and the end of the bolt emerges too far out of the crossmember, and will foul the torsion bar and if you're unlucky will cause an annoying rattle.

The music and talking at same time is so annoying. Im out

I finally got around to watching one of these videos and ended up binge-watching the entire set. Fun!

Sounds unusual that an engine would have lost most of its compression overnight unless some carbon broke fee and hung up the valves. Some compressed air and a valve adjustment might solve that issue without removing the head.

Great back story in the history of CA plates. Were you able to keep the black/yellow plates? Hopefully you were and can put them back on through the DMV’s YOM program. They’d look so much better on your car than those new ubiquitous 9 series plates they assigned you.

Wow! Just raising and lowering the top on an MGB would have me buying another Miata.

Here in Australia, we can change the plates every day . Used car yards do it all the time. They can tart the car up to look like it was cared for, then put new local plates on it. Plates can give an indication of place of origin within the state.

Wonder why you could not keep the 60's plates when it was registered?

I bought a 1958 Morris Minor woodie as my first car in 1973. I paid $10 for it and an additional $5 for the safety. The person who gave me the safety as far as I know never ever looked at it once. I loved that car. Being a Canadian car it had the funny round heater/defrost unit just above the speedo. I finally had to retire it for rust and rot but it was a great car.

Swapping bullet connectors is something everyone should do

Now it's been a few years since I lived in California. But when I did cars plates where totally different from truck plates. And I don't mean 18 wheeler's just regular trucks. In 1967 when my Late Dad bought a brand new 1967 Ford F-100 Camper Special. It got a black and yellow plate. Back then the truck plates started with a letter followed by 6 numbers. And if my memory serves me right. The price for the sticker on the plate was that a truck was half of what a car sticker was. And the lowest it could go was .$ 12.00 for a truck and $24.00 for a car.

Looks pretty much like the 1960 Sprite I owned in 1962. Cheap crappy design enhanced with shoddy materials. England was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and then it devolved into this mess.

FYI: When your Morris Minor received its black plate, it was issued from the Hollywood DMV office (edit: not Pasadena ). They issued plates with starting with the letters JLA-xxx to JTF -xxx. State-wide beginning in 1963, Northern California DMV offices issued letter plates starting with "AAA" to "EMG". Southern California offices issued "EMH" to "KVZ" and "NTA to "RDA". The range of "KWA" to "NSZ" were originated the two Sacramento offices, one of these being the main DMV HQ.

Thks for video update! Bummer on the new problem 😢

I have heard that the though bolts for the brake master can be removed if the torsion bar is carefully levered down to allow for clearance leaving the bar in situ. Of course, when refitting, fit the bolts the other way round, nuts on the torsion bar side. Many Minors have already been so modified.

Enjoying you sharing your efforts on this! Thks for making the videos!

Good update!

Good to see some classics driving that area as someone who did RT66 both ways in a 1973 standard MG Midget hood down of course in October 2020, my one disappointment was seeing no classics driving aside from a few folk we arranged to meet and do a few miles with. Found you as you have your 49 Moggy Minor in the UK just now... If you are anywhere near Norfolk or East Anglia would love to meet up for a drive. Sadly Missed Minors on tour this year as I understand you were there... Enjoy your travels and keep flying the flag for driving classics 👍

This would be a perfect beach cruiser with a surfboard on the roof.

Crikey that an old traveller 😳 very much looking forward to seeing more videos 👍

Enjoy the videos/sharing your project journey here (and the past ones too). Thanks for the efforts involved!

great update.

Enjoyed it, as always, but wish these chapters were a little longer than five minutes at a time...

I had a secondhand Woody from the 60's to the 80's. It was in running condition when I got it so not many problems. I once had to have the valves done and once decided to have the engine rebuilt, that's about it. I drove it all over on camping trips, from San Diego to the Sierras to Oregon, also from SD to the Colorado Rockies even in winter.

Great video - looked like a lot of fun!