1967 Morris Oxford Traveller - off to a new home

That looks very nice! Well done

So I set myself the target of doing as much as I can by the end of October, and then turn the car around and finish the other side.
Whoo-hoo 27th October, and deadline beat 


But I'm getting ahead of myself again.

I'd previously spent about 6 hours fitting the rubber door seals - horrible job, there is probably a knack or a special tool, but I had neither.
Soapy water, a plastic tool, and a few mm at a time 
I still haven't got the feeling back in the end of my thumb after a week or so !!

Also did some final fettling on door adjustment, with everything set level on the ground.

Then some rudimentary masking before spraying a can of Dinitrol ML into the doors/A-pillar/B-pillar/rear wing and valence.



Time to start putting things back together - rear boot panels. Speakers were black, but have been primered, and sprayed silver to tone them down a bit.



With the Dinitrol in place, that allowed me to do the final fitting of the rear door trim.



The front door too.



strikey wasn't keen on the ashtrays. Bit late now, but I think I spray them silver or chrome them to blend them in a bit better.
Job for another day though.

That was my to-do list done, so now it was time to turn the car around, so I could finish the other side.

I live on a bit of a hill, and the engine and brakes are all a work in progress, so rather that watch the car career down the hill out of control. I purchased some dollies so I could swing it around it the drive.



Paintwork still needs a final detail/cut/polish but yeah liking that a lot.
The air suspension is on the bumpstops here.

The other side is half done. Sills and rear wheel arch and wing are done, along with the floor, chassis and outriggers.
But the front wing repair sections were out of stock at the time, which I why I stopped on this side.



The door shuts are very tight on this side, so there will be lots of work on getting all the gaps set.

Replacing the front wing with a better example and fixing the extensive rot I've found in the A-pillar will be the big jobs.

Oh and the engine bay and front need more than a little TLC



Thank for looking

This is giving me a really bad case of the wants. Those bonnet vents couldn't look better. Great stuff.

 more a case of would have looked sleeker without.... a bit like a boil on kylie minogues rse

some serious progress there though.

Didn't know it was you 😮 been following this since the beginning

It is time for more rust
Some of the interior is actually quite nice now, so protect it with old curtains (they don't burn easily) and then hack the old front wing off - like you do !!


The A-pillar and scuttle needs work - but I knew that.


A very unpleasant hour or two with the twisted knot brush, and the inner wing is largely back to bare metal.
The curly panel around the side-lamp doesn't want to fit just yet.


But I've cut enough crud out of the way to do a first fitting of the replacement wing.
A bracing bar has been fitted to ensure levels, and center lines all match up reasonably well.
That curly panel hasn't succumbed yet - but it will.


Being able to fit the wing will allow me to fix the rust repairs, and build up the flanges needed to make it bolt on.
But I got distracted, so that is as far as I got.

I love it 😁

For those of us that don't have a bead roller to form louvres - just visit your local tip / recycling centre and buy a couple of scrap Microwave ovens - they often have louvred vents on the side or back - just cut out thee whole section and weld it to your car - assuming you have a welder of course

I was bored of tripping over the spare A-pillar section on the garage floor.
So before something nasty happened, I carefully cut off the first repair panel I needed from it, to get it out of the way.
Knowing how big the repair panel could be, allowed me to cut away some more of the scuttle, so I could see the rust in the A-pillar.

Far from pretty, but I can now see that shouldn't be too hard to cut out and weld in a few repair sections - pheww.

So on a roll, I resumed work on the front wing.
That curly panel put up a good fight, but I managed to get a 1/2 decent fit.
Temporarily held in with pop-rivets, so I could do a trial fit of the grille.
The sharpie line is the outside of the grill, so I've just got to make sure there are no gaps.


Some localised tin-worm has been revealed after dipping.
So the old rinse-lather-repeat of.
Make a repair panel.


Mark around it, and cut out the rot.
Minor trimming for best fit, and clamp it into place for welding.


Weld that into place, and grind it all back, and be ready for the next section.


That wing is better than the original, but still needs a few spot repairs, which should be straightforward.
Even if I spent  a grand on a new steel wing, I'd be welding it, so I could modify it to bolt on rather than be spot welded, so I might as well do it this way.

Thanks for looking.