Austin 1100, a summer project to keep me occupied

What was in the boxes?

Awesome project, I'd love to have the skill, time or patience to see something like that through!

We had a Morris 1300 in the same shape. The vinyl seats on a hot sunny day were torture.

........I had one, reg ABT 313K Distinctly remember the number as Plod was calling it in because it had broken down yet again Norwich town centre LOL

How's it going?

Shaun

I feel its a good one to restore as they are cheap but you just don't see them any more.
Good luck

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We had a Morris 1300 in the same shape. The vinyl seats on a hot sunny day were torture.

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Cars of a certain vintage with lots of dark-coloured plastic in their interiors generally ended up like an oven in the summer; I well remember Dad's Hillman Avenger with black dash and door linings plus black vinyl seats - ouch. Double ouch if wearing shorts.

David

Forgot about this old thread, unfortunatly I had to sell her in the end, but the new owner bought it as a first car for his daughter and was a welder by trade so hopefully it's future is bright.

I bought one of these a few years ago, or rather the owner gave me it plus £1000 in exchange for a Honda CRX I had.

For some odd reason I thought owning a "classic" would be fun. I collected it 200 miles from home having driven the CRX there for the swap. The drive home was a bit of a shock, Japanese pocket rocket with 150BHP that weighed sod all to what felt like about 20BHP and a top speed below the legal limit on the motorway.

It was fun for a while then I got a hole in the petrol tank and couldn't get a replacement so it sat outside my house for a couple of months. Then I found a note on it from a guy saying he had one with good bodywork and a rotten interior, my one had bad bodywork and an excellent interior and he's like to buy it. I ended up letting him have it for free as he was obviously a bit of a fan of them.

You don't really buy petrol tanks. You buy a stick welder and cut a patch from an old paint can.

Looks like this will be an interesting read. I will follow the build. I had the MG 1300GT version. It was a pig to start in the morning. I had to go out to it half hour before I wanted to go out in it, try starting it until the battery seemed flat, wait half hour and then it would start first turn of the key. I never locked it up where ever I went. I smashed it into a fence doing 60 in thick fog and the lights and grill were under the front wheels. My mate and I came out without a scratch. Great nippy car. Had a blow in the manifold, but it made it sound like a dragster. Never did have it fixed. It was scrapped in the end.