My Morris Minor 1930 OHC Tourer (Winner of the Best Restored Vintage car award)

[KartikeyaL]

Hi , This thread is about my Morris Minor 1930 OHC tourer which I had acquired last year and which underwent a full restoration over the last year.

The Minor won the Best Restored Vintage car prize at the 14th Rajputana vintage and classic car rally at Jaipur 2012.

here's a picture

[KPS]

Congratulations for winning the prize for best restoration.

For us to appreciate your car, you need to put a lot more better pictures. Please post before and after pictures so that we can appreciate the restoration.

Looking forward for more pictures.

It appears in prewarminor.com though as Kartik Lunia's 1930 Minor Tourer USJ 1795 attended the 14th Jaipur Antique & Vintage Car show

http://www.prewarminor.com/

Cheers

KPS

[KartikeyaL]

Here are some pictures of the Restoration.

You can find out more about Pre War Morris Minors on

www.prewarminor.com & www.vintageminor.co.uk

The Judges at the Even were Mr. Diljeet Titus, Mr. Aniruddha Kasliwal & Mr. Marespand Dadachanji.


Cheers
Kartik

[wasif]

Great car, can you please ost some detailed pics of the interior and the engine bay

here is a link to your car on prewarmorris.com and vintagemorris

http://www.prewarminor.com/

http://www.vintageminor.co.uk/

PS. What is the car on the left of the chassis shot in the picture below

[KartikeyaL]

Hi,

It is a Morris Minor Overhead camshaft Tourer.
I will post more pictures of engine bay soon.

The car on the left is Ford Model A

[harit]

Lovely car. In my college days I had access to a similar car which I took to college a couple of times. Easy to drive, and when you have such a car you don't need to buy a Nano. But always make sure your brakes are OK.
Is there any history to the car, and do you have pictures of the car before restoration started?

Cheers harit

[KartikeyaL]

The car was bought from Lucknow and before that was in Ayodhya ,
the registration changed from UPX to USJ some time in the 1950's.

I still have to do some research and find out about the first owner.

couple of pictures of the car before restoration.

I believe not many Pre war Morris Minors OHC cars have survived in India.


Cheers
Kartik

[samsag12]

Congrats on winning the award Kartikeya. Nice to see one more Lucknow origin car on the forum. Would love to see some more snaps of the restoration.
BTW from where in Lucknow did you pick it up?

[amitwlele]

Congrats Kartikeya on winning the award.

After looking at the before and after pictures i am able to much appreciate the amount of effort that has gone into it. Very well deserved i should say.

[Stanher]

Originally Posted by KartikeyaL

The car was bought from Lucknow and before that was in Ayodhya ,
the registration changed from UPX to USJ some time in the 1950's.

Nice car! And nice resto too!

BTW, a question- how and why did the regn. change when both places are of the same state??

[awini]

Yours is the 4th ohc Minor I know of in India, there are two in Ahmedabad, and one in Delhi, plus other sv Minors

[KartikeyaL]

The car was first owned by Raja Saheb of Ayodhya and then passed on to Shri V.N. Mishra, IPS (Retd.), who re-registered the car in lucknow sometimes in late forties , early fiftees , so the car lost the UPX number and got the USJ no.

The car then remained in ownership of shri V.n Mishra and then was acquired by me last year. I am trying to get some old documents from Shri Mishra , hopefully some old pictures too.

regards
Kartik

Originally Posted by awini

Yours is the 4th ohc Minor I know of in India, there are two in Ahmedabad, and one in Delhi, plus other sv Minors

Hi,

The clubs in UK would be very interested to know about any pre-war Morris minors in India (1928-34) , do you have any more details about the OHC minors in Ahmedabad and Delhi, some pictures if possible would be great.

Thanks
Kartik

[kasli]

A shot taken during the rally. This was a great restoration and a person who we saw had done some research .

Great nice and not an over the top restoration

Cheers

[KartikeyaL]

Originally Posted by kasli

A shot taken during the rally. This was a great restoration and a person who we saw had done some research .

Great nice and not an over the top restoration

Cheers

Thankyou so much for your kind comments and for appreciating the hardwork and research , means a lot !!

cheers
Kartik

[Dussey]

Originally Posted by KartikeyaL

Thankyou so much for your kind comments and for appreciating the hardwork and research , means a lot !!

cheers
Kartik

Kartik, nice car and good restoration. Pre war Morris cars are rare. All the best !