if u want an old fast car get urself a mazda 808 wagon and put a mad turbo rotar in it, theres one of them and its coming first and has won ten out of ten races in i think the improved production class in australia.

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yeah thats the bad thing :(

Im just getting to the age when i want a old fast car :) 1200's are too hard to find and i think a decent example of a morrie will be too.
But ill be looking dont worry

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there used to be a company advertising all the conversion stuff for morries,like torana brakes & a series engine & gearbox mounts in street machine magazine,but this is years ago,& i don't know if that company still exists.the rta now wants these cars to use toyota 4a's,to keep the emissions down,or some such excuse.so somebody out there must know what bits to use.there was even a morris minor in historics with full mg running gear,was a bit of a shell.try the street machine association in your home state,they might have somebody with a car you could look at.just a warning,these are now considered classics,so the price of even a wreck would be lots.

well the idea was to have a real old school car.

the idea of having a old school twin webber car just appeals to me :)

You woulnt expect a Morris Minor to pull a awesome burnout or have the vurrrrrr of twin webbers :)

I need to get some pics of it, but there's a guy here in texas that took a B310 engine/trans and rear axle and put them in a Mini! Might be one of the only RWD Minis in the world.

A Datto powered Minor sounds like fun.

My first car was a 1952 Morris Minor series M M 2 door "saloon" This was the first of the High Lights & the last of the side valves. It was the most gutless P.O.S. i have ever owned, but hey, anything that you ever wanted in a car...... it didn't have it. No power, no synchro [any more] no comfort, no heat or demist, no style [untill i fitted Falcon 13" four stud wheels] No nothing. I had a convertible [tourer?] for spares, but it was a bit rusty, so we cut it up & dumped it.

My experiences with this car are so memorable that i swore that i would never own another pommy car in my life. I never have.

Now if you're really into these pommy substitutes for an automobile, & i guess that somebody's gotta love them, then the best thing you can do is to fit it up with a Datsun powertrain. I believe that engine swap kits are available & of course we know just how much a little A series Datsun can be developed to turn a limp banana car into something that goes well.
More power to the Morris,........... Datsun power!
Chris

go for it dude, morris minors are cool thats where my love of old cars started. my dad was always doing up morris' when i was young. the datsun into morris conversion is very easy, my family had a sedan and a ute both were datsun powered and the ute was awesome even though it was fairly stock looking, it was black like my datto i can scan pics if u want. my family is still involved with a morris club in wollongong and im sure there is a club in perth, coz in 96 we drove from sydney to perth in 9 days in a morris minor sedan for a national meeting,with four ppl and a totally loaded trailer in and in 6 weeks we drove 11000 kms thats shows how good datto engines are huh sorry bout the real long reply

A little while back i saw an Austin A40 traytop ute with and a12 running solely on gas. The bloke at my autopro store has converted a number of Morris Minors to nissan power just so they are usable around the hills!

theres a coulpe for sale in melbourne, a morris ute with an a15... very nice and a woody ( a bit rusty and rotted though) with an a14 in it in my area. It also blows smoke though.