Classics Monthly

MORRIS TRAVELLER PROJECT

PART 3

Last time, we left our Project Minor with its front door shells fully refurbished, but awaiting fitting and fitting-up. The former was complicated by having door apertures that were off due to errors made in a previous restoration. As I explained last time, the door has to be trial-fitted during its own restoration, and because most Minors won't have the dimensional issues ours did, I felt it would be better to cover fixing this separately. This does, though, mean that

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