Pretty smart tbh, those things are STRONG and old hard drives are basically free. Pro tip, the big magnets are in higher capacity 3.5 inch drives. The heavier the drive, the bigger the magnet.
Well he's a mechanic.... Mechanics don't want to keep working on a car to keep it running very often it's very tiring, also like mind numbing if you work on other people's cars. Like he's saving heaps doing it himself but he's gotta do it himself and not getting any money from it at all. It's not about money yeah it's about the love for it yeah but hes gotta have one car that's like dead nuts reliable to play with that. He does it's great but like working on others and then having to do yours takes the fun outta of it and it's like not a hobby anymore.
@@photondebuger45 the main reason he stopped nuggeteering is bc he has a family so he cant use his nuggets. For example: his white Fiat 126 Niki he used to daily but its not much of a family car so he packed it up and got a econo car
@Frostbite.. oh I couldn't add that in my comment because it would have been like an essay long too that's something too why guys can't. Some don't let it stop them..... But well.... Sad things happen too given what kind of situation it puts them in too plus.. parts are crap...
They're terrible for welding purposes. I know cause I've done it. The shape just isn't that great for holding two pieces of metal securely. But, hey, you can't really beat free, which those almost certainly were.
My Dad used to drive a Morris Minor. This was back when he drove tanks in the military. They used the same size engine in the tanks. Suddenly the tank engines would die and they'd have to requisition new engines for the tanks. No idea why those engines in the tanks died. Definitely not at all related to the small fleet of really powerful Morris Minors that were on the base.
I live in the midwest of the US, and I have never seen a car that *didn't* have deep rot! There's a reason this region is called the RUST belt... The upside is that come winter, all the rust holes get filled with pack ice! It improves the structural integrity of our cars 10 fold :)
Nah, that's not why it is called the rust belt. It is because of all the steel production factories closing down and the once booming towns becoming poor.
I’m in NZ, my Mums morris had a rust hole under the front passenger seat so large you could fall straight through it, it just had a plank of ply and the mat to cover it and put your mind at ease. We always joked it was the back up plan that if the engine failed the passenger had run it like a flint stones car
Watching that highway run gives me flashbacks to driving my Morris 1100 (I had a 1275cc/60Hp motor in it) up Mount Ousley in the 90's. To say that it was a challenge to keep it singing fast enough to be a traffic hazard is an understatement.
@@RT-qd8yl In most countries, a vehicle only needs to be able to maintain 60 kph to be allowed on highways. These are very old laws that were never updated, because no politician wants to be the one who makes popular vehicles (like a certain type of very common East German scooter) obsolete for highway travel.
That Morris passing a modern car on the highway was a metaphor for the conquest of the world by the British Empire and its assimilation into the Commonwealth. Tea, cricket and cars named weird things like 'Morris.' Humanity yet to recover.
@@peterclarke7240 ford is an odd name in general, if you see a guy with the name Ford you know they are up to something, exactly what isnt for you to know though...
@@thekingoffailure9967he could do that. İ bet you that he knows about cybersecurity too. And i bet you that he knows more about it than anyone. İ bet he knows the universe more than anyone.
You should add a 55-70 acceleration test to the testing procedure. It would represent getting stuck behind a truck and then trying to pass it with some amount of urgency
First vehicle I owned was an 89 Pathfinder. We lived in a snowy area so vehicles got salted every winter.... It was great but had a hole close to the size of a basketball that rusted completely through under the rear seat. I was 17 at the time and lived on a dirt road, dust would come in...so I just got an old blanket, wadded it up and stuffed the hole. No more problems!
My '95 Pathy rotted there too! I cut up a kerosene can and screwed it over the hole until we found one at the wrecker that was still solid there, and cut a patch panel.
I had a similar one and it only had a hole under the gas pedal and on the passenger side rocker. They lived in the Denver area for a while but escaped to the Pacific Northwest by the time I got it.
All that old lacquer paint was great and left a nice finish because of all the fun organic solvents that dried super quick. All the new low VOC paint doesn't dry as nicely, hence the orange peal. And not manufacture is going to put the money into buffing all of that out.
This was at a time when the usual way of dumping things like solvents and used motor oil was to literally dig a hole in your backyard (or in the shop), fill it with gravel and pour that stuff in. They wrote guides with pictures on how to create your own little ground water contamination hole. I wonder which things from today we'll look at similarly in 60 years time. The entire idea of the combustion engine is likely going to baffle people by that point, if not much sooner: "Let's use a finite resource to create lots of heat, a little bit of movement and lots of toxic fumes that slowly turn vast regions of the Earth uninhabitable."
I was driving my morris minor today at night, pretty bad mistake. Inside there is a light that turns on when the lights are on full. You cannot see how fast you are going. In order to dip the lights, you use a switch on the floor meaning if you are slowing down and changing, no dipping for you. This isn't actually a problem because the lights aren't bright enough to see more than two car lengths in front. I love old british cars.
I used to drive mine at night all the time- used it as a daily for nine years. Yes, the headlamps were pretty feeble- but the speedo illuminated well enough on mine to read it. Perhaps one of your Speedo bulbs has gone? The other trick is the tiny switch hidden underneath the speedo to turn the panel lights off- a lot of people don’t even realise it’s there..
I just upgrade the lights to h4 7" and the high beam light isn't that bad on any car. But my car is a 122s, and it was on regular car reviews last week.
@@Low760Sorry, I was being an idiot there for a moment.. Those Volvos are nice cars. I tried halogens in the M/M, flattened the battery in short order, as the dynamo couldn’t keep up! LEDs would have been the answer, but direct replacements weren’t a thing then.
@@ukuleletyke mines a wierd one, it is half a series 1000 and half a series II, I wouldn't be surprised if during the restoration some bits got missed off, I'll have a look for the switch under the speedo but I am not holding my breath for it (I am not entirely convinced the speedo is original, but it is fun to drive and that's what matters).
9:37 the smell let over after grinding/cutting metal is such as nostalgic smell for me and one I rather enjoy. My dad is a fabricator and I loved my time watching and helping him work in my childhood. It's such a distinct smell, sometimes it was strong enough to taste, and it floods my head with memories everytime
The fact that not only did u take that up marion expressway hill. but passed people on the way up, is amazing :D love seeing the nugg lyf locally. i hope to see the morris and tony drive past someday
We overtook a car (Suzuki Vitara?) the other day on a 60mph dual carriageway, not that big of a deal except I was on a bus at the time. We were (for a bit at least) doing the speed limit!
Seeing stuff restored while aussie man yells at it is truely the top youtube experience. I love this duo so much, its funny because i like them both separately, and together its heaps fun! But seriously those welds were mint
My first car in 1977 was a 1969 Morris 1100 in black. Even then it was a bit of a rust bucket, the sills were shot. That’s when I learned to weld. Great car though.
a british Trabant equivalent would be a Reliant Robin or Kitten.. they are SLIGHTLY less unpleasant to drive than a Trabant, having been graced with 4 stroke engines..
It's amazing to see y'all working on rust repair on here while I've got my car apart out in the garage working on the same things. Just painted the frame with Rust Encapsulator today after using a needle scaler to take all the rust off and making my own chain flail to knock it out from inside the frame rails and crossmembers. Once I'm done with putting the frame/chassis back together with the drivetrain (hooray for longitudinal i6 engine/trans/t-case and body on frame) it'll go sit outside for a while under a tarp while I fix some rust on the rear of the body around the wheel wells and the rocker panels. Thanks bois for being a source of inspiration and motivation to keep going on my project. Wish y'all had stickers or something for me to run on my car as homage to the channel.
Do you want more motivation look for soup classic motoring channel on UA-cam. He's just one guy working on his own projects and he has brought back some amazing heaps! his long-term project is a late '70s lotus to spree that he's doing a full frame off restoration on.
This makes me so happy! My mother drove one of these until 1990. The seats used to burn our legs on hot sunny days, no air-conditioning, metal levers for the window air vents, but it was so smooth!
Australia has roadworthy laws. Vehicles that are in too poor of a condition will not be granted that, and as such they cannot be driven legally on the road. The kinds of vehicles you're talking about are only found on farms or in the middle of the bush.
@@seanmckelvey6618to be fair, Adelaide doesn't have mandatory roadworthy tests like in the eastern states. Some of the janky shitboxes I've seen on the roads here have to be seen to be believed...
My 1970 Minor Traveller is still running strong, used as a daily driver in the UK with 166,000+ miles on it. Admittedly, it does have the odd bit of rust here and there, but relatively easy to repair.
The UK is brutal to cars, especially these 60s and 70s morrises which were rusting straight from the factory 😂, cars from 2000-2010 have already started to turn back into the ground again!
Extend that to the '80s and '90s. My dad worked for a company that imported new British cars into Germany (for some reason) and they all had to be extensively overhauled before they could be even shown to customers. We're talking rust, oil leaks, water leaks, mechanical and electrical problems right from the factory. Minis were the worst. You'd think by they would have figured out how to build these properly by the end of its production run, but nope. Same with the Land Rover Defender. They never figured out how to make the door seals of this off-road vehicle waterproof.
they were made of notoriously poor quality very thin steel that corroded quickly, especially from inside box sections and hidden areas (scuttle panels, roof pillars, sills etc) that weren't painted after assembly. also damage from the factory would be bodged up with filler at the end of the production line..
This is literally the quintessential episode of your channel. This has humor, absolutely skill, delicious editing and audio ASMR and you can tell the daily grind for you two is amazing and should be watched. Great content chaps! This is the content I want for sure (plus the wild experiments and always dankpods)
Bros! These will be y’all’s best memories with these cars! I miss it with my bros back in the day. Your car channel is crazy but I like that you and James are doing the bro thing and having fun🤘🏼
I had an Austin 1800 as my first car, this guy's big brother, so this really takes me back. That and the series of nuggetty nugs I ran for the next 20 years meant I had to get pretty handy with a MIG welder. Nice work gentlemen, hoping to see the Renault get the same treatment soon.
2:33 Holy shit, I've 3D printed stronger caps than that. And anyone who has ever attempted to 3D print a usable cap for something knows how terrible that idea is.
Use PETG with lots of infill (100% for things that can't ever be allowed to break). Once you figure out proper layer adhesion, it's indestructible. I've printed things with this that you can slam a hammer into without doing any damage. It's elastic, yet doesn't bend out of shape, strong but not brittle - and unlike PLA, it's UV-resistant too. I've used it to print things where I was specifically advised against using PETG and yet the results were still perfect. This includes caps. No idea why you're having trouble with those. At this point, I'm only using PLA when I absolutely have to.
@@no1DdC That's exactly what I did, but I'm guessing that twisting a cap provides a lot of leverage. The flat top tends to just separate from the threaded part. I've made plenty of things that I couldn't break by separating the layers, I just can't seem to get caps right.
@@Hendlton Print them upright instead of flat down. That way, layers are not parallel to the direction of the twist. This might require supports (depending on the depth), much more cleanup and the cap will initially be harder to turn, but it eliminates this issue.
@@no1DdC I think I tried printing stuff with supports like twice and failed miserably both times. I probably should learn how to do that at some point instead of spending the time to model everything around it lol.
@@Hendlton If you want to learn how to print properly, I would recommend making something really complex and ambitious. You'll be learning by doing that way. I printed a functioning repeating crossbow (Mini Adder V2) a couple of weeks after I bought my 3D printer and it really helped refine my technique, since every part of this thing comes under an enormous amount of stress and requires tight tolerances. The one problem with printing this particular item is that afterwards, you'll feel like Alexander the Great: You've basically conquered the world of 3D printing. This is one of the most, if not the most, demanding print you can make as a home user and everything coming afterwards will be small fishes by comparison and never excite you as much.
Every time I'm depressed or struggling I come here to see the two of them having fun and a laugh in the shop and it really makes me smile. These two are good friends who enjoy being in the shop dealing with cars being shitty and torturing other cars for enjoyment (looking at you goober). The dad aura is impeccable stay this way I need it 😂😂😂
Been spending the last few weeks doing rust repair on my 96 Impreza wagon. The car I call "Mr Right", for it having supposed to have been the perfect 95 Impreza for me to soup up and daily drive. Obviously that fell apart as soon as I saw it was a 96 (in the states, 96 is the first year of emissions testing, where 95 and older can get away with not having emissions). I bought it in 2021 since it didnt have the usual Impreza rust, drove from St Louis to Sacramento, the equivalent of like, Adelaide to Townsville (I tried to put it in australia units), and then parked it straight off the trailer, and saw its windshield frame was shot. Its been parked in my garage since, and has just been a "soon" car ever since. I've tried to get its other ducks sorted out since then, like installing a transmission, then realizing I forgot the clutch fork, then redoing it all, to finding out the transmission wont shift at all, to finding out that it was because of the reverse light switch. Anyway, I'm trying to get it legal before the end of the year, and its coming together. It might actually happen. Its my own variety of garbage time adventure.
The fact its so rusty even being an Australian spec BL car tells you a lot about how bad BL cars were built. Especially with how much easier it is for cars to rust over here in the uk
Lost a good friend of mine I grew up with. We used to grab whatever trashed piece of crap we could and try and make it run. Seeing you guys having a great time messing with each other brings Barack great memories. Stay awesome!
'Fun' thing I have noticed recently here in Germany: The Opel/Vauxhall (Holden as well, me thinks) Corsa B has started to disappear due to rust eating most of them away... You used to see them everywhere 10-15 years ago and the same is starting to happen to the Corsa C, which was my (great) first car as the 1.8 GSi version. Truly sad times... :/
If you havent thrown rubbing alcohol on something metal before you are missing out, one day I got pissed at my old MacBook, a few sprays later and now I have the profile picture of the year (that I don't use)
I’m a WHAT?!
You heard him
This needs a pin
You're a wizard, James.
sorry, but he didn't stutter.
Sorry bro, it is what it is
The hard drive magnets as welding magnets might be the most James thing ever
can't believe I haven't thought of that.
90 degree bend magnets that I have a pile of!
Can confirm, have done the same before and also James.
Pretty smart tbh, those things are STRONG and old hard drives are basically free. Pro tip, the big magnets are in higher capacity 3.5 inch drives. The heavier the drive, the bigger the magnet.
I always scrap all my dead hard drives before junking em, have a nice solid collection of neodinyum or however you spell it.
@@mikehall3976 neodymium. you were one phoneme off
James with a PCB: Angle grider.
James doing literal metal work: Battery powered 3 cm dremel disk.
Wellllll........ _it's not exactly angle grinder material_
well one he cares about
and the other is the morris
Why is bro’s cars always going kaput
@Da_Lego_manthat's the name of the game with nuggets.
@Da_Lego_man The joys of nuggeteering
I am in SHOCK at how well that first weld came out. Shit's seamless.
James is a wizard.
The cut-polish revealed that paint underneath it too! Pretty awesome.
Just listening to it brings back memories of Mini's when I was a teenager
I know right?!
For a man as prestigous as James to not have a nugget is a crime
He has a Tony
Well he's a mechanic.... Mechanics don't want to keep working on a car to keep it running very often it's very tiring, also like mind numbing if you work on other people's cars. Like he's saving heaps doing it himself but he's gotta do it himself and not getting any money from it at all. It's not about money yeah it's about the love for it yeah but hes gotta have one car that's like dead nuts reliable to play with that. He does it's great but like working on others and then having to do yours takes the fun outta of it and it's like not a hobby anymore.
@@photondebuger45 the main reason he stopped nuggeteering is bc he has a family so he cant use his nuggets. For example: his white Fiat 126 Niki he used to daily but its not much of a family car so he packed it up and got a econo car
@Frostbite.. oh I couldn't add that in my comment because it would have been like an essay long too that's something too why guys can't. Some don't let it stop them..... But well.... Sad things happen too given what kind of situation it puts them in too plus.. parts are crap...
James morrris is james's car and he also has a white tony
That one guy named James Morris: 😧
Kid named finger
😧
@@kyle_mk17 waltuh
@JamesMoris283 Sorry, mate. Hopefully you can recover from this.
Kid named rusty garbage 🥵
I repair rust damage on 1960s trains for a living and seeing someone go through the same pain as I do was amazing
Seawalls use zinc anodes. When I learned about that, it shocked me that it’s not used in more applications, especially trains or cars.
Your pfp says it all
@@turkeyleg72 wdym?
how did you get into that kinda work? how's the pay?
Oh mad! What trains?
A rusty British car??? Noo, you NEVER see that. Almost certain they were built like that
Bits of rusted Lancaster pulled from the scrap heap and hammered in to the shape of a car.
Now you know why manufacturing is dead and our entire "economy" is based on the City of London moving money around
Its just a flesh wound. The car is fine.
They were probably welding rust to rust at the factory
They built them with rusty sheet metal 100%
5:40 I recognize those magnets! Those are neodymium magnets from a hard drive!
James WELDS too? Nah, it should be illegal being so multi-functional.
James is an excellent man. Remember, he works as a car restorer
6:08 lol that magnet is clearly scavenged from a harddrive
This IS garbage time 😂
best magnets that exist
They're terrible for welding purposes. I know cause I've done it. The shape just isn't that great for holding two pieces of metal securely. But, hey, you can't really beat free, which those almost certainly were.
My Dad used to drive a Morris Minor. This was back when he drove tanks in the military.
They used the same size engine in the tanks. Suddenly the tank engines would die and they'd have to requisition new engines for the tanks. No idea why those engines in the tanks died. Definitely not at all related to the small fleet of really powerful Morris Minors that were on the base.
Wait so what was happening?
they were swapping out the tank engine for their cars?
The implication is that they pulled the engines from the tanks (1000+ horsepower) and put them in cars
@@artemisfowl7191 that's sick af 🔥
Probably counts as treason 🤣
I live in the midwest of the US, and I have never seen a car that *didn't* have deep rot!
There's a reason this region is called the RUST belt...
The upside is that come winter, all the rust holes get filled with pack ice! It improves the structural integrity of our cars 10 fold :)
It’s called the rust belt because the steel industry went overseas.
Nah, that's not why it is called the rust belt. It is because of all the steel production factories closing down and the once booming towns becoming poor.
@@blargcosterGary, Indiana moment
Erm, guys?
I think he was joking...
Packed ice fortified with road salt mmmmmmmm delightful.
I’m in NZ, my Mums morris had a rust hole under the front passenger seat so large you could fall straight through it, it just had a plank of ply and the mat to cover it and put your mind at ease. We always joked it was the back up plan that if the engine failed the passenger had run it like a flint stones car
You just need something to keep your wallet from falling out the hole, really
Morris going on the highway is so funny, that thing was probably meant to compete with a horse and carriage
That is an insult to both horses and carriages.
Watching that highway run gives me flashbacks to driving my Morris 1100 (I had a 1275cc/60Hp motor in it) up Mount Ousley in the 90's. To say that it was a challenge to keep it singing fast enough to be a traffic hazard is an understatement.
I'm still amazed they're allowed to drive on highways there
@@RT-qd8yl In most countries, a vehicle only needs to be able to maintain 60 kph to be allowed on highways. These are very old laws that were never updated, because no politician wants to be the one who makes popular vehicles (like a certain type of very common East German scooter) obsolete for highway travel.
@@no1DdC I meant civilians in general
That Morris passing a modern car on the highway was a metaphor for the conquest of the world by the British Empire and its assimilation into the Commonwealth. Tea, cricket and cars named weird things like 'Morris.' Humanity yet to recover.
Ford's a fairly odd name for a car, when you think about it.
@@peterclarke7240 At least he didn't call it the 'Henry.' Although, some Ford fans call them that.
@@peterclarke7240 ford is an odd name in general, if you see a guy with the name Ford you know they are up to something, exactly what isnt for you to know though...
@@UserAccount-ThisOne And always check if they have a towel with them. If they do, turn around and walk away. It'll just be easier in the long run.
@@UserAccount-ThisOne if their surname is prefect, start collecting decent teabags
3:10 so James DOES have a Dremel! He just prefers to use angle grinders on electronics!
Man James job on that firewall is simply amazing.
Certified legit
Now if only he could protect me from porn virus
@@thekingoffailure9967he could do that. İ bet you that he knows about cybersecurity too. And i bet you that he knows more about it than anyone. İ bet he knows the universe more than anyone.
Ah, load bearing rust!
You should add a 55-70 acceleration test to the testing procedure.
It would represent getting stuck behind a truck and then trying to pass it with some amount of urgency
Agreed - that’d be about 90 - 110 Km/h. Some nugs would have trouble hitting that hah - content goldmine right there
I forgot Morris was a car. I'm like, damn, throwing shade and doxing James. 😂
As a non-gearhead, that interior heating box looks like a cute little birdhouse
How to give James a PTSD: The CLS.
This is a certified James morris moment
Toletim
The amount of experience james must have to be able to do this.
Freaking insane.
First vehicle I owned was an 89 Pathfinder. We lived in a snowy area so vehicles got salted every winter.... It was great but had a hole close to the size of a basketball that rusted completely through under the rear seat.
I was 17 at the time and lived on a dirt road, dust would come in...so I just got an old blanket, wadded it up and stuffed the hole. No more problems!
My '95 Pathy rotted there too! I cut up a kerosene can and screwed it over the hole until we found one at the wrecker that was still solid there, and cut a patch panel.
I had a similar one and it only had a hole under the gas pedal and on the passenger side rocker. They lived in the Denver area for a while but escaped to the Pacific Northwest by the time I got it.
I look forward to every Garbage Time video, there’s so much fun
The videos are “heaps good”
Agreed. 💯
All that old lacquer paint was great and left a nice finish because of all the fun organic solvents that dried super quick. All the new low VOC paint doesn't dry as nicely, hence the orange peal. And not manufacture is going to put the money into buffing all of that out.
This was at a time when the usual way of dumping things like solvents and used motor oil was to literally dig a hole in your backyard (or in the shop), fill it with gravel and pour that stuff in. They wrote guides with pictures on how to create your own little ground water contamination hole.
I wonder which things from today we'll look at similarly in 60 years time. The entire idea of the combustion engine is likely going to baffle people by that point, if not much sooner: "Let's use a finite resource to create lots of heat, a little bit of movement and lots of toxic fumes that slowly turn vast regions of the Earth uninhabitable."
I was driving my morris minor today at night, pretty bad mistake. Inside there is a light that turns on when the lights are on full. You cannot see how fast you are going. In order to dip the lights, you use a switch on the floor meaning if you are slowing down and changing, no dipping for you. This isn't actually a problem because the lights aren't bright enough to see more than two car lengths in front. I love old british cars.
I used to drive mine at night all the time- used it as a daily for nine years. Yes, the headlamps were pretty feeble- but the speedo illuminated well enough on mine to read it. Perhaps one of your Speedo bulbs has gone? The other trick is the tiny switch hidden underneath the speedo to turn the panel lights off- a lot of people don’t even realise it’s there..
I just upgrade the lights to h4 7" and the high beam light isn't that bad on any car. But my car is a 122s, and it was on regular car reviews last week.
@@Low760Sorry, I was being an idiot there for a moment.. Those Volvos are nice cars. I tried halogens in the M/M, flattened the battery in short order, as the dynamo couldn’t keep up! LEDs would have been the answer, but direct replacements weren’t a thing then.
@@ukuleletyke mines a wierd one, it is half a series 1000 and half a series II, I wouldn't be surprised if during the restoration some bits got missed off, I'll have a look for the switch under the speedo but I am not holding my breath for it (I am not entirely convinced the speedo is original, but it is fun to drive and that's what matters).
9:37 the smell let over after grinding/cutting metal is such as nostalgic smell for me and one I rather enjoy. My dad is a fabricator and I loved my time watching and helping him work in my childhood. It's such a distinct smell, sometimes it was strong enough to taste, and it floods my head with memories everytime
“They don’t make them like they used to.”
The used to in question:
Proper fab work? I knew James was a man of many talents, but man I'm impressed
The fact that not only did u take that up marion expressway hill. but passed people on the way up, is amazing :D love seeing the nugg lyf locally. i hope to see the morris and tony drive past someday
We overtook a car (Suzuki Vitara?) the other day on a 60mph dual carriageway, not that big of a deal except I was on a bus at the time. We were (for a bit at least) doing the speed limit!
5:50 Hard drive magnets to hold the panel in place! 😂
Beat me to it. I was a bit weirded out by that.
Literally about to comment 🤣
I immediately recognised them as well, haha!
They strong af tho
Seeing stuff restored while aussie man yells at it is truely the top youtube experience. I love this duo so much, its funny because i like them both separately, and together its heaps fun!
But seriously those welds were mint
“Rust is lighter than carbon fiber” it was a sports nugget… technically
2:54 I HATE YOU AND MY TEETH HATE YOU!!!!!!
You're bleeding because you don't floss
15:37 Why is the car on fire?
Gonna guess they sprayed paint in spots recently welded and it caught fire
makes it go faster
Adds character
Hard Drive Magnets to hold steel in place for welding. That's freakin' genius.
Grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't
11:50 they just making up words at this point
“It’s just a shammy on the end of a dingle arm”
aussies lmao
Good job, ya learned australian
All words are made up
James is the mate we all want, but none of us deserve.
imagine if this chassis was stripped down and dipped into one of those giant acid dips for cars and it just dissolves into nothing
My first car in 1977 was a 1969 Morris 1100 in black. Even then it was a bit of a rust bucket, the sills were shot. That’s when I learned to weld. Great car though.
we all love james morris
2:05 That Lucas voltage regulator is the true mark of the beast
Ikr? As soon as I saw that Lucas box, my brain went "uh oh" mode.
Gool ol Lucas, the Prince of Darkness
I don't even remind where I first heard of them, but the Lucas Electronics badge fills me with dread
...feel a bit out of the loop, what's the story with Lucas voltage regulators?
@@mrcmoes Lucas Electronics in general are known for being god awful hunks of junk that never work right
It's good to see that the British Trabant is still being fixed!
a british Trabant equivalent would be a Reliant Robin or Kitten.. they are SLIGHTLY less unpleasant to drive than a Trabant, having been graced with 4 stroke engines..
It's amazing to see y'all working on rust repair on here while I've got my car apart out in the garage working on the same things. Just painted the frame with Rust Encapsulator today after using a needle scaler to take all the rust off and making my own chain flail to knock it out from inside the frame rails and crossmembers. Once I'm done with putting the frame/chassis back together with the drivetrain (hooray for longitudinal i6 engine/trans/t-case and body on frame) it'll go sit outside for a while under a tarp while I fix some rust on the rear of the body around the wheel wells and the rocker panels.
Thanks bois for being a source of inspiration and motivation to keep going on my project. Wish y'all had stickers or something for me to run on my car as homage to the channel.
Do you want more motivation look for soup classic motoring channel on UA-cam. He's just one guy working on his own projects and he has brought back some amazing heaps! his long-term project is a late '70s lotus to spree that he's doing a full frame off restoration on.
"They call rust in cars Cancer" so does that mean in the movie "Cars"... umm 😮 uh oh
Rusteze would be hemorrhoid cream, I think. Here where I call them, it's "Midwestern salt rash" because of all the salt on the roads
This is how every car looks after 20 years of use in Finland.
Which is strange because Japan has Nagano and Hokkaido, so their cars should be designed to take that.
Who would have thought
As someone who wants to become a nuggateer and a Canadian I'm happy you are doing something with crazy rust. I'm taking notes
14:13 I love that "highway speeds" in Australia is 40 mph. Here we just send 4 ton pickups barreling past your neighborhood going 80
Here where them Morris cars are from they'd be going 70mph on our motorways even when new
This makes me so happy! My mother drove one of these until 1990. The seats used to burn our legs on hot sunny days, no air-conditioning, metal levers for the window air vents, but it was so smooth!
As an aircraft mechanic I am horrified by how you can treat cars but it also looks way more fun to fix!
What do you mean? Boeing does this all the time!
@@ferretyluv Boeing probably figured out a way to make their carbon fiber rust.
1:02 I absolutely adore the just PILE of(presumably ineffective) self tappers surrounded by FUCKING RUST DUST
James continues to prove that he's a car whispering wizard.
It's not like car paint has gotten worse, it's that a lot of car paint technologies were banned from being too harmful
it's funny watching aussies worry this much about such a tiny amount of rust , absolutely no balls at all. you'd be terrified of the american midwest
It would be the crumbs on the bottom of a chips bag.
You got nothing on maritime canada. Salt from the sea AND the icy roads. Throw a garbage bag on the floor for 2x the thickness
Like every other truck I see on the road is only being held together by rust.
Australia has roadworthy laws. Vehicles that are in too poor of a condition will not be granted that, and as such they cannot be driven legally on the road. The kinds of vehicles you're talking about are only found on farms or in the middle of the bush.
@@seanmckelvey6618to be fair, Adelaide doesn't have mandatory roadworthy tests like in the eastern states. Some of the janky shitboxes I've seen on the roads here have to be seen to be believed...
James's Morris is just the perfect nugget for him
Old car paint is single stage paint, the clear coat is mixed with the base coat. That’s why you can polish it down until it’s just primer.
Orange peel is now engineered as a "scratch hiding measure". At least that's what they. I guess it's more lazyness than anything
Poor Morris, that classy nugget is a beauty.
Always happy to see an oldie back on the streets. Good job chaps. 👍🏻
That is the car of Theseus.
Thank you for taking the time to lower the whirring noises in post for us :) Very very very appreciated.
Every Morris I have ever encountered has been rusty garbage. It doesn't matter how good it looks on the outside, they're all garbage.
My 1970 Minor Traveller is still running strong, used as a daily driver in the UK with 166,000+ miles on it. Admittedly, it does have the odd bit of rust here and there, but relatively easy to repair.
The definition of pure craftmanship.
The UK is brutal to cars, especially these 60s and 70s morrises which were rusting straight from the factory 😂, cars from 2000-2010 have already started to turn back into the ground again!
Extend that to the '80s and '90s. My dad worked for a company that imported new British cars into Germany (for some reason) and they all had to be extensively overhauled before they could be even shown to customers. We're talking rust, oil leaks, water leaks, mechanical and electrical problems right from the factory. Minis were the worst. You'd think by they would have figured out how to build these properly by the end of its production run, but nope. Same with the Land Rover Defender. They never figured out how to make the door seals of this off-road vehicle waterproof.
they were made of notoriously poor quality very thin steel that corroded quickly, especially from inside box sections and hidden areas (scuttle panels, roof pillars, sills etc) that weren't painted after assembly. also damage from the factory would be bodged up with filler at the end of the production line..
This is literally the quintessential episode of your channel. This has humor, absolutely skill, delicious editing and audio ASMR and you can tell the daily grind for you two is amazing and should be watched.
Great content chaps! This is the content I want for sure (plus the wild experiments and always dankpods)
WOW that detail work. NIGHT AND DAY!!!
Bros! These will be y’all’s best memories with these cars! I miss it with my bros back in the day. Your car channel is crazy but I like that you and James are doing the bro thing and having fun🤘🏼
5:50 lmao are those hard drive magnets??
I had an Austin 1800 as my first car, this guy's big brother, so this really takes me back. That and the series of nuggetty nugs I ran for the next 20 years meant I had to get pretty handy with a MIG welder. Nice work gentlemen, hoping to see the Renault get the same treatment soon.
2:33 Holy shit, I've 3D printed stronger caps than that. And anyone who has ever attempted to 3D print a usable cap for something knows how terrible that idea is.
Use PETG with lots of infill (100% for things that can't ever be allowed to break). Once you figure out proper layer adhesion, it's indestructible. I've printed things with this that you can slam a hammer into without doing any damage. It's elastic, yet doesn't bend out of shape, strong but not brittle - and unlike PLA, it's UV-resistant too. I've used it to print things where I was specifically advised against using PETG and yet the results were still perfect. This includes caps. No idea why you're having trouble with those.
At this point, I'm only using PLA when I absolutely have to.
@@no1DdC That's exactly what I did, but I'm guessing that twisting a cap provides a lot of leverage. The flat top tends to just separate from the threaded part. I've made plenty of things that I couldn't break by separating the layers, I just can't seem to get caps right.
@@Hendlton Print them upright instead of flat down. That way, layers are not parallel to the direction of the twist. This might require supports (depending on the depth), much more cleanup and the cap will initially be harder to turn, but it eliminates this issue.
@@no1DdC I think I tried printing stuff with supports like twice and failed miserably both times. I probably should learn how to do that at some point instead of spending the time to model everything around it lol.
@@Hendlton If you want to learn how to print properly, I would recommend making something really complex and ambitious. You'll be learning by doing that way. I printed a functioning repeating crossbow (Mini Adder V2) a couple of weeks after I bought my 3D printer and it really helped refine my technique, since every part of this thing comes under an enormous amount of stress and requires tight tolerances.
The one problem with printing this particular item is that afterwards, you'll feel like Alexander the Great: You've basically conquered the world of 3D printing. This is one of the most, if not the most, demanding print you can make as a home user and everything coming afterwards will be small fishes by comparison and never excite you as much.
Every time I'm depressed or struggling I come here to see the two of them having fun and a laugh in the shop and it really makes me smile. These two are good friends who enjoy being in the shop dealing with cars being shitty and torturing other cars for enjoyment (looking at you goober). The dad aura is impeccable stay this way I need it 😂😂😂
The rust gives character
That firewall work is pure artistry.
Rare james activity- welding
Been spending the last few weeks doing rust repair on my 96 Impreza wagon. The car I call "Mr Right", for it having supposed to have been the perfect 95 Impreza for me to soup up and daily drive. Obviously that fell apart as soon as I saw it was a 96 (in the states, 96 is the first year of emissions testing, where 95 and older can get away with not having emissions). I bought it in 2021 since it didnt have the usual Impreza rust, drove from St Louis to Sacramento, the equivalent of like, Adelaide to Townsville (I tried to put it in australia units), and then parked it straight off the trailer, and saw its windshield frame was shot. Its been parked in my garage since, and has just been a "soon" car ever since. I've tried to get its other ducks sorted out since then, like installing a transmission, then realizing I forgot the clutch fork, then redoing it all, to finding out the transmission wont shift at all, to finding out that it was because of the reverse light switch.
Anyway, I'm trying to get it legal before the end of the year, and its coming together. It might actually happen. Its my own variety of garbage time adventure.
Bit of WD-40 and rust converter and she’ll be mint! Can’t go wrong
This is a true labor of love. So much work for absolutley no monetary gain. Just for the hell of it. My man.
James. Master of mechanics. Nugless no more
May I ask you good sir
Who is da nugmost then?
@dllsearch Why that is an excellent question! For the king of the nugs is no other than Wade, lord of the dank and and protector of nugs big and small
The fact its so rusty even being an Australian spec BL car tells you a lot about how bad BL cars were built. Especially with how much easier it is for cars to rust over here in the uk
2025 we need Garbage Time Car Plush.
I can not belive that I have not found this part of the channel earlier. I could not stop being intrigued and learning.
I already thought that the rebuild and the panel beating was involved, but this is even crazier.
Also, Tony takes another L against a 60s vehicle.
Lost a good friend of mine I grew up with. We used to grab whatever trashed piece of crap we could and try and make it run. Seeing you guys having a great time messing with each other brings Barack great memories. Stay awesome!
now make it run on mayo
'Fun' thing I have noticed recently here in Germany: The Opel/Vauxhall (Holden as well, me thinks) Corsa B has started to disappear due to rust eating most of them away...
You used to see them everywhere 10-15 years ago and the same is starting to happen to the Corsa C, which was my (great) first car as the 1.8 GSi version.
Truly sad times... :/
15:37
Why is it on fire?
If you havent thrown rubbing alcohol on something metal before you are missing out, one day I got pissed at my old MacBook, a few sprays later and now I have the profile picture of the year (that I don't use)
Amazing work I love watching you guys do anything together 😂
14:05 MOMS??
“mom’s nugg” 2019(?) Suzuki swift
I legit didn't realize you were looking into the Morris' paint job when you were reflecting the warehouse ceiling my first time through.
Dude the craftsmanship and ingenuity is James-level! And a completely uneconomical to do as a commercial service, truly an enthusiastic repair
I love the vacuuming of the self-tapping screws that tell the story of the previous owner's sins.
rust my beloved
They need to know that Nacecare (the company that also made George) made a vacuum named James!
Wade needs a Allegro or Marina
7:11 James is an artist!