Buying a Rolls-Royce Crate Engine

[Morris Minor]

Oddly compelling - early '50s, bought at an auction for scrap value. These things were beautifully made, RR B-range engines: hardened, waterproofed & engineered for reliability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_B_range_engines

[FoMoJo]

Good video.  Not a lot of useless chatter and posturing.

Impressive engine.  That old you'd think that the rings would be stuck or some internal part frozen.  Seemed to be just a little bit of oil smoke on the startup, but nothing afterwards.  Sounded pretty good too.

[Morris Minor]

Those engines had very low compression ratios. It's one reason why they were so quiet at idle.

During WWII & afterwards until the early '50s Brits had to use crappy rationed "Pool Petrol" whose octane, in modern US terms, was around 65-67.