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Post by Minillew on Mar 29, 2009 10:18:54 GMT 1
Ok so i know my cooper was going to be my rally car, but last friday my dad called over a friends house only to be greeted with a little mini round the side of the garage, to cut a long story short, £250 later and saturday morning a delivery lorry pulled up to my house with the mini on the back.
After quick inspection, everything i bought for the cooper at the mini show in january is already on the car, its a 1000cc engine, stage 1 kit, polybushed all round, fiberglass flip front, f/g boot, some funky old skool bucket seats and a 1960's police car paint job, unfortunately all the money spent under the body wasn't applied to the paintjob......its poo!!! so over the last week i've been sanding down the paint (2days on the roof alone!!!) ready for a respray in OEW. I plan on making the arches easily changable for shows aswells as the bucket seats, as I have to have standard arches for rallying and FIA buckets, but they wont suit the style of the car.
Anyway the car is from cardiff mini club so if anyone knows the car or has info on it let me know, so here are the pics....
oh and can anyone recap my memory on what the alloys are please as i cant put a name on them off the top of my head.
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Post by Minillew on Mar 29, 2009 10:21:32 GMT 1
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Post by Phil J on Mar 29, 2009 10:24:43 GMT 1
Looks like a bargain  Think the wheels are from the mini special ? not sure the correct name, but i have a spare here if you need one  |
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Post by Minillew on Mar 29, 2009 10:24:56 GMT 1
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Post by Minillew on Mar 29, 2009 10:32:40 GMT 1
the last lot of pictures is some of the work i've been doing, basically getting rid of what rust there is and removing the surface rust from here there and everywhere, sanded down the roof and covered over the aerial hole as i'm not gonna be needing it.
There are going to be a few custom touches even though it is a rally car, like the custom roof liner i'm going to make, dash liner, trim for the dash rails.....
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Post by Minillew on Mar 29, 2009 12:05:30 GMT 1
p.s. yes for what we paid and the amount of work needed and what is on the car it really is a bargain, and yes please phil i will take you up on the offer of a spare. thanks.
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Post by exuptoy on Mar 29, 2009 12:44:31 GMT 1
Pretty sure this lived in Maesteg for a while until the a year or two ago. The guy who owned THIS is supposed to have owned it.......or so I've been told. I'll try and find out more when I'm home. |
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Post by Minillew on Apr 5, 2009 11:42:05 GMT 1
right, so last week I took my little one to butlins so couldnt work on the car, but my dad cracked on, during the week after work he managed to sort the clutch slave cylinder which sorted the clutch problem, he changed the rear brake cylinder and changed the brake lines on the passenger side as one snapped when removed, he fitted new shoes too.
So I started work on it yesterday and welded in a drivers side floor, also started spraying the rollcage, got through the priming then started spraying gloss black but dont think it looks that good so am now going to spray it the same colour as the car.
Today I am going to be patching a couple of holes and then continue with sanding the body down.
pics to follow..........
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Post by Phil J on Apr 5, 2009 20:31:44 GMT 1
Flying along now then When do you think it will be finished? |
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Post by Minillew on Apr 6, 2009 7:36:26 GMT 1
well i'm hoping it will be on the road within the next month or so.
there was a miss in the when we started it up saturday night but my dad changed the plugs and it sorted it but the mixture is still out. Also patched a couple of holes, got one in the rear arch and one bit under the scuttle and then thats the welding sorted, alot of under seal and then i think a respray will be next on the cards
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Post by Minillew on Apr 10, 2009 17:26:20 GMT 1
just finished welding the passenger side floor panel in place, off to weld 2 more patches and then hoping thats it but wont now until we get under the car if theres anymore welding to be done.
Going to post a good few pics of the progress later now.
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Post by dai9fxey on Apr 10, 2009 19:21:49 GMT 1
Nice one. Looks to be a straightforward job. Won't be long before it's roadworthy.  |
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Post by Minillew on Apr 10, 2009 20:19:30 GMT 1
i hope so, aslong as there is no horror stories under the car then all should be straight forward.
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Post by Minillew on Apr 15, 2009 19:33:10 GMT 1
UPDATE:- patched in the dash,  drivers floor and patch,  sanded down back end and roof...  some bare metaling,    and how the car is standing at the moment,  |
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Post by jjitaljob on Apr 15, 2009 19:34:45 GMT 1
i likeee
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Post by Minillew on Apr 15, 2009 19:48:50 GMT 1
Also spent abit too much time on ebay..... rally map light,  early ashtray  also saw this awesome looking steering wheel, listed as 70's mini steering wheel......  but when it came and i tried fitting it the threads are about 2-3mm to small to fit the mini so was slightly gutted. |
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Post by mini2infiniti on Apr 15, 2009 19:55:04 GMT 1
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Post by Minillew on Apr 15, 2009 20:08:43 GMT 1
ye it is the same wheel but it wasn't that one was a diffrent one....strange thats listed for a mini too but my one doesnt fit!!!
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Post by jjitaljob on Apr 15, 2009 20:31:02 GMT 1
i love collapsable wheels. i praised the one in my nova after my accident. i would of shattered my face otherwise.
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Post by Minillew on Apr 28, 2009 17:31:55 GMT 1
UPDATE: Ok been flat out with the car lately and basically its ready to be sprayed.... Decided not to use the fiberglass boot as itsareally bad fit and didnt look too good, so i'm using a spare metal one that i have, but keeping it as a mk1 style so smooth the light holes  My dad found an old vinyl roof he had laying around so that will be going on the car too. heres a pic of it on the car but not stuck down yet,  the front endwas unbelievably flimsy so we decided to strengthen it by adding more fiberglass but just before we started my dad found off cuts of thin sheet metal so we cut them up then added them, the front is alot less flimsy now.  then i decided to give the spray gear a practise run to see how it works, so sprayed the under side of the front end in some old ford orion blue colour my dad had, haha.  |
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