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i think i've posted a pic up of my car a while back when i fitted the 10's, but thought i'd put up proper thread though.

Few pics of the min, was a rover coop injection, but that didnt last long. It was housing a 1275 mg metty engine which i rebuilt about 3 years back, but since that engines had it, im replacing it with either a 1289cc NA engine or a 998 turbo depending on how much further the rust goes - i.e. if im taking it appart anymore to reweld stuff it'll be stripped out and turned into a hillclimber/sprint car and will get a temporary 998 turbo motor :cool:

The first pic was taken over 3 years ago, but the rust attacked the new front end so it went. On removing the front i found the usual nasties which im trying to repair now though i cant find a fecking pannel for it at the mo!

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

Looks really nice in 1st pic, such a shame that rust loves them.

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

Hi,
What panel are you looking for?
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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Edited by BENROSS on 10th Mar, 2006.

thought i'd perhaps update this as i havent looked at it in ages, 4th of march i posted this thread and was just after i took the front end off. Its moved on a lot since then, but seems to have taken ages

After i took the front end off i found a load more rust

Edited by andeh on 3rd Dec, 2006.

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

I went round the whole car finding rust, in heinseight i think i would have prefered to get a heritage shell as its cost me over £1000 in pannels, tools, equipment and extra bits and im still left with a patched up mini. It doesnt include nearly a years worth of ballache aswell, live and learn.

car went up onto its side for me to do the inner and outer sills on the drivers side, repeated on the passengers side later on. I did the boot floor at the same time.

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

heres another for good luck



worth saying that a lot of this work was avoidable if the car hadnt have been fitted with oversills. Get them off if they are fitted to your car.

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

about a month ago the car looked like this



this pic follows the most amount of ballache i've ever experianced. about 5months welding and grinding to get to this point spending a lot of my free time doing it.

to get to this point i had to replace the sills on both sides, reapir the boot floor, replace the rear subframe mounts on both sides, patch the drivers rear arch, rebuild the valance corner bits, replace the drivers flitch pannel, replace the a-post stifner panel, patch behind both shock mounts and patch the floor in a couple of places. Just before i had taken that pic i had fitted the scuttle pannel. Thats not forgetting repairing the heelboard, inner wings in a couple of places and both front vent mounting panels.

Edited by andeh on 3rd Dec, 2006.

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

Had the car sandblasted about 3 weeks ago

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

finally over a couple of weekends i got the car painted with a lot of help from a friend.

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

cool colour scheme ive never seen that before!

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

Looking good. Mine really needs doing again properly and it has the dreaded oversills on it!!!

Like the paintjob, very distinctive! Love the different colour in the engine bay.

hehehe ace!!

and i think its a bit nicer having the original shell rather than some new thing on there

It looks like you have done an ace restoration job there, well done.

well done mate!
if you bought a new shell then its not the same mini is it lol!

if everyone bought a nre shell rather than fixing the rust then there would be a lot less minis on the road!!

top job youve done there!

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top work! really love the 'just sandblasted' photo - looks very clean like that.

Top job so far, looks great.

Interesting colour scheme, its a brave choice and works very well. :)

keep up the good work.

Excellent work, looks like you have done a fine job of salvaging the shell.

Best of luck with the rest of the build.

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

excellent work on nearly a full rebuild on the shell

get some chassie black paint fired on under there 3 seprate coats

and may be some waxoil ........?

before the running gear is all fitted back on andeh

looking good andeh!

looking forward to seeing it in the flesh!

Looks good, just one question is it black or brown? my colour perception is not that great.

well done that man

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nice job!!! nice van in the background too!

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