guaging interest on my mini project
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hi there i have had enough of my mini project now and need a car i dont know weather to sell up or just put it on hold for a bit as funds are restricted at the moment.......

i am only listing this to try and find out how much i could ask for it as it is at the moment i have spent over 2500 so far and would make a great project for someone with some more time and money than myself

the car is a 1988 mini jet black i have owned for 2 years now but have never had it on the road.

since owning this car i have spent lots on it io have got a few reciepts for bits i have bought.

i have replaced a few of the pannels the main ones replaced are the front pannel and both wings(made into a flip front) drivers front floor patch on seat base patch on the flitch pannel.

the car includes-
exterior

full steel removable front
halogen lights
fiberglass bonnet one off with lamp pod built in
clear lights all round
majic spoiler (not fitted)
chrome handles
chrome bumpers
chrome grill
tinted side windows
flaming cooper laurels on front screen
mini winged logo for rear screen
group6 arches and arch trim
revolutions 13x6
chrome wipers
chrome aston fuel cap


interior

recaro seats from astra gte
6 point rollcage
abs plastic Z.A.K auto designs dash
push button starter
speedo from a mg
rev counter
black leather door cards
chrome door handles
blue carpet
3 point harnesses
ripspeed steering wheel
fire extinguisher
leather gear gaiter and handbrake gaiter
alloy gear knob
alloy handbrake
electric fan heater
speakers built into dash

other parts
twin exit exhaust one each side with an lcb manifold
metro inlet manifold
998 engine
siezed 1275 engine
rear seat in different fabric
lots of other standard parts and other modified parts not listed



there are plenty of pictures here My project pictures

steel flip front, fiberglass bonnet with 4 lamp pod and vents, tinted windows, 13"revos, 6point cage, recaros, harnesses, custom abs dash, twin exit exhaust, chrome bumpers, chrome grill,electric blue carpet, group6 arches, clear lights, push button start, flaming cooper laurels on front screen, mini wings logo on rear screen, custom dash clocks from a mg of some sort, and soon to have a car pc and a 998 or 1098 turbo

If you want my advice, it would be to put a sheet over it and leave it until a time when you have enough money or whatever to finish it off, selling it after all the hard work and dreaming of how it will be when finished will piss you off to high heaven sooner or later.

If you need something to run about in, I have said it before and I'll say it again, go buy something cheap that does not go rusty and has a reliable engine. The example I have used before is a Peugeot 205 diesel, pick up a very good one for £500, 50mpg and as long as you service it, probably will never go wrong. I am sure there are plenty of other options such as a Golf Mk3 Diesel or whatever that will fulfil the same criteria, how about a bubble shape Nissan Micra, extremely reliable, bombproof revvy 16v engine, cheap as chips.

Edited by Tom Fenton on 20th Apr, 2006.

that was the other thought i was having i have been offered a 1400 golf mk3 for cheep with blown head gasket so i might jus get that and keep the mini in the garage for few months/years til can afford it i was just wandering how much everyone reckons it is worth as it is or in parts

jamie

steel flip front, fiberglass bonnet with 4 lamp pod and vents, tinted windows, 13"revos, 6point cage, recaros, harnesses, custom abs dash, twin exit exhaust, chrome bumpers, chrome grill,electric blue carpet, group6 arches, clear lights, push button start, flaming cooper laurels on front screen, mini wings logo on rear screen, custom dash clocks from a mg of some sort, and soon to have a car pc and a 998 or 1098 turbo

And if you do decide to sell up, id break it, you have loads of money in parts there!

Get yourself a K series metro, i got mine cheap, got about 8000 miles out of it. It wasnt worth buying new tyres for tho so i broke it even though it had another 3 months MOT.



Go buy a £50 metro

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