Wooooooohooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

[K18ARY]

It works!!!!!! After 7 years, 3 wiring looms, £2.5k and a lot of blood, tears and tantrums I finally got my Classic Mini to go! Woooohoooooo.

I am so happy, literally eveyr part of the rebuild has been done by myself.

The build so far goes.

Bought for £80 as a scrap 88 mayfair with ERA bodykit, painted windows and tiger skin seat covers, pretty it was not!

I have replaced and welded in the following.
boot floor
lower rear hinger panel
valance
subframe heel mounting panel
floors
inner sill
outer sill
jackin points
rear 1/4 panels
flitch pannels
scuttle
inner wing patching
outer wings
front panel
a panels
door skins
rebuilt the engine
new brake callipers and drums
new clutch slave
ball joints
track rod ends
steering rack
wheel bearings
custom wiring loom
90's cooper interior inc walnut dashboard
repainted in black cellulose with white roof (the latter is to be redone as I wasn't happy with the finish)
all new bright work
12*6" Black 4 spoke revolutions!
I love it!
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[Gismo]

Where oh where are the pictures :cool:

[K18ARY]

just about to go out and polish it all up ready for pictures! should have them posted soon.

[bpirie1000]

Congratulations.

Nothing better than Knowing all your hard work meets the M.O.T. Requirements.

Well done can't wait to see the pics.

Spit and polish to take off teh Blue mist and swear words that get said around it?? and the blood ( ESPECIALLY ON THE BONNET CATCH...... Crater in my head because of them!!!!!)

All good though.

[Pink Lady]

Sounds fantastic, big congrats, cant wait to see the pics.:)

[Heather]

I have seen this baby and it has THE sexiest weels. Barry has worked v. hard on the bodywork and its looking good. I even got the eyebrows he didn't want.:D Stella will shed a tear as her neighbour goes to its new home:(

[Duncan Stewart]

Big rebuild! :eek: Great to hear it's finish :D And in the best colour scheme :cool:
We want photos :p

[K18ARY]

Right, first time putting on pics so they are probably too big or won't appear at all!

The finished article
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l64/k18ary/IMG_0149.jpg

The engine bay, still needs a bit of tidying
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l64/k18ary/IMG_0150.jpg

The interior
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l64/k18ary/IMG_0154.jpg

and a close up of the wheels (still to get lock nuts hence missing nut)
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l64/k18ary/IMG_0153.jpg

Barry

[Heather]

I ADORE those wheels:D:D:D

[K18ARY]

Meant to say, the roof is still in primer. I had painted in white before but put a cloth with brake fluid on it by mistake! had to rub it all down and re primer it. So far I have not bothered with the top coat!

[Gismo]

I can't see photo bucket images, my work does not allow the site :evil: but, i reckon your mowta will be a wee corker :approve:

[K18ARY]

Heather, you are welcome to try them on Stella to see how they look and how much metal would need to be cut out of the front panel! Give us a shout if you want.

[OBN]

Very very smart. Well worth the effort.

Oh and nice knob!

[PACMAN]

Very Very Nice :approve::approve:


11 gears on the knob :eek::p;)

[SpongeBob]

Looks Very Fresh,Like the engine block paint job.

[N12 JLK]

Superb looking car, glad all your hard work paid off:)

[AndyP & Lenore]

Looks great.:D Very smart indeed.:D

[jayex]

Nice looking car :approve: :cool:

[Duncan Stewart]

Great work! :approve: Looking fab :cool:

[Burple]

Good Jerrb!!!


Love it, nice and tidy and everything looks 'right'
you gonna get all the wheel nuts on too? ;);):p:p

[broken_brian]

Seeing how good your car looks makes me want to go out to the garage and get stuck into my classic.

Unless you want to do my one for me :clown::D:p

[Gismo]

quote:Originally posted by broken_brian
Seeing how good your car looks makes me want to go out to the garage and get stuck into my classicOooerrr :I

[K18ARY]

Go out into the garage and get it sorted, you know you want to! The more classic minis on the road the better I say:D

[monkimagic]

Thats a Corker

[zimbo]

Very nice looking motor :D

better watch those valve caps by the way... Just the thing valve cap stealing buggers will be after :(

[Smitty]

Looks amazing!!:D

7 years......i can see my classic mini project taking that long too!!

Poor thing is a bit neglected just now!!:(

[K18ARY]

cheers all for the comments. It did take 7 years but to be honest I never really touched it for 2 of them due to work and lack of motivation.