I thought I would try to list what I want to do to the car and maybe a list of parts to get.

 

Plans for the car

• Re-spray in Tahiti blue
• Front disk conversion
• Alloy wheels
• Loads of shiny bits all round
• Flip front
• Checker Pattern on the roof
• Re-spray engine and brighten up the engine bay in general
• Re-trim interior 

Some of the pictures that I have found on the internet that I am using for inspiration..

      Flip front                  Tahiti blue                 Bling Bling        chequer roof pattern

 

   Starmags

 

UPDATE 16/08/08

Today I have been to work and done some work to the body including sand blasting the parts of the car that I haven't been able to get to with the grinder e.g. roof guttering, A,B,C pillars, boot floor and bulkhead.

Whilst I had the sandblaster out I decided that I had some suspension parts and brake parts that could also do with a once over to get rid of any rust.

 

BIG UPDATE

It has been decided to change the planned colour of the car from Tahiti blue to a deep metallic red/black flip paint. As (at the moment) the plan is that I will be doing the re-spray myself it has been decided that it doesn't matter what the paint costs (within reason). 

 

ORIGINAL

chrome Starmags                                               Ally cats                                                 white Starmags

These are some pictures that I had made from a member of www.theminiforum.com

I found the original picture on the internet and I asked someone on the forum to change the colour from the silver and added a black base with a candy red on top then I asked him to add a chequered roof and some starmags in both white and chrome.... as a bonus he added some ally cats wheels

 

This week I have been able to be do some more work on the car whilst at work. including painting parts blasted at the weekend and the two petrol tanks now both finished. Also this week I have repair the door and boot lid where the rust fairy's had been (sorry forgot to take pictures of these ). I have added to the list of things needed to source after looking at the parts after they had been blasted.

 

 

NON MINI-ish?????

Winter is just around the corner so I have been busy getting somewhere for the mini to live over the cold winter months as our everyday car needs to be in the warm garage. So as we no longer have a dog and have no use for an exercise area I am turning it in to a mini garage.

The original door was only big enough for a person to go through so I have taken away the door and fence to the left of it and made and fitted two doors so that the car will go in.

And of course my trusty helper was with me.....

Giant Update 19/10/08

After a few days in the garage screwing parts together I have finally finished assembling the front suspension and fitted it to the car. Next on went the rear suspension , wheel bearings and wheels, I had to adjust the rear suspension in order to make the body sit level on the suspension and then finally I was able to roll it out on to the grass. I had to steer it by pushing on the wheels as, at the moment, I do not have both of the steering rack clamps fitted. (please note the angels looking down on the car in the top right corner of the picture)

So now the car is stood in "the mini garage" and i will take more pictures of it stood there. CLICK HERE FOR PICTURES

A few hours later and the garage was clean and our everyday car stood in there.....

New update 30/11/08

I have bought some new-ish steel 5 X 10" wheels that I am now waiting to have the tyres removed and then they can be can ship them over to Sweden....

Before

I have looked on the internet to find out what they are, I think that they are a copy of Weller wheels called Jolly's

The plan with these is to sand blast them and re-spray them white and finish with a nice shiny clear coat. pictures of that to follow...

 

Today i have received my wheels back i decided to send them away for power coating as this lasts longer than ordinary painting especially on wheels so here they are in nice shiny white

After

UPDATE

I have added 2 new pages Wiring Page and Mechanical page (see links)

The wiring page is all about the wiring loom, from strip down and total rebuild including new parts and (hopefully) useful info to anyone else that is thinking of doing the same thing.

The mechanical page shows some of the new parts that I have created on the computer using CAD ( computer added design) and how they looked in "real life" .

 

Finally the long awaited chrome has arrived

 

Decision change again!!!

After countless hours of work on the glass fibre front I have decided to sell it and make one out of metal (see link above )