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[rustandoil]

Ok here is my recently purchased new project, as you can see its a Minivan.
It was sold as a unfinished project by a chap who did not have the time to commit to it.
Basically its a prepared shell ready cut for the Z-Cars frame which has not been fitted the shell appears to be pretty much ready for paint but i have found a couple of areas that may benefit from further inspection and work, all the Z-Cars conversion parts seem to be present including the fuel tank, radiator and all the bits and pieces.
The van came with a freshly powder coated standard Mini front subframe with adjustable bottom links and tie bars which were still new in the packet, this has been built up and put under the van but is sure to be replaced by a Z-Cars tubular front frame, most of the major components seem to be present and in good condition or refurbished, new 8.4 discs with Metro four pots and of course the Hayabusa engine which i was told had only 1000 miles on it, and looking at it this could well be true!
The picture below is not really mine its one of the ones the seller sent me to showing the van on a pallet ready to be shipped.

I have yet to upload my picture to my computer and as always i am struggling with re-sizing them as they are HUGE!! any tips and i will post them here.





Edited to add more pictures

Edited by rustandoil, 03 May 2011 - 01:22 PM.

[cptkirk]

Welcome to the fold and good luck with the project.

As for your photos?? I upload everything to photobucket and then use the Insert Image button, as you have with the photo above by the look of it. Give it a whirl with one of your HUGE ones, if not you can resize photos in Micorsoft picture manager.

Andy

[Joshmini]

Register on photobucket, www.photobucket.com

Once done you will see the upload box and a drop down bar saying resize and you can adjust which size you want to resize the photo to and click on the one you want.

Upload the photo once done hover over the image and get the IMG code and copy and paste to the forum.

Should work.

Also looks a nice project good luck!

[rustandoil]

Thank for the picture tips , i have tried Photbucket in the past, perhaps i will have another go, the problem last time is that i had to upload the "huge" pictures before i could re-size them this either took ages or the computer just locked up

Just tried something called "power toys" its an add on for windows XP lets you re-size picture on your computer and produces a copy in the same folder and adds "small" to the file name, nice and simple then no problem uploading to photbucket, just added a couple more phots to my 1st post

Will have a go on my home computer later and see if i can get a few more done

Edited by rustandoil, 18 August 2009 - 12:20 PM.

[Down&Out]

Man, that's a really nice starting point. All the hard work done for you!

Best of luck.

[mighty mini jack]

Oh my That really is MINT!!!

Good luck with the project, i'm sure you'll have fun.

[sotiris]

Good luck with your project....!!!!

[rick.spi]

mmm... good luck with it.

[rustandoil]

Right then, finally sorted a way to reduce my photos , still takes such a long time when i would rather be out in the shed with spanners but here are the first of my photos, does not quite bring the thread up to date but its a start

Loaded up ready for the journey home



After unpacking the shell, I backed the trailer to the shed door we then slid the shell down the pallet that it was strapped to, a bit hairy but big relief when it was finally on the floor!




Front subframe components on sorted and ready for assembly


Box of hinges and bonnet pins, enough for 4 front doors two van rear doors


Box of misc stuff including 4 van rear lights


Frame, i think this is on the same pallet as it came from Z-cars, so untouched for the last 3 or 4 years!


Nice

Edited by rustandoil, 24 August 2010 - 04:05 AM.

[Joshmini]

Looks awesome mate,
Real credit to you
Can't wait to see the final result!

[rustandoil]

Need to update this thread, will try to do so in the next few days

Joshmini: I cant take any credit for what has been shown up to now, only to say that i must have had balls of steel to send that much money to some one I did not know for something i had not seen

[cptkirk]

Subscribed to the thread - Looking forward to seeing your updates.

[e11evns]

any updates?

[rustandoil]

Ok I admit that I have not updated, and am working on a update right now

[ajperry]

this looks great! i'm green with envy right now....
such a great point to buy up a project. shell looks prime! and i can't wait to see the finished article!