Back in October 07 I acured a slightly rusty 1989 Mayfair in need of “some” work from Wolf's_mini for £150 and another £75 for it to be trailered the 35 odd miles from Banbury tomine in Mk, so a total of £225.
Although to pay for the delivery I removed and sold the minisport stage one kit on the 25 which didn't make much of an improvement in performance, which I originally bought for £50 and sold that for £75 and just refitted the original stuff back on. So that was the payment for the delivery sorted and basically costing nothing.
Then after I had removed and swapped over 3 of the wheels of which the last owner had kindly had brand new tyres fitted, so they replaced the 2 bald ones on the 25 and I then had a decent spare to go in the boot saving me another £75 extra and keept the 25 legal.
After I had finished sorting through the box of extras that come with it and removing the parts that I no longer required or fitted in with my plans were sold on (still have loads left), so all in the total cost of the initial perchance of the car and having it trailered has only cost me £30, plus I later got about another £8 worth in fuel when I later drained the tank.
So what did my £30 get me? Well one slightly rusty 89 Mayfair minus and engine/gearbox, and front end metal work, which was rotten anyways and the odd bit hear and there also missing.
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Now for the rust, which is left, as it’s a mini after all.
Engine bay minus engine/gearbox.
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Both damper mounts, although that’s a common rot spot on any mini.
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Both flinch panels, although in a lot better nick than some.
Both sills, to be expected on an 18 year old mini
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Both door bottoms and were some very nice person has tried the brake into it by ripping the handles off.
Front floor comers were it’s been previously jacked up and both front sections of the inner sills unto the crossmember.
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One of the rear arch closing panels in the rear bin, a pita to repair but one that I’ve done on both sides of the 25 so shouldn’t be any harder.
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The off side rear arch, some Muppet has fibreglasses some cardboard over the rust to form a “repair”, luckily the other arch is still solid.
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And on removal of the brand new battery, the battery box as well, probably due to the old one leaking?
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With the list of panels originally being…
Front wings with indicator holes,
Front panel,
Mk3 bonnet
A panels,
Scuttle corners and supports,
Flinch panels,
Outer sills,
One inner sill,
Door skins,
Off side rear arch, thanks to the “repair” that’s been done,
and a Battery box,
As well as finding another engine and gearbox to drop in..... only it never qwite worked out that way... As the plan originally was to fix the rust and get it running....
So off I went to the Malvern mini show and after being just over 200notes lighter came a away with this lot, although I had also bought the mk1 inner a panels I hadn’t set any plans to use them.
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That was until March when after nearly 2 years of being effectually unemployed, I actually managed to get a job (about time after the amount crap I’d been threw with applying for every last job I could find, sending out letters/cv’s etc, all the interviews, some of which were quite hurtful)
Although that did mean I would have less time to work on it, it did also mean I’d have a loooooooooooooooooot more money to play with.
So my plans changed from just a fix up to a standard is spec to a 2 piece removable steel front, mk1 door hinges and sliding window conversion, a custom retro dash, using a set of old 12” wellers had stated away in the garage which didn’t get used as the tyres were the wrong size, group2 arches, mk1 bright work and anything else that caught my eye with a retro look, powered by a 998 fitted with a 1275 head and other goodies.
So I basically spent the summer months working 5/ 5 ½ days a week and spending the weekends going to all the various mini shows spending my hard earned on all the extra goodies for my new plans.
But unfortunately towards the end of the summer my new job came to an abrupt and rather messy end with was only really resolved a month or two ago. In whitch time
I did become quite depressed (still not completely over it, but getting there) and had even considered on giving up, selling, scrapping it all.
But I’m not now and lucky I have pretty much bought most of the items I need and still have quite a bit saved so I can crack on and still look for another job without worrying too much about not being able to afford any new items etc.
Anyway there’s a link to all the pick of the rebuild so far in my sig and up until a few weeks ago currently looked like this… and is well on the way to be ready for painting.
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I’ll update with recent progress in a few days….
Cheers,
Edited by 1984mini25, 29 December 2008 - 07:38 PM.
