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[mailman]

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Mini is finished at the panel beaters after a tidy up and respray.
Got to organise collection and then some finishing touches and a new heart.

Your cars looking nice, you don't see many cars in their original 70's bl colours anymore. Is that limeflower?
Mine was originally harvest gold, I changed the colour in 1987, in some respects I wish I hadn't done it now.

Thanks!

I'm really pleased with how it's come out. I was super keen to keep the original colour and as 'period' as possible. It had arch extensions on previously and I'm also really into the clean lines without arches.

I am not 100% sure. I tried extremely hard to find the correct code. I gave three best guesses and he matched to some immaculate original paint.

Edited by mailman, 07 December 2017 - 06:00 AM.

[alex-95]

got my carb bit's blasted and tin nickel plated

[Redjohnno]

Had fun with some vinyl and a craft knife earlier..

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[Mini Waco]

A tad early, but Merry Christmas to all.. I hope your Minis get all the attention it deserves in the new year!!

[Midas Mk1]

Tried on one of 2018's plans, time for 7.5's...

 

[imack]

What started out as going to be a few weekends work removing radius arms to elongate the inner hole to get rid of rear toe out, clean and paint suspension components and clean and paint inner arches has turned into a considerably bigger project. Off to minispares for some repair panels now and plenty of time in the garage....not too bad for 45 years old I guess.

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[RooBoonix]

What started out as going to be a few weekends work removing radius arms to elongate the inner hole to get rid of rear toe out, clean and paint suspension components and clean and paint inner arches has turned into a considerably bigger project. Off to minispares for some repair panels now and plenty of time in the garage....not too bad for 45 years old I guess.

At least you've got a nice and tidy garage!

[g111mds]

Little bit more work on the passenger door today

[panky]

I'll be busy soon, Santa's been 

 

 

Edited by panky, 25 December 2017 - 03:11 PM.

[Zach P-D]

Not had a good day.
rear ended at a roundabout, other party claimed full responsibility so now just have to deal with insurance. fun.

So sad to see, will you let us know how you get on with your insurance.

Good news all, I've just heard from the insurance company, they're going to repair the car and not write it off!! happy days :)

[cal844]

Not had a good day.
rear ended at a roundabout, other party claimed full responsibility so now just have to deal with insurance. fun.

So sad to see, will you let us know how you get on with your insurance.

Good news all, I've just heard from the insurance company, they're going to repair the car and not write it off!! happy days :)

Brilliant well done

[Northernpower]

 

 

Not had a good day.
rear ended at a roundabout, other party claimed full responsibility so now just have to deal with insurance. fun.

So sad to see, will you let us know how you get on with your insurance.

 

Good news all, I've just heard from the insurance company, they're going to repair the car and not write it off!! happy days :)

 

Even though its not a complicated repair the important objective now is to make sure you get a good bodyshop that likes classic cars.

[panky]

Tried out my new polisher and G3, only did the back end but got rid of most of the orange peel on the boot lid   Still needs a bit of work in the hard to hard to get to bits.

[Zach P-D]

Even though its not a complicated repair the important objective now is to make sure you get a good bodyshop that likes classic cars.

 

 

it's with a decent bodyshop who know what they're doing, plus the gaffer there has mk2 :) 

[Northernpower]

Even though its not a complicated repair the important objective now is to make sure you get a good bodyshop that likes classic cars.
 

 
it's with a decent bodyshop who know what they're doing, plus the gaffer there has mk2 :) 

That's good, don't forget to post pictures of the finished article.