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[19rab82]

love it

[mt2man]

Cheers for the link to that picture! It looks pretty cool haha.
Yeah its the 704cc watercooled atm, but i keep having the mad idea of shortening a 2.0l MR2 floor pan and puting the fiat body ontop It would definatly shift abit! But that wont come around till atleast next summer (if it does happen).

[1977 Loud_Mini]

Cheers for the link to that picture! It looks pretty cool haha.
Yeah its the 704cc watercooled atm, but i keep having the mad idea of shortening a 2.0l MR2 floor pan and puting the fiat body ontop It would definatly shift abit! But that wont come around till atleast next summer (if it does happen).

Sounds good and it will be very quick i would have thought. I know the fiats aren't too quick only being 2 cylinder so would be great to get a different engine in it as you don't see many if any of these cars about on the roads (well i don't).

[amarcd]

Make me one please!

[mt2man]

I done some quick calculations and theortically it should do 0-60 in around 4 seconds if it was running MR2 engine and everything and i like to be different Its possibly the slowest car ive ever driven, but it definatly gets the most attention thats for sure!

And when its finished, if an offer came up that i couldnt refuse, it may well go up for sale! haha, but it would have to be alott more than the £301 its cost me so far haha, i dread to think how much it would cost in labour for a garage to do it!

[Ethel]

I'll have the windscreen if you don't need it

[mt2man]

Im sorry, but im afraid im do still kinda need it haha

[Calman]

Nice one mate, something different. Island Reg too. 'DL'

[mt2man]

Rightt im not sure if these pics will work, im trying it from facebook because i cba to upload them to photobucket atm haha so let me know....

Smoothed it abit and added some colour to get an idea on finish:








Still a longgg way to go, but its getting there ive had another idea, which is why i was trying the roof rack so all will be revealed later!

[mt2man]

Oh ANDDD, here is something completely different, which will be towed by this little beauty and behind my mini estate







And just to get an idea of how small it is there is this picture, im aware it hasnt got any wheels yet, but its another one of my projects haha

[yousmeg]

that is very cool

it should definately stay pink

[Bungle]

i keep thinking about building a tear drop trailer for extra camping space

[mt2man]

Thankyou it will be lilac when its completely finished but when its the general shape it will just have a quick spray of pink untill it gets abit warmer so i can give it a semi reasonable paint job next year.

And build one! They are such a laugh, and no 2 are really the same so its all about personalising them really you could paint one to match your camper or something?! Would look cool.

Anywayy got a little more, still need to finish the rear but run out of light so hopefully more will be done tommorow.

De-seamed the rear
Before:


After (other side but its the same:


Added another 2x2" box section for more ridgitiy and to finish the rear off:


Shaped it:


Capped the end:


Gave it a quick spray so it doesnt rust to much over night untill it will hopefully be finished off:






And the good thing about working outside in this temperature, is my Yazoo didnt get warm you cant have warm milkshake!

[minirock]

thats soooooooooooooooooooooo coool i really really like this

[mt2man]

Cheers dude!

Got a lil more done:

Made up some new seat mounts so i can use mini seats and subframes so i have more variet of what seats i can put in it (has modified corsa seats on mini bucket seat subframes atm)



And got some more done on the tailgate end:

Fibreglass filler before sanding





Done abit of sanding and gave it a quick spray over to do untill i finish it properly













Please not this isnt the final paint job, i will be sanding it back and doing some fine fillering to smooth it all out nicely and it will have a decent paint job when i can get it in the garage or it gets abit warmer

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