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[MintecMiniSpares]

This is my 1970 Morris Mini 998. I had it for nearly 3 years now, it's my daily driver taking myself and girlfriend to work aswell as attending shows and meets. I bought the car off Oil Lewis's mum after Oli died a few years ago. I never knew what Oil's plans were for the car but i've taken it to europe three times and to lots of Uk shows so I hope just by doing this i've managed to achieve something Oli would be proud of. The car is actually 50% and 50% my girl friend Emily's (I'm currrently building her a tasty Pickup.) This can lead to some amusing debates as to what we should do with the car when it comes to styling

One thing we did agree on was the car need to be tidyed up as it was looking a little ratty which was cool for a while but eventually gets a little boring.
Here's a few pictures of when we first got the car and the ratty look.





Doing the autotest during last years IMM in Germany (I came 4th!)


So we'ed decided the car was to be tidyed up and we knew we wanted something a bit brighter to stand out at the shows. Emily then set herslf the task of figureing out a crazy colour scheme using all the left over paint we had at the workshop. She must have spent hours going through tins of paint and compairing colours to find the ones she liked.

Starting on the bodywork and primer.












Then we started the massive task of masking up and painting each individual panel a different colour.

Edited by MintecMiniSpares, 26 June 2011 - 05:37 PM.

[MintecMiniSpares]

The girlle took a bit of work to and the inner headlamp rims.


The only bit of pink on the car.


Putting it back together






Check out the nuts!!!


We finished the car and then three days later we were off the IMM in switzerland. Thankfully we knew the car was already mechanicaly sound.

Everyone loved the car and we had quite few people try to buy it which was fun. I got a little embarrased with the amount of photos people were taking but i guess we'll have to get used to that









I'm sure you'll be seeing much more of this car in the future, lets face it you can't miss it!

Edited by MintecMiniSpares, 26 June 2011 - 04:13 PM.

[Youngowner93]

That is something quite different, not quite to everybodies taste but I like it . Kinda reminds me of the Polo Harlequin....

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Awesome for all the wrong reasons!

[MintecMiniSpares]

Yeah few people have made refrence to the Polo. We did look at some pictures of them before we did the Mini but dicided the harliquin just didn't have enough colours.

It is bit of a marmite car but i'd have to say more people seem to love it than hate it. The looks we get when driving it around town are priceless, we also get a lot of horn beeping and thumbs up from other drivers.

[mentalmini89]

matt that is an absolutely stunning car a lot of hard work has gone into that keep it up mate
dean

[Biteable]

What colour do you put on the V5C

[luke666222]

Looks ace!. Whats the colour down as no the logbook?

[MintecMiniSpares]

What colour do you put on the V5C

Looks ace!. Whats the colour down as no the logbook?

I've just sent it off to be changed to 'multicoloured' which strangley is what most MPI coopers are registered as

[Duggy]

That is ACE!

[benb12]

What colour do you put on the V5C

Looks ace!. Whats the colour down as no the logbook?

I've just sent it off to be changed to 'multicoloured' which strangley is what most MPI coopers are registered as

Interesting, must be because of the white roof, however my SPi cooper was registered as "GREEN/WHITE". Your Mini looks stunning by the way

[Foxy10]

Are the wheels nuts painted?

[mini.rich]

This really does look awesome! Love the grill

[TopCatCustom]

Easy to repaint when you damage or replace one panel!

[MintecMiniSpares]

Are the wheels nuts painted?

Yep! We wern't sure if that was going to work. I added quite a bit of plastersizer to the paint to make it more flexable and hopefully durable. So far so good none had flaked off and they're all torqued up correctly

This really does look awesome! Love the grill

The grill is probably my favourite bit of the car, I think it really finishes off the front end. Mind you was bit of a pain to do!

Easy to repaint when you damage or replace one panel!

Haha! yes I never thought about it that way. Saying that this is probably the the hardest paint job i've ever done including some crazy flip pearls.

Cheers guys I'm glad it's causing some interest.