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[stretch tech]

joe - no problem bud, happy to help pearlescent cherry red is a great colour and i'm really glad how well the gold wheels go with the colour i think the finish of mine is better than when it left the factory, lol you should definitely start a build thread but fair play for stock piling progress first

Rhys

[MattBenham]

As a follower of this thread it's so pleasing to finally see it almost finished! That paint job is soo good! You and your dad have a done a sick job mate. you should definitely get this in MiniWorld mag. Do you remember me posting a while back? i posted about having a look at a mini to buy, i actually went on to buy it It's so much fun to drive! Scary though xD

cheers mate, i really want to try and get this featured in either mini magazine or world (or both ) it would be quite an achievement for my first build yes i remember you bud, congratulations and welcome to the herd what model is it ? i'm looking forward to driving mine, i have only driven it once

Rhys

I'm sure you will get in, they love the father son stories :) Well it's a bit of a frankenstein car, the more you look at it the more stuff you find! :L The guy i bought it off used to race them and he bought this one for the london to brighton run then left it in his garage dry stored for years, its rust free but needs doing up cosmetically, heater was taken out and no radio or anything aha, 4 point harnesses re enforced floor, it's a 1987 mini city E ( well the body is anyway aha ) has an mg based engine 80+ bhp need to get it on the rolls :) which apparently has been rebored to 1.4L, the guy owned a suped up seat ibiza aswell so a few of those parts found their way into the mini lmao. I could go on but the name frankenstein says it all xD maybe you'll see me on the forums fixing it up some time soon :)

[rosstolley]

Paint looks amazing. It's defiantly working out to be a great little mini worthy of featuring in a mag...

[stretch tech]

matt - i'll see if i can get in once this is finished in a few weeks that sounds like a pretty sweet mini, i look forward to a build thread

ross - cheers bud, me and my dad never set out to make a show/feature car.......it was only meant to be a budget restoration for my first car lol

Rhys

[davej]

ross - cheers bud, me and my dad never set out to make a show/feature car.......it was only meant to be a budget restoration for my first car lol

That's how they all start, a quick touch up here and there and it`ll be done never turns out that way.

[stretch tech]

ross - cheers bud, me and my dad never set out to make a show/feature car.......it was only meant to be a budget restoration for my first car lol

That's how they all start, a quick touch up here and there and it`ll be done never turns out that way.

i know, but there is just soo many nice things to buy for the mini and the more repair work we did, the more we found needed fixing and me and my dad hate doing things half-heartedly so the result is a full restoration and at a much greater cost

small update, brought some cherry red spray paint to touch up all the visible areas inside the car (i.e. A and B posts, rear window frames, rear bins, cross-member, etc) so i'll do that at the weekend. i know i should have done this before he went off to paint but we didn't get time so i'll just have to be EXTRA careful of the over spray lol. we'll probably just re-mask off the window and door frames...better to be safe then sorry

we've also borrowed my dads mate's truck again (again) ready to collect Cliff from the paint shop tomorrow after school so i'll post up some proper high resolution pics of the paint job and maybe even a video of a small test drive

Rhys

Edited by stretch tech, 18 June 2012 - 08:15 PM.

[fattail95]

Ah mate cant wait for some nice pics of CN!!

[stretch tech]

hi all, we pick cn up from the paint shop today.

i have noticed that the pearlescent cherry red changes colour slightly with changing light conditions so when he was inside the paint shop under the bright lights, the car was a lot stronger red but when we drove him out side into the over cast weather, the colour becomes less bold and more like a mulberry red...but i love it

out side the paint shop all strapped down for the final journey



going down the single carriage way at 50 mph



arrived back home



un strapping





a video of us unloading him...please excuse my camera women (mother) for wandering away from filming the car you can see what i mean about how the car changes errrmm redness as the light changes whilst i walk around the car



as promised, some better resolution pics of Cliff-Nigel back in his pride of place (the drive)







and pushed back into the garage, again the body colour has changed when under artificial lights in the garage. we also removed the remaining masking tape









my last exam is Thursday so you can expect to see updates most nights from then until CN is all finished

comments welcome

Rhys

[joezone2001]

I am in love with Cliff.. lol. The paint is stunning!

[davej]

Looks awesome mate, glad you've got him home. Good luck with the exams.

[stretch tech]

I am in love with Cliff.. lol. The paint is stunning!

cheers bud, it's not perfect but i'm well chuffed with it

Rhys

[stretch tech]

Looks awesome mate, glad you've got him home. Good luck with the exams.

cheers mate. so am i, we can now crack on with the fun part of a restoration...all the shiny chrome work

Rhys

[Andrew O]

Still loving the paint job, What imperfections are in there if you don't mind me asking ? ( Like runs or dust etc )
And also, What's next on the list to do then ?

Andrew.

[stretch tech]

hi andrew, on the ground you can't see many imperfections but when it was up on the back of the truck you could see all sorts of blemishes

some of the paint has split along the arch to body joins

there is a run on the rear valance

the A panels are a bit of a funny shape but that is mainly from where we decided to spot weld the a panels to the door hinge panel

other than that, there isn't much else wrong with the job that a good polish won't remove

next up is to touch up the inside areas with some paint matched spray paint, we'll do that saturday. Sunday i will start bolting all the lights and exterior chrome work back on

Rhys

[Andrew O]

Nothing to serious then.
I look forward to seeing it done.
I'm following closely behind as paint isn't to far away for me