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[mab01uk]

Now I've tacked welded my new sills on I've decided I'm going to save time and fully rivet them rather than weld them. Bernie said it'll be ok so thats good enough for me, him being an expert and all that So do I go with aluminium or stainless rivets? Decisions, decisions....

Why not go the whole hog and use Pritt stick?

Or save the cost of new sills and do a common 'in period' bodge repair of the 1960/70's, just cover the rust holes with some fibreglass matting + resin, skim over with filler and finally finish off with a good thick coat of black bitumastic underseal.

[Ethel]

Just watched it 'n thought it caught the Mini spirit quite well. It's the factual howlers that really ruin it, why make up gibberish about rivet holes, carb lube oil, and my favourite - exterior seams to maximise passenger space

[Yoda]

Come on Ethel, I regularly fill up my dashpot so it wont stick and i took my seams off completely for even more space! beat that.

[hillmanimpfan]

i saw it thought it was ok, made me laugh when bernie went to the mini specialist and rivets joke
but i wasnt happy with the way the mini turned out i mean thoses spotlights made it look ugly with standard grille that would of looked superb

[Lee_bash]

i laughed when the narrator said 'there's many bodges to be fixxed'


and they fixxed them with bodges

[mab01uk]

If the producers haven't yet edited out the scene where they send the Mini off on the back of a breakdown truck for an alignment check.......look carefully as it is a completely different later Mini used in this scene with a Clubman Style dash and top rail, no roof gutter drip rails, front panel with later cut-out hole for passenger eyeball vent intake, repeater holes in wings and 12" wheels as already mentioned and rust patches in completely different areas. The original Mini does seem to re-appear for the final part of the 'restoration' with most of its previously bodged oversills retained but the mis-firing engine seems to have been replaced at some point in the 'rebuild' with a later A+ engine still with remmants of the factory yellow paint on the head and block.........

[SA MINI]

Was it just me or was the car sat really high ?
The wheels did not look right to me IMO

[mister bridger]

Was it just me or was the car sat really high ?
The wheels did not look right to me IMO

Although they appeared to have bought second hand rubber cones the ones they showed fitted looked new, so that might account for the ride height

[sledgehammer]

It's soooooo Bad ... It's good ... Nah couldn't type it

wonder how many mot inspectors will be confronted with -

'' well they rivet the sills on at Bernards place ''

[miniyellowmini]

Now I've tacked welded my new sills on I've decided I'm going to save time and fully rivet them rather than weld them. Bernie said it'll be ok so thats good enough for me, him being an expert and all that So do I go with aluminium or stainless rivets? Decisions, decisions....

Why not go the whole hog and use Pritt stick?

Now I've tacked welded my new sills on I've decided I'm going to save time and fully rivet them rather than weld them. Bernie said it'll be ok so thats good enough for me, him being an expert and all that So do I go with aluminium or stainless rivets? Decisions, decisions....

Why not go the whole hog and use Pritt stick?

Or save the cost of new sills and do a common 'in period' bodge repair of the 1960/70's, just cover the rust holes with some fibreglass matting + resin, skim over with filler and finally finish off with a good thick coat of black bitumastic underseal.

Decided to weld them on Rymans was out of Pritt Sticks and I've just removed all the fibreglass and filler that was on there already

Seriously though I really missed this show last night Mondays just aren't the same without Bernies mishaps and endless shouting

[zinzan]

Hey this was just on over here on Discovery! A "Classic Car Rescue" marathon! And I have a multi-Advil headache from Bernie's shouting. Sad to add that Mario is apparently Canadian. Actually, come to think of it, he reminds me of a scumbag I bought a crappy car off of years ago...

Anyone recognize Bernie's shop that they keep showing from the outside with the "MOT's while you wait" sign, etc.? Also, when the breakdown truck bit took place/was staged, where'd the 3rd guy in the vest come from? There's 2 guys getting out of the cab at the start, then 3 tipping the Mini and running away? I'd imagine there'd be some sort of lawsuit were a company to flip my car off of the side of a flatbed, with it caught on tape.

Remind me not to watch it again!

[1984mini25]

Seams there repeating the series with the jag one on 5 plus an hour at 13:15 today...

Edited by 1984mini25, 11 April 2013 - 11:58 AM.

[miniman retford]

Seams there repeating the series with the jag one on 5 plus an hour at 13:15 today...

And we all know how that ended

[Steely]

Car SOS is worth checking out, Birmingham based restorers, do a good job on all cars :)

[1984mini25]

The mgb ringer reshell is on 5 now