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[mini.rich]

 

 

glad you sorted the paint issue mate, that red colour is actually quite nice. maybe you should spray the next one in it. the bodywork looks spot on at this rate yours will make mine look like a project car lol

Thanks for your help Mike, the paint company want the paint back as they gave me the correct one free of charge!! as it was their mix up Haha, I don't think it will, yours is beautiful    I'm trying to get it done as soon as I can so I can get to some shows this summer

 

do you think you will make l2b?

 

 

 

If I'm completely honest with myself I seriously doubt it! at least in this mini anyway. I still need to replace the roof and get it to the paint shop, I'm hoping to have it there in the next couple of weeks, I've still got the engine to rebuild, and then there's finding/buying all the bits and pieces I'm going to need, haha. 

I'm hoping by the end of June it'll be somewhere near ready

[tedmcedd]

Great project, love mk3's, great to see them being saved! and especially being put back to original! 

 

I intend to put my mk3 back to original, Teal blue with limeflower interior, I have the doorcards, but the seats never seem to come up!

 

Its great to see that you found the proper interior! I've never seen one that colour! It will look fantastic with the black tulip!

 

 

Ed

[mini.rich]

Great project, love mk3's, great to see them being saved! and especially being put back to original! 

 

I intend to put my mk3 back to original, Teal blue with limeflower interior, I have the doorcards, but the seats never seem to come up!

 

Its great to see that you found the proper interior! I've never seen one that colour! It will look fantastic with the black tulip!

 

 

Ed

 

Thanks, MK3's and Clubmans are my favourites, I like the 70's mini's the most I like the Teal Blue with limeflower interior there was a limeflower interior on ebay a month or two ago, I very nearly bought it! haha.

 

I've never seen a Geranium interior for sale, and to be honest I'm very happy I managed to get my hands on this one! 

 

 

It's rolling, and out in the sun!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've started to prep the new roof, might attempt it at the weekend! Here you can sort of see the rust and damage to the roof skin, or at least the filler..

 

[mini.rich]

So I did the roof at the weekend, and it was pretty straightforward, I'd happily do another one! I started by cutting the original of with an air chisel - made the job sooooo easy! I cleaned up the gutter etc and primed with weld through primer. Sat the new roof in place clamped it in a few places and then just work my way around spotting it all, doing a bit one side then the other to let the heat dissipate.

I did have to "modify" a welder tip so I could get in behind the gutter.

After I'd finished spotting the roof I then spotted the drip rails in place, these were coated in zinc primer as was the gutter that they were being welded to, to try and stop rust forming between them, I'll also be tigersealing them in an attempt to stop water getting in there.

 

All masked up in an attempt to keep grinding dust off the new paint. 

 

 

And then it was gone!

 

 

New roof in place..

 

 

And then the drip rails..

 

 

I must apologise for the awful quality of the photos!! I always forget to take my DSLR with me!!

Anyway it's pretty much ready for paint, I'm just tweaking the doors as I've decided to reuse the ones I had painted yellow instead of re-skinning the originals. More updates soon

[grahama]

Excellent job on the roof,  well done.

[WMU 211G]

Incredible piece of work going on there, if I was wearing a hat I'd take it off to you! Love the Black Tulip too, a great choice and very different to most Mk3s. Be great to see how it looks when it's all done... I'm in the middle of having my Mk2 done and am thinking about colours... it's not going to be the original Island Blue & Snowberry White again, it's already been done twice in this colour so I'm going for a dark period monotone colour, it was black at one stage which I'm also considering but wouldn't mind a hint of another colour. I think you're right to go with Heritage or M-Machine panels, it's always worth it in the long run.

 

Keep going!

Edited by WMU 211G, 17 May 2013 - 10:53 AM.

[okc78]

Awesome progress there, how did you get on fitting the drip rails? Have you got any pics of the underside?

I'm hoping to have a go at doing mine on my mkII this weekend and have bought the M-Machine repros. Its dificult to tell but it looks like they might not be quite as deep as the originals, going back into the car if that makes any sense?  Looks like yours might be M-Machine, how was the fit? Did you find any rusty horrors lurking underneath?

Cheers, Ollie

[blacktulip]

It's really coming together now mate. Looks amazing

[mini.rich]

Excellent job on the roof,  well done.

 

 

Thanks!

 

Incredible piece of work going on there, if I was wearing a hat I'd take it off to you! Love the Black Tulip too, a great choice and very different to most Mk3s. Be great to see how it looks when it's all done... I'm in the middle of having my Mk2 done and am thinking about colours... it's not going to be the original Island Blue & Snowberry White again, it's already been done twice in this colour so I'm going for a dark period monotone colour, it was black at one stage which I'm also considering but wouldn't mind a hint of another colour. I think you're right to go with Heritage or M-Machine panels, it's always worth it in the long run.

 

Keep going!

 

Thanks! I've always wanted a black Mk2 mini for some reason, with a red interior! would look awesome

 

Awesome progress there, how did you get on fitting the drip rails? Have you got any pics of the underside?

I'm hoping to have a go at doing mine on my mkII this weekend and have bought the M-Machine repros. Its dificult to tell but it looks like they might not be quite as deep as the originals, going back into the car if that makes any sense?  Looks like yours might be M-Machine, how was the fit? Did you find any rusty horrors lurking underneath?

Cheers, Ollie

 

Hey Ollie, the drip rails weren't too bad, I'll get some photos of the underside tomorrow. They are as you say alot shorter, which is probably a good thing as there is less metal for water to get between. Correct! they are m-machine, the fit was ok, there is not as much of a curve to them as there is on the roof, so I spotted them in the middle and worked outwards bending slightly as I went along. It depends what tips you have available for your spot welder to how easy it will be Luckily not, the rust hadn't damaged the gutter very much at all, so I was quite lucky on that

 

It's really coming together now mate. Looks amazing

 

It's getting there now, hopefully going for paint in a week

[ba-tat]

Incredible, quality work on that roof. You don't see many roof replacements on these threads for good reason, but you just bossed it!

[WMU 211G]

Going back to the gutter / drip rail flange on the outside for a mo - it's well worth getting these sorted once and for all, when I bought my car two years ago everything looked fine in this area on both sides but on closer inspection we decided to rip them off and start afresh. Once the paint came off it was clear that if we didn't sort it out the tin worm would resurface again... it's well worth the extra graft / labour cost in the long run. My car's on it's second resto and I don't want to be doing it a third time...!

 

From a few feet away the curvature doesn't look very pronounced but it's much more apparent in close up - whoever it was who said the Mini was just a box on wheels is so, so wrong, the subtle curves and changes in plane are everywhere!

 

 

(with apologies for hijacking your thread!)

 

[cossiemark]

wow thats some nice welding your doing there

Edited by cossiemark, 18 May 2013 - 06:41 PM.

[steven]

looking great

[mini=love]

Great job

[okc78]

 

Awesome progress there, how did you get on fitting the drip rails? Have you got any pics of the underside?

I'm hoping to have a go at doing mine on my mkII this weekend and have bought the M-Machine repros. Its dificult to tell but it looks like they might not be quite as deep as the originals, going back into the car if that makes any sense?  Looks like yours might be M-Machine, how was the fit? Did you find any rusty horrors lurking underneath?

Cheers, Ollie

 

Hey Ollie, the drip rails weren't too bad, I'll get some photos of the underside tomorrow. They are as you say alot shorter, which is probably a good thing as there is less metal for water to get between. Correct! they are m-machine, the fit was ok, there is not as much of a curve to them as there is on the roof, so I spotted them in the middle and worked outwards bending slightly as I went along. It depends what tips you have available for your spot welder to how easy it will be Luckily not, the rust hadn't damaged the gutter very much at all, so I was quite lucky on that

 

Thanks Rich, pics would be a great help.

I wasn't sure whether to start at the middle or at the end, I'll do as you have if its worked for you, as you said the curve is not as acute on the repro drip rail. I havn't put the new rails on yet, sadly I had some surface rust to deal with, hiding inbetween the layers of steel when I took off the old ones. All the rust pitting is cleaned out now on one side but it took ages. I don't have a spot welder unfortunatly so plug welding  and careful cleaning up for me.

 

Cheers