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[lewis]

looking good! must be fun seeing it all slowly peicing together

[Pickup76]

Cheers mr. mini man, i dont see you offering to help :wink:

They stopped making them in 83 or 84 i think miniman5. They never changed to the mk3 style so they all have short doors sliding windows and external hinges. You can fit buckets in them but you cant move them back as the bulkhead is in the way, its ok if you are small like me though (5'6")

ok iv finished the bulkhead and started on the crossmember heres some pictures;

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[Pickup76]

rust v. new metal

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[mr. mini man]

small? u mean tiny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wont say no to helping if u need any, beats me sitting round at home doing nothing!!! An then i will have experience for doing mine!!!!

[Pickup76]

Somebody write that down! he offered to help!

Im may be small but...urm...well im small, what the hey.

[mr. mini man]

its ok, size doesnt matter... well at least not in cars as the mini has spent ages proving!!!! :grin:

[Pickup76]

minis rule (pickups are no.1)

[mr. mini man]

not so sure about pick-ups actually, but we shall have to see when u take me for a spin in urs (if u ever get it done, because all u seem to be doing is sitting round on your arse on the internet!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol) :tongue:

[Pickup76]

Finished the cross member today, it looking really good. Them spent 2 hours getting the two seared off rear subframe bolts out of the heal board so fustrating!

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[miniman5]

use an angle grinder or some thing then lol

[Purple Tom]

i'm really :grin: :grin: :tongue: that your's is coming together, and looking really really good, but at the same time i'm really :erm: :sad: that I haven't done anything to mine yet!!

Keep at it, its looking good!!!

[Pickup76]

OK its all ready for the new floor to go in, which ill be doing tomorrow. Ive made the patch for the extended floor and welded that in and done the rear subframe mounts. Its going to look so good when its in!

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[Pickup76]

M-Machine floor:

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[Pickup76]

Floors are all done, and im quite proud of them.

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[Pickup76]

Ok heres one for all you restoration experts, im just about to start on the front of my mini and im not really sure how to proceed.
It was driven into some rollers in a field by the last owner which hit the front passenger side just above the bumper on the wing/front panel seam. This pushed the front panel in, with the wing and inner wing as well.
So the whole front of the car is bent completely but the subframe is still square.
So whats the best way to tackle this? Should i replace the front piece by piece from the a panel round or is it possiable to get it square when the whole front is removed first?

What do you recon?

Cheers
Chris