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[Chance]

Known about this car for years but never bothered with it

Ive asked to have it before to fix up but nothing came of it

Owner asked if I still wanted it...I said yes so here we are



Rear arches are just starting to go...needs a front wing and obviously new roof interior

Probably not worth it to some people but it is to me with my Rover obsession

Only a 1.4 aswell..manual everything

[ToM 2012]

wow that will look so much better once its been scrubbed and polished. good luck thanks tom 

[Chance]

After a quick jet wash...not looking too bad

[ToM 2012]

thats looking good now wait till that roof is done and all the bits and bobs done to it it will be nice. dont get showing the old owner lol he will want it back.. 

[Ben_O]

Well, it certainly scrubbed up well!

 

So how much is a new roof?

 

Ben

[cradley-heathen]

looking good mate. my bro had one of these, was great fun.

[Chance]

looking good mate. my bro had one of these, was great fun.

Tried to text you back earlier but it won't send for some reason

I'm gonna leave the metro until I've got some days off work in case it all goes wrong and I'm left without a car

I'll drop you a call or text when the time comes


New roof is in the region of 200-300 quid brand new
Hoping to find a breaker with a good second hand one...that's first on the list

Also cradley might need you for some rear arch repairs...

[Chance]

Got a second hand good roof for 50quid

Well it needs a rear window but hopefully get one stitched in somewhere

Also got a new front wing...just needs painting

Only PIC I have really



Also this rear rail is now obsolete so need to repair the corners of it



That's the old roof with the dissolving rail

EDIT that's a metro not a dissolving rail...it can stay though

Edited by Chance, 13 September 2014 - 08:00 PM.

[Ben_O]

Are you going to be replacing the interior on the car?

Bet it was smelly in there!

 

Ben

[Chance]

If I can find one I want to fit a leather one

It smells awful...just gotta wait for a replacement to come up

[Black.Ghost]

That's awesome! Liking that a lot.

[Chance]

Haven't really done a lot to it ATM

Stripped out the rear of the car to remove the roof...not to bad in there really...

Where the roof struts mount is abit crusty but nothing serious and normal for these anyway



Got the roof off as I got a good second hand one to go on...just need to get the rear window replaced as its split

The bottom rail you can see on this picture...the rusty thing...is now obsolete and they pretty much ALL rust on these so finding a good one is impossible



Going to try and repair it to get me buy when I get around to fitting the new roof

They are the best pictures I have really...pretty crap ones

Trying to find a local company that will sew in a new plastic window for me

Next is to repair the rail this weekend hopefully

[Chance]

Started on the rail repair

Not very experienced at this fabricating, welding stuff yet so here goes



That's the bad with the 'new' next to it



Cut old and tacked on new

Some pretty shabby welding later and I had this



End result today.. Will probably need some more 'shaping' but I need to try on the car first

[Ben_O]

good effort mate!

[Chance]

Right I sourced another roof with an intact rear window and the hydraulics still in place

So plan was to take everything off so I can give mine a power hood

So far I have only got the new roof resting in place and that's it...the mounting points all need a good clean...whole inside needs stripping..cleaning...painting and re assembling

I just dont have the room to store all the interior...SO I am in desperate need of a unit so I can move my rover and mini and have some good space to work on them...but that's another story

Heres a few pics





Remember that rear rail that had dissolved on mine..the new roof had a relatively intact rail which was a BONUS!!!