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[pars5y]

ok so as i mucked up my last thread, i have decided to start a fresh.

 

anyway, the car is a 1990 mini checkmate (same care as flame red + racing green, just different colour). I bought it a few months ago as a project and got it for a great price, it wouldnt start. no spark. so i bought a new coil pack and tried again, nope, cleaned the points tried again and started straight up.

then i bought some basic items that i needed like ht leads,plugs, etc. 

 

thats enough rambling for now so here are some pics from as it was when i bought it. hope you enjoy :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[THE ANORAK]

just so you know.... seats and door cards are from a later mini cooper 1.3 injection. not factory fit on the checkmate.... just so you know

Edited by THE ANORAK, 03 January 2017 - 05:30 PM.

[pars5y]

just so you know.... seats and door cards are from a later mini cooper 1.3 injection. not factory fit on the checkmate.... just so you know

yeah i know, it was left unlocked in a storage yard before i owned it and everything was stolen including the interior and then the cooper interior was put in. its a shame but i was planning on putting in some classic buckets antway

Edited by pars5y, 03 January 2017 - 06:49 PM.

[1984mini25]

Also before you go running it for too long, the 2nd head stud on the left appears to have been snapped for whatever reason.

[pars5y]

Also before you go running it for too long, the 2nd head stud on the left appears to have been snapped for whatever reason.

yes it was like that when i bought it im going to replace it

[pars5y]

Its been a few months now since my last update, and a lot has happened.

 

The engine is now out, that was quite interesting to say the least, with no proper engine straps or crane i did have a forklift and some old ratchet straps lol.

Its now totally stripped apart from the wiring.

 

Here are some photos from a few months ago.

And the reason it has taken so long to strip is that i haven't been able to get access to the car for a few months until last week.

 

 

 

[pars5y]

Another set back was the fact that the car needs a complete new floorpan. It doesn't look that bad in photos but when i bought the car i was told that it was a solid car with no rust, but the rusty floor has been panelled over (not even with a proper floorpan) to get it through an MOT i would guess. It turns out that the car has also been written off in the past as i was told by someone who knew the car before me.

 

So i made the decision to buy a new shell.

 

I am going to keep the old shell, but i just cant afford all the panels to get it back to the condition i want. So by the morning i had bought another shell.

 

Small catch though...

 

It was a 12hr round trip.

 

So i live in in Manchester and the shell was in Reading which is roughly 180 miles each way i think, and we were outside the mans house by 6:30am...We set off at 1:30am, but it was worth it in the end. 

 

The new shell is a 1991 Mayfair which is solid apart from a few small bits, mainly scabby welding/patching from the previous owner, but absolutely nothing major.

 

 

 

[pete l]

So what's the law when re shelling a car with a second hand shell ?

Does the car retain it's papers, or does it retain the "new" shell papers ?