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Posted 03 September 2024 - 01:30 PM

1987 Park Lane rebuild

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Posted 03 September 2024 - 02:01 PM

Hi all

It's been a long time since I was active in the Mini scene so I thought it was time to get back in the game.

My 1987 Park Lane has seen better days and a couple of years ago I thought it best to give it a full going over.

It's evolved in the time I since I came to own it back in 2000. Then it was a mildly tuned 998cc. It is now a 1430cc with a fair few cosmetic updates.

Here it is in happier condition.

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Posted 03 September 2024 - 04:32 PM

So we started the strip down with the intention of cutting out all the rot and replacing with new.

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And things went ok. New front end and floor were ordered.

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But I was still cutting out rot!!

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Posted 03 September 2024 - 05:02 PM

I got so f@#£ed off I continued to cut

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Posted 03 September 2024 - 05:06 PM

Lucky for me I found a shell on eBay. A chap had done all the things that I was about to do but run out of steam, got married, moved house and bought a boat. The mini was now a long way down his priorities.

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So we trailered it back and got it on a pallet for prep.

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Posted 09 September 2024 - 12:30 PM

With my clean shell ready to be prepared I was reminded that there was another car that hadn't been completed. After coming off the road in 2008 for a re-spray my wife's car deserved the finishing touches.

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Posted 09 September 2024 - 12:50 PM

Now back to the Skunk. There are a few features I want to incorporate onto the shell before going anywhere near paint. I don't want to start drilling or welding after it looks lovely. Some I have had on the car from before and others I want to do on this build.

One previous thing I want are the alternative indicator repeaters. These were a bit of an accident. The front end was replaced back in 2004/05 with older wings. These didn't have repeater holes, I liked the look, and ran it like this for a couple of years. But taking it to a different garage for MOT they failed it as it should have repeaters. Rather than cutting a square hole in the wing I got a pair of dash warning lights with a nice brushed aluminium ring and drilled them in instead.

Of course the new shell has the correct square holes that need to be filled and new round ones drilled.

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Oh yes. And blank off the aerial hole

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